Sentences with phrase «vernacular forms of»

Norton's project in PAFA's Historic Landmark Building uses paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of new works that reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the vernacular forms of folk culture.

Adam McEwen (1965) is an English conceptual artist, living and working in New York City, best known for his artworks that appropriate vernacular forms of everyday consumer products and objects and repurpose them in new, unexpected contexts.

However, most of this work springs from an expressionistically freeform compositional approach which, in the case of Martin, was unabashedly influenced by the vernacular forms of black Southern artists like Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, who had little choice but to employ the most abject of materials.

Raised in a culturally rich community steeped in vernacular forms of creativity — bottle trees and fences decorated with eggshells — and characterized by a strong ethos of saving and recycling, Outterbridge was quite literally surrounded by used and discarded objects valued for their potential afterlife.

Apply the tools of learning normally reserved for studying a foreign language to this vernacular form of expression, and make this study a recognized, sanctioned part of the curriculum.

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The poems in this case were canzoni, or odes, long lyrics of considerable artifice, which in De vulgari Eloquentia Dante claimed to be the highest possible literary form in the vernacular, lofty («tragic» is Dante's word for this) and serious.

By the time of the Arab domination of Egypt the Coptic form of Christianity had become the national religion of Egypt and the liturgy and other religious literature had been put into Coptic, the vernacular.

These techniques have been key to correlating Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular

For David (Joe Seo), the doubtful protagonist of Spa Night, these encounters are an introduction to the bathhouse's kinesthetic vernacular, but for writer - director Andrew Ahn, such exchanges also reflect forms of being and becoming that occur outside its walls.

Though the DB11, introduced in 2016, was kissed with a touch of contemporary design language in the form of aerodynamic curlicues and a subtly pointed tail, it also kept a foot planted in the grand touring vernacular intended to satisfy the tweedy old world set.

Mining the unconscious, works like Pleasantville and Golden Arches fuse vernacular structures with corporate imagery and ethereal swathes of bright color and elongated form.

It explores the role of vernacular forms in some 40 works by more than two dozen contemporary artists, which run the aesthetic gamut: the hand - crafted work of Aaron Spangler juxtaposes with Lari Pittman's carnivalesque day - glo paintings; Marc Swanson's glittering trophy heads with Rachel Harrison's urban relics.

The show presented a new body of work — formal studies of the female form, including large, expressive line paintings of the body rendered in blue paint on raw canvas — that marked a radical departure from Emin's vernacular up until that moment.

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.

It periodizes and cross references artistic sensibilities in order to elicit multiple conceptual relationships, as well as breaks with prevailing binaries of center and periphery, vernacular and academic, urban and non-urban forms, indigenous and diasporic models of identification.

Druecke sees a parallel between Garden Path and his series of bronze plaques: «It's interesting to see how effectively the path inhabits its form, inviting engagement through its vernacular function — visitors have been walking on it since I began installing it several weeks ago — but complicating that engagement with aesthetic considerations that tend to lead one away from individual sculptures at Lynden rather than toward them.»

Ronny Quevedo's artistic practice is an examination of the vernacular languages and aesthetic forms generated by displacement, migration, and resilience.

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.

The sculpture in this show furthers the artist's use of vernacular craft forms and materials in abstract yet iconic objects.

«Vik, 2 Years Old,» a 2014 photograph by Brazilian - American photographer Vik Muniz — This large - scale photograph (approximately 8 by 6 feet), which entered the collection through the High's 2016 Collectors Evening, is from the artist's «Album» series, for which Muniz builds replicas of familiar moments with small pieces of discarded vernacular snapshots pasted together to form scenes.

Without formal training (in Lockett's case, deliberately so) and working largely with found materials, Lockett, Dial, Holley and peers like Joe Minter took their visual language from traditional black Southern vernacular art forms like the scrap quilt and the yard show but adapted it to speak of personal philosophies, social issues and the African - American experience.

