Sentences with phrase «whose iconic works»

This exhibition looks at SFMOMA's long - term relationships with 18 modern and contemporary arists whose iconic works have been influential in defining movements from Abstract Expressionism to Postminimalism and beyond, with individual galleries featuring works by a single artist.

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Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola had a lot to work with in Murray's cracked mug, so you have to feel for Coppola's brother Roman, whose own project of redeeming an iconic face hits a snag right from the casting sheet.

Most will view it with a jaded eye because of his other works, but others will respect the daring (although over-the-top at times dialogue), the «purist» filming of the project in Ultra Panavision 70 (a format that hasn't been employed in some 50 years) and the respectful hiring of Ennio Morricone, the man whose most famous score for the iconic «The Good, the Bad and the Ugly» is now synonymous with the western.

This coming from a filmmaker whose most iconic film works depict a serial killer who bases his murders on biblical sins and on an underground group of brawling men.

The contradictory relationship between Kitano the celebrity and Kitano the serious artist makes him oddly reminiscent of both Jerry Lewis and Clint Eastwood, other iconic actors whose directorial work often questions what their iconography represents.

The award was inaugurated in 1983 after the untimely death of the iconic science fiction author, Philip K. Dick, whose work has been adapted into major motion pictures such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

John Romero is an award - winning game designer, level designer and programmer whose work spans over 130 games, 107 of which have been published commercially, including the iconic works Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake.

It brings together painting, sculpture, and photography by iconic modern and contemporary artists whose work and ideas have changed the course of art history.

Alongside this, the exhibition will include a number of iconic works by the Chapman brothers whose sharp subversive humour and unbridled aggression provokes controversy and questions moral contemporary taboos.

One of the most iconic figures that emerged from the post-World War II American art, Frank Stella is a painter and a printmaker whose influential work is considered to be crucial to the generations of artists that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism.

Jetzer points to the work of the Guerrilla Girls and Barbara Kruger — whose black, red and white block lettered poster works are now iconic — as examples since both riffed on contemporary in - your - face ad culture to bring to light issues of sexism, exploitation and privilege within American society.

Ahead of the British Museum's new exhibition dedicated to the work of Katsushika Hokusai (25 May — 13 August 2017), whose print The Great Wave is one of the most iconic images of all time, we thought we'd pick three other great shows that explore the art of Japan.

And our view of Beuys is too dependent on a smattering of iconic works whose connectedness can be difficult to discern: scribbled blackboards, felt suits, photographs of the artist lecturing to a dead hare.

She is an artist whose self - image paintings from the 1970s have become iconic feminist works of art.

Galerie Perrotin presents a selection of iconic works by Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler whose collaboration, beginning in the late 70s, continued uninterrupted until Ericson's premature death in 1995.

In the second gallery, Hatoum will exhibit Cells (2014), a steel and glass work whose form relates to earlier iconic installations such as Light Sentence (1992).

Fifty of those works are on display in an anniversary exhibition that showcases international names as well as some of the museum's most iconic Mexican artists, like Diego Rivera, Gerardo Murillo and Frida Kahlo (whose famed «Las Dos Fridas,» a self - portrait that depicts the artist as two competing alter egos, is part of the collection).

The artist and impersonator par excellance born Elaine Sturtevant long ago shed her given name in favor of the iconic standalone cognomen, a lá Warhol — an act of mirroring that both pays homage to her kinship with that artist, whose works she began shamelessly copying in the mid - «60s, and speaks to the fame that she earned over the course of her long and astonishing career, which ended with her death at 89 this May.

-- Louise Bourgeois, 1996 Louise Bourgeois» iconic Spider III is one of the most significant and personal works from an artist whose career reflects nearly a century of remarkable productivity.

Another acknowledged leading figure of the movement is Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), whose now iconic mirror paintings played with the representation of reality by inviting the viewer to enter the work.

What I also liked about the space is that among the iconic artists were pieces by lesser known living artists whose work I was previously unfamiliar with.

Like Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock — artists whose works in some ways captured the post-war American experience — Messrs. Zeng and Zhang have turned out works that people consider iconic of contemporary China.

Both iconic and relatively unknown works are featured by artists whose careers are defined by their association with the city, who may have lived in Los Angeles for a few brief but influential years, or whose visit inspired them to create memorable images.

The exhibition is the first retrospective dedicated to John Giorno, American poet, performance artist, and iconic figure of the underground scene of the Sixties, whose work was influenced by the encounter with artists like Andy Warhol (he played in many of Warhol's early films), Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Trisha Brown, and Carolee Schneeman.

Edward Hopper and Lawren Harris are two such artists whose iconic imagery still resonates, and whose reputation casts a long shadow over all the artists working within the genre.»

