Sentences with phrase «art than function»

The X6 M is a piece of automotive engineering that shouldn't exist, its total lack of practicality suggesting it is more about art than function, the automotive equivalent of Mount Everest — BMW built it because it could.

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Leveraging the science and art of sales to build an inside sales function requires more than hiring people who sell themselves well during an interview.

Even as other corporate functions — logistics, sales - force management — were being given the «moneyball» treatment in the early 2000s with powerful predictive software (and even as airlines had fully weaponized airfares), retail pricing remained more art than science.

World premiere for the new BMW X4: New edition of the first Sports Activity Coupe at the premium end of the mid-size class, of which more than 200,000 have been sold worldwide; expressive, now even more unique, design; premium interior ambience is striking in a sporty way; state - of - the - art driver assistance systems and latest BMW ConnectedDrive functions; significantly enhanced driving dynamics thanks to equipment including M Sport suspension, variable sport steering and M Sport brakes; two BMW M Performance models with six - cylinder in - line engines and M Sport differential in the line - up.

This isn't so much due to any loss in visual quality (the pixel art style transfers to the Vita flawlessly), but because the Dual Shock 4's trigger buttons feel much more comfortable than those on the Vita, and some extra functions triggered by touching either of the Vita's screens happened unintentionally for me a few times.

Or rather, is it not, that the kinds of demands and expectations placed before both aristocrats and women — the amount of time necessarily devoted to social functions, the very kinds of activities demanded — simply made total devotion to professional art production out of the question, indeed unthinkable, both for upper - class males and for women generally, rather than its being a question of genius and talent?

They function both as furniture and a conceptual art project that represents the idea that sitting on the same bench is about something more than just sitting.

What remains, perhaps, is for an institution capable of functioning differently than a gallery or museum to offer a third option for art of this type.

Adrian Piper's work Mythic Being (1973) and the work of Sara Greenberger Rafferty, an artist whose critique of social roles in stand - up comedy Grabner also curated into the Biennial, appear to have directly influenced Scanlan's choices.The problem with his project is that it functions by exploiting rather than critiquing the severely limited representation of minority artists at the Whitney, and in the art world more broadly.

With the emphasis on creating an intensive working situation in which workshop leaders produce art alongside other participants rather than function as teachers in the traditional art school sense, the Emma Lake Artists» Workshop became the model for a number of other workshops.

While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts, arranged in concert with other art or art - like objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.

PROVIDENCE, RI — American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years.

Published concurrently with an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Blasted Allegories functions as a visual essay rather than an exhaustive account of the last four decades of contemporary art.

This art transcended function; basket techniques were used to create forms that were more sculpture than basket and basic weaving techniques were employed to fabricate large wall pieces that were unprecedented at the time.

Wendell Castle's exploration of form and function blurs the boundaries between art, craft and design and has changed the way we look at furniture today.The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20...

More misses than hits, the collection highlights function as an all - too - familiar grouping of trophy art.

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

The function of art is to get us to slow down, contemplate, think and act differently than we do in the world outside of art.

I use titles to address the function of the works as contemporary artifacts, rather than «art objects,» revealing how they may be used in spiritual and healing practices and by whom.

Rather than allowing painting and sculpture to continue functioning as they had for centuries as delivery devices for illusion, Stella played a key role in redefining art, bestowing upon it objective meaning and purpose.

Reinhardt countered that the mural had no other function than to be art.

Art Mora is more than just a gallery, it functions also as a platform to inspire discourse.

In a 1969 interview, Oldenburg described this tension as a way of «frustrating expectations»: «The food, of course, can't really be eaten, so that it's an imaginary activity which emphasizes the fact that it is, after all, not real — that it's art, whatever that strange thing is of doing something only for itself rather than for function.»

PIERRE HUYGHE — Art has a very different social function in New York than it does in France, which is more outside the market economy.

Rather than diagnosing and dissecting contemporary life, Salle explores images» fundamental function: rather than confronting art history, he transcends it.

Solo Exhibitions 2018 Hibernation, with Linda Kuhn, Curated by Julia Heunemann and Nadia Pilchowski, Bärenzwinger, Berlin 2017 AltBau, ChertLüdde, Berlin Almost Midnight, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Solo presentation, ART - O-RAMA, Marseilles Assemble, Performance on the 25th Anniversary of the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2016 I, curated by Treti Galaxie, Mole Antonelliana, National Cinema Museum of Turin Functions and Fictions & Be my Muse, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (Performance Night) Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Performance Night) 2015 Deep Down, Porcino Gallery, Berlin More than Real, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (Performance Night) 2014 The Ghost and the Host, Pavillon Social Kunstverein, Lucca 2012 Utopias are for Birds, Outdoor exhibition, Chert, Berlin 2011 Expanding Univereses (An Ongoing Map), Kunstverein Arnsberg

The more than two dozen participating artists — which include Cecile B. Evans, Matt Ager and Laurence Owen — taking part in the gallery's inaugural show, provide works that consider how their individual artistic biases interact and overlap with the materiality and function of art.

Rather than identifying herself with her Minimalist peers, Martin has aligned herself with the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese, asserting that «the function of art work is... the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.»

Challenging categorization, «Enough and More Than Enough» functions as a treatise of Kentridge's view of art: where performance is akin to drawing in four dimensions and drawing is like performing in two.

The system as a whole could have the ability to function as a base for art that is often harder to sell than more traditional offerings like painting or sculpture.

Sacks — who has been selling digital and new media art for fifteen years «obviously at a very different price point than this» — compared the larger editions and smaller price points on services like Depict to the way prints function in the art world.

More than just tell the time, a clock can function as a striking piece of wall art or decoration.