Sentences with phrase «art as an escape»

Not exact matches

Shorinji Kempo is a self defence oriented martial art which teaches hard striking techniques as well as soft (well, softer) techniques based around escapes, pins and throws in a traditional context.

An easy way to escape New York City for an end - of - the - summer adventure while scavenging for art is to travel up the Hudson, starting in the Lower Hudson Valley and venturing as far north as Albany.

The art of voguing, with its dramatic poses and striking costumes, offers these young artists an opportunity to blur the lines of masculine and feminine representation, and to escape what they see as the tyranny of heteronormative culture.

It is one of Allen's deepest reflections on the seventh art and its function as an escape from our harsh reality.

A graduate of Calvin College, his success provided hope that artists and scholars could escape the Christian bubble and be taken seriously in their own right rather than only as part of the chorus in the newly developing «Christian» art subculture.

Tony is pretty much an everyman character going about his daily business when he happens to see what he sees, which leads to one of Argento's more memorable set pieces as Tony is trapped between the two glass doors of the art gallery, unable to help the victim inside who is bleeding on the floor and unable to escape outside to fetch help, and his and Julia's situation and relationship is played out in a very natural way, the scenes in their apartment with just the two of them interacting being as integral to the plot as the more violent scenes.

Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque.

Since opening to widespread acclaim and going on to gross $ 254 million in worldwide box office, the film has given voice to moviegoers struggling to escape their own respective sunken places, as evidenced by the fan art that started flooding into Peele's social media mentions — renderings of Kaluuya's face, of Chris in the sunken place, of the teacup.

From the producer of the blockbuster franchises The Matrix and Lethal Weapon, world - renowned martial arts master and Asian film sensation Jet Li stars in this hi - octane thriller as a one - man arsenal who escapes from a Hong Kong jail to avenge his brother's murder in Los Angeles.

As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother's drug addiction, he escapes into his art.

While Rishi's version of growing up involves happily following his parents» life plan (giving up art for engineering and accepting an arranged marriage to Dimple), Dimple sees college as her chance to escape her immigrant parents» stifling expectations (which include little more than wearing makeup and finding a suitable Indian husband).

The story's parameters are the same as in the previous book (the struggle between various forces to decide Brittany's fate, the relationship between the young women trained in the deathly arts and the saint who directs them); and once again the tale is filled with vicious battles, heart - stopping escapes, and intricately devised scenarios.

Five elegant suites featuring original art, American blinds and the creative use of colour are perfect as a base whilst whale watching or escaping for the weekend.

Hotel Vila Ombak is the first international hotel on the vibrant tropical island of Gili Trawangan, Lombok and offers four star accommodation, facilities and services.This is a perfect island escape, with tropical gardens and carefully designed rooms that are inspired by traditional Indonesian art, complimenting the surrounding Indonesian landscapes.Hotel Vila Ombak boasts stunning views of Lombok's rolling hills and towering Mount Rinjani as well as a view of the other two Gili Islands (Gili Meno & Gili Air).

W Retreat Koh Samui enjoys a superb location right on the seafront between Maenam and Bophut beaches on Koh Samui north coast.The hotel is set in a tranquil area and offers a perfect home away from home for people looking for an ultra-chic relaxing and intimate accommodation choice.W Retreat hosts 75 all - private pool villas categorized with exotic names as following: Jungle Oasis, Tropical Oasis, Ocean View Escape, Ocean Front Haven, Wow Jungle Oasis, Wow Ocean Haven, and Extreme Wow Ocean Haven.Each villa has stylishly custom - made furnished and provided with state - of - the - art amenities including two television sets, DVD / CD player, Yamaha sound system, individual climate control, work desk, outdoor rain shower, sun lounges, mini-bar, Illy coffee machine, wired and wireless internet connection, and safety deposit box.

The state - of - the - art infrastructure, meeting rooms and the proximity of Zurich's city buzz will appeal to the business traveller, while the location close to the countryside is sure to attract those looking to escape the stresses of a hard - working day, as well as those travelling purely for leisure.

Pampering escapes are also available for complete relaxation and indulgence including 2 nights accommodation, privately catered dinners, continental breakfasts, massages and additional options such as pedicures, manicures, facials, day walk with picnic lunch, golf or visiting lovely country townships, art & craft outlets or wineries all under 10 minutes drive.

