Sentences with phrase «defines much art»

But if we want to safeguard the ineffable quality that defines much art, it might be a good idea to hone in more closely on the differences between the electric and the creative spark.

Not exact matches

The Movie Colony, originally the San Jacinto, was designed by Swiss architect Albert Frey, whose futuristic creations have come to define much of the Palm Springs landscape — his photogenic Tramway Gas Station, with its wing - shaped roof, is now an art gallery.

The art style is distinctive, its class roles clearly defined and each one of its heroes comes with a clear personality — so much so that it feels like they could each be the star of their own IP.

I actually think that many artists should stop focusing so much on how much their art is worth monetarily and start trying to define what value it actually provides to their target audience / tribe / market / whatever you call it.

In the end, the greatest value of this fascinating show might be a reminder that place, not things, has always defined us as a nation, and that engagement with that great theme has given us much of our lasting and most important art.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

That dispersal still defines art, with Modernism not so much irrelevant as shattered into warring but overlapping camps.

While this practice came to define much 1980s postmodern art, its legacy for the 1990s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative.

In much of the country, «real art» by visual artists was still defined as only painting or sculpture.

As an artist, Orville Bulman was not so much self - taught as self - made; he worked assiduously to create and perpetuate his own narrative, and he made liberal use of contemporary American stereotypes of businessmen and artists to define his niche in the art market of the «50s and «60s — a market in which Abstract Expressionism was the reigning avant - garde.

Chelsea was another matter, a neighborhood that art had done so much to create and to define.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

In contrast to the esoteric, formalistic, and linguistic concerns of much late 1960s conceptual art, the defining principled of Atkinson's work since the early 1970s has been to function as a crucial reflector of immediate political and economic realities and as a catalyst for social change.

Much of my work is driven by an obsession that I have not clearly defined, and frequently it has a link to past art.

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They lack the sort of knowingness that taints so much modern and contemporary art and yet define their own mode of sophistication.

Indeed, while we tend to think of conceptual art as belonging very much to now, this challenging exhibition views it as a tightly defined historical phenomenon, whose heyday was 40 years and more ago, a period during which, the show claims, British artists changed the very nature of art.

Given that it is major exhibitions, museum collections and art publications that will define the historical record, it is clear that at the top level of the art world it is pretty much business as usual when it comes to women.

The eight curator / co-authors will be on hand at the Museum of Modern Art's Bartos Theater this Friday, May 4th for «DEFINING CONTEMPORARY ART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroArt's Bartos Theater this Friday, May 4th for «DEFINING CONTEMPORARY ART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroArt's Bartos Theater this Friday, May 4th for «DEFINING CONTEMPORARY ART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroArt History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroArt History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroart experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going stroart experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going strong.

It is thus not so much an absence of skill or hostility toward tradition that defines conceptual art as an evident disregard for conventional, modern notions of authorial presence and of individual artistic expression.

While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative.

Emerging in the 1960s and transforming Korean art through the 1980s, Dansaekhwa literally means «monochrome painting,» but it is defined by the diverse array of methods employed as much as its minimal aesthetics.

The comic - book - style outsider - art hallmarks of the series — including bloodshot eyes, oversize brutish feet, cryptic text — elicited comparisons to Henry Darger and Philip Guston, and the continuing saga has defined much of Mr. Hancock's career.

Before Kalm broke out as a YouTube phenomenon, he was a writer for The Brooklyn Rail (where I first met him) whose understanding of the ins and outs of art history — and the tendency of its institutional gatekeepers to simplify the matrices of innovation and influence — fed his passion to chronicle as much as he could of the dynamic contradictions defining the contemporary scene.

Jenny Holzer and Richard Prince went on to become pillars of conceptual art, whose individual practices did much to define the way text and appropriation function within contemporary art.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

That much was certainly clear from a lecture at Savannah College of Art and Design's 2013 deFINE Art conference.

Before elaborating on Dumbballs, it is important to understand Ireland's choice to use concrete for making art, which seems to define him as much as the house.

This was a show of subtleties and nuances in artworks whose subject matter could be seen as mundane ---- a far cry from the overcharged and imposing aesthetics and subjects that define much of contemporary art today.

Macuga's practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have done much to define the landscape of contemporary art in the last decade: on the one hand, an increasing interest in research — specifically of the archival, historical kind — and on the other, a growing concern with strategies of display and the blurring of boundaries between art making and curating.

STUART COMER THIRD FLOOR How to define «American» in a survey of contemporary American art, especially one with as much history behind it as the Whitney Biennial, is a question that has often challenged, even vexed, curators.

Roy Lichtenstein's work has long been considered key in defining American pop art, and the three recent exhibitions in New York speak to how much of an audience he can draw in.

EM: I think it's funny how much the art world focuses on this as the «defining moment» when ceramics became cool again.

Much like in the novel, A House of Leaves borrows different languages, tells multiple narratives in different ways, and asks its viewer to become co-author in order to present a collective effort to define an art form — in this instance the contemporary art museum, from its collection, displays, special commissions, and loans, to its educational and interpretation system.

The book is packed with great examples from history, ancient and modern, of how rhetoric (defined by Churchill, as Romm informs us, as «The subtle art of combining the various elements that separately mean nothing and collectively mean so much in an harmonious proportion») serves as the scaffolding of effective communication.

Defined by its distinctive mix of materials, this bold 28» table lamp is as much an art piece as it is a luminary.