Sentences with phrase «artist with an aspiration»

Vandals is a turn - based stealth graffiti game in which players take on the role of a mysterious street artist with aspirations of creating masterpieces across five different parts of the world.

Not exact matches

A cockroach with artistic aspirations follows an angst - ridden and talentless artist (Ifans) from pub to studio in pursuit of his dream, a

BASIM MAGDY: THE STARS WERE ALIGNED FOR A CENTURY OF NEW BEGINNINGS The work of the Egyptian - born artist Basim Magdy ranges from paintings on paper and canvas to photography and film, all with a common devotion to color and an exploration of the gap between utopian aspirations and human failures.

«With Toilet... Arneson aimed a biting satire at the abstract expressionist aspiration of letting everything within the artist spill out freely in the work.

The Tyler School of Art educates, motivates and inspires individuals who will enter society as artists, architects, art historians, designers and educators with the highest aspirations for achievement, producing innovative work that is publicly presented and critically considered.

She passionately believes that pieces created with this aspiration, can provide an empathetic discourse between artist and viewer and as such has the potential to provide a catalyst for critical reflection.

The strategic plan, launched in October 2007, and the subsequent Action Plan released in 2008, outlined five overall directions for the Council over the next three to five years: reinforcing the Council's commitment to individual artists, working alone or collaboratively, as the core of artistic practice in Canada; broadening the Council's commitment to arts organizations to strengthen their capacity to underpin artistic practices in all parts of the country; enhancing the Council's leadership role in promoting equity in fulfilling Canada's artistic aspirations; making partnerships with other organizations, including other funders, a key element in the Council's approach to advancing its mandate; and enhancing the Council's capacity to support the arts and implement change by strengthening its structure, staffing and services.

A related article looks at another artist with similar aspirations and similar strategies.

The jurors noted that the artist's practice explores the enduring effects of colonialism, and they stated: «Attia's passionate engagement with current affairs and with the shared fate of humanity has close links to Joan Miró's involvement in the critical episodes that marked his generation, while Attia's unique take on complex, often traumatic, human relationships across cultures resonates with Miró's universal aspirations.»

Their retro styling channels that era's excitement over breakthroughs in science and art, akin to today's enthusiasm for new technology; it harks back to the spiritual aspirations of the Transcendental Painters Group, founded in New Mexico in the 1930s, but also recalls the efforts of Bauhaus artists in Germany to combine art with industrial design.

While the Infotainment artists found inspiration in the Pictures Generation, Dee says they felt that there was big shift in aspiration values with Ronald Reagan's election in 1980.

Curated by writer, Erick Lyle, and artists, Chris Johanson and Kal Spelletich, Streetopia will bring neighborhood residents together with at least 132 artists, performers, writers, filmmakers, activists, thinkers, and public policy makers in venues in the heart of the city, to address the show's themes of Utopian aspiration for the city.

Many of the presenters represented the vast community of artists who not only demure the spotlight, but may in fact view financial success as inconsistent with their activist aspirations.

This controlled, but loose, approach to a central theme brought out some exceptional work from the group of artists invited to participate, and true to the aspirations of the exhibition gave a comparative insight to how creative minds interpret the same brief when provided with the same materials and information.

Typically, the American artist revisits key moments in abstract painting, rethinking its lofty aspirations with craft - inspired, mass - produced or childlike materials, be that psychedelic constellations of velvet petals or delectable mounds of glittery sequins.

This pairing highlights both artists» interest in playing with balance and gravity to make compelling sculptural statements, while reveling in the contrasts between high art aspirations and mundane material choices.

Join us for a gallery walk - through of The Spectacular of Vernacular with Dario Robleto, a Houston - based artist who makes intricate sculptures and wall works that explore the belief systems and spiritual aspirations of the past.

The combination of such overt religious references with references to body fluids, the latter admittedly an important motif in Christian theology, suggests that the artists have more profound aspirations than their cheeky titles suggest.

«Artists have a relative luxury of being able to work with ideas and therefore I think I have a real responsibility to stand with humanity and make work that hopefully embodies people's biggest dreams and aspirations for radical, fundamental change on some of the big questions confronting us all.

In this series of interviews with Center grantees, we offer a look inside the organizational and artistic practices of many of Philadelphia's leading cultural institutions and practicing artists, their distinct characters, aspirations, and more.

This volume provides an overview of the artist's work of the last 10 years, with commentary on Taylor - Wood's exploration of such themes as the inner psyche, vulnerability — both emotional and physical — suspended states of being and the aspiration to transcend human limits.

The artist's work is largely concerned with «kustom kulture,» a retro - tinged blue collar aesthetic, and its relationship to faux opulence and upper - class aspiration.

Much like the way artists become «known» for their particular ability to tap out a beat on the drums with precision or execute graceful strokes of the paintbrush into happy little birds and mountains, individuals with more 9 - 5 type career aspirations can also develop a name for their particular skillsets.