Sentences with phrase «aesthetic conventions»

The gameplay shown off in the trailer clearly channels gameplay and aesthetic conventions from not one, but two different franchises.

He challenged aesthetic conventions of his day by applying innovative artistic techniques such as silkscreen and sampling to printing and sculpture.

In order to exhibit in an «official» capacity, Zhu joined the Stars (Xingxing), a group of Chinese artists formed in 1979 with the mission to challenge aesthetic conventions and to exhibit their work in public.

Over the course of his four - decade career, Mike Kelley (1954 — 2012) critically questioned aesthetic conventions and examined all forms of culture.

The paradox of Ti West is that the least interesting thing in his best horror films (The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers) is the source of the horror, which tends to be unimaginative and non-metaphorical; a genre buff with no sense of an underlying unknown, he instead excels at mimicking aesthetic conventions, which he deforms for tension and disquieting effect.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

The focus here is on contemporary art that has a «strong historical lineage while challenging current aesthetic conventions»; the cool name is a reference to 19th century American painter John Singer Sargent.

The discussion considers what it means to both adopt and outsource the processes of such structures, and whether this creates the potential for alternative aesthetic conventions.

Three gallery shows that exemplify the trend — and a fourth farther uptown — are of work by artists who share elements of the same profile: the bad - boy avant - gardist with machismo to spare, rebelling against aesthetic conventions, social norms or both.

We need to ask if it's productive to do shows that deconstruct or critique artistic power structures while simultaneously buttressing aesthetic convention.

«Williams» photographs, videos, installations, sculptures and performances study the conditions of presentation and representation and call into question spoon - fed perception and true - to - reality reproductions: how do our communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions influence our perception and understanding of reality?»

Sahib's interest in jewelry is a way of thinking about objects that mediate value through aesthetic conventions.

Over the course of his influential four - decade career, Kelley generated a remarkably diverse oeuvre in an array of mediums, conflating high and low culture, critiquing prevailing aesthetic conventions and colliding the sacred with the profane.

But the kind of drawing that appears to repeatedly and perpetually fly so free from the constraints of form, fashion and aesthetic conventions takes years of dedicated hard work, skill and a unique sort of brilliance to achieve.

On the other, aesthetic conventions of finish and patina favor the bronze.

To make these practices communicative in and through specific cultural contexts, those of us who teach ministers to become «servants of the Word» have encouraged them to become aware of aesthetic conventions and put them into practice in public communication.

Deeply political and historical, Christopher Williams's (b. 1956) photographs evoke a subtle shift in our perception by questioning the communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our understanding of reality.

Characterized by a relentlessly experimental and inquisitive attitude, the artist's work employs unusual materials and techniques, and playfully defies social, political, and aesthetic conventions.

Characterized by a relentlessly experimental and inquisitive approach to a wide variety of styles and subject matter, the artist's work engages unconventional materials and techniques, and playfully defies social, political, and aesthetic conventions.

«Rebecca Warren is one of Britain's most vital contemporary artists, whose work invites us to engage with the aesthetic conventions of an earlier generation of male sculptors through a freshly feminist sensibility,» said Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA.

Mosset is the consummate Minimalist, while Armleder pushes the aesthetic conventions of beauty to their excessive limit.

Using the process of reproduction as a point of entry, the artist questions the communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our understanding of reality.

Using her body to examine the role of female sensuality in connection to the possibilities of political and personal liberation from predominantly oppressive social and aesthetic conventions, Carolee Schneemann is regarded in art history as a pioneer of performance art.

She champions the importance of women's sensual pleasure and she examines the possibilities of political and personal emancipation from predominant social and aesthetic conventions.

The functional parameters of the vessel allow me to achieve two important goals: offering individuals an interactive experience through use, and questioning the aesthetic conventions of the archetypal pot within the framework of utility.

Here, dental prostheses and incisions demonstrate how the body's perceived defects are made to adapt to aesthetic conventions.

Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous assault on aesthetic conventions and the rules governing the art world — wryly subverting those very conditions by using them as materials for his work.

By featuring masterly rendered images of black women, primarily self - portraits in classical poses, the collection produces what Ahuja terms, «meaningful fictions,» to make atypical subjects, and the typically unnoticed compositional and aesthetic conventions of early figurative painting more visible.

Deeply political, historical, and sometimes personal, the photographs are meant to evoke a subtle shift in our perception by questioning the communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our understanding of reality.