Sentences with phrase «with unconventional materials»

They also experimented with unconventional materials including found objects and images, blending high and low media in a postmodern approach typical of the 1980s and 1990s.
He also experimented with unconventional materials and site - specific installations.
An intense reflection process and experiments with unconventional materials are at the basis of her creation process.
Alternatively, if he works in one of the more traditional media, like painting, sculpture, printmaking, mosaics, tapestry or ceramics, he is likely to work with unconventional materials, or at least according to a new set of aesthetics.
Drawing inspiration from the ruminative abstractions of Mark Rothko, while still maintaining a practice of working with unconventional materials and found objects, these so - called «till» paintings are product of this newfound exploration in material, working with dollar bills, empty cash tills, acrylic paint, and overproof rum.
More intriguing are Bianchi's mixed media works, created with unconventional materials, including EPS foam, spray paint, and aqua resin.
This retrospective, opening nearly twenty years after the French artist's death in 1998, will survey five decades of his work with unconventional materials, ranging from plexiglass to crushed automobiles.
One tendency all three men had in common, according to The Wall Street Journal, was a «penchant for experimenting with unconventional materials and techniques, and a predilection for rawness over refinement.»
With unconventional materials, she uses abstract expressionism, oftentimes to parallel classic work throughout art history, with the adjustment of the woman it captures.
Working with unconventional materials and techniques, Uklański resuscitates artistic vernaculars from a number of various historical movements, adopting the idioms or «dialects» of Art Informel, Color Field Painting, Abstract Expressionism and Fiber Art, among others.
A unique figure in postwar American art, Jay DeFeo experimented with unconventional materials, unique methods, and varied «visual concerns» to produce a self - reflexive, if non-linear, body of work.
Following the war, Nuvolo moved to Rome where, in Burri's studio, he began to develop his own artistic practice, under the influence of artists who shared his interest in a progressive departure from the use of the paintbrush toward an engagement with unconventional materials and techniques.
This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable working with unconventional materials such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media, such as perforated steel, wood or bronze.
Hesse experimented with unconventional materials like fiberglass, wax, and rubber, embracing the innate, sometimes unstable, properties of these substances.
Throughout Trockel's career there has been a consistent drive to mix conventional art forms with unconventional materials, and to take a taxonomic approach to articulating her opinions on culture, gender, commerce, and industrial practices.
I also noticed many artists creating illusionary surfaces with unconventional materials, while maintaining a disciplined awareness of the basic two - dimensional surface.
His Cardboards 1971 - 2 — a wry comment on the forces of globalisation — and his sumptuous fabric works such as the Jammers 1975 - 6 — inspired by his visit to the Indian textile centre of Ahmedabad — demonstrate his skilful play with unconventional materials.
Made with unconventional materials in a classic silhouette - double breasted with welt pockets, belt loops and a self belt.

