Sentences with phrase «by ordinary objects»

Emerging with the abstract expressionist movement, Jay DeFeo worked for four decades as a sculptor, photographer, and painter, producing a broad and personal vocabulary of heroic imagery that was inspired by ordinary objects and influenced by prehistoric art, astronomy, and architecture.

I have always enjoyed his subtle, modern, abstract forms shaped by the natural world and by ordinary objects, his refined use of simple materials...

Simply a Smile My collection of short stories (romance, mystery, historical, general fiction all inspired by ordinary objects or art) will be available on Amazon in April from Cane Hollow Press

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Its events belong to the sphere, not of history in the ordinary sense, but of the supra - historical; they can not be objects of historical research because they are discernible only by faith.

For Whitehead God is a metaphysical necessity, not as the world's creator, ex nihilo but as that foundational actual entity which is the home of eternal objects and the medium by which they can become objects of that aspiration on the part of ordinary actual entities which is the moving force of the world.

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Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

Because the breasts have been made only object for pleasure by «ordinary» guys, that is all they can see.

For a person mentally ill and confused, there is healing by just coming into the presence of real objects, ordinary identifiable things.7

My point is that one can begin with the event and then be led by ordinary English language to posit a substantial subject and a substantial object outside the experiential event.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

Just as the world of poetic texts opens its way across the ruins of the intraworldly objects of everyday existence and of science, so too the new being projected by the biblical text opens its way across the world of ordinary experience and in spite of the closed nature of that experience.

But surely - another may object - the Church today insists that the world needs to be evangelised by the witness of ordinary Christians in their professional work; and that is what I want to do.

Every Ordinary Matter Object in this Universe is surrounded by Dark Matter about 10 times its mass!

They are a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent fear of an object or situation, leaving some people unable to function in ordinary life.

Most ordinary objects would be ripped to shreds by the pulsar's gravity.

An object too small to be an ordinary star because it can not produce enough energy by fusion in its core to compensate for the radiative energy it loses from its surface.

He resents the fact that he has become an object of academic curiosity in the modern, politically correct German society when just a few decades ago he entire race was nearly wiped out by the Third Reich, and wants nothing more than to be an «ordinary Jew.»

Their first score, however, turns out to be a scheme concocted by scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), inventor of a top - secret particle capable of shrinking ordinary objects down to insect - size.

Responses to sensory play Even experienced practitioners can be surprised by children's responses to sensory play, with children engaged for almost two hours with seemingly ordinary objects.

Ordinary objects, harmless items by day, became sinister as darkness infected them.

Notions of negation — which he alternately refers to as «dematerialization,» «anti-concept,» and «non-sculpture» — structure his approach, by which he transforms ordinary objects, imbuing them with multiple meanings and affects.

By continually returning to these motifs, DeFeo imbues seemingly ordinary objects with a heightened sense of ritualized creative process.

Notions of negation — which the artist calls dematerialization, non-sculpture, and anti-concept — are central to Seung - taek Lee's approach, and indicate the process by which ordinary or mundane objects are transformed to be imbued with metaphysical meaning.

By removing ordinary items from their familiar context, these artists often use humorous presentation and language to highlight the artistic potential that lies within the objects around us.

The artist Dike Blair depicts ordinary, mass - produced objects in striking compositions inspired by the Japanese tradition of ikebana, a method of arranging flowers and other objects in a way that achieves an overall sense of harmony.

Barriball often coats ordinary objects such as bags and lamps in pen and ink or makes impressions of windows and doors by meticulously tracing their surfaces with pencil on paper and magnifying the incidental details and textures created by every day wear and tear.

Duchamp, who was on the Society's board, tested the limits of the organization's guidelines by anonymously submitting what would become his most famous readymade (an ordinary manufactured object that he designated as a work of art).

Richard Hughes is known for his exceptional skill to turn ordinary, sometimes slightly repulsive objects that might be found in a hovel of a rooming house or unceremoniously dumped by the side of the road «'' bleak monuments to abused domestic or public spaces «'' into narrative sculptures.

Also included is a work by Gimhongsok, from Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim in Seoul; A Star (2011) is one of a series of sculptures entitled «Ordinary Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious metals.

A true believer in technology's aesthetic potential, he is intent on reinventing traditional pictorial methods — specifically, painting and drawing — by using the computer's capabilities and limitations to turn ordinary, Pop - inspired objects (video games and their characters, computer cables, screens, Apple Quick - Take cameras, etc.) into motifs but also stylistic models, painting them as if seen on - screen.

The paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos focus on ordinary objects, such as a brown paper lunch bag, a pink eraser or a 2 - ply, white garbage bag, which are transformed by the artists, who employ unexpected materials or play with scale.

As Duchamp puts it, «An ordinary object [could be] elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.»

Taken out of its original context, reimagined, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention — transforming an everyday, ordinary object by virtue of the artist selecting it.

Through ordinary objects salvaged from the activities of everyday life — empty bottles, washboards, children's toys, and mirrors — Saar reminds us that people can be imprisoned just as surely, just as securely, by desires, stories, and ideas as by stone walls and iron bars.»

The title of the exhibition refers to the philosophical ethos of Mingei which champions the everyday, ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen.

His work often utilizes his mother's schematic drawings / inventions of ordinary objects influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, Surrealism, mathematics, sex, philosophy, astrology, and Matrilineal concerns.

Artist Mathew Cerletty invites NYC teens to create artworks inspired by objects that are important to them but might seem ordinary to everyone else.

By investigating the ways in which reality can become dissociated from recognizable forms and ordinary knowledge, the exhibition considers the manual labor, or craft, within an artist's practice and its potential to modify, shape, overturn, and radically change an existing object, shape or event (historical or current) in the process.

This week, artist Mathew Cerletty invites families to create artworks inspired by objects that are important to them but might seem ordinary to everyone else.

«Four Collections» by artist B. Wurtz, transforms ordinary objects into collectible artworks.

This work is from a new series of paintings that develops from my earlier practice, by considering ordinary objects related to the practical tools used in offices, record keeping and work environments.

His oddly - hued plaster forms called Passtücke (Adaptives)- ordinary objects wrapped in gauze and dipped in plaster - are sculptures to be worn by the viewer that contort the body into bizarre positions.

In a way, this isn't new, because this was once common practice with artists who worked with ordinary objects — they defamiliarised the ordinary object by putting it in an art context so that you'd rethink your relationship to it as art.

The oversized, hyperrealistic renditions of ordinary objects made by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje Van Bruggen can be found around the world, but perhaps his most famous artwork is on view at the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

On the surface, the ordinary objects collected by the artist Zhu Jinshi during his time in apartment Ganjiakou 303 are very different from the heavy impasto strokes characteristic of his later oil paintings.

Ordinary objects or situations are altered by the addition of an unexpected material or circumstance, creating small ruptures in the fabric of our everyday reality.

The artist, who has received much acclaim over the years for his public installations, many of which feature oversized versions of ordinary objects − made extraordinary by their unanticipated appearance in assorted public spaces.

Hales is delighted to announce the inclusion of works by Richard Slee in Somerset's House upcoming exhibition The Learned Society of Extra Ordinary Objects.

Later in the month, «Lifelike» will present 75 works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Robert Gober, Ai Weiwei and others who transform ordinary objects into visual surprises.