Sentences with phrase «whereas earlier artists»

Not exact matches

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

Whereas later wood works, including Cedar Piece 1959/1964 and Secant 1977, are not cut into or drastically altered but rather are arranged by the artist, these early sculptures stand out as singular works.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Caulfield, who died in 2005, disavowed the Pop artist label — Juan Gris, Fernand Léger and formal problems were his bag — whereas Hume, now in his early 50s, has always been comfortable pulling into his work figures from popular culture, such as Kate Moss or Michael Jackson.

Whereas earlier internet artists often made work that could be seen solely online and explored the implications of the new, widespread accessibility and audience, post-internet artists mine the state of mind they grew up with, a consciousness built to utilize the systems of online networks that define and organize daily life.

Whereas the sculptures are based on central characters from his recent films and include papier - mâché heads and multi-faced masks composed from printed steel, the drawings and dioramas depict these new players standing besides figures from the artist's earlier repertoire, as if posing for a group portrait of his ever - expanding roster of protagonists past and present.

Whereas northern European artists, sculptors, and architects of early modernity traveled to Italy, Greece, and elsewhere to learn and draw from the sources of our Western humanistic tradition, here we find Albers and his wife driving down to Mexico to discover and photograph what they perhaps saw as the original examples of a different kind of art.

The Corcoran installation was arranged by artist, whereas in the two main galleries, the Intuit exhibition presents works by artists from the original 1982 show that are intermingled with objects by contemporary African American artists whose aesthetics or biography resonate with those of the earlier generation.

Whereas the artists» earlier Cubist phase, known as «Analytic Cubism,» was comprised of paintings that fragmented the world into a series of basic lines and curves, this later period of «Synthetic Cubism» involved combining fragments of various materials to create a new whole.

Facebook and Warner Music Group inked a licensing agreement earlier this week, having announced that users of the world's largest social media platform will now be able to add music from Warner's artists to their videos, whereas Facebook will pay royalties to musicians based on how popular their creations are.