Sentences with phrase «as minimalist forms»

Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies» daring design of furniture, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well as minimalist forms and exquisitely refined details.

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To see whether a single reason really can form a good basis for making decision, Goldstein, working with Max Planck researchers Jean Czerlinski and Laura Martignon compared Minimalist and Take The Best with two conventional analytical tools that use all available information — multiple regression and a simplified regression known as Dawes's rule.
Coppola isn't a minimalist, exactly, but as in «Lost in Translation» and «Somewhere,» she demonstrates an economy of form and plot that tends to get mistaken for insubstantiality.
As well as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter»As well as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter»as the neat, simple design forms that make up the dashboard and centre console, the interior's four individual dark brown leather sports seats add to the minimalist ambience of the cabin, each made up of simple linear shapes and featuring built - in inertia reel seatbelts to minimise «cabin clutter».
Based on pure geometric form, buildings in the International style have been both praised as minimalist monuments to American culture and corporate success by some, and criticized as sterile glass boxes by others.
There are a lot of problems inherent to Dragon Quarter's minimalist approach to narrative, but let's cut to most important one, the one that brings the game's credibility most deeply into question: the whole idea of the «Dragon Form As Built In Cheat Code» itself ends up being the first in a long list of ideas that end up reinforcing meritocracy.
The game's minimalist approach to story works for it, as any form of complex plot would be unnecessary and stifling to the game's simple and wacky premise.
It is usually three - dimensional, taking the form of sculpture or installation, though there are a number of minimalist painters as well such as Agnes Martin and Frank Stella
It could mean leaders of the Minimalist era, such as Richard Serra, grappling with human form.
In a second room, two other figures composed of metal blocks pursue the robotic or prosthetic metaphor more obviously, as well as following more literally the Minimalist prescription of modular form.
In each of these open steel - mesh containers, she would weave rubber tubes through the grid, creating a minimalist form that looked as if it were growing hair or coming alive.
Repetition of form, particularly within a minimalist aesthetic, is particularly prevalent in her work and can be observed just as keenly elsewhere.
Central to the exhibition are found images that «serve as bedrock for Pendleton's artistic practice and connect his form of abstraction with the history of the America Civil Rights Movement, the pre-war Avant - Garde, La Nouvelle Vague in film, and Minimalist and Conceptualist art practices of the 1960s.»
Although her work tends to favor biological forms rather than a rectilinear grid system, Donovan's use of singular materials and adherence to rule - based systems has aligned her with the legacies of Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse.
The monochromatic lines and forms that run through these works share the minimalist impulses of painters such as Sol Lewitt and Agnes Martin.
The artist's clean Minimalist practice is a form of truth to material, or at least truth to the fragility, physics, and potential danger of material as a signifier of the finite nature of the human form.
Simultaneously, West Coast artists such as Larry Bell, John McCracken, Joe Goode and John McLaughlin, were forming their own response to these issues and developing a Minimalist aesthetic and set of principals that transcended the formal aspects of the movement and relied on a more spiritual and ethereal practice.
Her forms reference narratives of midcentury Modernists — Anthony Caro, David Smith, Tony Smith — as well as 1960s and 1970s Minimalists — Donald Judd and John Chamberlain — with a decidedly contemporary perspective.
John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish.
Later in her career, she established herself as a painter of minimalist landscapes immersed in vibrant colors and modest geometric forms.
Composed of grids, lines, and geometric shapes, the structures form a volumetric drawing within the space of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions as well as the serial patterning of paintings and sculptures made by Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.
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.
Traditionally, On Kawara's work has been designated «conceptual,» yet the deliberately simplistic form and style (or «grammar») of works, such as his Date Paintings, is markedly minimalist.
Artists featured in the panel all create work that shows the influence of the minimalist movement — which has been described as offering «a highly purified form of beauty» — even if on a subconscious level.
Though not as well - known as figures such as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, or Dan Flavin, Ryman is nonetheless one of the pioneers of Minimalist painting, whose works attempt to empty the painting of content — and color — in order to focus almost entirely on form and process, an idiom in which he has continued to work for some sixty years, long past the demise of Minimalism as a cutting - edge movement.
By framing the minimalist object as «hollow» Fried implies the existence of some essential vessel or form, however compromised.
