Sentences with phrase «expanding ideas of art»

Irwin was among a group of West Coast artists who, in the late 1960s, began expanding ideas of art through explorations into the nature of materials, light and perception itself.

Initially influenced by the philosophy of John Dewey and later by the teachings of Meyer Shapiro, John Cage, and Hans Hofmann, Kaprow believed in an expanded idea of art — prior to the conceptualists and long before the advent of postmodernism — that was inextricably bound to aesthetics and could encompass actions and ideas as much as objects.

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T.S. Eliot, before himself expanding on the famous «objective correlative»: the idea that every precise emotion tends towards intellectual formulation; the absolute opposite of the fallacies of romantic art.

The sale came as part of a themed auction called «Bound to Fail,» a selection of 39 works of modern and contemporary art exploring the idea of commercial failure and risk - taking to expand the boundaries of art.

From state - of - the - art technologies to expert support, our shared resources expand the capabilities of each research group, freeing investigators to pursue creative ideas.

To neglect this reality within a curatorial presentation of American art today feels not only irresponsible, but more importantly a hugely missed opportunity to reimagine and expand upon the idea of the museum as a place to both forge and tread alternative paths to consciousness and thought.

The first US solo exhibition of Guadalajara - based artist Luis Alfonso Villalobos features painting, video, and installation that opens an inquiry into the functions of architecture and art, while also expanding into ideas of history and place.

And, to find the desire to expand our worldview through the art making and «outside the box» ideas of our guest artists.

Sharing her excitement about the new opportunities ahead, Brielmaier said: «I am thrilled to be a part of SCAD's exhibitions team as we open the new SCAD Museum of Art and work to think creatively about how to present dynamic exhibitions that will enhance the educational experiences of our students and expand ideas about art and culture for the university and wider community.&raqArt and work to think creatively about how to present dynamic exhibitions that will enhance the educational experiences of our students and expand ideas about art and culture for the university and wider community.&raqart and culture for the university and wider community.»

«Sylvie has played an important role in building our dynamic special exhibition program, which brings living artists and new ideas into conversation with our permanent collection, and she has also expanded our relationship with leading arts institutions around the world,» said Thom Collins, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation.

Rooms catalyzed changes in the forms and methods of making art, and expanded ideas about how it could be shown...

18) Tania Bruguera: After establishing the Queens, NY - based Immigrant Movement International, the Cuban artist has continued exhibiting widely (in the Guggenheim summer exhibition «Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today,» for one) while expanding her global idea of arte útil, or useful aArt from Latin America Today,» for one) while expanding her global idea of arte útil, or useful artart.

The beautiful new and greatly expanded museum space enabled the Museum of Art to organize major scholarly exhibitions of contemporary and historic artists, from significant solo shows to thematic group shows that investigate ideas important to disciplines across the liberal arts curriculum, and permanent collection exhibitions, supported by scholarly publications.

With their credo «Art for All» and with the idea of making themselves the subject of their pictures as «living sculptures», they have expanded the concept of art and sculpture since the sixtiArt for All» and with the idea of making themselves the subject of their pictures as «living sculptures», they have expanded the concept of art and sculpture since the sixtiart and sculpture since the sixties.

His six - decade exploration of perception as the fundamental issue of art has expanded ideas of what art can be and can do.

Six Degrees brings together perspectives from our staff and an expanding network of guest contributors, exploring provocative art and ideas from around the world.

expands the art historical record, placing the work of these practitioners within the context of the movements, trends, and ideas that fueled the arts in Los Angeles during this period.

The panel will include conversations by «Project 35» artists Beryl Korot and Wanda Raimundi - Ortiz and curator Raimundas Malasauskas around the use of video as a format for the increasingly international dissemination of artists» ideas; how expanded presentation possibilities for single channel works has created new audiences; and the impact that these developments have on art production.

And so we now have phase two, and the expanded field of art practice and engagement with people and ideas, in a social learning space, will have a larger environment in which to play.

2011 is the 75th anniversary of the American Abstract Artists, an artist - run organization founded in New York City in 1936 to expand ideas and promote the exposure and understanding of abstract and non-objective art.

Lambert's work operates in popular culture, using everyday language and humor to convey ideas that both subvert and expand the worlds of art, free -LSB-...]

Art & Idea set up shop in 1995, and soon expanded its Mexico City gallery to include a nomadic project space that has operated in New York, Madrid, Berlin and Vienna — perfect for the young institution's mission of exploring interconnectedness in the global art communiArt & Idea set up shop in 1995, and soon expanded its Mexico City gallery to include a nomadic project space that has operated in New York, Madrid, Berlin and Vienna — perfect for the young institution's mission of exploring interconnectedness in the global art communiart community.

The multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national artists of the exhibition, Claudia Alvarez, Afruz Amighi, Rina Banerjee, Christian Ruiz Berman, Sanford Biggers, Cui Fei, Leonardo Drew, Rashawn Griffin, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Wenda Gu, Ginny Huo, Tamiko Kawata, Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith, Kambui Olujimi, Cecilia Paredes, Soo Sunny Park, Yinka Shonibare, Nari Ward, and Ishmael Randall Weeks, are changing and expanding the vocabulary and agendas of the art world by injecting ideas from their unique world cultures and experiences.

With all of their varied references, and the connections they make to black culture and the art world, the Obama portraits teach us not only to see African Americans differently, but also to look beyond likeness and expand our ideas of portraiture.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art from the Bay Area and around the world that reflects the profound issues and ideas of our time, expands the boundaries of artistic practice, and celebrates the diversity of human experience and expression.

The Bushwick Art Park hosted by Trust Art, Norte Maar and Factory Fresh, featuring works previously showcased at the Festival of Ideas in May 2011, expands into a Sculpture Garden at the proposed Bushwick Art Park site on Vandevoort Place.

At the conclusion of its decade - long run, the Menil's director of public programs, Karl Kilian, began to wonder, in his words, «what would happen if we cast the net wider, expanding the idea and the conversation beyond the visual arts.»

«Instead of trying to expand the canon, we should dispose of it altogether, through epistemology as well as what can be termed a conceptual history of art and curating, drawing upon diverse ideas such as those of Michel Foucault and Reinhart Koselleck, in which history is seen through ideas and concepts in terms of periodization, rather than events, individuals, and, in our case, specific objects.»

This expands the idea of spiritualism and evokes a sense of meditation in his art works.

Referencing the history of painting — especially action painting and abstract expressionism — and drawing on feminism and performance art, Black proposes an expanded idea of sculpture as primarily an intuitive and sensory encounter with pure materiality.

From Robert Rauschenberg to Jean Tinguely, Robert Smithson, Yoko Ono, Gordon Matta - Clark, Gustav Metzger, and Pipilotti Rist, destruction has served as a rich resource in the evolution of critical art practice and a key idea in the development of the expanded field of art in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the interest of expanding the contemporary art discourse to be inclusive of ideas and artists that are often marginalized, Higgs» curatorial choices are actively challenging, foregoing accessibility to forefront the deeper concepts and intentions of the work.

8 Creative icons: Bruce Nauman, because we're still reeling from how he expanded our ideas of what art can be.