Sentences with phrase «formal qualities of their work»

Proust's influence reveals itself in both Lim's artistic approach and the formal qualities of her work, evident in her interest in the peripheral, questions of dislocation and self - alienation, and the dialectics of inside and outside.
The formal qualities of his work reference a history of geometric modernism, including the works of Malevich and Mondrian.
We hope the public will engage beyond the formal quality of the work, and into a broader conversation about life.
Generations is an exhibition in which regional artists of varying age are paired according to similarities in the conceptual and / or formal qualities of their work.
Formalism considers that the formal qualities of a work - such as line, shape and colour - are self - sufficient for its appreciation, and all other considerations - such as representational, ethical or social aspects - are secondary or redundant.
From 1959 to 1961 he lived in New York on a Harkness Fellowship, producing paintings that combined the formal qualities of the work of American abstract painters, with references to American commercial culture, with its lush seductive colours, exploitation of magnification and soft - focus effects and, generally, its stimulation of desire and fantasy.

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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.
When it comes to a product of choice, the Pottery Barn Linen Hemstitch Napkin delivers a meticulous quality that works for casual and formal affairs alike.
No information is provided to show that the batches reported in the new work were of a quality compliant with GLP and so might have been used in carcinogenicity or other formal tests.
If you are not following these individuals and their work in eLearning, then you are not really serious about improving the quality of your Instructional Design efforts whether in the learning culture of a business or in the formal education setting.
NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performancof what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performancof working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performancOf course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performancof explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.
12.1 Can identify their own learning needs and professional development goals, and uses these to create a long term plan for professional learning 12.2 Engages in a range of different formal and informal professional learning opportunities to ensure they maintain an up - to - date professional knowledge 12.3 Proactively seeks out appropriate professional learning opportunities and evaluates professional learning opportunities to determine quality and suitability 12.4 Understands effective methods for engaging in, and evaluating professional learning, both for individuals and when working with colleagues 12.5 Is open to questioning and challenging their own practice, values and beliefs in light of new evidence and expert input.
The fact that both modes of working bore similar formal qualities was seemingly lost on dismissive critics.
The spiritual and autobiographical content as well as the formal artistic qualities in this body of work interconnect in ways that have never been examined before.
I think he was a great painter whose work weds powerful formal qualities with keen observations of human nature.
Robert Stern, the renowned architect and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, acquired the present work in 1968 and has long admired it, not only for its formal and aesthetic qualities but also for the revolutionary nature of Judd's practice, «From the minute I saw the work, I knew of its importance.
Grotjahn's butterfly moniker is derived solely from the formal qualities of the paintings; all the works displayed in this exhibition are variations on a theme, using compulsive repetition to experiment within a delineated set of conceptual rules.
Similar to Owen's other works, this site - specific installation responds to the particular architectural properties — formal qualities as well as spatial patterns — of the Market and the gallery space, and is constructed out of modest and / or ephemeral materials, which seemingly grow from and within the architecture.
And while Mockrin's works share some of the same formal qualities as an 18th - century Rococo composition — though they're a bit too askew to actually be mistaken for one — the works in question are decidedly 21st - century.
Rothschild's work — which is made out of materials such as jesmonite, Perspex, steel, leather, incense and beads — is concerned with how certain qualities of corporeality might be invested with spiritual meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out of formal arrangements.
The artist's upcoming show at Michael Werner will be the painting's gallery debut, where it will be shown alongside seven other works composed since 2008 and inspired by Jones's ongoing interest in the formal qualities of his earlier commercial work.
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.
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.
I talk about my work in terms of its conceptual and formal qualities.
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.
I worked with porn images in part for their transgressive qualities, but in the end they actually seem very formal, whereas with the children I was thinking of this as a really good - natured project.
The exhibition brings together works in diverse media that address the formal qualities of the color white and reflectivity.
The ambiguity threads right through the formal qualities and process of making the work.
Emily Musgrave's work addresses the formal qualities of abstract sculpture by using forms influenced by the subtle details of everyday construction materials.
Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoked questions about the physicality of the art object.
With a selection of self - portraits, still - life paintings, and abstract compositions, the exhibition highlights Mitchell's gradual transition between working with realistic representation to an increased passion for painting's formal qualities.
Her work is concerned with the social and spatial qualities of sculpture; how certain qualities of corporeality might be invested with spiritual meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out of formal arrangements.
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.
«The judges were impressed by the complexity of the work, its amazing formal qualities, its disparate materials and techniques and also how it relates to the world... how it often suggests meaning, but those meanings are all in flux somehow,» Farquharson said.
Although Athanasios Argianas's «Song Machine» works possess a similar minimalist aesthetic — unlike Stamkopoulos's sculptures, which tackle the formal qualities of painting in three - dimensional space — Argianas's interest lies in the limit between material and immaterial structure i.e. information.
By not taking more specific aim, Jones lets formal qualities — visceral immediacy, textural complexity and damage - driven process — carry the bulk of the work's metaphorical weight.
Because of Kinsey's techniques, the narrative aspect of the work gets muffled and its formal qualities come to the forefront.
This does not mean, of course, that their work looks like John's, but they certainly share an interest in using found materials that may have a particular formal quality, in addition to more pronounced social, personal, or political resonances.»
While our programming throughout the years is quite diverse in content, there is a connecting thread of formal considerations, as well as the quality of the work shown.
«The judges were impressed by the complexity of the work, its amazing formal qualities, its disparate materials and techniques and also how it relates to the world... how it often suggests meaning, but those meanings are all in flux somehow.
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.
Glass as a material has been the most prominent, consistent and important «stuff» he has worked with: «I spent most of my time as a sculpture student at the RCA working in the glass dept. Not only am I interested in its formal qualities, but its significance within the history of science — as an extension of our own «fleshy empiricism».»
These works are humorously familiar and vaguely ominous — while their formal composition directly apes that of retail presentations, the artist's act of isolation emphasizes their funereal quality, turning the oblong metal racks into sarcophagi for bygone contents.
While the other Abstract Expressionists were mining their own feelings, intuitions and subconscious emotions and using them to create works that were deeply personal and rife with hidden meaning, Kline made work that was about the formal qualities of painting, such as paint, brush stroke, composition and color.
Kline felt that the emotional impact of the work could be experienced entirely through an appreciation of these formal qualities, and insisted that that was the most important thing on which to focus.
But the increased color palette adds new dimensions to the work that draw attention away from the qualities of the marks and into a deeper examination of the other formal qualities of the painting.
Rothschild's work - which is made out of materials such as jesmonite, Perspex, steel, leather and beads - is concerned with how certain qualities of corporeality might be invested with spiritual meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out of formal arrangements.
Through their formal qualities, along with personal, cultural, and technological references, the works evoke questions about the physicality of the art object.»
In school, I was working with found and discarded materials, and allowing the physical qualities of these materials to determine the moves I was making, the formal language, etc..
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