Sentences with phrase «alchemical experiments»

DIEGO PERRONE CASEY KAPLAN From Alberto Burri's tachiste allusions to blood - soaked bandages to the quasi — alchemical experiments of arte povera, postwar Italy has produced numerous artists...

Taking the forms of videos, a colored fabric installation, a rope and rock assemblage, charred and dyed fur, and alchemical experiments on canvas and the gallery floor, these artists luxuriate in materiality while challenging the medium specificity of painting.

And they had overlapping aesthetic concerns: Roth and Beuys both conducted alchemical experiments; Broodthaers and Hamilton engaged in curatorial projects; Hamilton and Beuys shared an admiration for James Joyce; Roth and Hamilton shared a flair for industrial design and bookmaking.

Principe, who had studied the alchemical work of all three men, came to the same conclusion as Newman and decided that he, too, had to replicate the long - abandoned alchemical experiments firsthand.

To really understand what Newton was seeing in his laboratory, Newman realized in 2002, he needed to repeat some of the old alchemical experiments himself.

In 1692, this rare failure, along with the unraveling of one of his few close friendships — and possibly mercury poisoning from his alchemical experiments — resulted in what we'd now call a prolonged nervous breakdown.

Yet his interest in alchemy, for example, is attested by the fact that his library contained 175 books on it, that he left 650,000 words of notes on it and that he performed many alchemical experiments (Kearney 1971, Manuel 1968).

One key alchemical experiment was called the Tree of Diana, a magical - looking demonstration that metals could grow like vegetation.