Sentences with phrase «art than these materials»

Nothing is further from art than these materials, which were mass - produced and mass distributed.

Not exact matches

There could be no starker» or more revealing» contrast than the exhibitions at London's major museums this winter: «Pop Life: Art in a Material World» at Tate Britain and «The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600 - 1700» at the National Gallery....

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

Some of the strollers on our list are more budget - friendly than anything else, some offer exciting features like state - of - the - art shock absorbers, sustainable materials, and lengthy warranties.

Of course, she doesn't care as much about the art and judges success in material terms, but she is far more attuned to the bizarre and out - of - the - ordinary than Lydia gives her credit for.

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Fees for a student in junior high school can easily add up to more than $ 200, including money for academic funds, activity fees, instruction materials, day planners, fine arts classes, an online writing program, science fees, physical education uniforms, play sweatshirts, choir uniforms and yearbooks.

And, with a searchable archive of more than 10,000 engaging articles about science, history, culture, geography, arts, humanities, and current events, students will never run out of summer reading materials!

Increased Instructional Capacity: Teachers used a more iterative process to design curriculum with varied influences from hands - on arts practice, learning support materials, and policy, rather than a linear backwards design process starting with learning outcomes.

We currently have over 100 educators, with more than 1,000 years of combined experience in the classroom, working collaboratively in teams to review year - long instructional materials in math (grades K - 12) and English language arts (grades 3 - 8).

This landmark model comes 225 pounds lighter than previous iterations, yet leverages state - of - the - art materials and engineering to increase towing capability and payload capacity to 12,750 lbs and 2,300 lbs, respectively.

As I've written before, digital disruption is usually kinder to entertainment than to art, but blink, blink, blink: this alignment of commercial forces — a sea of self - produced romance - dominated content, publishers on the prowl for just such material, and commoditized concepts of fast - churn output — might actually present a much more toxic landscape to more serious work than we've seen in the past.

If you can ignore the heaps of building material rubbish and sad attempt at scrap metal garden art, the rooms in this tall colonial - style building are more than okay.

Carving and sculpturing of wood, sandstone, stone and various other material are fascinating aspects of traditional Thai art; none more so than the art of carving beautiful floral designs out of soap!

Your works of art deserve the best materials, and organizing your materials has never been easier than with this handy five - drawer storage organizer.

Artists are more likely today than in the past to understand that the way they use and dispose of art materials may affect their neighbors, he says.

Whether created with scrap metal, old furniture or discarded paint, sustainable art has environmental, economic and social implications — even if, for the artist in question, the choice of materials is more of a practical one than one driven by a spirit of environmental awareness.

Drawing class, materials, frames, prints, plus travel to complete works or show art are expenses that I had not considered as more than the cost of a hobby until «business expense» was mentioned.

$ 5 art pieces... that's lower than minimum wage per hour, and we all know that between time, materials and artistry... many of us will not give our work away to buyers.

Contemporary art is comprised of a variety of materials, we know that, but in three or four days at the fairs — more than, say, in a month in Chelsea — you see it all: string, twine, thread, clay, silicone, wax, rubber, wood scraps, wood shims, metal, resins, glass, wire, pins, needles, buttons, stuffing, mattresses, carpet, glazed ceramic, fabric, plywood, rolled paper, glue tiles, boxes, chains, lace — shall I go on?

Whether the body at stake constitutes a material engagement with Art History or an ecosophy of subjectivities, social relations, environments, symbolic codes, rhythms, and aesthetic patterns, Amerika presents a poetics of non-arrival - an insistence upon the performativity of plurality rather than its ontology.

In addition to the Center's collection of artworks, the CCS Bard Library and Archives house more than 25,000 books and exhibition catalogues focusing on contemporary art, exhibition history, and the theory and interpretation of contemporary art and culture, as well as extensive research archives comprising over 1,000 linear feet of material.

We follow fundamental rules of framing that draw the eye to the artwork rather than the frame and have the skills and materials to protect and preserve your art.

McCloud, who worked on construction sites for more than a dozen years, transitioned from design to visual art and now utilizes the industrial materials, tools and equipment with which he is so familiar, in combination with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques, to create his works.

More than a formal enlivening of his art, Toledo's use of diverse materials reflects a worldview unbounded by categorization and hierarchy.

