Sentences with phrase «even quotidian»

In installation, photography and video, the authoritative fixity of representational media is betrayed as those bodies presumed to be contained — as ghosts, as pop culture signifiers one step removed from the referent — return to haunt the image as desiring bodies, as spectres, as present absences that make even the quotidian an uncertain experience.

The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.

Forty Rooms, an excellent choice for book clubs, succeeds movingly in its exploration of identity, contentment and marriage; of the choices we make and the compromises we learn to live with, that collectively make even the quotidian extraordinary.

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It reconnects us, in quotidian observance, with the great meta - story that remains true even when everything conspires to make us believe it too good - at any rate, too bizarre - to be true.

It's agreeable enough watching the family reveal bits about themselves through digressive stories, but the film is never able to escape its mannered, quotidian setup (not that I'm certain it'd even want to).

To me, poetry can make even the most quotidian of things — a tomato on the counter, a housefly batting against the window, your bent reflection in a steel mixing bowl — something extraordinary.

Even later in his long career, as other artists began to adopt Abstract Expressionism, he continued to work slowly and methodically in a realist mode, drawing inspiration from both the old Victorian houses of small New England towns and the mundane, quotidian world of the city, featured in such famous paintings as the Art Institute's Nighthawks.

Chen's multimedia works toe the line between experimental illusion and the quotidian realities of contemporary society, focusing on the almost imperceptible dream sequences that exist in even the most mundane of moments.

Some went back to the exploration of perceptual stimulation after working in others (if related) styles... And succeeding generations of artists — notably but not exclusively painters, and notably but not exclusively Americans — have referred to op mannerisms or even return to op practices, interested all over again in what can be done to stimulate the eye beyond the expected, beyond the quotidian, beyond the prosaic.

«It Takes a Village,» Alejandro Diaz's latest solo exhibition, pulls together a seemingly disparate variety of references from Minimalism, Conceptualism, Abstract Expressionism, and even British Pop to unapologetically expose the reality of quotidian life in the artist's own personal interest in South Texas, and specifically San Antonio.

Known for drawings packed with thousands, even hundreds of thousands of tiny, energized marks, Linder's large - scale images of quotidian are inspired by her immediate surroundings through a process of embodied observation.

There were a number of interesting, challenging, and even physically off - putting three - dimensional things included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and the fact that most of them seemed to explore and express the bodily, the quotidian, craft, and even a relationship with the image may indeed suggest something about the current status of sculpture within contemporary artistic practice.

Emily Sundblad at Algus Greenspon, Art Basel, Nova This saccharine Swede makes delectable quotidian paintings of things such as flowers, taxis and even oversized invites to her own shows but always with the deft and sexy paint - handling of a full - blooded dandy (or perhaps, dandette.)