Sentences with phrase «by urban detritus»

Many of my early projects like Chance City were inspired by urban detritus.

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Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

For those growing fatigued by contemporary art's ongoing invocations of the Anthropocene and its attendant aesthetics of detritus and scorched - earth urban sprawl, Thiago Rocha Pitta's show «The First Green» offered something of a reprieve.

The term Assemblage art was first coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to denote a type of work constructed from fragments of natural, preformed or «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus, stuffed animals - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.

Despite his apparent taste for urban detritus, the lyrical aesthetic here is indicated by works» titles such as Luna, Luna, Luna and Gondola Walt Whitman.

Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media, such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the urban environment in which he lived.