Sentences with phrase «work lampooning»

Controversial and wildly popular, his works lampooned icons and societal conventions, as serious in their implicit critiques as in their humorous irreverence.

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And some lampooned Calvert for his stereotypical view of northern working class people.

If you're unfamiliar with the work of Tom Spears, a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen, you have missed some clever lampooning of fake journals.

Though it's clearly the product of smart guys who care about the films they lampoon, there's obviously a difference between making a movie that can stand proudly alongside George Romero's body of work and making one that could keep good company with Michael Bay's.

Comedienne Amy Schumer has drawn a lot of eyes (and sometimes ire) for her Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which lampoons, subverts and raises the ground under many traditional American roles women find themselves pigeonholed in at work,...

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

It certainly deserves the criticism, but the film works beyond satire — like but not quite as successfully as its predecessor in tone — to work wholly as an entry in the genre that's being lampooned, albeit one with tongue firmly in cheek.

The Cornetto Trilogy, as it has come to be known, works so well as comedy because of its caricatures and lampooning of traditional clichés; Cuban Fury on the other hand falls into these clichés almost consistently, playing out exactly as you'd expect.

From Infinity Stones to the shoddy CGI work of Justice League and, in particular, Steppenwolf, up above you'll see «Pool throw down the Infinity gauntlet, as he lampoons every superhero movie convention and hackneyed cliche under the sun.

From Infinity Stones to the shoddy CGI work of Justice League and, in particular, Steppenwolf, «Pool throws down the Infinity gauntlet, as he lampoons every superhero movie convention and hackneyed cliche under the sun.

Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades — from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male.

The Lowry exhibition, scheduled for June 2013, has received the most attention as it comes after critics lampooned the Tate for not displaying its collection of his paintings, and arguing that if they continued to do so the works should be sold.

Eighteenth century English painter and printmaker William Hogarth used his work to satirize class differences, populating his pictures with caricatures of the flawed modern citizen, while lampooning the systemic inequality that forced them into that position.

Hanksy's new work broadens his satirical scope, lampooning pop culture icons like Bruce Willis and Ryan Gosling, while staying true to his punny origins.

Mel Ramos: New Prints surveys a range of Ramos» print work, starting from his figurative departure from Abstract Expressionism to his portraits of comic book heroes such as Wonder Woman and his satirical nudes lampooning brand advertising.

The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former's methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first place — which is to say the occurrence of two contemporaneous exhibitions in two major German institutions by two artists who dealt with issues of archive, text - as - image, and art - as - work just as these tropes have re-emerged as the historically available «next - big - thing.»

Prince's joke is actually a very old one, and the original is much better: Sigmar Polke did similar work with rubber bands in 1970, lampooning Dürer's famous «Hare»

Arcangel's works exist neither to elevate the «lowbrow» subject matter they mine nor lampoon their Fine Art context, instead experimenting with the marriage of the two, exploring what their synthesis might do for — or to — one another.

At the end of 2007, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a television commercial that lampooned carbon reductions, depicting a family sleeping in full winter garb, a man cooking eggs over candles, and people jogging to work in business suits, while the narrator intoned: «Climate legislation being considered by Congress could make it too expensive to heat our homes, power our lives, and drive our cars.»