The exhibition, which will examine the artist's pioneering social, relational and activist approach to art, will include more than 100 artworks from the artist as well as rarely - seen materials from his archive and immersive film projections.

These materials have become easier to get and are often cheaper than traditional art materials while having the ability to impersonate aspects of paint.

The exhibition presents more than 300 artifacts from the Beniecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library's James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, including materials from intellectual and literary figures, and artists such as Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.

The only theme I can detect behind its organization is that the PMA thinks it has neglected this material, as well as Philadelphia's large African - American community and others who would like to see a more representative selection of art history than it has been presenting — and is determined to change.

Arranged thematically, the more than eighty small drawings, large - scale works, and sketchbooks on view will foreground Brown's iterative reworking of motifs from her wide - reaching arsenal of source material, which includes prints by eighteenth - century draftsman William Hogarth, pages from animal clip - art books, and the cover of Jimi Hendrix's 1968 album Electric Ladyland.

The faded surface of «Corrupt Diptych» is haunting, like the distinct sensation of déjà vu, the dirt and gravel is metaphorical not material, moving this artwork away from hyphenated arts (art - and - environment) towards something more mysterious with its abstract lines that race past the corner of the gallery's gyprock wall; themes of time and movement that have more in common with land art than abstract painting.

It is considered a Neo-Dadaist conceptual artwork, with similarities affinities to Added Art, although with material removed from the original work rather than added.

The site includes a selection of more than 1,500 of the roughly 3,500 works donated by Fred Grunwald and his heirs that are currently housed at the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, as well as archival materials related to Fred Grunwald's personal and collecting history.

The Mitchell - Innes & Nash exhibition poses that this idea, and others explored in Color Field painting, are critically relevant to developments in contemporary art: the notion of a painting rooted in process and material rather than gesture and reference.

Indeed her works, which would be characterized abstract art rather than abstract painting, share some common ground, such as the spectacular use of colors, contrasts and shadows, the playful use of diagonals that creates a solid sense of perspective while different levels construct both volume and composition, but also the smooth way she moves from one texture to another, giving her paintings a rough surface by using colors impasto or with a palette knife or simply by incorporating different materials.

Gladys Fabre, in her introduction on Culbert for his first French retrospective at Le Havre in 1990, comments on what was happening at the time of When Attitudes become Form: «British experimentation is characterized by an obvious determination to push back the frontiers of art and to question its status; by an economic use of materials; and also by a search for rigour, and the habit of exhibiting a floating ambivalence or a doubt, rather than theatrically staging something obvious.

The opening this week of Entangled: Threads & Making — which brings together more than 100 works by 40 women artists of 19 nationalities united by their use of materials and methodology of making art — seems particularly appropriate.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

These artists tend to adhere to a tradition of post-conceptual art premised upon ideas and artistic concepts rather than materials or formal techniques.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

After 1942, when he decided to devote himself completely to his art, children's drawings were his initial source material, less for their innocence than their awkwardness.

That being said, what better way to not only find art in oneself, but also find oneself in art, than by experimenting with various techniques, approaches, subjects and materials.

Born in Osaka in 1935, Tetsumi Kudo was essential to the development of «anti-art» avant - garde art in Tokyo in the late 50s and early 60s that used store bought objects and found material in order to shock and revolt the status quo and to make art that would be defined by experience rather than medium, author, or commercial value.

Walton, a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974 - 1990), was often more interested in the materials used for printmaking — wood, lead, steel — than in the finished product.

Consequently, the relatively small, easel - scale paintings of the Southern Californians revealed a freshness in their coming to terms with reductive form that occurred on a much different level than the physical / material emphasis of Minimal art in New York.

Little more, it seems, than a belief in his own ability as an open - hearted American to act as the meeting point for all cultures, which would then supply the raw materials for him to synthesize in his art, now an essentially extractivist enterprise.

Artists such as Seurat, Toulouse Lautrec, Stuart Davis and Willem De Kooning had been interested in integrating popular imagery in their art, but they had transformed their source material into their own art — Pop artists let their sources speak louder than their art.

Stocked with more than 100 of Johns's seminal paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this retrospective sheds light on the innovative materials and techniques, pop images, and themes that frame the six - decade practice of this towering figure in American art.