Sentences with phrase «beach ball scenes»

Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).

Some of these sequences are downright impressive to watch, and some are even hilarious including the beach ball scene, which needs to be witnessed to believe.

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Founded in 2001 by three friends from Montreal's rave scene, the firm helped drop 1,200 light - filled beach balls on a crowd of 100,000 unsuspecting fans during Arcade Fire's song «Wake Up» at the Coachella music festival in 2011, a stunt that garnered a skrillion online views.

In an overture to Duchamp's «degree zero» found objects, the original photographs are frequently bland in content — an empty office, a ball, a beach scene or tourist snapshot — and Richter's painterly gestures bounce off that content in peculiar ways, sometimes interacting with it, sometimes overlaying it and sometimes threatening to eclipse it altogether.