Sentences with phrase «as an artistic medium in»

While Pop artists like Andy Warhol with his Brillo Boxes and Campbell's soup cans may have introduced the idea of a basic consumer brands as fodder for fine art, it wasn't until the»80s that artists began using commercial culture as an artistic medium in and of itself.

Aside from showcasing a talent who helped lend color photography credibility as an artistic medium in the»70s and»80s, the exhibition is also significant for Sotheby's bringing these works directly to buyers in the Bay area, a first for the company.

And because those artists, like Candida Höfer, are often associated with the art market's embrace of photography as an artistic medium in the 1980's, chromogenic prints have earned a reputation as a more «serious» process than pigment printing.

Not exact matches

«Cinema Eye was established 10 years ago to recognize documentary as an inherently artistic medium,» Cinema Eye Founding Director AJ Schnack said in a statement.

The question in the title of this article, then, can be reworked as such: Why isn't there a widespread effort to maintain videogames worthy of preservation and artistic consideration given these mounting problems that this medium inevitably faces with each passing generation?

I have long viewed myself as some kind of champion of video games as a medium, apotheosizing the artistic merits of beloved and formative games like Metal Gear Solid or Earthbound, but my utter disinterest in completing BioShock — or even attempting to play the other games in the franchise — has revealed the harsh truth.

Already by the mid-1960s, painting had lost its authority as the dominant artistic medium and instead galleries had begun to show much more heterogeneous experimental and sometimes politically and socially provocative work in new media (film, video, and photography), as well as confrontational live art and other kinds of participatory and performance - based approaches.

«Emphasizing Inc. as an Artistic Medium; Baltimore's Creative Stock Is Mostly on the Rise in «Cottage Industry».»

The potential of digital platforms — both as an artistic medium and as a market place — will be discussed in several panels across the week.

One is reminded of Kenworth Moffett's observation in the catalogue for the 1983 retrospective that «Porter saw in both Vuillard and Velazquez sovereign artistic personalities who were able to balance their love of the medium and their love of visual reality in such a way as to respect the inherent individuality of both.»

After much experimentation and after conquering nearly every artistic medium, Baselitz has established a reputation of being not just one of the German best known painters, but as one of the most famous artists in the world.

It dates from Anish Kapoor's breakthrough using this medium of hyper - reflective polished steel and was created in a decade that witnessed Kapoor winning the Premio Duemilia Prize for his British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1990); winning the Turner Prize (1991); staging a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery (1998); and becoming a Royal Academician (1999), Untitled is central to the technical and artistic advancement that later led to such highly lauded monumental projects as Cloud Gate of 2004 for Chicago's Millennium Park, and Sky Mirror of 2006 at New York's Rockefeller Center.

Inspired by Sanford Biggers's installation Mantra and the contemporary art in our permanent collection, this month's class will introduce students to using sand as an artistic medium and aspects of temporary and site - specific installation.

Active in the Post-Sense Sensation events from the late 1990s, his work has explored a wide range of mediums from painting to film, installation and sculpture as he gradually shaped a unique artistic approach that has garnered increasing acclaim across the world.

Known for their pioneering work with various synthetic resins and synthetic polymers during the 1960s and «70s, these artists are today recognized not only for their active roles in the development of plastics as a newly discovered medium in art, but also for their sophisticated techniques and at times even quasi-acrobatic prowess required to shape them into the seamless, translucent, luscious volumes: some impressive examples of these artistic exploits will be on display at Almine Rech Gallery.

Liberating dance from the realm of solely elite, highly - skilled and trained athletes, the medium holds the potential to act as a form of subversion against oppressive regimes and capitalistic ideals — so it's not surprising that movement became a primary facet of artistic practice at the height of counterculture in the»60s.

One wonders if his dissemination of such a raw, personal vision as a lithographic multiple played a role in provoking law enforcement reactionaries; in any case, their efforts seem only to have confirmed the artistic integrity of a medium emerging from commercial associations, and the Norton Simon is a fitting place for Everts's contribution to receive its due.

Many of these artists explore language as an artistic medium or conceptual framework, as seen in works by Jesse Howard, Joseph Kosuth, Los Carpinteros, Alexis Smith, and Lawrence Weiner.

Each artist defines an artistic language and vocabulary that also recalls the role of Madam DeFarge in Dickens» Tale of Two Cities as her encoded knitted subversive stitchery defined a tumultuous period of history through the use of a fiber medium.

The emergence of the body as a medium of artistic realisation concerned various artists at the beginning of the 1970s, and their works remain as documents of actions memorialised in such testimonies.

I have spent the past few months researching photographs taken by Still that I believe demonstrate his interest in photography as an artistic medium.

Instead, the careful selection of artists and works included in the exhibition encourage the visitor to reconsider the unique properties of the medium - primarily its ephemerality, and the ease with which it can be transformed into a variety of different objects - and, in doing so, Paper sheds a new light on this medium as both a raw material and a vehicle for artistic expression.

