Sentences with phrase «ephemeral nature of his art»

The idea was to explore «the ephemeral nature of art through live art pieces» *

The ephemeral nature of art ebbs and flows of what is of the moment but at the end of the day — there is something to gnaw and relish about a painting where you can see something of yourself.

With his frequent use of highly perishable materials, Thek accepted the ephemeral nature of his art works — and was aware, as writer Gary Indiana has noted, of «a sense of our own transience and that of everything around us.»

But, writes Govan, «he had an equally keen sense of the ephemeral nature of his art — all art, for that matter.»

Because they were not painted on something movable, each of his works was site - specific and temporary, emphasizing the essential fragility and ephemeral nature of his art.

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And we connected our drawings to several concepts we explore in art, such as appropriation; occupation of physical space; art on, off, or outside the walls; and the nature of ephemeral art.

This group of intergenerational artists closely considers the process of art - making in their work by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality of their materials, the nature of time and language, and the relationships between the objects that they create.

Its mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant - garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content.

Goldsworthy goes out into nature and uses ephemeral materials to create his work, which many times because of the temporal aspect of his art, exist only in photographic documentation.

The palimpsest of visual identities contained within urban art and architecture is acknowledged along with the ephemeral nature of these forms that seem to slip away as they are fabricated, destroyed and refabricated to occupy new forms.

Informed by Abstract Expressionism, Japanese aesthetics, and the Icelandic landscape, his art evokes the ephemeral quality of nature and memory — like the night ocean in Northern Sea, the fading tones in Echo, or the slow ebb of a river current in Drifting.

A member of the African American avant - garde in Los Angeles and New York in the 1970s and 1980s, Nengudi began her career with innovative sculptures and performances, staged within art spaces and beyond gallery walls, that expanded the definition of sculpture, engaged with performance art's ephemeral nature, and questioned women's delimited roles in contemporary culture.

Though Huyghe is arguably France's most acclaimed mid-career artist — he represented the nation at the Venice Biennale in 2001, won the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize the next year, and has appeared in editions of just about all of the important international biennials over the past two decades — a retrospective of his work always seemed fairly improbable, given the site - specific, and often - ephemeral, nature of his art.

The exhibition focuses on revealing the ephemeral and intangible nature of much of his art, while also highlighting the inherently incomplete summary that an exhibition offers of an artist's life and work.

Seven Easy Pieces examined the possibility of repeating and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.

The Museum of Arts and Design will present «Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound,» a multi-component exhibition that explores how the ephemeral and abstract nature of sound is made material.

The project, entitled SOUNDWORKS, aims to take a broader look at the range of work being produced in audio arts today and embraces the ephemeral and peripatetic nature of sound through the creation of an online platform that doubles as a virtual exhibition space.

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

Ernesto Neto's art is the same; his works are a combination of ephemeral environments inspired by nature, knitted by men and assembled as art.

Despite a sad incident in Holland where his painting was stolen, his desire to generate optimistic energy through his art works successfully evolve in the ephemeral dimensions of nature.

Informed by Abstract Expressionism, Japanese aesthetics, and the Icelandic landscape, Zurier's art evokes the ephemeral quality of nature and memory — like the night ocean in «Northern Sea,» the fading tones in «Echo,» or the slow ebb of a river current in «Drifting.»

Franklin Furnace's mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant - garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content.

The ephemeral moment of these installations are gone as fast as they are made which is the nature of public art.

When the turnover and à la mode nature of fashion mixes with the ephemeral manner of contemporary art, it can be easy to forget how important certain artists actually are.

Esteemed for both her solo artistic production and her maverick efforts to champion creative forms that are «vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content,» she has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of «the half - dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.»

Bavarian - born artist and naturalist Nils Udo has been creating nature - based art for the last three decades and is known for his lyric and ephemeral art that captures a sense of «potential utopias» lurking behind every piece.

From ephemeral works that erode with time or emphasize the timelessness of nature, to works making a more political statement, it seems that the general role of environmental art is to prompt contemplation about the greater meaning of human engagement in nature, in relation to its cyclic processes.