Sentences with phrase «challenge the material conventions»

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The outlandish presentation of ideas using simplified or crude depictions, everyday materials, or riffs on cultural conventions helps infuse contemporary art with provocative, sometimes challenging, content.

Opening on March 13, 2016, Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling will explore the artist's use of diverse materials to challenge traditional sculptural conventions.

In recasting the functionality of standard materials, including light, the works in Between Spaces challenge the viewer's perception of domestic material conventions.

Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling explores the artist's use of diverse materials to challenge traditional sculptural conventions.

Through the appropriation of DIY aesthetics, the innovative use of material and form, and a performative approach to personal style, the participating artists challenge fashion's commodification of the body and mainstream conventions of dress.

If the Arte Povera movement challenged established art conventions through its use of found or «low» materials, and if abstract expressionism was in many ways a tradition of American hegemony during the Cold War and the ultimate in «high art seriousness» as practitioners confronted the sublime and the subconscious in their energetic output, Scott's paintings are a strange hybrid of both.