It was this burgeoning generation of international painters that Phaidon set out to survey in the book, titled Vitamin P as a nod to the medium's essential — if not central — place in the artistic diet.

Her use of commercial slatwall panels as an artistic medium for both Crow and Corvette (2011), the latter installed among three works in the «Collective Conversations» gallery, is a departure from traditional materials of painting and sculpture, but a clear reference to Minimalist and Modernist aesthetics.

Even before the emergence of the movement in the 1960s, artists from the most varied locations around the globe were increasingly moved to use land as an artistic medium.

Her process - based artistic practice could be described as being on the edge of art and design and focuses on exploring the materiality of her concept and the chosen medium, aiming to observe and articulate aspects of the human condition, identity, and the complexity of patterns that occur naturally in the world around us.

Not only have they investigated the possibilities of the Internet as artistic platform since it's beginning, they were also very early in critically reflecting on the medium itself.

In the previous [column], we concluded it was a distinct virtue of an artistic practice if the medium used could reasonably be seen as «fertile», that is, as offering the sense that the current work or works in that medium are not the end of that mediuIn the previous [column], we concluded it was a distinct virtue of an artistic practice if the medium used could reasonably be seen as «fertile», that is, as offering the sense that the current work or works in that medium are not the end of that mediuin that medium are not the end of that medium.

From the softly focused, romantic images the Pictorialists made in the early 1900s to the casual color polaroids Andy Warhol took of the celebrities around him in the early 1970s, these works also trace the evolving styles and functions of photography as it documented artistic movements and increasingly served as a primary artistic medium in itself.

The multi-part exhibition project Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989 — 2017 explores the potentials of publishing — in the form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites — as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge — and to prodArtistic Toolbox: 1989 — 2017 explores the potentials of publishing — in the form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites — as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge — and to prodartistic interventions, websites — as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge — and to produce art.

Nelson's artistic and cultural interests were even wider and more challenging than some of his famous New York colleagues; in his Philadelphia studio he explored avenues as innovative and diverse as welded sculpture, incorporating scrap or found objects, and printmaking, a medium that established him among the leading innovators of the day.

Not contenting himself with completely taking over the galleries, Ugo Rondinone, moreover, stages an artistic intervention in the very architecture of the Aargauer Kunsthaus with a large - scale façade work, thus turning the museum as a whole into his «medium.»

In Beyond Objecthood, James Voorhies traces a genealogy of spectatorship through the rise of the exhibition as a critical form — and artistic medium.

The popularity of wood as an artistic medium at last year's São Paulo Biennial made clear — to this viewer, at least — the complicated nature of that material in Brazil.

The Greater Cloud is a show in which the Internet as a platform, medium or subject matter functions as a source of inspiration for artists and influences their artistic practice.

Using hand - cut paper, phosphorescent acrylic, holographic paper, light installations and shadow - play, the artists in this exhibition investigate the possibilities of manipulating light as an artistic medium to create a profound experience for the viewer.

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

aluminum, paper clay, bottle caps, gouache, acrylic paint and medium My artistic process is multifaceted as I work in different series that include floor, wall, table top sculptures...

A pioneer of feminist art, Carolee Schneemann's work in performance, video, photography, and painting helped to define the human body as a locus for artistic production — as a medium, a surface, and a confrontational aesthetic site.

The Unframed World: Virtual Reality as artistic medium for the 21st century introduces VR experiences by nine international artists that are embedded in their installations, projections, video works or sculptures in the exhibition space.

The artistic works in the exhibition convey the aesthetic potential of Virtual Reality and examine its role as a critical medium for reflection on states of being in the world today.

Jon Plum held a writing workshop to explore how written language itself can be used as a medium in artistic practice.

On the verge of multimedia experimentation back in the 60's, Knoebel was one of the first Beuys students to use photography as an independent artistic medium.

Artissima 2017 introduces a new section dedicated to the most relevant developments in drawing as an undisputed medium for contemporary artistic practice, curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva.

Creating in a period after the Second World War, Klein was part of a wider artistic movement that sought to substitute the visual pollution of contemporary milieu with light as a new medium of art.

This groundbreaking exhibition documents the important role the Experimental Television Center played in the development of video as an artistic medium.

«Photography as a visual and artistic medium, its connections to the sciences and its advancement through new technologies, is an increasingly prominent part of the visual world we inhabit,» explained NCMA Director Karl E. Willer, Ph.D. in an email.

These include the active part of seeing and movement as well as the passive movement and visibility, which is precisely what Lallai and Saile reflect in their artistic practice both via various mediums and their work on the paintings, which develops with and in time.

How does your training in traditional painting continue to inform your artistic practice even as you develop towards new mediums?

Like the house in the novel by Mark Z. Danielewski from which the exhibition borrows its title, the museum hosting such an exhibition becomes a productive medium in its own right, involving visitors in the (co) production of an artistic situation: the exhibition as deferred action and mental space.