Sentence examples for artistic vernacular from inspiring English sources
The two became founding members of the Chicago art movement dubbed the Hairy Who, known for its buzzing colors, sharp lines and inspiration from artistic vernacular outside of the Western canon.
Whitechapel Gallery, E1, Fri to 15 May OB Concrete, the abiding material of Brazil's modernist designers (Da Cunha was born in Rio de Janeiro), together with the country's artistic avant garde – in which everyday materials and vernacular forms were imbued with a sort of magical beauty – are two legacies the now London-based artist has been dealing with for almost twenty years.
His artistic forebears, like Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Sterling Brown, had combed the black vernacular for literary value.
"Uncle Vanya" has been adapted by Andrew Upton (Ms. Blanchett's husband, and co-artistic director at the Sydney Theater Company) into a gritty, spontaneous-sounding vernacular.
MoMA collects and exhibits photographs across this spectrum, and I confess I'm often more interested in historical works that might be described as vernacular: snapshots, commercial assignments, news photos, studio portraits... everything other than self-consciously artistic objects.
(See below Vernacular literatures).
There is less vernacular.
Each to his own vernacular.