Not exact matches

The vibrations are called phonons, and the electron - phonon coupling the researchers measured was 10 times stronger than theory had predicted — making it strong enough to potentially play a role in unconventional superconductivity, which allows materials to conduct electricity with no loss at unexpectedly high temperatures.
Combining graphic, jagged lines with a love of primary pops of colour, contemporary artist Lin Michelle exploits unconventional and innovative materials and textures to create bold, abstract art pieces that pack a statement - making punch.
The chassis is formed from a special grade stainless steel (4003) and, whilst an unconventional material choice, gives an extremely strong structure with class - leading torsional rigidity — it comes with a lifetime guarantee (100 years), 100 % recyclable and infinitely repairable.
The juxtaposition of natural materials — wood, leather and marble — perfectly contrast with polished copper elements through the public spaces; and the 281 thoughtfully designed guestrooms and suites subtly layer contemporary décor with unconventional touches and exceptional art, all evoking the feeling of an intimate boutique hotel.
The show highlights Alan Shields» idiosyncratic practice, which featured unconventional materials and unusual presentation formats, along with a proclivity for saturated colors and optical richness.
By experimenting with nascent technology and unconventional materials that included their own bodies, they opened the door for much of the video, performance, and digital art we have today.
The raw aesthetic of Cass Corridor art also seemed most in tune with the conceptual ideas and attitudes of artists such as Eva Hesse, Tony Smith, Mark di Suvero, and Robert Rauschenberg, who used unconventional materials and produced unorthodox assemblages.
«Albert Pinkham Ryder was one of the most innovative artists of the late 19th century, creating reductive, yet expressive compositions out of thick, slowly worked paint, combined with glazes, varnishes, and unconventional materials.
Perhaps fitting for its era, the 60s art world awakened to unconventional materials - artists experimented with industrial and commercial materials such as lead, Plexiglas, synthetic fabrics and automotive paints.
While some take the body as subject matter, others explore the human body as material, with non-figurative pieces functioning as unconventional self - portraits.
During the same period, he began to use unconventional materials and media, mixing traditional paints with such purposefully commonplace materials as sand, ash, marble powder, paper, cloth, and string.
Allen Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious, unconventional and irreverent work which was based in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new materials.
Drawing inspiration from the rawness and decay of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large - scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.
Throughout his career, Muniz has created multiple series of photographs, each prefaced with the phrase «Pictures of» and in which he has used of variety of unconventional materials, including dirt, sugar, chocolate, wire, and garbage.
Using unconventional materials like glitter, talcum powder, and perfume, abstract artist Pindell creates canvases filled with intricate details.
While often lumped in with Pop Art, his predilection for unconventional materials and subject matters aligns him more closely with the Minimal and Conceptual Art, and the Whitney Museum retrospective that this book, authored by AICA member Jennifer Gross, documents makes clear the degree to which the ambiguities of perception drive this influential artist's creativity.
He uses unconventional materials in traditional photographic techniques to produce unique photographic prints with a conceptual twist; for example his «dust» series, which uses collected dust and adhesive in place of the usual photographic chemicals to print delicate, gossamer images; or his photographs of lakes and rivers that are developed in liquid collected from the bodies of water themselves.
For his first solo exhibition with Sean Kelly, McCloud has created eleven new, abstract works, mixing unconventional industrial materials — aluminum sheeting, silver aluminum butane paint, and black liquid tar — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.
The movement is furthermore characterised by experiments with the most innovative and unconventional materials and media.
The domestic is also a recurring theme in the work of Argentine - born, Los Angeles - based Analia Saban, who often adopts images of domestic spaces and objects in her unconventional experiments with technique, process, and materials.
In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.
His mature work is inconceivable except in terms of acrylic, with its fluidity, its acquiescence in unconventional techniques, and its special range of luminosity in color» (A Unity of Man and Materials, San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 1972).
At the same time, Lam's suite of works, which combines charcoal and acrylic on plywood, also reflects the artist's fascination with the unconventional pairing of materials.
Susan Weil is best known for her fearless experimentation with new techniques and use of unconventional materials, both of which have been consistent themes throughout her storied sixty - year career.
He used the influence and aesthetics of mass media and combined them with unconventional, often industrial materials, to allow for a new and highly experimental approach to image making.
Over the past fifty years, Foulkes has combined his cruel and expressionist vision with his audacious experimentation with pictorial means, integrating unconventional materials such as hair, cotton and wood, and creating assemblages with recuperated objects.
Every day he is garnering more and more attention with his shadowy abstract paintings created in rather unique and unusual manner, using unconventional materials such as lipstick, drywall mud, dirt and even lidocaine.
Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious, unconventional and irreverent work which was based in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new materials.
Painted on such unconventional materials as mattress fabric, offset wood and a box from a pharmacy, they make up for their scattershot, unrefined nature with a taste of the shape of things to come: raw visages, scrawled text and an obsession with the organisation of space.
In the 1960s, while studying at Turin's Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, he fell under the influence of older contemporaries, including Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giovanni Anselmo — artists who used unconventional materials and forms to create works that replaced the artifice of academic art with simplicity, criticism of traditional social values and an interest in the potential of the everyday.
The Hepworth Wakefield with artist Des Hughes Using contradictory or unconventional materials, Des Hughes» sculptures often go through a series of processes that subvert the objects» statuses to offer a richer understanding of their purpose and materiality.
The new live digital artwork Spigot by Jason Salavon experiments with the artistic possibilities of information technology and unconventional source materials.
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