Sentences with phrase «art of personal narrative»

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, by Vivian Gornick.

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What of criticism's other functions: proselytizing on behalf of the creatively triumphant but commercially marginal; trawling through cinema's back catalogues in search of unappreciated masterpieces; placing movies within the broader narratives of intellectual history; transforming personal taste into an essayistic art unto itself?

When I teach language arts, I love using collaborative writing to explain concepts like figurative language or to demonstrate how to start writing different types of pieces (like an essay or a suspenseful personal narrative).

While the idea of creating art to represent How We Express Ourselves is not a new one, especially to those who teach in PYP schools, what is interesting about this exhibition of work is the personal narrative that accompanies each mask.

An assistant professor of art and director of the Diggs Gallery at Winston - Salem State University, Beal is recognized for her «photographic narratives and video testimonies that examine the personal, yet contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space.»

Lynn Hershman Leeson I think that all art involves some kind of personal narrative, whether artists consciously include them or not.

As the Huffington Post affirms: «Packer uses portraiture to combine personal experience with the overarching narratives of art history, heightening contradiction and sadness in her style.»

Often using unconventional narrative structures to address dislocation, personal politics, social issues, and memory, his films and art projects have won him international acclaim, including the Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature from Thailand's Ministry of Culture, the Slipatorn Award, and the Fine Prize from the 55th Carnegie International.

As Charlotte Cotton, critic and former curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) as well as the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, writes in The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art): «Harris makes a map of visual and ideological connections... blending high criticality and personal narrative to suggest that all photography inherently carries representational meaning beyond the intent or making of the photographer.»

NICOLE BRAY: My personal art collection centers around the idea of Warrior Women, strong female artists who are redefining sexuality, identity, and personal narratives.

Swiss and Baltic Artists 21.11.2014 — 1.02.2015 5th floor, Gallery of Contemporary Art The exhibition brings together Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swiss artists with different backgrounds, who tell their stories based on their collective history and their personal narratives.

The exhibition at Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (until 4 June 2017) examines the relationship between personal narratives and social conditions and includes a newly commissioned project that, six months in the making, features four local people who have transformed their own situation and that of the community around them.

It includes an essay by Dr. Stephanie Hanor, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and a personal narrative on the creation of one of Johns» light bulb sculptures by the artist and former Johns studio assistant Mark Lancaster.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

You Are Here: The Psychogeography of the City, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, NY Guggenheim You Tube Play, shortlist, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY It's Personal, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Union, NJ 1001: The Narrative Tradition in Middle Eastern Art, William Paterson University Gallery, Wayne, NJ

With a career spanning almost three decades, Francesca Fuchs is a well - known Houston - based artist whose paintings draw from art historical and personal references, evoking a strong sense of narrative around themes of memory, family, and home, and how they define our sense of place and self.

«For this original performance, Jonah Bokaer uses movement to explore the timely subject of human migration around the Mediterranean Basin, a narrative of personal significance to the artist, who is of Tunisian heritage,» said Andrea Grover, Century Arts Foundation Curator of Special Projects at the Parrish, and curator of Platform.

This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an artist, and although his art may be associated with the trends in figurative painting and British pop art, the most important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.

She is a devoted storyteller and her art embodies a plethora of personal and global narratives.

Her strange, deeply personal poems reframe traditional narratives of art history.

At the height of the Pop and Minimal movements, we were making... art that was personal, autobiographical, expressionistic, narrative and political.

Declaring «the personal is political,» feminist artists critiqued the objectification of women through the agency of performance art, often using their own bodies but also incorporating narrative strategies, autobiography, and role reversal.

Each of the artists in this exhibition were chosen because they create nonrepresentational art based on personal narratives that may go unnoticed when viewing the formal elements of the artwork alone.

In its place, the show presents an alternative vision of art's recent past that locates figuration and personal narrative front and center... Accusing contemporary abstraction of offering «a site for infinitely shallow projection on the part of the viewer» is a serious, and — in my opinion — pertinent charge given the critical attention heaped upon it over the past few years.

Contrary to contemporary postmodern artists utilizing Letterform in art for mostly conceptual purposes, or Concrete Poetry that involves a form of Visual Poetry, Concrete Alphabets acts as hybrid where each artist defines his own work based upon unique personal narratives involving aspects of Letterform / Alphabets An important aspect of this shared perspective is how each artist has maintained and utilizes analog painting as a medium, thus allowing them to keep their own signature mark making prevalent in the artwork.

Much of Dinh Q. Lê's art is driven by this sense of the unresolvable, of competing narratives — personal experience, collective memory, historical record, fictional accounts, propaganda and more.

Using the aesthetics and narrative form of soap opera, Linzy's work addresses themes such as personal relationships, gender, sex and the contemporary art world.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

This rich collection of writings by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network - infused language art.

Drawing their inspiration from everything from American and European graffiti to calligraphy in addition to some historical sources the featured artists have been able to create a new body of work based on personal narratives that give form to a new and unique hybrid art form.

A primary motif of these paintings is his brightly coloured, paisley patterns merging with abstract designs and motifs borrowed from art history, literature and Steven's personal symbolism used to create strange surreal and unsettling narratives.

Contrary to contemporary postmodern artists utilizing Letterform in art for mostly conceptual purposes, or Concrete Poetry that involves a form of Visual Poetry, Concrete Alphabets acts as hybrid where each artist defines his own work based upon unique personal narratives involving aspects of Letterform / Alphabets

The collection attests to the persistent vigour of Baselitz» distinctive pictorial style and is a fascinating exploration of the juncture between personal and collective narratives, via motifs which recur throughout gesturing towards the stores of art history and Baselitz own oeuvre.

14 Jan 2005 Public and Private Narratives An exhibition from the Irish Museum of Modern Art's own Collection exploring the many ways in which visual artists respond to issues and events that have either personal or public significance opens at the Sligo Art Gallery on Thursday 13 January 2005.

In positioning himself between worlds — the art world, his family and community, peripheral spaces he seeks to inhabit — Murillo has made room for a new visual language, one that draws as easily and subversively on his personal narratives and the narratives around the places he has visited, as it does on traditional vocabularies of painting, installation, and sculpture.

Intensely personal, the narrative brings the 1970s to life: Scofield writes of art, intellectual conversation, road trips and male bonding with affection and honesty.

Their artworks provide a personal and cultural history of three generations of Inuit women whose art practices included autobiographical narratives and chronicled intimate and sometimes harsh memories and historically resonant moments.

Combining elements of Eastern and Western art, culture, history, mythology, religion, science, and technology with personal narratives, WPA member artist Samantha Sethi, creates dynamic, highly - detailed paintings and drawings.

Ms. Murray belonged to a sprawling generation of Post-Minimal artists who spent the 1970s reversing the reductivist tendencies of Minimalism and reinvigorating art with a sense of narrative, process and personal identity.

While reflecting many of the currents of Postminimal and Conceptual art of the 1970s, Morton's work also looked to a pioneering use of personal narrative, intimacy, humor, and poetic imagination.

The questions she raises go beyond the personal narrative of two artists to probe the lack of social responsibility employed by art institutions.

Whether appropriating existing media, drawing on art history, or constructing a narrative, all of the artists fuse elements of culture with a contemporary sensibility to create a personal vocabulary.

The exhibition explores Sherwood's personal narrative within the context of important art historical genres.

Consequently her work moved from an implied narrative about the act of making art to a more personal narrative.

With this approach, the exhibition aims to paint the portrait of a versatile artist who has continually been on the move, looking for a symbiosis between art and her personal narratives, encounters, and passions.

Each drawing, produced through the use of machinery, acts as a discrete symbol for artistic, economic, or social principals that, when viewed as a group, addresses contemporary narratives of personal anxiety, globalism versus nativism, and the perception of value, especially that of fine art.

Entering the New York art world in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Diao first engaged, in his early work, in the complex position of painting in the aftermath of the Abstract Expressionists and the formalist critical debates that followed them, successfully pushing painting into conceptual territory while allowing him to deal with aesthetics, history as well as personal narrative in his painting.

Although attracted to abstract art from the beginning, his work contains traces of figuration, as well as an intellectual narrative inspired by history, philosophy and personal biography.

Using Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series (1940 — 41) as a catalyst for conversation about the power of storytelling through art, emerging artists, middle and high school students, art educators, and museum professionals worked together to create visual narratives about identity, personal struggle, and Pakistani history.

For all her work's superficial kinship with the collisions of store display and sculpture in work by artists such as Josephine Meckseper or Haim Steinbach, however, Yi encourages a different mode of spectatorship by embedding her art in a narrative that invites personal, affective involvement.