Sentences with phrase «archetypal artist»

Tom Hammick's suite of 17 woodcut prints traces the cyclical path of an imagined lunar voyage taken by an archetypal artist or poet.

To me, the interesting thing about art is not the usual «Heroic, absinthe - soaked, vision quest lone individual archetypal artist crap», but how the art is USED by the person who has it hanging on the wall.

«We feel Jason is an archetypal artist for our times,» said Bither.

In 1991, the year of his death, Motherwell had the name of the Foundation changed to the Dedalus Foundation, after James Joyce's alter - ego Stephen Dedalus, an archetypal artist (who was himself meant to recall the great fabricator Daedalus of Greek mythology).

Not exact matches

Charles Paget Wade was an architect, an artist, a collector, and an archetypal example of the English eccentric.Now well known for his unique house and collection at Snowshill in the Cotswolds, Wade had a life before Snowshill.

For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: «Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.»

Undulating waves run up and down the canvas, slicing through or weaving behind solid circles of colour, interconnected rings and the artist's archetypal rosette and arabesque leitmotifs.

His contact with European Surrealists exiled in New York during World War II led him to experiment with archetypal abstractions of animals, eyes, and spirals (as in the Pictograph series (1941 — 51)-RRB- and bolstered his belief that evocative art has its roots in the artist's subconscious.

His works, such as his 1975 self - portraits, evoke the power of individual expressive acts in a photo - saturated culture by reaffirming painterly control over technical images and archetypal symbols, in this instance photographs of the artist in a crucifixion pose, drawn over with manic black marks.

Among the highlights is Tracey Emin's Family Suite: 20 drawings that deal with the artist's archetypal themes of sex, family, abortions and Margate.

By filtering museological categories through visual art the artists combine credible and fictional elements, playing with our response to archetypal images of knowledge and research.

The rest of the Cooper booth was filled with what Art Basel executive director Marc Spiegler called «archetypal» works by several seminal late - 20th century American artists, including a composition of red sandstone bricks by minimalist Carl Andre and a miniature sculpture by Mark di Suvero.

We will be talking about some archetypal ways contemporary artists make their art more conceptual.

For his second solo show at Christian Andersen, British artist Tom Humphreys is presenting five new works, consisting of large canvases on which groups of works on papers are assembled, that play with the archetypal and modernist framework of the canvas.

Partly auto - biographical, acclaimed artist Katherine Jones has taken the archetypal children's playground and the objects and things a child uses on a daily basis and employed these as a starting point for the works in «LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT»

In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify women.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

If there were a job application for America's archetypal «outsider artist,» James Castle could check almost all the appropiate boxes: Deaf, illiterate, untrained, and undiscovered until he reached his fifties, he lived his entire life (he died in 1977) on a farm in Idaho.

Inspired by a collaborative drawing with American artist Larry Rivers of his wife, her pregnant friend Clarice Price, Saint Phalle began to portray archetypal female figures with a more optimistic view of the position of women in society.

The ease with which he can unearth archetypal images out of abstract shapes, and his ability to create associations that range from the frivolous to the sublime, have made him an artist's artist.

Incomplete, and therefore only open to a partial reading or misunderstanding, the novel is an entryway into Liam Gillick's exhibition and practice; its final point also open to interpretation as a self - deprecating, comedic reflection on the archetypal struggles of all artists, writers, filmmakers, poets, and others.

But Tucker's observation that «the freedom with which these artists mix classical and popular art - historical sources, kitsch and traditional images, archetypal and personal fantasies, constitutes a rejection of the concept of progress» was prescient.

Whether painted over snow - capped mountains in Ruscha's signature all - caps lettering or drawn atop delicately spattered abstract backgrounds, Kerouac's words provide the artist with a means to explore his own archetypal landscape.

This multi-cultural dialogue is at the heart of her complex, archetypal work, which often features portraits of the artist herself.

The exhibition showcases the artist's career - long exploration of archetypal gender roles through photographs, sculptures, and films that span the last four decades, from 1976 to the present.

Mario Merz, to my mind the most archetypal of the Italian arte povera artists, is represented by two works.

Depicting three ambitious and archetypal young artists all played by Bag and starring her brother Damien as their unseemly art dealer Leroy LeLoup, the video was shot and is screened inside a customized Dodge cargo vehicle.

