Sentences with phrase «everyday utilitarian objects»

Two works by conceptual artist William Anastasi feature everyday utilitarian objects — a radiator and a block and tackle, neither of which are working but both of which are accompanied by recorded sounds you would associate with them.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

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Dine, by now considered an important young artist of the period, continued to produce highly evocative works involving the paraphernalia of everyday life — paintings and constructions of robes, household utensils, ties, toothbrushes and utilitarian objects placed like props in front of various colored canvases.

Leyden Rodriguez - Casanova challenges the absoluteness of psychological and utilitarian narratives associated with our utilization and memory of everyday objects.

I have had a longtime interest in seemingly ordinary everyday objects such as collectible and utilitarian items.

The title of the exhibition refers to the philosophical ethos of Mingei which champions the everyday, ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen.

Shaver uses utilitarian materials as a force of transformation, whereby the everyday object is recast as a unique abstraction through a layering of materials and crafted geometric shapes.

As for the transformation part, «Circumstance» shakes up spacial expectations by morphing the museum into a maze of intersecting installations, where craft, found, utilitarian, historical design, and everyday objects sit beside works of art.

Duchamp himself had contributed to the movement, largely by depicting what he called «ready - mades,» (utilitarian articles such as snow shovels and bottle racks) signing the resulting pictures, and presenting the result as objects of art rather than objects made for everyday use.