Sentences with phrase «fascination for»

And what would they call this unique operation that was born out of their fascination for these exquisite coffees and fascinating people they had discovered?

Also, what's with this fascination for throwing people under buses?

A French artist with a fascination for silkworms, Etienne Leopold Trouvelot, brought European gypsy moths to his Massachusetts home in the 1860s.

Native American art has held a constant fascination for artists and collectors for over a century.

Dated to the early 15th century (1404 — 1438), the meaning and origin of the manuscript has made it the subject of speculation in both formal scholarship and aesthetic realm alike, and its enigmatic contents have long held a fascination for the artist.

Fog is a substance of abiding fascination for Janssens.

Turner colour experiments will demonstrate Turner's continued relevance to and fascination for artists today and will coincide with Tate Britain's major autumn exhibition, The EY Exhibition: Late Turner — Painting Set Free.

Caramel stepped into my life after feeling a strong fascination for one of my works.

Laura Lima's (born in 1971, lives in Rio de Janeiro) works are informed by her fascination for the complexity of social relations and forms of human behavior.

This research has not been developed starting from a generic anthropological study, but from a rediscovery and deconstruction of their personal stories, which are themselves the result of a mixture between Catholic education, the 80s - 90s culture of fantasy fictions, the fascination for the mythological and the fairy - tale, the study of cosmological and theosophical theories.

In this way the works create a fascination for the banal, as the artist shapes basic raw materials, stretching and extending forms before freezing them at their fixed, final stage.

Marker was a seer with a fascination for technology and a deep, near mystic understanding of people and the power of images.

As well as enthusiasm for the music scene (which has led to outstanding projects with bands such as U2, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and Herbert Grönemeyer), Anton Corbijn also has a fascination for film, fashion, literature, science and, in recent times, particularly for fine art.

He continues, «The fascination for me lies in the simultaneous logical combining of the visible and invisible elements, and their derived principal separation from that same logic.»

Black — the notorious «non-color» - has always been a source of fascination for artists.

Her influences are vast and range from contemporary and old masters to the fascination for nature while admiring everything that comes from Japan and science - fiction movies.

That is why I see a continuing relevance and fascination for stone as we respond to it on a primal level.»

Kaye Donachie has developed paintings studded with literary references in which her fascination for real and fictional heroines comes to life.

The artist is interested in the rapid pace of development and environmental change in Bangladesh, and the impressive series of photographs he presents chronicles these changes in complex and perceptible ways, mixing nostalgia with a fascination for a landscape in transformation.

And more importantly, there is a shared fascination for the sense of decay in his and your paintings that seems to lie between Baroque excess and the grotesque.

As they intended to create a kind of cinematic experience, the team invited Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng, who have a shared fascination for film of a performative nature.

Works incorporating film and slide projection elements point to the continuing fascination for new technologies of representation and the photographic apparatus by 20th century artists.

During the late 1970s, while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Kruger began to develop a fascination for words, including poetry.

Like many Impressionist landscapes, Morris» paintings convey two things: first, his boundless love of nature, along with a fascination for light, atmosphere and distance; second, his compositional ability, an essential quality for rapid outdoor painting.

Her childhood experience in the Catholic Church, combined with a fascination for the human body, shaped her work conceptually.

While living in Berlin, Enda Cavanagh developed a fascination for aging man made structures that feature in urban and rural landscapes.

In her text on Visual Aspects of Science (1962), Lysen describes how the choice for an exhibition on innovation in scientific imagery corresponds to Sandberg's fascination for — but also his critical attitude towards — scientific progress.

Kiefer's fascination for eidetic process, rather than teleological outcome is underscored by the alchemical effects he achieves in these new works — aleatory, and as luminescent as the natural forms they evoke.

The work is simultaneously solemn and exuberant, a quality that aligns these paintings with those of Matisse, namely his early pictures of interiors, which display a similar fascination for pattern and detail.

The projects that Fischli / Weiss have made since then are characterized by a quirky sense of humor, a love of poetry, and a fascination for the mundane.

With an on - going fascination for the spontaneity of Folk Art and Art Brut Hos naively constructs sculptures of abstracted faces that recall the image of indigenous masks.

The vast region traditionally referred to in the West as «the East,» which includes countries like Japan and China, has a long history as a source of fascination for Western artists, from James Whistler to John Cage.

Meaning and function of the depicted often remain unclear but the highly evolved machines and seemingly futuristic devices from research, medicine and industry elicit a deep fascination for the possibilities of human inventions.

The New Generation show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1965 particularly opened her eyes to new possibilities but was usurped by her fascination for the flood of innovative work being recognised and celebrated from America and Europe.

She has recently shifted her practice largely from drawing to photography due to her fascination for manipulating reality, and her interest in the challenge of subverting the conventions of portraiture and working to push the conventional limitations of the genre.

Before joining the Art Academy, Polke trained as a glass painter so this site - specific work allowed him to apply that which he had learned as a young man in combination with his interest in various materials and fascination for the art history canon.

In addition to the multitudes of individual compositions, Grotjahn has produced several magisterial sequential drawings, consistent with the modernist fascination for serial iteration as free, constructive becoming.

Minter is only allowed to exist in the separate and gendered world of fashion, instead of, say, the history of Surrealism with its fascination for the sullied, disconnected body.

Merz was influenced by his father, an inventor and engineer, who imparted an innate fascination for science and mathematics.

Stephen Cripps» works developed out of an interest in kinetic sculpture and machines, and a fascination for the poetic potential of explosion and destruction.

I, Cyborg is an exhibition about aesthetics as well — the body has always been a fascination for artists, but how does one address a body that is linked to a greater consciousness and is itself transforming physically through the addition of non-organic components as well as the intrusion of alternative genetic material?

McCartney, a native «Liverpool lad» wasn't aware of his fascination for the hall until he was asked to do the exhibition.

Representations of the malleable animated female body throughout history are a constant source of fascination for Carré.

Beinart Gallery (Melbourne, Australia) is a curated space for highly skilled figurative artists with a shared fascination for strange and imaginative themes.

The new - age vernacular of Internet culture becomes a sort of inspiration and fascination for the artist and her sculptures.

Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce «Cosmologies», a group exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures by six international artists — Alighiero Boetti, Lucio Fontana, Peter Halley, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Tuttle and Not Vital — who share a fascination for the universe's mysteries, and whose works probe questions of space, time, structure, origin and evolution.

Bertozzi & Casoni (born 1957 and 1961, Italy): In their highly realistic signature style, Bertozzi & Casoni have crafted ceramic sculptures (by hand) expressing a fascination for decay.

But not the materials themselves exerted fascination for Albers and Reed, but rather their unusual combinations.

Danai Anesiadou (b. 1975, Germany, lives in New York) has achieved a fascinating body of works, structured around chains of associations and a deep fascination for cinema.

This project started my fascination for the women carrying their goods.