In reproducing this archetypal facsimile of a god - like fetish, the artist has created a potent reflection on our pulp fiction desire for the primitive and supernatural.

Using a variety of media — ranging from photography, drawing, sculpture, and found images — the New York - based artist engages the viewer with archetypal representations of identity, symbolism and history.

Van Gogh never sold within his lifetime, and Balzac famously parodied the archetypal tortured artist in «The Black Sheep», 1842, as a gifted idealist hopelessly inadequate in all matters business.

Through working in this firstperson tense, Stuckey's archetypal images touch something universal — feelings that transcend both artist and viewer to reach the innately human.

The artist hand tore tracing paper into archetypal shapes laying them in abstract patterns on red, yellow and white grounds allowing him to paint the diffusion of color, transparences and capture shadowing in new ways.

Artists including Marina Abramović, Ceal Floyer, Anish Kapoor and Richard Long respond to the archetypal phenomenon of the circle

Surrealist artists, many of them refugees from Europe living in New York during the war years, brought with them an interest in primitive and archetypal subject matter, together with the technique of automatism, in which the artist, by relinquishing conscious control over pencil or brush, creates marks which may trigger visual or conceptual associations.

Such traits, notable in figures like Blake (a major hero for Eilshemius), have become archetypal marks of the independent, innovative artist — initially misunderstood and derided, then recognised too late.

Obsessed, a group exhibition of art jewelry curated by Decatur - residing artist Judy Parady redefines archetypal production practices of jewelry making.

Individually and uniformly titled La fusione della campana, 2007, the works are inspired by the film, Andrei Rublev, 1966, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, in which the main character, Andrei Rublev, is an artist battling an archetypal internal struggle.

As Luc Tuymans put it, «Painting is a way of thinking and constitutes an enormous archetypal pattern which artists constantly fall back upon.»

Both artists professed an abiding interest in classical mythology and the unconscious and sought to explore archetypal and timeless forms in their work of this period.

I am a mixed media artist exploring and creating adventures... working with color, pattern, personal mythology incorporating chicken wire, fabric, tapestry, story naive, primitive, folk art, collage, expressing my voice, the archetypal feminine vibrant, passionate, I, an artist griot shouting my life through totems, hoodoos, dress forms and intimate words, screaming journal entries from the pages adorning what you may or may not see.

The artist states, «I find that, through the transformative act of painting, an image can be stilled and changed into something more archetypal: it ceases to be simply about the particular person or fleeting moment captured, and becomes instead something more public, permanent and aesthetically deliberate.»

These artists were also inspired by the concepts of Carl Jung, who stated that the collective unconscious had been passed through periods of time through archetypal symbols.

PETER DOIG»S SIEGFRIED + POSTER PROJECT OPENS SEPTEMBER 27 AT GALLERY MET THE RENOWNED ARTIST»S NEW EXHIBITION OF POSTERS AND PAINTINGS DEPICTS WAGNER»S ARCHETYPAL HERO.

Campins» works, laconic in style, are similar to those of Polish artist Joseph Schulz, whose Form 14 (archetypal of Schulz's style) exhibits architecture without detail.

Another theme the artist adopted in later works was the archetypal Hellenistic sculpture, Venus De Milo, which like the skull, served as an attribute of the artist's studio.

Moving away from the archetypal «white cube» of a museum, the artists interact with the endless possibilities offered by the park and with existing installations.

The 1990s through the present has witnessed the continued efflorescence in painting, as demonstrated in this show by works such as Judith Godwin's Blue, No. 11 (1997), a lyrical expression of mixed emotion, Jasmina Danowski's Tender Trap (2012), in which the artist conveys a sense of moving through an aquatic and sensuous world, Carol Hunt's Easter Morning (2011), featuring a calligraphy of line and shape that conjures archetypal signs and symbols, Katherine Parker's Behind and Above (2011), a canvas built of thin layers of paint that the artist has scraped away to convey a metaphysical awareness of the passage of time, and Susan Vecsey's Napeague Bay, Montauk (2012), in which the subtle color stained into the canvas evokes the emotion of a place remembered and deeply felt.

These subjects are both archetypal and, in some cases, specifically drawn from the artist's surroundings — the artist's beloved dog Bubbles makes an appearance.

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