Vernacular culture refers to the everyday or common cultural practices, expressions, and traditions of a particular place or group of people. It includes things like local dialects, folk music, traditional dances, regional cuisine, and cultural norms that are unique to a specific community. Basically, it's the cultural stuff that is rooted in a specific region or group and not the mainstream or commercialized culture.
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Taking Domanović's interest in both the development of technology and the history
of vernacular cultures in the former Yugoslavia, Lina Džuverović draws parallels between the unregulated, chaotic developments of urban spaces and the incongruities of the fast - shifting nature of the Internet.
Wide ranging in approach, his work is unified by his regular use of
American vernacular culture — including books, posters, newspapers and magazines, records, old films, and other vintage items — which he draws from his vast collections source material.
The success of the nurses, the Nurse of Greenmeadow especially, is due to the celebration of
vernacular culture combined with a heightened awareness of art history, Abstract Expressionism in particular, and the artist's understanding of color composition and atmosphere.
Often called «pop artists», they saw mass popular culture as the
main vernacular culture, shared by all irrespective of education.
In his use of mass - produced goods and
vernacular culture rendered in an anonymous style, Rosenquist's work recalls that of Andy Warhol, while his seemingly irrational, mysterious pictorial combinations owe a debt to Surrealism.
La Ferme du Buisson reveals the artistic practice of multimedia artist Kapwani Kiwanga in anthropology, investigating popular and
vernacular culture as well as the legacies of anti-colonial struggles.
Borrowing from art history, literature and
vernacular culture Donzeaud addresses social interactions and narratives, both virtual and IRL, evolving in a staged environment but ever so close to home.
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.
Cruz - Diez joined the conversation via pre-recorded video, with comments about his unknown images
of vernacular culture on folklore rituals in his native Venezuela.
Jonas Wood combines modernist abstraction with pop figuration in his densely patterned paintings of
vernacular culture.
By contaminating this formal elegance with motifs from
vernacular culture, Curry echoes modernism's foundational appropriation of another strain of folk art — the so - called primitive arts of Africa.
The artist blurs the line between the seemingly disparate spheres of learned and
vernacular culture, art, and craft to create poignant sculptures that are both utilitarian and deconstructed, sculptural objects.
His work is distinguished by rigorous formal and structural analyses of neglected forms of
vernacular culture, informed by his large collections of objects representative of consumer desires, religious fervor, and a constantly evolving counterculture.
Annotating Art's Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and
Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series.
Like Pop artists internationally, many Imagists borrowed heavily from
vernacular culture, but while Pop was polished, distant, and cool, Imagist works embraced eccentric and distorted figuration, non-Western and non-mainstream forms of art, and comic gags and puns.
Rummage is an extension of Lynn's previous performance - based projects, exploring aspects of
vernacular cultures and casting others to investigate the messy intersections of art and life.
Noguchi Breton presents creative content that reflects and critiques the regional and
vernacular culture of South Florida.
In her work across media, Jemison explores ideas of improvisation, repetition, and the fugitive in black history and
vernacular culture.
The drawings, collages, and watercolors on view demonstrate the diversity of approaches artists have taken in recent decades to exploring the figure, along with narrative, abstraction, and
vernacular culture.
In its quotation of
vernacular culture, «52 Variables» is Pop.
Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and
Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series.
His works employ fragments of popular and
vernacular culture and modernist architecture to produce narratives that are simultaneously disjunctive and achingly familiar.
The origins of the blues lie in
the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.
Initially, he experimented with Abstract Expressionism, but he soon turned to the found words and images drawn from
vernacular culture that would come to inform all his work.
Michael Wolf's focus lies within mega cities, capturing the monumental architecture and
vernacular culture of the metropolis.
The artist blurs the line between the seemingly disparate spheres of learned and
vernacular culture, art, and craft to create poignant sculptures that are both utilitarian and deconstructed objects.
The artist blurs the line between the seemingly disparate spheres of learned and
vernacular culture, art, and craft to create both utilitarian and deconstructed, sculptural objects.
Deller's multi-faceted practice incorporates forms of social investigation and archival research, often celebrating British popular and
vernacular culture.
He has extensive experience using video and photography to carry out research related to
vernacular cultures, anthropology, and architectural history.
Acquired through the Museum's Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art, Shaun Ryder's Family Tree reflects Deller's remix approach to popular art forms and
vernacular culture, and his love of music and Manchester.
Together with Claes Oldenburg, Edward Ruscha and the late Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein ranked among the most important American artists to explore
the vernacular culture of mass - produced consumer goods and popular urban life.
This informal group of artists rejected the Neo-Expressionist abstract painting trend dominant in New York, in favor of humorous — often surreal — representational depictions of
vernacular culture.
Over the past two years, Guccivuitton has staked out a unique position that meditates on the rich history of artist - run galleries while presenting content that reflects authentic regional material and
vernacular culture.
Like his Chicago Imagist peers, Brown aggressively blended borrowings from art history with the languages of
vernacular culture.