Sentences with phrase «ethnographic museums in»

His first truly experimental works were inspired by his frequent visits to ethnographic museums in Paris, tap into the abstract forms and frank eroticism of non-Western tribal cultures.

«Tiznit,» made with white enamel house paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline.

Inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Kline.

Not exact matches

The museum preserves, maintains, and interprets the artifacts in situ of the Neolithic habitation site of ancient Filipinos and houses the ethnographic and natural history objects of the province.

In terms of this presentation, the Chapman Family Collection parodies typical Western ethnographic museums and deepens the criticism of the underlying hypocrisy associated with a century of globalization.

Hung at the artist's eye - level, Melvin Edwards» «Lynch Fragments» sculptures reconfigure vicious looking pieces of hardware into forms that recall both histories of (sometimes enforced) labor, and exhibits in an ethnographic museum.

Art from anywhere but Europe and America has historically found its home in museums or ethnographic collections, rather than major galleries.

For a show at the Hammer Museum in L.A. last year, she took obscure ethnographic objects from the collection of the Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A., all of which had been categorized as «unidentified» — including textile scraps and broken pottery — things that had effectively been deemed originless and valueless, divorced from their history and the history of those who made them.

Between 1968 and 1970, Baumgarten undertook a systematic photographic study of how several European ethnographic museums frame the viewer's perception through the manner in which their objects are displayed.

Ybarra likes to play with the idea of the museum, using galleries as spaces in which to assemble personal collections that stand in some ironic relation to the sorts of dioramas and vitrines ordinarily found in ethnographic or natural history exhibits.

Kokoschka's raw, painterly style derived from artifacts he had seen in Vienna's ethnographic museum.

Following on from French President Emmanuel Macron's promise last year to return African cultural heritage, the president of the ethnographic Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, Stéphane Martin, has signalled that the institution is open to the idea, telling The Art Newspaper that «if together, and possibly with international co-operation with other Western partners, we can build one, two or three safe museums in Africa, I would not even consider transfers of ownership as taboo».

The discussion will explore the influence that tribal and ethnographic art has had on Bedia's work and career, and will also examine the significance of African works in the museum's current exhibition, African Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection.

In 2012, the designers participated in the museum's residency program, the Weltkulturen Labor, where they were able to explore the ethnographic collection, drawing on the museum's anthropological expertise to inform their new creations — videos, multi-media works and prototypes for clothing and accessorieIn 2012, the designers participated in the museum's residency program, the Weltkulturen Labor, where they were able to explore the ethnographic collection, drawing on the museum's anthropological expertise to inform their new creations — videos, multi-media works and prototypes for clothing and accessoriein the museum's residency program, the Weltkulturen Labor, where they were able to explore the ethnographic collection, drawing on the museum's anthropological expertise to inform their new creations — videos, multi-media works and prototypes for clothing and accessories.

It was also the first American museum to present African objects as art rather than ethnographic data, and in 1923 it organized one of the largest exhibitions of African art anywhere.

The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents A Sign of Autumn — Vincent Vulsma a solo - exhibition on view 15 October — 27 November 2011, By employing strategies of spatio - temporal montage, Vulsma brings together objects and patterns taken from their contexts in ethnographic collections and the canons of modernist design and photography, deliberately moving back and forth along the lines between what is classified as commodity, art or ethnographic object.

In a young city such as Los Angeles, archaeology can take many forms: Small's idiosyncratic museology, Gala Porras - Kim's reappraisal of unattributed objects from the ethnographic Fowler Museum or even the curatorial work of Moshayedi and Walker in excavating little - known art from Los Angeles's recent pasIn a young city such as Los Angeles, archaeology can take many forms: Small's idiosyncratic museology, Gala Porras - Kim's reappraisal of unattributed objects from the ethnographic Fowler Museum or even the curatorial work of Moshayedi and Walker in excavating little - known art from Los Angeles's recent pasin excavating little - known art from Los Angeles's recent past.

The installation is treated like a specimen, or a museum exhibit cordoned off with a velvet rope, which talks back to the 19th century ethnographic displays at the world fairs that displayed people from «exotic» lands in recreated habitats.

The South Australian Museum's collection of Australian ethnographic material is the largest and most representative in the world.