Sentences with phrase «artist on a single subject»

Works by an artist on a single subject or theme — Rembrandt's self - portraits, Monet's «Haystacks,» the panels in the Rothko Chapel — inevitably illuminate and inform each other when seen together.

Not exact matches

Both Still and O'Keeffe are also each the subject of art museums located in the West founded on the unique principle of disseminating a single artist's life and vision.

This group of five single - channel works produced between 1968 and 2003 by an intergenerational group of artists, focuses on works that engage explicitly with the body — typically the artist's body — being subjected to performative actions or gestures.

While, intentionally, the core exhibition doesn't present a single theme, Macel sorted the works on view into nine chapters, which she calls Trans - Pavilions, each featuring a trans - national selection of different artists based on similarities and consonances in approach, personality, influences, and creative vision, thus focusing more on art and artists than on a theoretical, superimposed curatorial subject.

The theme for this year's Biennial — «Objectified» — challenges the AIB artists to explore the dynamic range of power inherent in objectifying a subject or conversely, by focusing intently and decisively on a single object.

When working with biographical material, the artist found the overall subjects pressing and realised that some things are simply too important to only have a single mind's view on it — hence resulting in a group exhibition.

Works on view include 24 x 20 - inch large - format, single - image Polaroids Ray, 1979, and Self - Portrait, 1979 Known for depicting images of friends and family in his paintings, Close expanded his subject interests in his photographic work to include people he has met throughout his career, such as artists, dancers, actors, or politicians: Jasper, 1997 (Jasper Johns); Robert, 1997; Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1999; Renée, 2007; Bill T.Jones, 2008, and Alec Baldwin, 2010, among others.

Roth (1930 - 1998), a Swiss artist already well known in 1969 for his artist books and sculptures made with cheese, chocolate, and other biodegradable comestibles, started out on this particular artistic journey with a single tourist postcard of Piccadilly Circus — one of the first mass - consumed postcard subjects — that belonged to an extensive collection of Piccadilly postcards assembled by the British artist Rita Donagh.

For forty years British artist David Hepher has centred on a single subject, the high - rises of South London, through which he has channelled the diverse currents that have swept the international world of contemporary art.

For over forty years, British artist David Hepher has centred on a single subject, the high - rises of South London, through which he has channelled the diverse currents that have swept the international world of contemporary art.

Grace Weir, A Reflection on Light, 2015 A meditation on time and the nature of light «A reflection on light» consists of a seemingly single long take that weaves together events from different histories and disciplines that orbit a painting whose subject is light by the Irish Cubist artist Mainie Jellett.