This brief essay from Phaidon's Art in Time shows us some of the key artists of this significant movement, whose conceptual as well
as aesthetic strategies remain important to this day.
The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception
as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space.
It does so not necessarily in order to render it a-political, but so as to recuperate
it as an aesthetic strategy, comprised of such Victorian features as the coded, ambiguous, artificial (as in artifice), and supposedly sublimated.
Not exact matches
Methods such
as packaging or marketing, once thought relevant only for
aesthetic functions, are now widely recognized
as vital to
strategy, structure, and culture.
Cameron knows the viewer will recognize Avatar's story from elsewhere, whether
as the love affair between John Smith and Pocahontas or almost all of Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (don't judge me) and so tries to dazzle the viewer with «shock and awe,»
as one scientist - cum - soldier puts it, laying bare both the film's political context and
aesthetic strategy.
Less a straightforward horror film than a heartbreaking psycho - thriller, Rumley has frequently cited the films of Nicolas Roeg
as an inspiration and that influence is felt both in its shrewdly executed
aesthetic strategies and the near stifling intensity of its central, unfolding drama.
To discuss the work,
aesthetic preferences, and
strategies of production of a man who could be addressed
as one of the «father figures» of game design is the right decision.
The second kind — the Overwatch kind — is pretty easy to implement into a
strategy game without damaging it too much,
as long
as you make sure to only let the player unlock
aesthetic stuff or sometimes side - grades.
Together, the works in the exhibition employ a heterogeneous range of
aesthetic strategies, often emphatically representing the city's inhabitants through forms of bold figuration, and foregrounding New York itself
as a location of conflict and possibility.
Drawing on the spectacular resources of the Norton Simon collections, the exhibition explores the wealth of
aesthetic and conceptual artistic
strategies that challenge the shortsighted view of still life
as simply an art of imitation.
By making use of
strategies such
as exaggeration, abstraction, abject form, and humor, these works subvert ideals of strength and
aesthetic purity, thereby illustrating their permeability.
The radical shift in art making is that for years, the conceptual
strategy was to fancy - up ideas with tools from the
aesthetic toolbox, but Riedel's system takes tools from the conceptual toolbox
as strategies to create an
aesthetic body of work.
This common
aesthetic tends to be highly narrative, and draws on postmodern devices such
as the use of the readymade and
strategies of appropriation.
The artist creates
aesthetic mythologies, which adopt and play with themes and techniques used for the fabrication of realities in advertising
strategies, political spin and entertainment,
as well
as in the economic and legal languages, and their social applications.
Trained predominantly
as a musician and a photographer, Alekhuogie marries conceptual
strategies with
aesthetic ones.
As with much of her work, Fishman uses the medium as an avenue for social critique, probing the pharmaceutical industry's aesthetic decisions and branding strategie
As with much of her work, Fishman uses the medium
as an avenue for social critique, probing the pharmaceutical industry's aesthetic decisions and branding strategie
as an avenue for social critique, probing the pharmaceutical industry's
aesthetic decisions and branding
strategies.
Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery / Sun Yat Sen Hall Through May 3 St. John's Univerity, Queens NY These artists» alternative perspectives address issues of innovation, displacement, and identity
as tension and conflict,
as well
as the impact and challenges of mobility and migration on
aesthetic experimentation and creative
strategies.
Sterling Ruby (born 1972) is an American artist who works in a wide range of
aesthetic and material
strategies, from sculptures made of saturated, glossy, poured polyurethane, bronze and steel, to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray - paint paintings, photography and video,
as well
as textile works that include quilts, tapestries, garments and soft sculptures.
Rejecting the compositional
strategies championed by Bauhaus artists (and still promulgated in 2D - Design foundation classes), these artists have opened a path to a new
aesthetic, often mistakenly dismissed
as bad painting.
Aiming to reassess abstract art's critical role
as aesthetic idiom, perceptual process, and research form, this project considers how abstraction's constant re-makings keep it crucial, a
strategy to think contemporary culture and to incite ongoing critical dialogues with everyday reality.
Later series used destructive
strategies to mine new
aesthetic effects such
as violently smashing objects during public happenings or performance art events, and burning them.
Straddling the line between sculpture and post-painterly abstraction, Fishman's optically intense work functions
as an avenue for social critique, probing the pharmaceutical industry's
aesthetic decisions and branding
strategies.
Hempel uses
strategies of collection to represent languages
as aesthetic experiences and exercises in free thinking.
Further presentations of Disarm (Mechanized) will take place
as part of the group exhibition Transformers at MAXXI in Rome (11 November 2015 - 6 March 2016) and
as part of Resistance Performed —
Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Systems in Latin America at MIGROS Museum for Contemporary Art in Zurich (21 November 2015 - 7 February 2016).
Ai often uses
aesthetic strategies related to Conceptual Art
as well...
Since 2004, Fontaine has approached the readymade, abstraction, and collectivity not
as aesthetic ideals but
as coping
strategies in the symbolic economy of contemporary art.