Sentences with phrase «art challenges our assumptions»

Featuring everyday objects placed in unusual contexts and juxtapositions, his art challenges the assumptions of human perception and force the viewer to reconsider things usually taken for granted.

Laura Owens's work on display at the Dallas Museum of Art challenges assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant - garde art, craft, pop culture, and technology.

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Clapp, E. P. (2010, May) Envisioning the future of arts education: Challenging core assumptions, addressing adaptive challenges, and fostering the next generation of arts education leaders.

Mentored by Manchester Art Gallery curator Kate Jesson, the seven artists have worked through a programme designed to challenge assumptions, encourage reflection and nurture artistic potential.

The education programme invites people of all ages and levels of interest to engage with contemporary art and to challenge the assumptions of who art is for, as well as reflecting on the role of culture in everyday life.

Longer - term projects aim to try to broaden access to the arts by challenging the assumptions of who art is for, as well as offering a social space for children and adults to meet, chat and play.

Presenting perhaps lesser known works by such influential artists upends our usual assumptions and base of knowledge, allowing us to reevaluate our own ideas about this work and affords the challenge and the pleasure of grappling with ideas and the ever - changing web of art history.

avafoperates with a hedonistic spirit, and engages in frequent collaborations with musicians, designers, dancers and other artists, challenging conventional assumptions about authorship and the role of the artist's persona in society and the contemporary art world with their core beliefs as foundation: «share, generosity, contaminate, be contaminated, devour, be devoured, travel, and spread».

By combining contemporary objects and museum - quality artefacts, Wilson challenges the assumptions of exhibition methodology and art historical scholarship.

This exhibition of some 240 works will reveal the centrality of drawing within Still's lifelong creative process and challenge prevailing assumptions about Still's place in art history.

Joffe questions assumptions about what makes a noble subject for art and challenges what our expectations of a feminist art might be.

Challenging our assumptions about the social structures that shape the world around us, Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking, transformative work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of Conceptual art since the mid-1960s.

Citrus 6906, by Héctor Fuenmayor (born 1949, Caracas, Venezuela), challenges assumptions about how works of art are created and displayed.

Like many other artists who began working in the late 1960s and 1970s, Weiner is deeply interested in methods of display that challenge the assumption that the work of art exists as a discrete object in the physical world.

In the 1960s, Weiner challenged traditional assumptions about the status and nature of art.

It was Dana Bathurst, a high school art teacher, who challenged their assumptions: that good art must approximate European traditions and that pursuing a career in art wasn't possible.

The Chicagoan artist, who made a name for himself with his art - meets - urban regeneration projects in the city, is back in a gallery with work that challenges assumptions about race, class and what it means to be poor

«One of her intentions is to challenge the lingering modernist assumption that decoration and ornament, as feminine, are enemies of «high art».

«Elevation 1049, Between Heaven and Hell,» a new site - specific exhibition curated by Wakefield and his paramour, the artist Olympia Scarry, challenges assumptions about the town, Swiss identity, and the contemporary - art world.

It aims to challenge historical assumptions and biases about Indigenous art and enrich our understanding of American art.

Pop Art offered a clear contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should Art offered a clear contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should art and artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should art should be.

This highly significant work by a French émigré who challenged long - held assumptions about what was considered art, paving the way for conceptual practices, is a fitting starting point for our exhibition.

Recalling The Future challenges assumptions about «Iranian» art.

In objects and images that straddle the worlds of painting, sculpture, and photography, these artists work to challenge our assumptions and understandings of terms such as design, fine art, architecture, craft, and poetry.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner investigated forms of display and distribution that challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object.

The 29 artists in this show aim to challenge assumptions about Iranian art, shaking up the basic conception of the country's modern canon.

Using this language, he reexamines our aesthetic awareness and challenges us to question our assumptions and rationale as to the parameters of art in relation to history and its imprint in contemporary culture.

Halley achieved notable fame in the 1980s with his Day - Glo geometric paintings that challenged previous assumptions about abstract art through his insistence that geometry is always tied to social realities.

This eccentric, undocumented incident marked the beginning of an artistic career that would lay the groundwork for the 1960s conceptual art movement and challenge traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object.

[4] After returning from war in 1945, he felt impelled to challenge all the assumptions that he held about art as well as life.

The works of artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others of their generation challenged a whole range of assumptions about what fine art should be.

Kennedy's intervention challenges the assumption that galleries exist to be filled with art, while the institution itself remains concealed.

Ashley challenges assumptions about form, boundaries, and perception, working «within a deeply feminist critique of the contemporary art world.

The organization's success challenges society's assumptions about inclusion and exclusion in art and culture, disability visibility, and access to creative expression as a human right; like any other contemporary artists, Creative Growth artists use art to tell their stories.

The abstract forms that have emerged from practices such as weaving and ceramics, which the West has long deemed «lowly crafts,» are reread, challenging the dominant assumption that abstract art is a prerogative of the modern West.

Like other Conceptual artists who gained international recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner has investigated new forms of display and distribution that challenge our traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object and its relationship with the viewers.

Her bold and experimental work challenges traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, as well as the relationships among avant - garde art, craft, pop culture, and technology.

Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro — a five - mile - long «painting» sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia — challenges a number of assumptions about the role of both painting and public art.

Red Teaming Law # 9: Red teaming is not forecasting; red teaming is the art of challenging assumptions and exploring the possible.

According to the company's website, co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger envisioned a «fast and efficient» photo - sharing service that challenged the assumption that «taking interesting photos takes a big bulky camera and a couple years of art school.»