Sentences with phrase «banal everyday»

NURTUREart is pleased to present «The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal», an exhibition curated by Brooke Moyse, which featured works by Jonathan Allmaier, Tamara Gonzales, EJ Hauser, Stephen Truax, and Maria Walker.

This movement initiated the idea that art can be created from all sorts of stuff, including the most banal everyday scraps of material.

«Knowing how to properly contour is the difference between a banal everyday makeup look and a standout, professional one, and it certainly takes a bit of time and practice.

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While our worship songs are not individually Gnostic, they get very close by avoiding tangible terms in their lyrics, leaving the impression that the everyday is too banal for God.

As he explained it, «the only way for us to give witness is... to be what we are in the midst of banal, everyday realities.»

Most laughter was in fact either triggered by a banal comment or used to punctuate everyday speech.

Some of the best scenes in «Come Sunday» show us the banal, behind - the - scenes operations at Higher Dimensions, where everyday stresses and disagreements intrude as they would in any workplace.

The Last of Us was amazing but it was finite; I could conceivably play Animal Crossing everyday for the next year (and I probably will) and still not experience all of its banal wonders.

Utilizing simple, everyday images, Op de Beeck raises universal questions about meaning and mortality, finding a delicate balance between the serious and the absurd, between the banal and extraordinary.

As opposed to Rachel Harrison's work, in which the everyday is singled out and highlighted, these banal objects are seamlessly woven into the artwork in Rauschenberg's practice.

The artist combines the real and the ideal, the traditional and profane, the grotesque and picturesque, the banal and sublime to reconceptualize still life painting and create works that are simultaneously celebratory and critical of the habits and habitats of our everyday online lives.

The motif was then screenprinted onto paper in a manner usually associated with advertising or publishing, in order to make it seem everyday and banal — depersonalized, mocked and devalued, in a way.

Other exhibition highlights include a selection of animations and a well - known series of photographs featuring discreet interventions that the artist has orchestrated in various landscapes and interiors, injecting comedic irony into otherwise everyday banal imagery.

[8] Tuymans» subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal: wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects.

The intricate, labour - intensive installations of Sarah Sze frequently use the most banal and insignificant everyday objects to express the biggest and grandest ideas.

In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with curt texts, to skew otherwise banal images into anxious scenarios infused with a sense of irony and black humor.

Her installations, created with rubbish, discarded objects and the detritus of everyday life, combine the anonymous and banal nature of the materials (wood, stone, cement, metal) with a sense of the immediacy, spontaneity and poetry that pervades them.

Framing spontaneously filmed, everyday — even banal — moments by way of longstanding classical tropes, GOD's work offers a lush hybrid of postmodern appropriation and post-apocalyptic fairy tale.

The subject matter — utterly contemporary, banal, and everyday — is at odds with the delicacy of the medium they are made in.

The Austrian sculptor would likely approve of such unexpected usage of his work, invested as he is in using the banal forms of everyday life to ask comical yet probing philosophical questions.

In the accompanying catalogue essay, Kirby described the works in Beyond Realism as «banal objects... things that we experience as directly as the things of everyday life.

The subject matter — utterly contemporary, banal, and everyday — is...

It pointed to the everyday subject matter (furniture, babies nappies, kitchen utensils, toilets) of the foursome, whose celebration of the banal in the lives of ordinary people was their attempt to make art more relevant and accessible, while making a clear social comment.

Within her exhibitions banal, everyday objects from her domestic or studio environment are translated and transformed with dramatic effect.

Takahiro Iwasaki (b. Hiroshima, 1975) transforms everyday banal materials such as toothbrushes, towels, bookmarks, and duct tapes into steel towers, cranes, and delicate nature landscapes.

Sasnal gleans inspiration from everyday and banal moments, historical figures, or portraits of his friends and family.

For his exhibition at the Schindler House, Wurm sourced props ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set of instructions for visitors to perform the various sculptures for sixty seconds at a time, consisting of balancing acts, mild contortions, and altered uses of everyday physical objects.

His selection of imagery, which often requires wall text and titles to properly identify (a Holocaust gas chamber, portraits of Condoleezza Rice, Albert Speer, and Mwana Kitoko), makes him a provocateur, but it also includes the benign and banal of the everyday (rabbits, floral patterns, pillows, table still lifes).

To explore these ideas, she utilizes everyday objects and transforms them via installations: assemblages of banal ephemera become systems capable of renewal and decay, or stores of memories.

Robert Henry Contemporary featured Richard Garrison's solo show of beautiful abstract deconstructions of the quotidian colors of everyday objects, the beauty of the banal.

The first museum survey of Tara Donovan's sublime sculptures and installations, which are unexpected and ingenious assemblages of banal, everyday products ---- plastic and Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, plastic drinking straws, paper plates, and Scotch tape — features sixteen works from 1996 to the present.

They subverted the myth that all artists were visionaries by depicting banal, everyday objects.

Junk Art A sub-genre of «found art», pioneered by Duchamp, Picasso, Schwitters and Rauschenberg, and characterized by the use of banal, everyday materials.

Pop art was a reaction to the more elitist style of Abstract Expressionism, preferring instead to celebrate the banal but instantly recognizable aspects of everyday life.

But what gained him international acclaim are McEwen's paintings created using wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the carpet bombing of German cities and towns in the WWII, as well as his graphite sculptures of banal, everyday objects such as ATM machines, water coolers and air conditioners which recall the funeral solemnity of memorials.

Equal parts darkly humorous and uncanny, Schutz's paintings combine abstraction and figuration with expressive imagination, truncated and re-constructed bodies, banal objects, and everyday scenes to create compelling and intriguing pictures.

«Extraordinary: Everyday objects and actions in contemporary art» brings together artists from the UK and Europe who use banal objects or deceptively simple actions to turn the everyday iEveryday objects and actions in contemporary art» brings together artists from the UK and Europe who use banal objects or deceptively simple actions to turn the everyday ieveryday into art.

Triangular abstract compositions, and secondary paintings affixed to the first, intrude on these banal scenes of everyday life, starkly contrasting abstraction as an imaginative, expansive gesture with the confines of my daily circumstances.

Artists have been using everyday objects in their work for over 100 years, turning banal objects into works of art either in their original state or in adapted forms.

Benbenisty transforms objects, images, ready - mades, ephemeral materials and texts from the everyday, the banal, the ordinary, moving towards the unique, the individual.

Continuing the «Artists as Curators» series this week, let's look at «The escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the ideal,» an exhibition at NURTUREart curated by Brooke Moyse, a Brooklyn - based abstract painter known for vivid color and casual landscape imagery.

This together with his conspicious modernity, his use of the banal vocabulary of everyday urban life, was a decisive influence on artists of the 1940s and 1950s and then on Pop Art.

Featuring subjects that range from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings invariably endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.

Susie MacMurray turns everyday banal items like hairnets, balloons, wires and fish hooks into beautiful but creepy works of art.

Your current self deals with the banal, everyday details of living.