Sentences with phrase «aesthetic conventions of»

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

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.

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

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

«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.

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Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

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.

May 2 - 4, 2018 Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas Each year during HD Expo in May in Las Vegas, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), in partnership with Hospitality Design magazine, select the winners of the IIDA / HD Product Design Competition, honoring innovation, functionality, and aesthetic advancements in products debuting on the show floor.

Russell and Rivers propose utopian communities and spiritual / aesthetic ecstasy as alternatives; Reichardt's approach is more cynical and existential: she reinvigorates well - worn conventions from film noir and heist pictures to analyse the problems of radical political action in the era of late capitalism.

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.

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 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.

With his novel aesthetic inspired by Art Brut (a term he coined), Dubuffet succeeded in breaking away from modernist conventions and redefining the concept of art, and in doing so leaving his mark on the second half of the 20th century and exercising a considerable influence on numerous young artists.

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.

In a groundbreaking career surpassing 50 years of practice and encompassing many significant visual and cultural movements including Conceptual Art, Post-Modernism, and Feminism, Nancy Spero made the female experience central to her art and challenged aesthetic and political conventions.

Among the works in the exhibition are 25 photographs by Los Angeles artist Judy Fiskin from her series Some Aesthetic Decisions, 1990, that aestheticize objects, architecture and interiors that do not conform to conventions of elevated taste.

Within these simple arrangements, Andre compresses a wealth of complex aesthetic ideas, implicitly arguing with sculptural conventions and refuting such formerly common notions as elevating the work of art on a pedestal, the concept of three dimensionality, and the expectation that there must be craft and talent involved in shaping the object.

As a group, works in the collection point to the revolutionary activity occurring at a time when long - held conventions associated with painting and sculpture were being questioned or overturned in the interest of aesthetic renewal.

His career has considerable relevance for generations of artists today as his work ran contradictory notions of reality and artificiality in parallel, and contrasted conventions of fixed form with an aesthetic infused with playfulness and a preference for shapes that could be manipulated on the spot.

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.

What Smith calls a «casual anti-art aesthetic that intentionally defies the rules of artistic convention in an ironic and informed manner» I call bad painting.

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.

The intense newness of Rauschenberg's work is often exacerbated in the first reviews of it by the fact that critics drew on conventional formal language and aesthetic criteria to describe and evaluate objects that departed explicitly from those same conventions.

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.

As an artist, she is interested in the friction that is instigated within the mixing of these conventions — whether it is an aesthetic structure that informs a political commentary or an attempt to bring an irrational idea or an idea that does not have definitive form into a physical structure.

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.

This sense of cultural refinement, which included various forms of ritual and tradition, shaped her aesthetic along with her art education, inspiring her to challenge established social conventions.

«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?»

His published work centers broadly on the conjunction of art and politics, examining the ability of artistic practice to invent innovative and experimental strategies that challenge dominant conventions, whether representational, aesthetic, or social and political.

Using the humblest of materials — pens, pencils, and artist board — Campuzano transposes text into blocky letterforms broken up by graphic design conventions that evoke the felt banner aesthetic of the post-Vatican II Catholic Church or the Catholic pop of Sister Corita Kent.

By refusing to work within the conventions of landscape painting, particularly those that convey an omnipotent vantage point (a sign of ownership), she was able to define a radical perspective, which I would advance is simultaneously aesthetic and ethical.

Spill Paintings continues this exploration with canvases that fuse household objects with formal conventions and aesthetic techniques of canonical art styles.

However, for It's Great to be in New Jersey many of the images — such as Dawn Mellor's vibrant and aggressive painting and the prints of Linder — work outside the conventions of the cold - edged punk aesthetic which has become a hallmark for Einarsson.

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.

Cologne's art scene in the late 1980's ignited a lasting creative debate, picking apart solid conventions of aesthetic judgement and taste.

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.

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.

As you might guess from my earlier remarks, I'd probably be especially delighted with something with a learning - as - compression aesthetic, letting me count how many kilobytes of confusion go away when we look at the world this way, but traditional statistical significance conventions are OK too.