They use their creativity and appreciation of
beauty as an art form.
Not exact matches
I wouldn't be so bold
as to name the purpose of
art, but I think one thing that unifies its many
forms is the desire to distill the chaos of existence, in all its wonder and tragedy, into a single, unified image of
beauty.
Of course we know that music
as well
as other
art forms can equally be cathartic — alchemising pain into
beauty.
There is so much
beauty in French culture and I adore the way that French cuisine approaches cooking more
as an
art form than a chore.
One of the
beauties of
art and music is that,
as art forms, they are subjective and open to interpretation.
Only now are we realizing that
as much
beauty can be found in a video game
as in any
form of
art, or more.
Upcoming at Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts Posing
Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Int
Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American
beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Int
beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other
forms of popular culture such
as music and the Internet.
As we approach the current moment, when the allure, social use, and bodily affect of color and
form permeate contemporary
art, Pretty Raw reveals the social implications and physical
beauty already present in this history.
The book is a
beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book
as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar
art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual
forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.
Dubuffet (1901 — 1985) eschewed traditional notions of
beauty in
art in favor of what he perceived
as more authentic
forms of expression, inspired by graffiti, children's drawings, and the creations of psychiatric patients.
In many ways, he opened ways for other artists not only to see but to understand conceptually the importance of working in a reductive manner
as signaling a new approach to
art somewhere between late industry and the virtual age of digital
forms —
forms that emit a language consistent with the twenty - first century, with all their elegant and paradoxical
beauty.
As Kant indicates, an attractive wallpapering may possess even the highest
form of
beauty: «free
beauty,» which is to be found equally in the decorative
arts and in
arts approaching «pure
form,» like music without a thema, or, after Kant's time, in abstract
art.
It is an
art that celebrates inherent qualities — the simplicity of geometric
forms, and the
beauty of such unadorned means
as aluminum and plywood.
All the while maintaining an overarching interest in celebrating
beauty as a pure
form in an ideology redolent of the statements of
art historian Bernard Berenson — who advocated the passage «from the observation of
forms to that of a
form».
They disrupt the traditional
art historical notion of the female
form as a site of natural, transcendent
beauty and instead inspire a Freudian fear,
as hulking totems of base desire.
Besides, she is invited for significant
art events worldwide, such as «Viva Arte Viva», the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017; «Deutschland 8 — German Art in Beijing», Beijing, China, 2017; «The Garden — End of Times; Beginning of Times, # 3 The Future», Denmark - Aarhus, Denmark, 2017; «Forming in the Pupil of an Eye», Kochi - Muziris Biennale, India, 2016; «Me», Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, 2016; «Le Precieux Pouvoir des Pierres», MAMAC, Nice, France, 2016; «Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty», Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2015, et
art events worldwide, such
as «Viva Arte Viva», the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017; «Deutschland 8 — German
Art in Beijing», Beijing, China, 2017; «The Garden — End of Times; Beginning of Times, # 3 The Future», Denmark - Aarhus, Denmark, 2017; «Forming in the Pupil of an Eye», Kochi - Muziris Biennale, India, 2016; «Me», Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, 2016; «Le Precieux Pouvoir des Pierres», MAMAC, Nice, France, 2016; «Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty», Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2015, et
Art in Beijing», Beijing, China, 2017; «The Garden — End of Times; Beginning of Times, # 3 The Future», Denmark - Aarhus, Denmark, 2017; «
Forming in the Pupil of an Eye», Kochi - Muziris Biennale, India, 2016; «Me», Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, 2016; «Le Precieux Pouvoir des Pierres», MAMAC, Nice, France, 2016; «Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and
Beauty», Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2015, etc..
They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles:
as painters interested in reviving aspects of the
art form in its most staid and classical modes;
as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents;
as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings;
as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally,
as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful
beauty.
A group exhibition of
art that explores the cultural and scientific uses of flowers and blooming plants,
as well
as their
form, color and
beauty.
First, there is theatre
as thing of
beauty in and of itself — an
art form that is made and shared collectively, and that can be a focal point for reflection and discussion that leads to action.