Sentences with phrase «formal qualities of art»

They may also learn something about the formal qualities of art, like line and composition.

Although Pollock was well - known as a, shall we say, dysfunctional personality, his notoriety is based largely on the formal qualities of his art — his technique famously earning him the label «Jack the Dripper.»

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By exploring themes of philosophy and theology in his work through the formal qualities of space, line, and color, Adams engages Christ and culture in his art.

Understanding this second challenge — the challenge of creating and sustaining high quality formal arts learning experiences for K - 12 youth, inside and outside of school — is the focus of a new report from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Another attempt to answer the question involves shifting the ground slightly and asserting, as some contemporary feminists do, that there is a different kind of «greatness» for women's art than for men's, thereby postulating the existence of a distinctive and recognizable feminine style, different both in its formal and its expressive qualities and based on the special character of women's situation and experience.

Engaging both the formal qualities and social aspects of the sculptures, Okudzeto addresses the role and function of art, global and local economics, and tourism.

In contrast, in their role as holders of the cloth sacks, the hooks are given a function that undermines their autonomy as self - sufficient objects, with the result that they oscillate between display modules and genuine artworks, whereas the Silos — in spite of their formal proximity to those seat - like objects seen in quasi-participational art projects (like those of Franz West)-- utterly lack the quality of sturdy usefulness and seemingly even have to be held in place by the rods of the «Gurneys».

Candida was born in 1944 in Cologne and after completing studies at the Cologne Werkschule, she enrolled in the Düsseldorf School of Art, where she was taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher, heavily influenced by the formal qualities of the austere documentary photography they endorsed.

Judd was particularly taken by the notion that art no longer had a representational purpose; he maintained that what mattered in a work of art was its own formal qualities - shape, color, surface, volume.

The artists of the AAA tended to focus on the formal qualities of abstract art and those of the TPG were more inclined toward nature and the spiritual, thus calling themselves the Transcendentalists.

Committed to enhancing the quality of daily life through art produced within the home, she contributed a unique perspective to the formal explorations of twentieth - century abstract sculpture.

John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish.

The book, whose stunning design references the formal qualities of Jones» work, includes an extensive plate selection alongside essays by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Hilton Als and George Lewis, and an interview between Jones and art historian Huey Copeland.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

Figuration is consistently explored through each of Tyler's paintings, clearly referencing formal qualities utilized art historical giants Phillip Guston and Willian De Kooning.

He belongs to a generation of artists whose pictorial language brings together motifs linked to popular culture and the formal qualities of traditional Japanese art, such as flatness, pattern and lavish ornamentation.

Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoked questions about the physicality of the art object.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Through his aesthetic creations, Stella demonstrated that an art object is worthy of consideration not for the story it might tell or for the interpretation it might contribute to, but for its own formal aesthetic qualities and the satisfaction they might provide.

John McCracken (1934 — 2011) occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form and finish.

Noted for his simultaneous commitment to exploring the formal, abstract qualities of art (line, texture, composition and, especially color) and the creation of representational images drawn from his daily encounters with people and places, Avery's Vermont work vividly captures his family's summer activities and the artist's personal response to the Vermont landscape.

Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoke questions about the physicality of the art object.»

For Rentmeister, art is much more than just a formal exercise — sculpture (and its materials) is an everyday phenomenon, we just aren't always aware of the esthetic quality of sugar cubes and handkerchiefs.

Mayne was an early proponent of photography as art and consciously printed with high contrast and favored tight graphic compositions to emphasize the formal qualities in his work and have a dialogue with the painting of the time.

The basic premise behind abstract art is that the formal qualities of a painting are just as important as its representational qualities.