Sentences with phrase «art meditating on»

The works range from craft - based to conceptual, from murals honoring fallen soldiers to video art meditating on existence.

Not exact matches

We have a special monthly service called Space in which we look at various types of works of art (or copies of them) and meditate and reflect on them.

At Montpelier High School in Vermont, students participate in a daily «Unplugged» session where they can challenge each other in board games, work on art projects, play music, and meditate.

And yet they, too, are meditating as much on art's cooling as on global warming.

Still & Art begins with Still's acknowledgment of Old Masters he admired (among them Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh); progresses to his interrogation of near - contemporaries such as Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso; and concludes with epic canvases, pastels, and photographs that reveal the artist meditating on his own past production as well as the spirit of color - field painting, minimalism, and comparable avant - garde movements of the 1960s and»70s.

The famous art fair's free sculpture park is running all summer for the first time, with a chance to meditate on strange and unlikely interlopers among the greenery.

The group show which reflects on color and on the investigation of modern art as well, taking as the starting point the followers of Hindu Tantric art (17th - century) and the Theosophists (19th - century) who used forms - colors as sources of meditating and immaterial transmission of thought, features the works of: Carla Accardi, Bas Jan Ader, Etel Adnan, Hilma af Klint, Josef Albers, Giovanni Anselmo, Karel Appel, Arman, Ed Atkins, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Claude Bellegarde, Annie Besant (with Charles W. Leadbeater / painted by Lady MacFarlane & Mr Prince & John Varley), Jakayu Biljabu, Irma Blank, Norman Bluhm, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Kerstin Brätsch, Alberto Burri, André Cadere, Corrado Cagli, Alexander Calder, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Enrico Castellani, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Tony Cragg, Carlos Cruz - Diez, Giuliano Dal Molin, Sonia Delaunay, Nicola De Maria, Fortunato Depero, Nicolas de Staël, Piero Dorazio, Olafur Eliasson, Bracha Ettinger, Lara Favaretto, Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Katharina Fritsch, Vittorio Gallese, Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizio, Theaster Gates, Rupprecht Geiger, Leo Gestel, Piero Gilardi, Liam Gillick, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthard Graubner, Giorgio Griffa, Gruppo MID, Paul Guiragossian, David Hammons, Camille Henrot, Auguste Herbin, Arturo Herrera, Damien Hirst, Channa Horwitz, Johannes Itten, Alexej von Jawlensky, Asger Jorn, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, František Kupka, Wolfgang Laib, Jim Lambie, Basim Magdy, Alberto Magnelli, Estuardo Maldonado, Antonio Mancini, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Gustav Metzger, Piet Mondrian, Maria Morganti, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Münter, Bruce Nauman, Sir Isaac Newton, Mario Nigro, Otobong Nkanga, Kenneth Noland, Hélio Oiticica, Giulio Paolini, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Pino Pascali, Eugénie Paultre, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Heather Phillipson, Francis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Alejandro Puente, Walid Raad & The Atlas Group, Edi Rama, Gerhard Richter, Hans Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Mark Rothko, Thomas Ruff, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Luigi Russolo, Anri Sala, Mario Schifano, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ettore Spalletti, Simon Starling, Haim Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Mika Tajima, Atsuko Tanaka, Cheyney Thompson, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Luis Tomasello, Giulio Turcato, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James Turrell, Viktor Vasarely, Alfredo Volpi, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Liu Wei, Lawrence Weiner, Marianne Werefkin, Ye Xianyan, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Gilberto Zorio.

According to publishers, Price's novel centers on an unnamed male artist who «moves in and out of contemporary non-spaces, all the while meditating on art in the broadest sense.»

Featuring the work of 45 artists and artist collaboratives from 16 countries and continuing through January 11, 2015, it is the first entry in the SITElines series, a six - year cycle of exhibitions that will meditate on the arts of the Americas.

If it's true — as Ben Street recently argued on this blog — that museums and critics have become more interested in provenance and personality than in looking and meditating, then we do well to remind ourselves that an encounter with a work of art can be more than an occasion for antiquarian interest: it can change us.

The Turner Prize — nominated British artist's piercing images of blackness dramatically revise the history of portraiture to include black sitters and, in doing so, meditate on who has been kept out of art history.

Anonymous meditates on an old Art History tome «Twentieth Century Painters,» a book published in the 1950s.

In realising his witty and poetic ideas and thoughts through self - reflective and philosophical gestures, Pak goes beyond meditating on the legitimization of his seemingly random acts as contemporary art, to successfully blur the boundaries between the personal and the political.

While Okore's environmentally conscious large - scale wall - sculptures expand the societally imposed classifications of black female art to limitless possibilities, Fullerton - Batten and Kerstens meditate on the transition from adolescence to womanhood and the paternal need to capture the fleeting essence of childhood respectively.

Considering the rich art history of female figuration and the concept of the male gaze, Bessone meditates on the dichotomies of form and gender, high and low, still and moving.

One of the anchors of this first section is Self - Portrait with a Skull (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which the long - haired Rosa, a tear coming from his eye, meditates on death.

Having spent eight years at the helm of Instituto Inhotim in Minas Gerais, Brazil (just north of Rio de Janeiro), from 2004 — 2012, Volz has a deep knowledge of contemporary Brazilian art, experience that he leveraged to bring together a powerfully evocative group of works that often meditated on the environment and indigenous cultures, conveying a longing for simpler, agrarian lifestyles.

When Roy DeCarava set out in mid-twentieth century Harlem to undertake what would become the landmark photobook The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), he employed photography as «a creative expression to meditate on everyday life and family,» says Drew Sawyer, head of exhibitions and curator of photography at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Also present among the Biennial newcomers are emerging artists already established downtown: Janine Antoni and Matthew Barney, who both push Body Art to new extremes; Suzanne McClelland, a maker of abstract paintings full of hidden words and letters; Sue Williams, whose sleazy cartoonish paintings skewer male domination; Jack Pierson, whose fuzzy color photographs meditate on different forms of sexuality and beauty, and Lorna Simpson, a photographer and installation artist whose contribution, titled «Hypothetical?

Here, Javier Téllez's solo exhibition meditates on an intersection between the game of chess (with all of its historical and art historical references and implications), the confining practice of institutionalized psychiatry, and Jeremy Bentham's «Panopticon».

For our ongoing columns, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen talk to conceptual photographer Christopher Williams as part of the «Pioneers» series; in «Futura 89 +,» Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets (with Katherine Dionysius) interview young artist Jasper Spicero; Jeffrey Deitch remembers punk legend Alan Vega in his «Renaissance Man» column; Fiona Duncan meditates on Alexa Karolinski and Ingo Niermann's Army of Love as part of «Pro / Creative»; and lastly, in «What's Next,» we look forward to the season with Kickstarter's Director of Arts Victoria Rogers.

Johnson's artworks, which have been identified with the post-black art movement, meditate on the cultural phenomena that shape African - Americans as a social group.

Vanity Fair chose De Kooning biographer and art critic Mark Stevens to write up the results, and following the revelation of the list, he meditates on the connections between the winning (because that's what they really are, right?)

In doing so, she creates a complex and multilayered synthesis of various art forms — film, dance, and sculpture — while simultaneously meditating on the process through which art is made, and the shifting sexual dynamics between men and women as embodied in both the sculpture and Halprin's performative re-imagination of it.