Sentences with phrase «vernacular subject»

His work layers historical and contemporary traditions, incorporating both elevated and vernacular subject matter.

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.

Fresh Cut demonstrates the depth of this vernacular subject.

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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.

Sheehy frequently returns to vernacular subjects that may appear folksy — donkeys, sailing ships, closely terraced houses, and chimney sweeps — but when repeated across numerous works they become talismanic.

With a similar eye for color and affect, the frontal orientation and vernacular subjects of Josephine Halvorson's close - cropped still lives belie optical heat and an uncanny gestalt effect.

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The fact is, however, that we've seen these characters and objects everywhere, and Shaw is not so much concerned with the way vernacular imagery has spread his subjects everywhere as he is genuinely interested by it.

Wittingly parodying the uncomplicated jokes from vernacular literature, the artist has found a way of incorporating a difficult subject - matter — humor — into a deeply serious artistic practice.

Ms. Kaplan has long been an advocate for the inclusion of vernacular works and photobooks in the fine art sphere, and organized the first auctions devoted to those subjects in 2014 and 2006, respectively.

Disregarding the prevailing trend for a cool, processed aesthetic, Peter Doig made oil paintings of landscape subjects which were disarmingly romantic and vernacular in character.

(Arnett, an art historian, published Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, which remains the most in - depth scholarly work on the subject.)

«Evans was intrigued by the vernacular as both a subject and a method.

But, in an ironic twist, Marshall's huge paintings depict vernacular African American settings such as public housing projects, thereby slyly placing those subjects within the canon of Western art history where they were previously ignored.

Gibson's subject matter pulls from a desert vernacular intertwined with couples lounging in nude, the infamous Mexican Coyote smugglers, and alien figures with distorted eyes among other musings.

Despite its dark subject matter, Most Wanted Men No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr. also falls squarely within Andy Warhol's Pop vernacular

The exhibit flirts with an occult vernacular in a pop manner but the artist's investigation of his subject is conceptual and poetic.

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.

His images seem at first a familiar mash - up of YouTube vernacular and Photoshop gaggery, but a subject begins to emerge...

The British vernacular, meanwhile, is the subject of Stuart Whipps's photographs, slideshows and videos (Spike Island, Bristol, 9 Jul to 18 Sep).

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.

The exhibition is the broadest single display of his practice to - date, Opie employs the concise vernacular of modern media, depicting new subjects in previously unexplored mediums as well as self referentially developing ideas from his early works.

American School, 19th / 20th Century Box of Approximately 500 Vernacular Photographs, Including Portraits, Niagara Views, Sports Activities, and Travel Subjects.

The exhibition's title suggests yet another dreary walk down the path of tweaked vernacular expression, but the show's actual subject seems far more ambitious.

Indiana draws subject matter from the visual vernacular of commercial logos, highway road signs, factory die - cut stencils while incorporating the cultural heritage of American Modernists such as Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley.

In the broadest single display of his practice to - date, Opie employs the concise vernacular of modern media, depicting new subjects in previously unexplored mediums as well as self referentially developing ideas from his early works.

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Until 1949, when O'Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico, the Northeast — particularly Lake George — and the Southwest were the primary places in which O'Keeffe worked — where she saw, absorbed, and responded to her natural surroundings, the varying and variable landscapes, and the vernacular architecture of the regions; where she reinterpreted these subjects in her work; and through which she defined the first decades of her career.