Sentences with phrase «century sculptural traditions»

In view of this, one can place similarly engaged works — like Trevor Paglen's South American (SAM - 1) NSA / GCHQ - Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean (2015), a photograph of an undersea internet cable believed to be tapped by the United States» National Security Agency, or Cheyney Thompson's 88.35 Tungsten - 67.45 Cobalt - 45.36 Tin - 28.74 Nickel - 18.23 Iron - 82.29 Bismuth - 58.84 Aluminum - 41.32 Silicon - 24.11 Copper - 13.95 Chromium (2015), a gestural abstract painting made with the ten titular minerals, whose values anchor the worth of all other metals in financial markets — in a 20th - century sculptural tradition that otherwise might have seemed wholly irrelevant.

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The painting is made with bleached paper that is scored and molded by hand to produce a sculptural surface, renewing the traditions of abstract and materialist painting for the 21st century.

Meanwhile, the early - 20th - century tradition of Brancusi's organic abstract forms was inventively exploited in midcentury by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth in England and by Jean Arp in France, while the Swiss Alberto Giacometti and the Italians Giacomo Manzù and Marino Marini each achieved a distinctive sculptural style.