Sentences with phrase «artist eschewed»

The artist eschewed his traditional training and instead of creating smooth, well - thrown glazed vessels he started to work gesturally with raw clay, frequently marring his work with gashes and punctures.

Those artists eschew the group boards, saying that they don't want their work viewed along side other artist's work.

Below, we bring you six painting methods for which artists eschewed the brush in favor of innovative tools and techniques.

While some artists eschewed the language of abstraction for more popular or polemical forms, Whitten's engagement with the surfaces of his compositions grew more nuanced.

Though these artists eschewed such a label, it did describe their efforts to remove ornamentation and boil down the art to the essence of their ideas.

Both artists eschew the contemporary preference toward multi-media and mixed media works.

For Um - basax - bilua «Where They Make The Noise,» Red Star's first solo exhibition in New York, the artist eschews much of the satire of her earlier work, showing a large - scale installation drawn from a mix of autobiographical and archived material.

These artists eschewed traditional methods such as lithography in favour of commercial processes.

Continuing his use of slow physical processes such as scratching and melting, the artist eschews language and symbolism as forms of communication, preferring the shared physical experiences of making and viewing artwork as a way to create mutual empathy.

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Yet for all of these artists» remarkable achievements, few approached the almost volcanic theatrical intensity, and none so eschewed publicity while simultaneously sparking controversy, as the bull «chested Canadian Jon Vickers.

As a result, the schematic plotline of the novel was eschewed in favor of more sophisticated satirical jabs at both ratings - obsessed television news culture and the scam artist - infested self - help movement of the time (both equally worthy targets today, if not more so).

Even folklore departments (the few that remain) have often eschewed debates about «outsiders» because the artists in question may not belong demonstrably to a community - oriented tradition of expressive culture.

So it's not surprising that artist - run exhibition spaces — always bastions of change — are increasingly striving for a stronger online presence, sometimes even eschewing fixed brick - and - mortar locales all together.

Those members came from various different artworld backgrounds (critic, curator, historian, artist, etc), and the programme, as stated on its still - live website, «eschewed solo exhibitions in favor of thematically, conceptually and politically driven group exhibitions and projects», such as its inaugural outing, modestly named Part One, which featured Andrea Fraser's May I Help You?

Artists Chris Larson and Mark Dejong both eschew the traditional understanding of construction carpentry.

While Frankfort's work seems to eschew some of this historical weight in favor of a nuanced linguistic playfulness suggestive of the paintings of various other artists, including Ed Ruscha, Mel Bochner, Suzanne McClelland, and Kay Rosen, it nevertheless both engages with the physicality of paint and retains a certain conceptual directness evocative of Louise Fishman's groundbreaking «Angry Paintings» from 1973 (recently included in the exhibition «WACK!

Eschewing pictorial devices, the artists, known today as Minimalists, emphasized the dimensional, physical presence of the thing for its ability to «[open] up to anything.»

The fourteen artists represented reimagine what it means to be a painter in the twenty - first century by eschewing art - historically referential styles and content in favor of original and often very personal inspiration.

He was catapulted into the spotlight in 2001 as the youngest participant in the Studio Museum in Harlem's celebrated Freestyle exhibition, which featured black artists whose work unabashedly addresses race but eschews its potential to constrain artistic freedom.

Eschewing the accepted hierarchy of artistic forms — painting, drawing, and sculpture — as well as an art market dependent on the production of objects, artists embraced performance as a transgressive practice.

The works are meant to be permanent; they eschew pedestals, emerging from the earth; they are often made from industrial materials; and their size amplifies the heroic role of the individual artist.

Raising even more eyebrows was a roster that eschewed more traditional stage pieces in favor of performances from artists and choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Jérôme Bel, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, and Tino Seghal.

I have organized many exhibitions with this attitude, eschewing the authority of selection and deferring fully to artists.

Though he disliked the term Minimalism, Donald Judd eschewed the beliefs of Abstract Expressionism in favor of work that avoided all evidence of the artist's hand.

