Sentences with phrase «found urban detritus»

Mallary developed a unique and experimental style capturing fragile found urban detritus - discarded pieces of cardboard, wood, cloth rags, and later, Tuxedos, casting them in resin to become hard and permanent.

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Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

Anton Unai is Spanish street artist who uses found objects and urban detritus to create collages and large - scale installations.

Through economical and invasive means, the artist transforms urban detritus such as found cardboard, police barricades, and carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.

Employing found materials culled from urban detritus and popular media such as postcards, wallpaper, stickers, and fabric, Wesselmann executed several discrete but related series of collages that variously depict figures (both anonymous and known), interiors, and still lifes.

The term Assemblage art was first coined by Jean Dubuffet in 1953 to denote a type of work constructed from fragments of natural, preformed or «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus, stuffed animals - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.

Penn's still life compositions included meticulous arrangements of items - including food, bones, domestic implements, bottles, metal, urban detritus, and found objects.

With Helter Skelter I, Mark Bradford puts forward a statement of heroic ambition that takes the detritus found on the streets of Los Angeles to subtly reflect on the history, social structures and lived experiences of the artist's urban environment.

In 2013, Chagas won for his country the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with his exhibition, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, comprised of twenty - three stacks of mass - produced photographs of urban detritus drawn from the artist's series Found Not Taken (2009 — 13).

There amongst the discarded detritus of modern urban decay he was to find the source material and inspiration for his monumental and emotionally charged work.

It also coincided with Assemblage art - artwork made out of fragments of «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.