Sentences with phrase «fragmenting iconic paintings»

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By silk - screening fragments of text from an essay by the French thinker Maurice Blanchot directly onto the surface of the paintings, he integrates language with his iconic images.

Muniz's Metachromes are constructed of sticks, stubs, fragments and dust of pastel sticks deftly arranged to re-imagine iconic paintings, forcing the viewer to move beyond the instantaneous recognition of such masterpieces and explore the materiality, chromatic range and painterly process of these works.

Jones frequently uses iconic phrasing from jazz vocalists and instrumentalists as raw material that she fragments, disrupts, and dissolves into associative sounds, which in turn function as distinct installations or in combination with sculpture or installations of her now emblematic Acoustic Paintings.

The 18 works in Master Painters (2011) give personal re-readings of famous paintings, sometimes subtly, but generally with wit or irony: thus Canarian Gothic references Grant Wood's American Gothic; Flowers for a Martyr reworks Vincent van Gogh's iconic sunflowers; and Pedro (Naked at Stairs) harks back both to Gerhard Richter's Ema (Nude on a Staircase) of 1966 and beyond it to Marcel Duchamp's fragmented Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) of 1912.