Sentences with phrase «applied arts objects»

The 120 exhibits, including antique vases, medieval sculptures, the finest works of old Italian and Netherlandish masters, as well as valuable applied arts objects dating from various periods, conjure up the atmosphere of the collector's homes thanks to the enterieur - like arrangement.

Not exact matches

A new kind of political - economic - moral order was rising — under the hand of Providence, he thought — and perhaps the most striking thing about this new order was that in it «men have in our time carried to the highest perfection the art of pursuing in common the object of common desires, and have applied this new technique to the greatest number of purposes.»

Students apply their passion for art to create and animate environments, characters, textures, props and collision objects utilizing 2D and 3D platforms.

It's a simple act, one player signs, and an artist puts their materials onto it in an act of co-creation, both apply their art onto the same object and charge it with intent.

Through the collection of fine and applied arts, objects document the meeting of diverse cultures.

The multifarious artist's colorful geometry, rendered in a range of techniques, was applied to so many surfaces and objects that it irritated the distinction made between art and design in the 1920s and»30s — and continues to provoke thoughts about such distinctions here, featured in an art exhibition at an institution devoted to design.

Matisse described this composition as «a composition of objects that do not touch but nonetheless participated in the same intimacy», a statement that can be applied more generally to the way he portrayed his objects in his art.»

He proposes that artefacts that have lain dormant for millennia suddenly have interpretation applied to them when discovered, while in contrast, objects of contemporary art come into the world laden with meanings, both intended and unintended.

The collection consists of over 500,000 objects dating from the Palaeolithic era 200,000 years ago to the present and embraces fine and applied arts, archaeology and social history.

Applying strategies of mass production to handmade objects, McCollum's labor - intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art.

He applied his stringent visual standards to everything around him, not only his collection of art and furniture, but also objects of everyday use.

Applying strategies of mass production to handmade objects, McCollum has spent nearly fifty years exploring how works of art achieve personal and public meaning in a world largely constituted within the manners of industrial production.

Stories are a starting point for all of Taus Makhacheva's works and they are told in local vernacular: ordinary people, everyday objects, works of applied decorative arts, landscape, traditions, family lore and institutional archives.

Francis Upritchard (b. 1976, New Zealand) incorporates a vast variety of materials and found objects within her practice and draws upon the legacy of applied arts.

For more than two decades, Jessica Stockholder has been fashioning a new language for sculpture and installation art, one that applies a painter's sense of form, pattern, texture and color to three dimensional spaces through the use of a staggering variety of media, from heavy duty construction material to mass - produced commercial products and even live horticulture.Her sculptural and architectural interventions spread themselves over the spaces they occupy; planes of vivid Technicolor hues abut precisely arranged and patterned objects and assemblages of unlikely materials combine and bloom amidst the colorful chaos.

This idiom takes on special meaning when applied to the West's preoccupation with certain stereotypes in contemporary Chinese art — images of the Red Guards, Mao Zedong and panda bears — as well as to the fetishized mass - consumption of cultural objects that satisfy its imagination of a new China in transformation.

With over 200 objects by artists, artisans, and architects of the fin de siècle from the collection of Seattle residents Wayne Dodge and Lawrence Kreisman, the exhibition provides an overview of ornamentation of the day in the fine and applied arts and the desire to unite all artistic disciplines in the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) as proposed by composer Richard Wagner.

Born in Los Angeles in 1944, McCollum applies strategies of mass production to handmade objects — such intricate labor raises questions about the role of the artist and the intrinsic value of the work of art.

In responding to Donald Judd who made «specific objects,» Le Va provides the viewer with «non-specific situations,» inviting us to complete the work of art through bodily interaction with materials and our sense of perception: «What I want [viewers] to do is place themselves in the work, and search out some kind of meaning that fits the object, as opposed to immediately seeing something and applying some readymade explanation... I want the work to set up a dialogue.

In contrast to the artist's carefully wrought paintings, the sculptures consist of objects to which, pointedly, no artistic action has been applied, offering instead a space for the contemplation of non-productivity and a rare moment of silent, solo interaction with a work of art.

But not everyone who painted hard - edge chose this route, and not all painters were willing to relinquish their hold on painting and declare their practice in terms of «objecthood» — the notion Michael Fried critically applied to art - as - object in 1966, thereby redefining this approach to art as a type of theater.

An abiding interest in the crossover between the fine and applied arts has led him, more recently, to extend his visual and figurative language to walls, floors and three - dimensional objects; Gorlizki creates immersive environments layered with wallpaper and objects made, variously, of brass, marble, wood and glass.

Tennenbaum explains that her aim is to, «explore the frontiers between graphic arts, artisan work and objects design through the development of de-construction and reconstruction techniques to apply with industrial waste.»