The introduction establishes the importance of Black artisans in colonial New Orleans and references the emergence of iconic cultural forms including jazz, vernacular architecture, politically significant moments in New Orleans history (Plessy v. Ferguson), and food.

This potent mixture of the past and present reveals a rich contemporary vernacular that explores the fundamentals of painting (line and form, the space between illusion and matter, etc.) with new texture.

Cleaned and label - free, the bottles are presented as an archive of the community's consumption (and the fascinating history of cognac within the African American community), using a display form inspired by Puerto Rican vernacular architecture that combines decoration, comfort and security.

The Spectacular of Vernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 26 artists who utilize craft, folklore and roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global worVernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 26 artists who utilize craft, folklore and roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global worvernacular forms in the work of 26 artists who utilize craft, folklore and roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global world of art.

Phillipson excels in her use of vernacular forms and the ability to seize the language of spectacle, to produce playful irony and reveal deeper truths by amplification, repetition and saturation.

Already by the mid-1960s in screenprint and lithography Ruscha was exploiting the multiple meanings in signage (Hollywood, Standard gas stations) and other forms of text, with its innate ties to print, and making poetry of banal vernacular imagery.

Birch's visual style, a form of conceptual Southern Vernacular painting, is a syncretic blend of representation and abstraction that utilizes African diasporic retentions — cultural traits that have persisted across history — to create a record of the past's symbolic traces on the present, in order to preserve them for the future.

They — along with many other artists whose works could easily have fit in this exhibition — are vernacular cosmopolitans of a kind, moving in - between cultural traditions, and revealing hybrid forms of life and art that do not have a prior existence within the discrete world of any single culture or language.

The notion of vernacular — a form of everyday parlance specific to a social group or region — manifests in his work through a graphic and discursive style developed in the context of globalized art production.

With painterly brushwork and sketchily drawn forms, artists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Everett Shinn restituted the value of vernacular with subjects not necessarily considered artistic, such as grimy streets, popular entertainment, and children at play.

Jackson's Grape Drink Box (Anacostia Los Angeles Topeka McKinney) is a materially complex work that uses vernacular and technical materials to show the permeation of color and form into social life, and includes elements of photography that are embedded to look like afterimages.

The patterns of windows and the ubiquity of rectangular forms divided by triangles of light became part of the vernacular of modern painting.

For this project, her second large - scale painting installation and first public artwork, Balco uses the vernacular of painting — form and color — to stage interventions in existing architectural spaces that transform the way we think about public and private space.

Over the course of nearly six decades, American artist William Eggleston has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition.

In an era of virtual neighborhoods and fast - paced Internet communication, The Spectacular of Vernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 27 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global worVernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 27 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global worvernacular forms in the work of 27 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global world of art.

Exploring the position of the artists who have been associated with a fixed social identity, the exhibition is structured around platforms that allude to a vernacular architectural wooden form used in hot climates to spend summer nights outdoors.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

The sculptures employ strategies reminiscent of her paintings such as rhyming forms and layered surfaces which reveal and conceal underlying patterns, bringing her acclaimed vernacular of color and movement into three dimensions.

Vertical roll, black, neon and strobe light; dancers, musicians, computer language, television broadcast and satellite transmission form the visual and aural vernacular of his tapes and films, recently gathered under the title, Channel Mix.

The vernacular wood frame of his Church at Head Tide (1938) exemplifies this concentration upon local forms: the black outlines surrounding the structure — increasingly prevalent in Hartley's work after the early 1930s — metaphorize this inward turning.

Deller's multi-faceted practice incorporates forms of social investigation and archival research, often celebrating British popular and vernacular culture.

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.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.

In the common vernacular of corporate law, however, the «oppression remedy» is applied to 3 forms of mistreatment of shareholders.

«Several factors work together to tie the center into the Hawaiian vernacular: open spaces, shade and shadow play created by distinctive roof forms, use of the beautiful ocean and mountain views, lush landscaping, and a variety of lighting sources,» Tindall says.

Vernacular examples from the region inspire the forms and material palette of this new «old» structure.