Sentences with phrase «vernacular styles»

Our designs may take cues from vernacular styles, but they are uniquely adapted to the site and our client's aesthetic tastes.

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.

His subjects are borrowed, singly or in combinations, from several distinct art historical and vernacular styles, in many cases 18th and 19th century grand portraiture, found holiday snapshots and slides from the 1970s and geometric abstraction.

He was hardly the advocate of strictly casual and vernacular styles.

William Shawn, the usually mild - mannered editor of The New Yorker, was at near - constant loggerheads with Kael, irked by her earthiness as much as her vernacular style.

The Exposition brought Spanish Colonial Revival into becoming California's «indigenous historical vernacular style», very popular in poured concrete through the 1920s, still used and reinterpreted in the present day.

With its title, the harsh lighting and slightly larger than life size, the photograph plays with the vernacular style and inherent contradictions of the family snapshot.

Highlights from this conceptually minded show, organized by Guggenheim curator Sara Raza, include Kadar Attia's replica of a North African city that he's constructed with couscous, salt and glue to comment on French modernist architect Le Corbusier's appropriation of the region's vernacular style of design and Mariam Ghani's video installation that contrasts two modernist buildings in Afghanistan and Germany: one depicted in a state of ruin while the other is being redeveloped.

The architects for this Charlottesville Idea House were Rosney Dixon a local firm who created the house to reflect the hunt country's vernacular style.

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The second issue is separating style from substance; as biohacking becomes part of our vernacular, it can be difficult to discern which efforts actually are worthy of attention.

I think it is pretty cool to learn the clothing vernacular in other countries and fun to be able to speak style with an international twist.

Despite proportions that remain firmly planted in minivan vernacular — no attempt to toe the faux - SUV line has been made here — the Pacifica's's styling is fresh from nose to tail.

A Certain Age is delightful with the style and vernacular of the rat - a-tat-tat dialogue of»40s movies.

Pritchard's distinctive vernacular writing style is on full display in Sailing to Alluvium, and Junior Ray and Voyd haven't reined in their gleeful vulgarity.

If you were to ask me what has changed, other than common vernacular and writing styles, is censorship in literature.

Today, this vernacular architecture style is found across southern Louisiana.

The Mission Revival style of architecture, and subsequent Spanish Colonial Revival style, have historical, narrative — nostalgic, cultural — environmental associations, and climate appropriateness that have made for a predominant historical regional vernacular architecture style in the Southwestern United States, especially in California.

In California elements from the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival Style continue to be a regional vernacular and popular.

In the United States and elsewhere, the Neo-Byzantine style is often seen in vernacular amalgamations with other Medieval revivalist styles such as Romanesque and Gothic, or even with the Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival styles.

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.

At a time when artists across the board were turning away from painting and towards photography and conceptual art, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica addresses the history and impact of artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, all executed in Hockney's signature vernacular.

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.

While they have recognizable vernacular characteristics common to communities of fandom, they also depart from this style.

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With a painting style that is self - effacing and grounded in the vernacular, Dawson offers careful consideration of narrative through composition and intimate detail.

Although his photographs are nowhere near as original as his art, they're solid examples of a midcentury American style that zeroed in on the vernacular, the ephemeral, and the everyday.

Models based on a Sienese palazzo and Islamic style Spanish baths demonstrate Casebere's interest in vernacular architectural styles of diverse worldwide origin.

He was considered the founder of a new style of Thai poetry, one that used vernacular, simple language as opposed to the erudite style that had characterized Thai poetry in the past.

In the 1970s, though, Bates hadn't found his own style, and Dallas art was more interested in so - called Texas Funk, which blended vernacular Texas idioms with psychedelic and pop art (and included artists such as Bob «Daddy - O» Wade and the Oak Cliff 4).

Although Ruscha denies this in interviews, the vernacular of Los Angeles and Southern California landscapes contributes to the themes and styles central to much of Ruscha's paintings, drawings, and books.

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.

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.

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.

About the project, Curator Albert Stabler writes, «Even more than colonial and modern styles, vernacular architecture shows the full breadth of [Puerto Rico's] historical influences, from before, during, and after colonialism.

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.

Beyond the largely non-objective painting style itself, the constructs he builds change the vernacular of Abstract Expressionism.

Harris, working in CMOA's hometown of Pittsburgh, and VanDerZee, in Harlem, captured pictures of social black life that revealed both the formal and vernacular aspects of two communities that were overlooked but lived in with complexity and style in the 20th century.

This style, along with recurrence of specific detritus — piles of shoes, bare light bulbs, clocks, and cigarettes — interweave to create a signature visual vernacular.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

Enacting a dramatic narrative in the style of a soap opera or telenovela, Linzy's multiple personae express desperation, desire, and ambition in the vernacular of southern blacks from the lower socio - economic spectrum.

He was, and still is, a fixture of the style press; his brand of wired, avant garde experimentalism doesn't really go out of fashion, it just becomes part of the cultural vernacular.

It can be modern, historical, vernacular, high or low — any design style.

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

A nursing resume is different from a financial analyst resume, and a law resume is different from a teachers resume — this goes to show that there is a specific style, format and vernacular that is used when writing for various professions and industries.

Like hemlines, housing styles come and go, but no vernacular may prove this more than the American - born - and - bred ranch - style house, also referred to as a rambler in some parts of the country.

The development will feature 700 single - family homes, 70 townhomes and villas, and 330 condos in Craftsman, Farmhouse, Coastal Gulf Vernacular, Spanish, and Colonial / West Indies architectural styles.

Some Foursquare houses are considered vernacular subtypes of the Prairie style.

All three communities are an architectural response to the early maritime villages of Nantucket — a merging of distinctive, coastal shingle homes with Floridian vernacular building styles.

These are the underpinnings of the country - infused style known as shabby chic, a coinage brought into the contemporary vernacular by designer Rachel Ashwell.

Ikat is a pattern that has entered the design vernacular a few years back and has firmly lodged itself in the style world.