Speakers include graphic artist and illustration mastermind Jean Jullien, whose iconic» Peace for Paris» symbol became an instant global meme; children's book author and illustrator You Jung Byun, known for her detailed narrative and commissioned work inhabited by strange beasts and lost children; everyone's favourite gif - wunderkind Julian Glander, creator of bubblegum - coloured digital illustration, indie games and interactive artwork, all subsumed under the catchword «digital toys»; animator, writer, and producer Ben Bocquelet, creator of the famed animation series «The Amazing World of Gumball `; Martina Paukova, illustrator with an incredibly fast - paced career, whose jam - packed images in a trademark palette and Memphis - inspired patterns mirror our mundane lives in the digital age; and Jaime Álvarez, renowned for his 3D rendered Mr. Kat (PE) universe, fusing pre-Columbian with contemporary kawaii aesthetics.

Continuing its concept of curating a special two - artist presentation at Frieze New York (last year featured Lisa Yuskavage and Isa Genzken), this year David Zwirner is presenting works by Carol Bove, who's co-representing Switzerland at the upcoming Venice Biennale, alongside works by the iconic American photographer William Eggleston, whose photographs have documented scenes of his native South as well as subjects from all walks of life with equal reverence.

Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden helped put him on the map in 2001 when she included his photographs in a now - iconic show of artists whose work she controversially categorized as «post-black.»

Lashai was an influential artist whose stop motion animation works often referenced iconic works of art, literature and film while commenting on political and social conditions in Iran.

Fulton presented Slowalk (In support of Ai Weiwei) at Tate Modern as a collective action created specifically in response to the iconic architecture of the Turbine Hall and in the context of the recent disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose work Sunflower Seeds is currently on display in the east end of the Turbine Hall as the eleventh project in the series of Unilever Commissions.

It included works by iconic international artists such as Andy Warhol as well as works by local artists including Carol Panaro - Smith and James Hajicek plus David Emitt Adams — whose photographs on objects found in the Sonoran desert were also part of the 2015 Arizona Biennial exhibition at Tucson Museum of Art.

These iconic appliances appear in the work of James Valerio - a self - portrait standing next to an open fridge displaying such items as a half - eaten chicken and a bottle of Gatorade - and Amer Kobaslija whose miniature painting of a fridge contains numerous caffeinated beverages in the likes of Red Bull and Coke.

Artists since, like Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Rosemarie Trockel, or Alighiero e Boetti, whose iconic «Mappa» series includes the embroidery work of Afghan craftswomen, have taken an interest in the textile arts to critique the split between «folk» and «high» art.

A pioneer of photomontage, whose images of women presaged the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir and Second Wave Feminism half a century later, Hoch was a pivotal figure in Dada, the anti-art movement that outraged conventional opinion in the final years of World War One, working alongside iconic male artists such as George Grosz, John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann.

This piece from «East Meets West,» his most famous series, is an iconic work by an artist whose reputation is on the rise.

Titled Movement, the show is organised together with the iconic Galerie Denise René from Paris, and features works by Cruz - Diez alongside his Op and Kinetic Art contemporaries, whose careers were all catapulted by the renowned gallerist Denise René during the 1950s.

With this series of large - scale solo shows and distinguished - looking books in cloth binding, the Kumu Art Museum pays homage to iconic Estonian artists of the second half of the 20th century whose works have had a profound infl uence on the development of Estonian art.

Five steps in, you're hit with the big names: Nan Goldin, an iconic American photographer whose images of urban nightlife in the 1970s and»80s offer a window onto society's darker margins (Goldin is a friend of Berger and one piece bears a personal inscription); Rashid Johnson, a fast - rising conceptual artist whose prismatic work mines the meaning of the black American identity; and, notably, Robert Mapplethorpe, in a rare self - portrait emblematic of the artist's confrontational beauty.

Donning her signature shoes, whose iconic stripes are prominently referenced along the borders of her work, Wendy White (B.F.A., Fibers) took visitors through the logic of CURVA.

Thus the exhibition presents artists whose works have a close connection to commercial mechanisms and designers who produce objects, which are far from the saleable, iconic and functional object.

FOLLY: Art after Architecture brings together Irish and international contemporary artists whose work has been inspired by iconic buildings of architectural modernism.

The brand new body of work, «Skins,» from Camil — whose conceptual and performative pieces make use of natural materials and textiles — is an homage to Frank Stella's iconic Copper Paintings (1960 - 61).

Iconic figures such as Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff are presented next to other established, mid-career and emerging artists such as Gary Wragg, Phoebe Unwin and Joella Wheatley revealing intriguing, surprising connections, contrasts and underlying preoccupations.The exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists whose achievements arise from protracted periods of time spent in their studios, looking, considering, making, revising and finally producing richly complex works of art.

The 19 - acre campus will feature 16 new artworks by artists including Sol LeWitt (known for his geometric work), Robert Indiana (responsible for the iconic «LOVE» sculpture) and Katharina Fritsch (whose giant blue rooster now sits atop the National Gallery in D.C.).

London - based Doug Fishbone - whose film and performance work is heavily influenced by the rhythms of stand - up comedy - is expected to talk about a number of historical city sites and iconic buildings during his hour long performance.

The exhibit «Standing Still Lifes» is not to miss event of a leading figure of American pop art, whose scaled - up, vivid and bold artistry made his work iconic.

The first one presented the work of Sarah Lucas, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread and of course Damien Hirst, whose dead shark rapidly became the iconic symbol of Britart around the world.