Like the efforts of other Minimalists, including Dan Flavin, Frank Stella, Carl Andre and Robert Morris, his simple, factory - made forms were seen as «radically depersonalized» (in the words of one critic, Hilton Kramer), devoid of emotion and signaling a dead end for art.
Liberman, not wanting to limit himself to any one form of expression, worked to produce radically minimalist paintings and sculpture in order to illuminate his beliefs about celestial motion, the movement of the eye, as well as human sexuality.
«Through an economy of means that yields variation within repetition, Webber's minimalist forms reveal the infinite possibilities of the photogram as both medium and process.
John McCracken (1934 — 2011) occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form and finish.
Constructed as a shiny black barrier whose modular nature fractures, the form embodies Violette's deep interest in wedding a minimalist inheritance with the aura of staged tragedy - a melding of formalism with an iconography of cruelty, violence and death.
Hesse, possessed of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber, fibreglass and wire mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure form, as the Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract shapes.
Huge in scale, Minimalist in form, and shown both indoors and out, Harlan's art has often been referred to as Duchampian in its reliance upon readymade components, its deceptive simplicity, and it spatial humor.
As a result, many new types and forms of sculpture were pioneered by American artists, including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (mobiles), assemblage, minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop sculptures, environmental earthworks, and multi-media sculpture.
The serial structure of the breast - like forms in «Ishtar» also alludes directly to the systemic character of minimalist contemporary sculpture, which Hess successfully appropriated and personalized in works such as this.
Wonderfully complex and totally superfluous structurally, it gives a sense of how he sorted out the forms of his sculpture as he worked rather than planning a sculpture out ahead, as did many of his Minimalist peers, then having it fabricated.
Its blocky form echoes the frequent use of cubes and rectangular beams by minimalists such as Carl Andre and Tony Smith.
As Violette considers the historical site, he appropriates exhausted Minimalist forms and reactivates their meaning to create a theatrical practice within this new context.
DERAILER DERAILER consists of a series of duplicated forms, focusing on «object as witness» and minimalist architecture, brought to life through performative elements.
In Face Powder (1991), she achieves a parody of Minimalist icons by casting face powder in a circular form reminiscent of breasts, as well as architectural moldings.
The artists represented in the exhibition, with their very distinct approaches, recast Minimalist forms and strategies — repetition, the grid, geometry — in such unorthodox materials as cosmetics and velvet.
Its block - like form referenced the grid structures famously associated with minimalist artists such as Donald Judd and Carl Andre; but into an artistic vocabulary associated with permanence and industrial precision, Gallaccio introduced evanescence and the idea of cycles of transformation.
The solo show features Michele Dragonetti's Boat Hull series, in which photographs of boats taken on the East End and as far as Barcelona take on minimalist, abstract forms.
The exhibition, organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond and former Dia director (now MOCA director) Philippe Vergne, is an occasion to consider the entire sweep of Andre's oeuvre, which, together with Donald Judd and Richard Serra's work, formed the hieratic core of the Minimalist movement — with Andre's key contribution being his breaking of the fourth wall, as it were, by encouraging viewers to interact with his famous floor - tile sculptures by walking on them.
In a beautifully installed exhibition at Marc Strauss, Jones's minimalist shaped paintings challenge classic distinctions between art as object or surface through a meticulous condensation of material, color and form.
Like Burr's past work, which gave priority to Minimalist forms, characters, and discourses, the five new interrelated installations presented at SculptureCenter focus on moments in American art history - in this case, those involving the stateside reception of European modernism as filtered through figures like «Chick» Austin, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum from 1927 to 1944, and members of the New York School, particularly Frank O'Hara, whose poem «Addict - Love» provides the exhibition title.
Creed is often described as a Minimalist and in its purest form, Work No. 204: Half the air in a given space consists of a room filled with balloons fulfills this description.
While his monochromatic paintings have been characterized as minimalist, upon close inspection their dynamic surface qualities convey a tactile complexity combining both organic and geometric forms.
Fried's main objection to Morris's style of minimalist sculpture, as outlined in his celebrated 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», is that it denies the value of composition and form, and instead exalts the significance of the viewer, thus transforming the sculpture from a work of art into a spectacle.
Whether executed as simple strings of lightbulbs or glimmering floor sculptures, his forms echo the practice of Minimalist sculpture imbued with an underlying current of poetic intimacy and political content.
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