You guys from SEGA should make an art contest where the fans would draw their favorite zones / stages of the series and put the winning pics in Generations as graffiti in City Escape or as actual brush — and — paper paintings in an art fair / convention / exposition in Spagonia!

As it turns out, there is a way to escape the boom and bust cycle of your art business, and start bringing in consistent, steady income you can count on — year after year.

21) «There must always be two kinds of art: escape - art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable - art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.»

In the nineteenth century, Chicago art was cultivated as a refined escape from the hustle and bustle.

Coming right after Pop Art, they moved slowly or even invisibly, as a lesson in attention and patience, much like the deliberate movements of an escaping prisoner of the Nazis in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped or a Manhattan rush hour for James Nares.

Everett Kane, assistant professor, Digital Arts Kane's collaborative work with Carla Gannis, Escape Pod, will be featured in a forthcoming Hyperallergic catalog as part of the Art Basel Miami Beach hypersalon.

So I started working with mathematics and scientific data as a way to totally escape considering the formalistic aspect in art.

In the old Museum of Modern Art, the room for his immense Water Lilies was an escape from the rush of events, and they have never looked half as good since MoMA's 2004 expansion.

The book begins with his escape from his hometown in Idaho to study art history at Tulane University, and Crimp soon found himself writing criticism for ArtNews while working at the Guggenheim Museum — where, as a young curatorial assistant, he was one of the few to see Daniel Buren's Painting - Sculpture before it was removed amid cries of institutional censorship.

As Susanne Leeb writes: «diagrams escape the insoluble dialectic of absence and presence which pervades the play of representation, yet... diagrams have no status in art per se.»

Presumptuous and imposing, they manage to escape strict categorization as painting, sculpture or media art, merging the power of photographic and film pictures that Longo exploits as a mean of his research of importance of visual expression in popular culture and stereotypical portrayals of the individual's alienation within a complex society.

In one handwritten letter dated August 13, 1927, Still outlined his escape route: «Farming, as you may guess, is for me a scarcely tolerable pastime... Accordingly, I am going to throw myself into Art — painting to be specific — with a gusto that may prove me a genius or a wreck.»

Trading on second - hand «conversation pieces» and their malleability in terms of evoking imagined secret histories, Griffiths views art as a means of escape; a repeated and heroic attempt to leave the here and now and be transported to other places.

One would probably catch on to the hoax anyway, just from the works on display — Oscar Mayer franks that Cattelan declared art, the bicycle and rope of bedsheets that he meant as an escape route, a bloody pen with which he stabbed a fellow student as if to crucify him, a poster from the Wrong Gallery downloaded from the Web.

Presented by SP Koren Art, the Saatchi gallery will soon be home to the prolific work of Xavier Mascaró, an artist preoccupied with boats as vessels of transportation and means of escaping conflict.

Here, painting escapes its traditional confines both dimensionally — by extending across the art wall to the adjacent bay of windows — as well as materially — through the inclusion of sound.

For each perspective here, art's success counts as an escape from history.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

Describing them not as a playful diversion but a contagious affliction, Kusama's world was plagued by an obsessive imagination, and she found making art to be her only escape from her omnipresent visions.

The scope of ICA's program as shaped by Schaffner can be readily sampled by such past and forthcoming shows as: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith; Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne; Locally Localized Gravity; Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro - Futurist Underground, 1954 - 1968; «That's How We Escaped»: Reflections on Warhol; Jeremy Deller: Joy in People; Karla Black; Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993 - 2013; Barbara Kasten: Stages; Christopher Knowles: In a Word, and The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now.

2014 «Parrottree, Building for Bigger Than Real», The Renaissance Society, Chicago 2013 «Stative auf der Flucht / The tripods» escape», Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin «A Moveable Feast - Part IV», Campoli Presti, Paris «Rug Import», Campoli Presti, London 2012 «Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sounds», Frankfurt, Germany 2011 «COMMA 35», Bloomberg Space, London «Figurazione / Substituzione», Pavillon, Luca 2010 «Avere luogo», Fondazione Giuliani, Rome «Tunnel» Sutton Lane (Campoli Presti), London and Paris «Hebezeug», Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin Fondazione Galleria Civica - Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneit, Trento 2009 «Nora Schultz», solo show as part of «Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show» project, Kunsthalle, Zurich Art / 40 / Basel, Art Statements with Sutton Lane (Campoli Presti) «10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0», Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 2008 «Nora Schultz», Reena Spaulings, New York «Hidden Fox», Dependance, Brussels 2007 «Zero Ruler», Sutton Lane (Campoli Presti), London «Carriers in Search of the Time - Tilted Weight», Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin «Nora Schultz», Kjubh, Cologne 2006 «The Metal Magazine», Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin 2003 Turmgalerie Hochheim, Hochheim am Main «Fenster zur Stadt», Garage 13, Frankfurt / Main

2004 ShowCASe Preview, South London Gallery, London, UK Pilot: 1, International Art Forum, Old Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK Forum Barcelona, Spain Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands Manifesta V., San Sebastián, Spain Escape Velocitie, Spital Space, London, UK A Thing About Painting, Platform Gallery, London, UK Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery I and II, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Positing them as the future of art seems like an escape into reverie — and into the foaming speculation of how the market will respond to their inclusion here.

Group Exhibitions 2018 Official Selection, Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, NJ 2017 Worm's Work, curated by Mild Climate, The Finishing School, Athens GA Unloaded, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA Official Selection, 5th Annual Short Shorts, White Space Atlanta GA Official Selection, Best Shorts Competition (Award of Recognition), La Jolla, CA Official Selection, The World's Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2016 Acts of Sedition: A Group Exhibition, White Box, NYC, NY Transitions: States of Being, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA 2015 Drawing Experiment, Chastain Gallery, Atlanta GA Birdwatching, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta GA 2014 Exquisite Exhibit, curated by Joey Orr, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Score: Artists in Overtime, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2013 Ant Linkage, Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA 2012 Paper Moon, Clayton Gallery, Kennesaw State University Museum and Galleries, Kennesaw GA Soltem Os Bichos, Atlelie397, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 2011 Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Staying Healthy, David J. Spencer Museum at the CDC, Atlanta GA Something Along The Lines of Rock «N» Roll, Solomon Projects, Atlanta GA New Media from the Permanent Collection, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2010 Hand to Hand, AthICA, Athens GA Limitless, Agnes Scott College, Dalton Gallery, Decatur GA Everything and the Space between Everything, Agnus Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Chaffee Art Center, Rutledge VT 2009 More Mergers and Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Accessing the Artist's Brain: Drawing as Metaphor, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga TN Three Small Deaths (film screening), DiverseWorks, Houston TX Everything and the Space between Everything, Jackson - Hartsfeild Airport, Atrium Gallery Atlanta and Agnes Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Western Kentucky University Gallery, Bowling Green KY 2008 The World's Smallest Art Fair, Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC NY Hand to Hand, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2007 Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA Tablet: Contemporary Southern Painting, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga TN Tenth Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, ASU Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ Exile From The Land Of Reason, Eyedrum, Atlanta GA The Petrified Man, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 2006 Flamingo Sculpture Garden, Scope Art Fair, Miami FL Run For Your Lives, DiverseWorks, Houston TX Hand to Hand, Ruby Green Gallery, Nashville TN 2005 Toy, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL Gas, Food, Lodging: Imagining Escape, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Ga..

I see that as a way, using those metaphors, that I can escape art historical references.

Daphne's metamorphosis into a tree to escape lusty Apollo's sexual advances is echoed as the female torso mutates into abstract limbs, while the alternation of photographic and abstract modes creates a collision of genders defined by modernist art historical stereotypes.

As explained by Adam Carr, the voyage, and in particular, the boat, has been a recurring theme in the visual arts for centuries, mainly used to represent romance, longing and the desire to escape, discover and renew.

We will also discuss his project «The Plan of Escape from the Donetsk Region», part of the Pinchuk Art Prize 2013 in which Minin took an essential step in combining his artistic practice as a painter with social engagement.

The blistering 13 - point screed outlined «perks» for female artists, such as «not having to be in shows with men,» «having an escape from the art world in your 4 free - lance jobs» and «having the opportunity to choose between career and motherhood.»

Born and brought up in Essex, he'd endured a fairly miserable childhood and escaped to London, via art school, as soon as he could.

Naoto Hattori, on the other hand, has often described his own art making as a sort of escape or haven from reality.

Absolutely but the show proves that Kelley's art as a whole was based on the accretion of countless small details that would escape the attention of most of us.

Li's work was included in our recent group exhibition MINUS SPACE, curated by Phong Bui, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (2008 - 2009), as well as our group exhibition Escape from New York which traveled throughout Australia and New Zealand (2007 - 2010).