Sentences with phrase «body as a canvas»

For the project, the women had the freedom to choose words that resonated with them and used their naked bodies as a canvas to covey their message.

It displays a lot of confidence, an appreciation of art and the body as canvas, and more.

In the center of the booth is the 1963 piece Untitled (Four Fur Cutting Boards), a large construction, in the form of a moving, folding screen, that became the backdrop to Schneemann's early and iconic experiments using her body as both canvas and material.

Wealleans uses the body as a canvas, painting and bedazzling figures in order to create characters rooted in the fantastical and the otherworldly.

The graffitied photographs of models wearing the Chaquetillas capture iconic models using their semi-naked bodies as canvases.

In more than 60 photographs Muholi uses her body as a canvas to confront the politics of race and representation in the visual archive.

Employing the human body as a canvas she applies a pop art colour palette of thick emulsion paint on her sitters» hair, clothes and skin.

For her Women in the Tattoo Subculture series, Bertucci traveled to tattoo conventions across America, portraying women of different ages and walks of life who use their bodies as canvases for self - expression.

David, who also uses his body as a canvas to write an autobiographical diary, has created this unique series, called «A Flor de Piel», to show off portraits of have made an impact on his life — teachers, parents, friends, family — they are all sewn into the palm of his hand.

More movement than museum and using the body as a canvas, Art - A-Porter showcases new ideas coming from the city's avant - garde scene.

In the men's club of the art world, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Mendieta, and Hannah Wilke all individually developed a strong female voice using their own body as a canvas.

A leading figure in American conceptual art since the 1960s, Dennis Oppenhiem's Reading Position for Second Degree Burn, 1970, uses the artist's body as the canvas.

The decade saw performance art skyrocket from its crystallization in the 1960s as a style distinct from theatre or music, offering the body as a canvas more so than ever before.

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Rouse was not messing around from the start as she flipped McMahon into the ring by her hair, got her UFC on with multiple head and body shots, and then punched her right in the uterus to send her to the canvas and beg for it to stop.

As well as a coupe, the S - Class has also spawned the S - Class Cabriolet, which adds a thick canvas roof to the coupe body stylAs well as a coupe, the S - Class has also spawned the S - Class Cabriolet, which adds a thick canvas roof to the coupe body stylas a coupe, the S - Class has also spawned the S - Class Cabriolet, which adds a thick canvas roof to the coupe body style.

With no more than a rectangular canvas and multicolor stripes, Davis created a richly varied body of work that looks as fresh today as it did when it first was shown.

Influenced by feminism, quilt design, and non-Western as well as Western art, Ms. Valdez combines paint, fabric, and embroidery on canvas to yield abstract forms with undeniable relation to the human body.

Their works feature dense accumulations of ink, paint, canvas, and paper which come together to depict bodies caught in the process of deterioration or collapse, as if the pressures of humanness are too great for them.

Christina Quarles» slick acrylic on canvas, And When the Clouds Clear, We Will Know the Color of the Sky (2016), depicts a flaccid woman «starfishing,» but not as a lingerie garnering femme fatale, sexually defined to be iTouched, but as a splayed fluid body, stressed by the specific gravity of the piece, like a floating wet noodle.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns.

The body - proportioned canvases are animated and energized by the viewer — Grotjahn's airy and atmospheric surfaces motivate observers to move their bodies in space from side to side, as well as bending, stooping and stretching, in order to see the play of light on his thick application of paint.

Echoing their canvas surface, her depicted threads suggest stretched canvas as garments enveloping a human body.

The canvases were accompanied by a group of 11 wonderful works on paper, such as Untitled (Robots), ca. 1967, in which a hand outlined in bright orange dots seems to be saluting an exodus of identical humanoids, their arms tight against their bodies, streaming into planetary space.

Using her own body as subject, she began depicting her nudeness on canvas, shifting the perspective from that of an observer to a personal point of view.

In the four epic - scaled paintings on display, «Walpurgisnacht — Faust I,» «Walpurgisnacht — Faust II» (both 1956), «The Temptation of St. Anthony» and «The Concert of Angels» (both 1957), the naked female bodies crowding the canvases are ghostly white (and in the two later paintings, they are mossy green, burnt orange and blue - violet as well).

This drawn - out process is contrasted with the almost instantaneous character of other pieces — a sudden splash of paint across an unprepared canvas — forming a body of work that, as a whole, is as lively as it is considered.

Controversial for his Material Aktions, in which the naked body served as the canvas.

She could be smearing herself with paint — or preparing to smear a canvas with her own body, like Ana Mendieta, much as Mika Rottenberg later inflicts ever so much on others.

The prominent commissions for the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the Seagram Building murals in New York receive extended treatment, as do many of the lesser - known and underappreciated aspects of Rothko's oeuvre, including reassessments of his late dark canvases and his formidable body of works on paper.

Other highlights of the exhibition include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

The exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, brilliantly displays Fontana's extraordinary body of work from 1899 to 1968, including pivotal categories such as primitive and abstract sculptures, drawings, polychrome ceramics, Spatialist works, punctured canvases, Art Informel works, installations, Tagli (cuts), Nature, Fine di Dio, Olii, Venezie, Metalli, and Teatrini.

His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.

Her ripped and torn canvases, imbued with what she calls «body colors» — such as red, brown, and black, as well as «spirit colors» — such as purple, gold, and silver bring Beck into a visual arts lineage with artists including Jean Fautrier and Miriam Cahn.

«There's a weird culture where works on paper aren't respected the same way as paintings are,» said Keltie Ferris, walking through her latest exhibition at Mitchell - Innes & Nash, which pairs vibrant mixed - media canvases with more intimate body - prints.

Thomas's bodies begin as substrata, canvases to a libidinal urge reminiscent of depictions of the Other in early photography and pornography (and, in turn, historical photographs» mimicry of Western painting traditions).

Thinh Nguyen, a first - generation immigrant from Viet Nam, uses his body and his being as a canvas for endurance actions and performance to explore and expose aspects of race and racism, class and classism, gender and identity.

Body parts, small birds and Pollock's handprints are easily evident, as some of these canvases are sparsely painted.

Exactly as Ulrike Müller reveals (b. 1971), engaging relationships between abstraction and bodies are not restricted to brush and canvas.

Taking painting beyond the bounds of the canvas and acting as both the creator and the performer of her art, she has created a hybrid form of performance and photography, with her body in a prominent role.

In this new body of work, Parrott incorporates sculptural elements within her paintings in order to explore the canvas as a type of barrier.

Made on stretched canvases, works like Mother and Child (2016), with its horizon line and eclipsed celestial bodies, have a strong relationship to landscape (a genre that greatly interested the artist in his student years at the Rhode Island School of Design), as well as to the modular paintings, with their strong geometric forms painted and primary colors.

Using her own body as both the subject and material of her work, Abromović created the piece Rhythm 0 in which her body acted as a canvas — a passive surface for whatever her audience decided to do to it.

By laying the canvas on the ground, and dripping the paint onto it, the body of the painter was also immersed with color, the marks of his movement were also left on the canvas, as well as the ashes of the cigarettes the painter smoked while working.

I think contemporary abstraction possibly doesn't have the high ideals of Abstract Expressionism, as painters today seem a bit more down - to - earth, more material - led, and more interested in the connection between the body and the canvas.

As late as 1994, the photographer and painter Marilyn Minter whose output included translating porn into canvases that drip with body fluids and lurid colour, had work turned away from Bad Girls, a survey meant to embrace feminism's contradictionAs late as 1994, the photographer and painter Marilyn Minter whose output included translating porn into canvases that drip with body fluids and lurid colour, had work turned away from Bad Girls, a survey meant to embrace feminism's contradictionas 1994, the photographer and painter Marilyn Minter whose output included translating porn into canvases that drip with body fluids and lurid colour, had work turned away from Bad Girls, a survey meant to embrace feminism's contradictions.

The canvases, which depict animals, flowers, portraits and the male body, as well as images of torture and war, return to the central themes of Franko B's work — death, eroticism, intimacy, pain and compassion.

«With no more than a rectangular canvas and multicolor stripes, Gene Davis (1920 — 1985), considered a leader of the Washington Color School, created a richly varied body of work that looks as fresh today as it did when it first was shown.

Large new body of work that SF - based artist prepared for this show consists of a series of smaller pieces on paper as well as medium and large canvases.

The blank canvas acts as infinite space for Lee to explore the concepts of «body» and «encounter,» both important in understanding the artist's work.

I hope that by summoning the trope of the dance - floor, the entire installation functions as an interactive canvas that shapes how the body navigates each painting and the space as a whole.