Sentences with phrase «using cultural references»

Thanks to the Internet, suppressed cultures now have a voice and using cultural references can quickly devolve into public shaming.

Here, she talks about her influences, including architect Zaha Hadid, and what it means to use cultural references responsibly while designing a cinematic world.

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Two other examples: a middle - school project that culminated in a half - hour variety show explored how comedians use spoken words, body language, and cultural references to draw laughs; and young entrepreneurs developed ideas for business start - ups to pitch to experts.

Culturally responsive teaching is a theoretical framework created by Geneva Gay that relies on «using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of ethnically diverse students to make learning encounters more relevant to and effective for them.»

He cites one of his African American teachers, Mr. Allen, who «used language and cultural references that we recognized to challenge and inspire us.»

Drawing on his experience as a health psychologist and using a wealth of cultural, historical and literary references that range from the Buddha, to Nazi concentration camps, to Dorothy in the land of Oz, he leads us to examine ourselves.

According to its description, Detention makes use of folklore, mythology, and cultural references as a part of its story.

Many of the cultural references that we used in Detention is a part of our everyday life.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

«I reference our cultural landscape by using materials that others have overlooked,» says Chandler of his art.

Although generally used as an ornament in the West, the cowrie shell has cultural and monetary implications in African and Asian societies as well as a distinct reference to femininity.

He also uses materials with many cultural references, such as lead.

His work for Art Brussels pushes his oeuvre further in his use of iconography to cultural references including symbolism.

used for the Biennial speaks to how pervasive the generic view of blackness remains even in the new global art world, such that «Africa» is broadly and shallowly referenced as a historical and cultural framework, and only when compatible with a white - led agenda.

Incorporating memories of his childhood in Moscow and cultural references, Kantarovsky often uses the language of cartoons.

Biggers» syncretic practice positions him as a collaborator with the past, adding his own voice and perspective to those who made and used the antique quilts, African sculptures, and cultural imagery he references.

Wangechi Mutu uses her training in sculpture and anthropology to reveal contradictions of female and cultural identity, referencing colonialism, African politics, and fashion.

Using photography, video, painting and installation, the artists referenced the imagery and text of football to explore the cultural environment of the game.

In his work, Guzman uses abstract and representational imagery to explore cultural and historical references that encompass colonialism, indigenous folklore traditions and European and American modernism.

Through the use of high and low cultural iconography and art historical references I create a working space between both cultural identities in which samples could be -LSB-...]

Often using appropriated material, he draws links between disparate cultural reference points, re-imagining them in new narratives and contexts.

Anton Ginzburg uses an array of historical and cultural references as starting points for his investigations of art's capacity to penetrate layers of the past.

Referencing a range of historical and contemporary codes and double meanings including floriography, the Victorian cultural phenomenon that used flowers as tokens to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures, Fox developed the «Phantasieblume» body of work (2008 - 11), a series of intricately hand cut decorative objects resembling the preciousness of handcrafted Victorian lace sited within a series of cabinets.

His works center around the relationship between form and content: often using several layers of paint, resin, glitter, collage elements, and occasionally, elephant dung, Ofili enlists sexual, cultural, historical, and religious references to create uniquely aesthetic and physical works that expose the darker undercurrents of society, while also celebrating contemporary black culture.

In her work, cultural references from the Western art historical canon to Groucho Marx all coexist using the language of surrealism and the organizing structure of the non-sequitur.

Using printmaking, painting, and papermaking processes, Liu samples and juxtaposes cultural references and the natural environment in an attempt to reconcile matters of biography and place.

His practice explores a broad range of cultural and art historical references, often using humour and irony as subtle vehicles of communication.

Using cultural matter as his material - medium, he references art, history and theory to form a spatial and temporal narrative arc made up of intercommunicating texts, combined with an interest in the sculptural possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène.

Both a sly, dehumanizing, reference to the infamous Windows system software «blue screen of death» and a shrewd art - historical reference, the piece equates the chasing of artistic legend with suicide, and it uses standard technology — the light emitted by a television — to evoke a supposed cultural masterpiece.

These works don't set out to make specific cultural references explicit but the materials I use and the forms they take do of course carry with them their own set of references and identities.

The false luxury of some of his pieces, achieved by using industrial materials made to look deceptively lavish, and his references to well - known archetypes make viewers feel comfortable with their own cultural history.

His heavily laboured canvases are filled with popular cultural references and challenge the viewer to make connections between the seemingly unrelated content, a mechanism used in an attempt to represent the true complexity of our culture».

In using technology to visualize a true «world - without - us,» Alan Warburton (UK) animates the ghostly aesthetics of vacancy, using z - depth images to reference our cultural shortsightedness.

Using collage as a system to put together a wide array of cultural references, I acknowledge my work questions its own mythology and history.

Yinka Shonibare, who was born in London but grew up in Nigeria, uses multicoloured batik fabric to blend cultural references and his work including a 3D headless version of French artist Fragonard's The Swing.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualised experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Fernández's conceptually - based, research - intensive process of art making often contains many layers of diverse cultural and historical references; she uses devices such as proportion and unconventional material to draw the viewer into her work, evoking an individualized experience of engagement that prompts questions of both place and way - finding.

Using the surreal, familiar and the funny — a thing the press release describes as a quality that's «uniquely Californian» — Smith's layered temporal and cultural references continue her ongoing work dissecting «the motivations and anxieties that constitute everyday life in America».

His work not only makes great use of sustainable materials, but often includes cultural references to African traditional crafts which gives a depth and texture not always found in contemporary design.

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