Postminimalism (a term coined by art historian Robert Pincus - Witten while writing on the work of the American sculptor Eva Hesse) was emerging as anexpansive response to the austere, hyper - masculine materials and methods employed by mostly male artists who eschewed the symbolic in favor of literal, pure forms.

Seven artists explore the profound process of adaptation, eschewing any shame.

Brooklyn - based artist Heidi Hahn paints women but eschews explicit or erotic representation of her female subjects in favor of a nuanced perspective that allows viewers to understand what it means to be a woman in 2017.

Many contemporary artists engage with modes of address and content that is tethered to affect, yet at the same eschew sentimentality and expressivity.

Despite being considered the leading artist of the minimalist movement, Judd, who worked at the intersection of art, architecture, and design, eschewed the label.

As an artist, he eschewed colour in his lithographs but rather focused on shadow, light, and form to transmit detail and dimension.

Some of the most famous works of the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija eschew traditional art objects in favor of social interventions, including cooking large meals in galleries and at events like Frieze Art Fair.

It seems the time has finally come for the controversial artist who repeatedly bucked conventional norms, eschewing «safe» art in favor of creating a difficult and impactful body of work.

His works eschew an unambiguous reading and are full of iconographic references that allow the artist to tell new stories.

Known primarily for her photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who eschew thinking of themselves as photographers in the classical sense.

Despite the permanent space, Mr. Schnabel says he plans to work in the much the same way he has before, eschewing a traditional stable of artists for a flexible, project - based approach.

Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist, considered as a pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action, creating sculptures that eschew minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and lyrical references to the human body.

As such, the exhibition eschews chronologies and focuses on the intimate relations inside and outside of the studio with artists and artwork that contributed to his oeuvre.

Except for a crisp and adulatory wall text introducing the artist, «Waiting for God» — which kicked off with a 1999 text painting that tells the story of a young woman's inability to become pregnant, and concluded with The Cockpit (2008), a work that debuted on South African television — eschewed captioning altogether.

Eschewing the taut focus he used to seemingly resuscitate waxworks in his series of uncanny historical portraits, Hiroshi Sugimoto trained a loosened lens on familiar architectural landmarks, from Le Corbusier's Notre - Dame at Ronchamps to the MCA building itself, to offer a portentous glimpse of our surroundings, as the artist puts it, «after the end of the world.»

Known primarily for her photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part of a generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but who eschew thinking of...

There was, he says, a lot of provincial «lyrical abstraction», but the more serious galleries eschewed British painting altogether in favour of the Pop Conceptualism that would eventually become the style of young British artists like Damien Hirst.

Where many artists of the Finish Fetish school eschewed the material facture of their works, DeLap has almost always chosen to construct his work himself, meticulously producing freestanding sculptures in aluminum, fiberglass, lacquer, Plexiglas, resin and molded plastics and fabrics.

Like many young artists of the time, he grappled with the legacies of minimalism and cultural studies, the relation between politics and art, and his own identification as a gay, HIV - positive artist who nonetheless eschewed identity politics as the basis of an art practice.

As a Hong Kong - born, Paris - trained artist, Tseng viewed himself as a citizen of the world and eschewed labelling himself or his art as «Chinese».

And the artist / author eschewed marketing his cartoon characters on crappy merchandise, even though he would have made a killing (like, say, Garfield or Peanuts.

Eschewing an overarching theme, the curators have chosen to showcase a lean roster of 35 artists from 19 countries.

Hardcover books today are as much about sentimentality as they are about text, but the work of a young artist now on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem eschews textuality altogether for an aesthetic and material communion with these spined signifiers.

In this case the association is based on the fact that Newman's work consistently eschewed the painterly expressiveness of artists such as De Kooning or Kline.

Unlike other artists identified as Pop, Indiana eschews flat affect and easy irony.

Strachan eschews the coldness adopted by other conceptual artists, instead creating installations that speak not only to our intellectual interests, but to our emotional concerns, our feelings of loneliness, desire, and loss.