Sentences with phrase «with images from popular culture»

He was the first to return figuration to postwar American painting, was innovative in his combination of «high art» with images from popular culture, and is today celebrated as the pioneer of postmodern, figurative painting.

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Working largely in black and white, and often with signature images drawn from comics and popular culture, Joyce Pensato is an exuberant expressionist painter.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

Wesselmann and his contemporaries — Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist — forged the Pop Art movement by creating large scale, dynamic compositions, experimenting with new media, and using images from everyday popular culture.

His work deals with images, language and themes gathered from popular culture, and he is known for productions in which he deconstructs language and images, and creates sculptures reflecting both aggression and retreat.

His paintings often combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and images appropriated from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the viewer.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, the paintings of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (born 1972) borrow liberally from the image glut around us, appropriating anything from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's «Bathers at Asnières» — from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the photographs of Enrique Metinides.

With massive drawings, Jamal blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism in an attempt to create a possible image of what our multilayered identities could look like.

Arthur Jafa with Gavin Brown sets images from popular culture in irregular arrays on fields of gray.

In Sounds Like Her, Boyce is presenting a new development of her ongoing Devotional series with the names of 200 black British female performers inscribed on a wallpaper, overlaid with placards especially created for the exhibition, featuring images of these women, plucked from Boyce's own archive of concert announcements, fashion magazines and other materials documenting popular culture.

Prince's technique involves appropriation, and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility, with images stemming from the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off - color jokes, gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels, among many other sources.

The drawings, which combine fragments of text with images culled from American popular and underground culture, dominated the exhibition, due in part to the sheer number of them and in part to the appeal of familiar images drawn in a simple graphic style.

Leckey, born in Birkenhead, is known for his interest in different aspects of popular culture and his Turner exhibition includes Cinema - in - the Round 2006 - 2008, a video work which is essentially an art lecture in which the artist expounds on his fascination with the life of images on - screen and takes in everything from Chuck Jones's Road Runner chasing Wile E Coyote, and Felix the cat, to James Cameron's Titanic and Homer Simpson.

His paintings often combine formal compositional elements with distinct art - historical references and images appropriated from popular culture; they resist classification and thoroughly beguile the...

In the new works, Sarmento combines his seminal portraits of the female form with images taken from popular culture (found and personal material) silk - screened directly onto the surface of the paintings, that read almost like fragmented film stills.

Chris Ofili's intricately constructed works, combining beadlike dots of paint, collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung, create a unique iconography that marries African artistic and ritual practices with Western art historical traditions and contemporary hip - hop culture.

Uprooted from Cuba as a child, and brought to Miami via Spain in 1983, Andres Conde, an expressionist painter with pop tendencies, mitigates the feeling of displacement by merging images from popular American culture with historic examples of Cuban iconography.

The former works quite traditionally with film and light and the later uses images from popular culture.

From 1940 on, Davis mined popular culture, advertising images, Cubism, jazz rhythms and his own earlier works to make distinctive paintings that, as some 100 works here show, pulse with wit and energy.

I am deeply concerned about the world around me, and my work reflects my reactions to social issues such as war and consumerism by contrasting images from American advertisements and popular culture with images of rituals from around the world.

There is a an undeniable reference to memory and youth in these images, specifically the childhood associated with 1950's popular culture — from the use of the artist's own toys, to the evocation of editorial pages from Life and Look magazines or family - oriented situation comedies like Father Knows Best.

Artist Statement In my most recent constructed assemblages, I combine material gathered from popular and glamour culture with digitized and magnified images from contemporary media and art history.

During the 1950s Lichtenstein continued to paint and experimented with printmaking, assemblages of found objects, and images from popular culture.

Eschewing formalism, Dahn's work favored experimentation and unexpected combinations of seemingly random imagery such as graffiti with Oceania; album cover art recycled with appropriated images drawn from popular culture; snapshots of friends juxtaposed with landscapes and architecture.

Often making abstractions from popular culture to explore the way in which meaning is mediated in an image driven world, his prints and sculptural work engage with the dialectic of desire and value.

American conceptual artist Lutz Bacher (b. USA) will transform Frieze London's entrance corridor, sending arriving visitors through a monumental installation that brings together the artist's collection of found objects from B - movie film sets with fragmentary references to the images and rituals of political and popular culture.

Exhibited internationally, Hyde paints often satirical juxtapositions of images from contemporary popular culture with themes from his own experience as a contemporary Native American artist.

While she captures and reinterprets images from the history of painting and popular culture, the artist's concern with looking is really what is on view.

With a precise and painstaking process, multi-dimensional images grow from successive planes of multiple stacked panels of glass, each individually embellished with bizarre found objects and eccentric clippings from diverse sources — with references to historical events and popular culture — to create intricate, three - dimensional collages that bring to mind giant psychedelic paperweigWith a precise and painstaking process, multi-dimensional images grow from successive planes of multiple stacked panels of glass, each individually embellished with bizarre found objects and eccentric clippings from diverse sources — with references to historical events and popular culture — to create intricate, three - dimensional collages that bring to mind giant psychedelic paperweigwith bizarre found objects and eccentric clippings from diverse sources — with references to historical events and popular culture — to create intricate, three - dimensional collages that bring to mind giant psychedelic paperweigwith references to historical events and popular culture — to create intricate, three - dimensional collages that bring to mind giant psychedelic paperweights.

Henrot often uses a constellation of images from both academic and popular sources to connect origin myths with contemporary culture.