Sentences with phrase «effacing artist»

This self - effacing artist seems to conceive of himself almost as an anonymous agent: whatever is expressed in his prints comes from beyond him and is simply transmitted through him.

Article by Alison Hugill, Photos by Jeff Weber in Berlin / / Sep. 29, 2016 Self - effacing artists are hard to find these days.

How does one begin to tell the story of Agnes Martin, one of modern art's most original and self - effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding.

Not exact matches

The artists in Tuttle share Richard Tuttle's affinity for familiar and discarded items, self - effacing assembly, and a demure yet cunning investigation of subject, methodology, and presentation.

It has effaced itself with the line between a hymn and a riff, between a budding artist and a struggling family, between a tenement and a studio, between a novelist's script and poem, between the flag and a koan, and between the daisy and the pull.

Seeking new ways to negate or efface the picture plane, artists such as Douglas Gordon, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Adam McEwen, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel represent sustained challenges to the limits of painting, both real and imagined.

Through the process of physical interrogation, the artist effaces individuality, thus representing a collective body — one that personifies social turmoil.

Because such works often leave visible the underlying skeleton and many changes normally effaced in the act of completion, they are prized for providing access to the artist's thoughts, as well as to his or her working process.

There is nothing gestural to signal painterly heroics; the artist effaces herself through the rigours of close observation.

Faithfully reproducing the original edition, this book contains a text by the artist that offers the reader a typically honest and self - effacing account of Moriyama's thoughts about his practice.

They're not artists, they don't have a gallery representing their work, and they are self - effacing enough to be both bemused and amused by their selection.

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the...

Zach Viljoen, principal curator of the Cape Town branch of the Goodman, says the curatorial team endeavored to efface themselves, and avoided imposing any particular direction, or overarching theme, such as race, identity or ethnicity, upon the artists.

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the handmade, the infra - mince.

Brown is again self - effacing in discussing the press's cadre of artists, stating in an interview earlier this year, «it seems like artists have selected us more than we selected them... it's kind of a snowball thing» — but choices were nonetheless made, undoubtedly fueled by Brown's broad intellectual interests.