Sentences with phrase «ephemeral quality»

For the artist, still life embodies both the spiritual world and the physical ephemeral qualities of life and death.

The 1980's were characterized by his use of new materials with ephemeral qualities, such as flowers, straw, or ash while early exploited lead became more dominant, due to his purchase of the lead roof from a Cologne cathedral when the replacement was done.

Countless critics have chased this unnameable ephemeral quality in Mitchell's work, but it is perhaps the artist herself who put it best: «Painting is a means of feeling living.

No doubt the result of the artist's lengthy process of preparation and many hours spent in rapt concentration, de Kooning captured and distilled the many ephemeral qualities of his home on East Hampton in the sumptuous surface of Untitled XVIII, which is penetrated by an inner glow, softly imbued with the particularly incandescent quality of its North Atlantic light.

Marshall remarked: «I'm using the comic form because it has a certain ephemeral quality... I've drawn a comic with a narrative that I want people to read and acknowledge... I'm playing with a series of contradictions and subversive gestures to question where the value in a treasured thing lies.

The intimate Francesca Woodman photograph Untitled (Francesca in High School, with Bonnet), 1972 - 1975 at Robert Klein Gallery ($ 35,000) immediately caught the eye with its unearthy ephemeral quality and delicate sense of loss.

Though other drawings by de Kooning were used in the book, we find an inimitable ephemeral quality to this drawing that is missing in the other accepted pieces.

Her work often has a surreal, ephemeral quality as she attempts to discover various connections between embodiment, materiality, and space.

Into the Sunset explores photography's ephemeral qualities from the 1850s to the present.

Darryll Schiff is an established artist and photographer from Chicago whose work offers «metaphors for the impermanent, ephemeral quality of our lives, the constant flow and frenzy of contemporary times, illusions, and of perception versus reality».

«Finch is known for his poetic installations that recreate the ephemeral qualities of light and color in media as varied as watercolor, glass plates and ice cream cones,» said Jo - Ann Conklin, director of the Bell Gallery at Brown and a member of the Public Art Committee.

Follow the breadcrumb trail to objects that have an eternal rather than ephemeral quality — like antiques, gems, and family heirlooms.

It may even be beyond verbal, more of a feeling or an image or an ephemeral quality.

One of the things that I love about the short story as an art form is its ability to evoke the ephemeral quality of being alive.

The flowers symbolize the ephemeral quality of life, reminding us that these creatures are fragile and precious.

His approach emphasizes the immediacy of the medium and its ability to capture — with minimal means — the ephemeral quality of light.

The body of work currently on display in Wave Hill House traces her exploration into the ephemeral qualities of atmospheric space.

They are then destroyed, giving the work an ephemeral quality in its physical form.

The ephemeral qualities of Springs — highly prized for the particular aspect of its light and the rural ease of its location at the eastern end of long island — were folded into and subsumed within these profound new works.

A meditative, interactive sculpture «Trembling Field» by South African artist Nel that explores the ephemeral qualities of light as it diminishes into the far reaches of space

Artist Rockne Krebs's exhibition Smoke Drawings seeks to express the ephemeral qualities of his light works.

The ephemeral quality of the paper lends innocence to the chaotic game overhead.

Beck's tendency to tear, carve, and burn the wood and canvas on which she paints echoes the ephemeral quality of materials and of mortality itself.

The «Vineyard Light» exhibition brings together amazing talents passionate about seizing the moving light expressing the ephemeral quality of a moment.

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.

«There is an ephemeral quality to Sol's work that I was always drawn to, but also a rigorous logic to it at the same time.»

The ephemeral quality of each work is underpinned by provocative titles such as With Peace, Double Bind, Sub Rosa that may lead the viewer to the artist's intentions.

I was surprised at the ephemeral quality, not of the work itself, but of the atmosphere that you had created.

Uniting her early works and her new installations is the allusion to the ephemeral quality of life, both in the cultural «moment» of the 60s and the temporal «moment» of the alignment of the stars.

«By delving into the subconscious mind of a fictitious black heroine and the ephemeral quality of her thoughts and experiences,» the artist has said, «these are an attempt to structure a new mythology that explores black female sexuality and sensuality.»

At the same time, Krebs sought to create drawings expressing the atmospheric and ephemeral qualities of his light works.

Sonja Thomsen's photographs and installations create a tangible means to experience the ephemeral qualities of light.

«By delving into the subconscious mind of a fictitious black heroine and the ephemeral quality of her thoughts and experiences, these are an attempt to structure a new mythology that explores black female sexuality and sensuality.»

Although she is influenced by her visual environment, especially the images she sees in nature, her objective is not to make pictures of anything figurative, but is rather to convey the ephemeral qualities of emotion and «inner life.»

Each artist closely considers matters of artistic process by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality of their materials, the nature of time and language, and the relationships between the objects they create.

Ariane Monod's visually stunning abstract landscapes convey an ephemeral quality that slowly unfolds and evolves as the viewer traverses along the paintings» scroll - like panoramic format.

These wall drawings, executed on - site, exist for the duration of the exhibition; they are then destroyed, giving the work in its physical form an ephemeral quality.

A virtuoso handling of the paint as if it were watercolor incorporates both the ephemeral qualities and the luminosity which one associates with that medium into these large scale paintings.

By rendering these outmoded technologies in cardboard — a material which absorbs sound — Pica highlights the uselessness and ephemeral quality of the structures.

The influence of the poster can be traced in public and personal imagery, paradoxically combining an ephemeral quality with a desire to accumulate, revise, and keep.

A powerful painting rendered on a monumental scale, Joan Mitchell's Noon captures the ephemeral quality of nature itself.

Ever enigmatic, and yet finding nothing contradictory in her mode of thought, Martin synthesized an artistic understanding that bridged the seemingly divinely inspired, rationality of the hard sciences with the ephemeral qualities of the emotional and psychological.

With an ephemeral quality thanks to its lightness and silver hues, the installation makes for a physical experience, as accentuated by prosaic materials such as gauze, aluminum and copper / zinc.

One of these won the artist a Turner Prize nomination in 2009 — and is about to be resurrected at Yorkshire Sculpture Park later this year — while this one coats car engines with the chemical, making for a visually arresting take on the ephemeral quality of technology.

Her recent work delves into the subconscious mind of a black heroine and the ephemeral quality of her thoughts and experiences.

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.»

The exhibition highlights the ephemeral quality of the one - night shows by showcasing the flyers, which were often distributed by hand or posted on walls.