Sentences with word «vernacular»

My particular take on vanitas is to memorialise the fleeting aesthetic of temporary displays in which the objects depicted are a kind of vernacular of consumerism, tying the image to a specific time and place.

Alice Thorson, «Rauschenberg Gifted in Vernacular of Photography; Exhibit Offers Solid Look at that Aspect of Painter's Talent,» Kansas City Star, April 4, 1997.

It's also embodied in «Beverly Buchanan — Ruins and Rituals» at the Brooklyn Museum, a full - career look at an artist who invested much of her energy in reconstituting, in miniature, African - American vernacular architecture of the Carolinas and Georgia, where she grew up.

Although there's nothing wrong with vernacular in casual settings, most people perceive proper English as more professional in the workplace.

The exquisite lines of her hand - cut paper silhouettes speak to centuries of vernacular art tradition in the United States and Europe.

His work is distinguished by rigorous formal and structural analyses of neglected forms from vernacular culture, informed by his large collections of objects representative of consumer desires, religious fervour, and a constantly evolving counterculture.

It employs international codes of art history, forms produced and validated in a western cannon of modernism, the avant - garde, and later practices, as well as vernacular languages of the contemporary from places as conflicted and as hybrid as the Amazon's rubber extraction areas, Karnataka's dwindling handicraft tradition, and Hong Kong's transforming manufacturing industries.

«In the United States, «jelly roll» became used as vernacular for the female genitalia — resulting in the term's widespread usage in popular blues music and in the nick names of performers such as Jelly Roll Morton.»

Interdisciplinary artist using vernacular photographs, tourist ephemera, and American landmarks.

1) Define nothingness 2) Using words not in common vernacular as often as you do has only one of two purposes: a) To attempt and confuse people into agreeing with you; b) Self - gratification in a perceived superiority in vocabulary.

Svobodová's paintings reference the visual vernacular of architecture and design.

Snapshots of Twentieth Century Life, a survey of amateur portrait photographs donated to the museum by American vernacular photography collector Peter Cohen, the Museum's fall exhibitions demonstrate how photographers from a diverse array of backgrounds, periods, and perspectives have used the medium to negotiate identity and capture the world around them, from the monumental to the ordinary.

Notes curator Claudia Bohn - Spector: «Our exhibition hopes to show that Berman was a transitional figure, who deftly blended the art of the European avant - garde with native vernacular traditions, like jazz and folklore, and his own hybrid version of American and Jewish mysticism.»

It was clear that any new effort at a core curriculum would have to be based on vernacular translations, not on the original languages.

It was through vernacular translation in particular, he adds, that Christianity could offer the world «a genuine share in the heritage of Jesus.»

He wished to make the faith more available to the people and had the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible translated into vernacular English.

Works in various scale create dynamic spatial relationships: a metal structure covered with accumulated bottles sits on the floor, informed by vernacular architecture as well as the cotillion, a social dance originating in France in the 18th century and further developed by African Americans in the United States; and a chandelier of oversized cowrie shells hangs dramatically within a large and site - specific yurt - like structure.

The hoopla is entirely justified, since the King James Bible revolutionized Bible reading, bringing Scripture into a common vernacular for the first time for the English - speaking world.

No, it just means that it's not grammatically aligned with modern vernacular.

This resulted in many vernacular building styles in different parts of the world.

His most recent works blend Southern Vernacular visual styles and African diasporic retentions with modern abstraction to depict the complex urban fabric of the New Orleans Seventh Ward.

Featuring a selection of American vernacular photographs recently donated to the Museum, this exhibition explores how amateur photographers circumvented and at times unsettled assumptions about what a portrait might be.

The design «is inspired local vernacular architecture in the form of the «fiskehjell» (A-shaped wooden structure for drying fish) and the «rorbue» (a traditional type of seasonal house used by fishermen).»

But Mr. Shaw, a Cal Arts grad who (along with Mike Kelley) was a forerunner of working with vernacular styles, appropriation and found - object art in America, is not just a prophetic hoarder.

«Secondhand» Pier 24 24 Pier The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105 August 4, 2014 — May 31, 2015 With works also by: Maurizio Anzeri, John Baldessari, Viktoria Binschtok, Melissa Catanese, Daniel Gordon, Erik Kessels, Richard Prince, Rashid Rana, Joachim Schmid, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Hank Willis Thomas and Vernacular works from the Pilara Foundation Collection More information here

«Hyperlocalization of Architecture: Contemporary Sustainable Archetypes» is a beautiful written and visual source guide for contemporary vernacular architecture across the globe.

This series echo the «Color Field Painting» of the 1950s American painters as well as the minimal gesture of Minimalism; an aesthetic that Rouillard consciously absorbed to regenerate them through vernacular objects.

By placing colorful dots over faces, obscuring portions of scenes, or juxtaposing stock photographs with quixotic phrases, he injects humor and dissonance into vernacular imagery.

This is a premier example of the form and an important acquisition for the High's Southern vernacular design collection.

Such skills allow children to comprehend, characterize, and construct their own vernacular for the world around them.

This relocation marked a shift from the gritty urban detritus that had been the basis of much of the earlier work to a rhapsodic embrace of color and geometric abstraction in a wholly new vernacular language.

Jorge Gonzalez's recent work serves as a platform for the recuperation of marginalized vernacular material culture in an attempt to produce new narratives between the indigenous and the modern.

Torrance Art Museum invites you to attend the Opening Reception for Dae - Bak Super Cool, an exhibition presenting Korean and Korean - American contemporary artists that relate to traditional, modern, and pop vernacular idioms.

Catholic missions has been similarly committed to the transposition of the catechism into vernacular terms, with language study a crucial part of the enterprise.

These distinct ideas became distilled in a new vernacular which exploited the potential of abstraction and the immediacy of intuitive expression, tenets of the New York School that were key in shifting the focus of the international avant - garde from Europe to America.

The vision of millions of the faithful thrilled to bits with vernacular Mass facing the people smacks of wishful thinking in the face of widespread liturgical deformation and the continuous decline in Mass attendance.

The works address the lack of black superheroes found in American comics, and raise historical and philosophical questions in black vernacular English.

Original Peanuts comic strips appeared in American and international newspapers every day from 1950 until Schulz's death in 2000, establishing the characters as significant figures in the American pop cultural vernacular for generations of young people.

Painter Damian Stamer depicts barns, abandoned buildings, and other vernacular structures of the rural south.

Central to Richard Slee's exhibition at Studio Voltaire are a number of works based on vernacular objects such as wood saws, hammers, pick axes and camping equipment.

Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston — often referred to as the «father of color photography» — has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition.