What work of art would you most like to own?
The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (b. 1928) argued: «
What the work of art looks like isn't too important.
What work of art first made you feel the wow factor?
During this relatively brief interval, Irwin interrogated the most essential premises of art and, in the process, redefined
what a work of art could be, proposing that art not be limited to objects but be considered a way of seeing.
Battling exhaustion and the flu on the Monday after the opening, Goldstein, sitting in the Stedelijk's popular restaurant with a cup of fresh mint tea, considered for a moment, then said, «If artists make arguments about
what a work of art can do, and if artists give us an opportunity to have insights through their own eyes and words to culture we all share, I think Mike, in a most profound and almost impossibly comprehensive way, gave us not only a window [into] but in some ways a means to rethink art and to examine our relationship to our culture and our society.»
The exhibition's logic incorporates that of the nomadic cultural incubator, cross-continental happening, and moving earthwork Station to Station, 2013, which, like so many of Aitken's works, embraced a collaborative spirit beyond disciplines and beyond walls to reimagine the nature of
what a work of art can be, of what an art experience can do.
What work of art do you wish you owned?
Minimalism Appearing in the 1960s, Materialism's abstract aesthetic required the audience to no longer attempt to imagine
what a work of art represented, but rather to react to what they see.
Of Warhol in particular, Craig - Martin said: «Warhol is possibly the most important figure in the fundamental change that occurred in art in the early 60s... [he] changes the whole notion about
what a work of art is and how one deals with it.»
I can not stress
what a work of art this game is.
What a work of art and nature is Marilyn Monroe.
Oh my gosh,
what a work of art!
BTW, my parents got both the Penney's and Sears catalogs throughout that glorious decade; who knows
what works of art lurk in the backs of their closets.
The curator believes the works prompt viewers to consider how history appoints dominant artistic voices and who decides
what works of art are fit for canonization and continued study.
What became ever clearer to me in organizing this exhibition was that I could never second - guess the artists in terms of
what works of art they would focus on.
Not exact matches
A new book from the author
of «The
Art of Nonconformity» asks:
What if today was your last day
of working for someone other than yourself?
No matter who you are or
what your business is, Episode 105 with Vanessa Van Edwards is a must - hear interview to learn the
art and science
of how people
work.
The
art of integration kept it all
working together, under one brand and one brand experience, with me as brand ambassador at each touch point, which is exactly
what I teach today.
From cleaning a Mark Rothko painting to deconstructing and reassembling Claes Oldenburg's «Floor Burger» (which is exactly
what it sounds like), Phillips has had privileged access to invaluable
works of art.
«That's still an area where it's an
art, not a science, understanding the patterns
of what's likely to
work and not, and how companies navigate that,» she said.
[1:20] How the kindness
of a stranger changed Tony's life [3:35] Peter Diamandis talks about the origins
of X Prize [6:30] Technology helping the agricultural industry [7:00] Sequencing genomes [8:55] Life -
work integration [11:15] Finding your highest calling in life [12:00] Reframing
what is «impossible» [14:00] Strategy vs. psychology [15:00] Changing your state [16:00] The science
of achievement, the
art of fulfillment [19:00] Living in a beautiful state [24:00] Thinking 10x bigger [28:00] Surrounding yourself with a «nothing is impossible» community [29:00] The news pollutes your mind [31:00] Tony's natural gifts and core beliefs [33:30] Overcoming failure and criticism [37:45] Defining your environment [40:00] Life happens for you, not to you [42:00] Rituals and practices to up your game [46:30] Tony's priming process
Part
of what makes
art so necessary in today's culture is that the artists behind great
works don't allow themselves to be boxed in by conventionality.
It is a well - crafted
work of art, well worth studying for the formalistic criteria it suggests regarding
what should count as good dramatic structure, literary composition, conceptual coherence, and affective import.
We aren't told
what Thompson believes now» and his
art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end
of Habibi he seems to have least
worked his way to a beautiful observation: «God's followers worship not out
of the hope for reward nor fear
of punishment but out
of love.»
When I consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou
art mindful
of him?
I may do
what I see fit with my own
works of art, but it is another matter altogether when someone else invades my studio and smashes them to bits!
«If there occurs in the
work of art a disclosure
of a particular being, disclosing
what and how it is, then there is here an occurring, a happening
of truth at
work.»
This would involve long listenings, the end
of the first - impression review, a dedication to research and a horribly articulable purpose: to shed light on difficult
works of art, reveal their inner unity, describe their structure and articulate in clear terms
what the artist is trying to say.
Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions
of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
what is man that thou
art mindful
of him, and the son
of man that thou dost care for him?»
Thou ow» st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume... Thou
art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more, but such a poor, bare forked animal as thou
art,» Lear strips all humanity naked with his words
of terror and abandonment as he
works to discover
what it means to be a man, not a king.
I enjoy doing my
art, and it provides me with hours
of relaxation, contemplative time, hard
work that has visible results (unlike the ministry), and extra income to supplement
what I make as a pastor.
Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than
works of civic
art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening
of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as
what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him
of something far more ominous, the abasement
of man and the crude negation
of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.
Green himself is a subscriber to the belief that the best
works of art are partly defined by
what you bring to them, and while on the surface this is a book about death, it's actually a book about life, though never a sentimental one.
After it was published I experienced
what literary critics often point out, that any
work of art — a poem, a painting, even a book
of theology — quickly escapes its creator's hand and takes on a life
of its own.
Thus it has been the bearer
of wisdom about
what is good in human life, about sexuality, about being young and growing old, about
work and money, children and family, duty and sacrifice, about friendship and love,
art, literature, and music.
I couldn't tell who was having more fun, Brian or Joe, but they were
working together, making their own kind
of art, Anne riding her bike, exploring, and I've noticed my tinies just like to be with us, it doesn't matter
what we're doing, they just like to be there, and there is no greater longing
of their hearts than to help, let me help, let me be a part
of it all.
When I consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou
art mindful or him?
Artists in every medium have an imagination and an intelligence that enables them to pull together
what they perceive in the world and contemplate in their souls in the process
of creating new
works of art that in turn help the rest
of us apprehend reality in entirely new ways.
(One wonders
what the Reinhold Niebuhr
of Moral Man and Immoral Society would have thought about the
working premises
of Kiefer's
art.)
With the approach
of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication
of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an assessment
of his
work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision
of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment
of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine
what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's
art.
In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words
of the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image
of God», man also expresses the truth
of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty
of his artistic
works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love
of beings,
art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in
what he has created.
Basically, a new way
of looking at old texts or
works of art, grounded in a sense
of inferiority vis - a-vis
what the Ancients achieved in science and the
arts.
Thus
what is expressed in the
work of art obscures from our vision that complex
working process by which the artist forms the feeling for himself.8 The feeling is not formed in advance, awaiting externalization.
A true
work of art is coherent with other instances and modes
of apprehending
what is and
what ought to be; that is to say, it illuminates the meaning
of life.
What is irreplaceable in the
work of art?
Today, in our second On the Square essay, Patricia Snow reflects on the
work of Diego Velázquez and
what the recent discovery
of a lost Velázquez painting at Yale University
Art Gallery might tell us about the artist:
In this respect, his approach is very different from that
of another distinguished literary critic, Robert Alter, author
of The
Art of Biblical Narrative, who deprecates
what he calls the excavative techniques
of professional biblical scholarship and
works with the text as it is, in its final form.
What do praise bands and church orchestras and bell choirs and octaves
of tuned bells and multi-rank pipe organs and grand pianos and synthesizers and adult choirs and children choirs and choir auditions and choir robes and music folders and the search and review and selection analysis and purchase
of new music and multi-line PA systems and multi-screen video systems and live broadcasts and recorded broadcasts and hours
of rehearsal time and church bulletins and church bulletin
art work and church bulletin paper and designer fonts and newsletters and mailing lists and advertising and advertising placement and multi-media web sites and visits by unique IP addresses and the use
of and the presence on new media have to do with living and sharing the Good News?
In the opinion
of the Times» photography editor, the curator
of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the physical beauty
of the photograph and the brutal nature
of what's going on in it that gives it the particular quality that this
work of art has.