Sentences with phrase «from ordinary objects»

Sarah Sze is an American artist known for her unique sculptures and site - specific installations assembled from ordinary objects such as plastic plants, candies, packing materials, and aluminum ladders, attempting to navigate and model the ceaseless proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life.

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Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

The mass attributed to ordinary objects is required as an independent parameter in predicting the motions that result from the interactions among a system of physical objects.

Conceivably, «electronics» can be brought into worship along with any other ordinary object from our daily lives.

We must use what is familiar to talk about the unfamiliar; so we turn to events, objects, relationships from ordinary, contemporary life in order to say something about what we do not know how to talk about — the love of God.

Aristotle lays out the difficulties that the ordinary understanding places in the way of his conception: the actualization of the cause of the process seems to be distinct from that of the object of the process, for the one is an effecting, the other a being effected.

In an ordinary beam, each photon moves in the direction of the beam, so when a photon bounces directly back from an object, it imparts the largest possible push.

An object too small to be an ordinary star because it can not produce enough energy by fusion in its core to compensate for the radiative energy it loses from its surface.

Despite the scary monster, this has children's tale written all over it, and unless you're ready to succumb to a temporary state of ignorance, you'll find it's very hard to enjoy the flick without constantly inquiring how objects from the extraordinary can interact with those from the ordinary.

Simply a Smile My collection of short stories (romance, mystery, historical, general fiction all inspired by ordinary objects or art) will be available on Amazon in April from Cane Hollow Press

In Thiebaud's words «common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen» (Cooper).

Video from the 2009 exhibition «Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object» at the Oakland Museum of California.

From his early box - like constructions of the late 1960s Craig - Martin moved towards the use of ordinary household objects in his work.

By removing ordinary items from their familiar context, these artists often use humorous presentation and language to highlight the artistic potential that lies within the objects around us.

A sly tease of a picture, it's an instructive introduction to an enthralling show of 130 paintings and sculptures representing more or less ordinary objects dating from the turn of the 19th century to 1974.

On Level 2, «Between Object and Architecture» looks at the way post-1960s artists employed geometric shapes and ordinary building materials like bricks or cubes, and includes artists from Latin America and China as well as Europe, emphasizing the museum's commitment to what Frances Morris, the director of the Tate Modern, called «a more global story of art.»

Steinbach selects and arranges objects — which range from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic — thereby emphasizing their identities, inherent meanings and associations.

«A Classicist of the Ordinary» MacIver worked small, usually about easel - sized, depicting objects from her immediate surroundings and views of the city.

the subjects range from ordinary individuals to objects of fantasy.

Also included is a work by Gimhongsok, from Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim in Seoul; A Star (2011) is one of a series of sculptures entitled «Ordinary Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious Objects» that appropriate everyday objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious objects, such as plastic bags, wooden sticks and Styrofoam, which are recast in precious metals.

«Painting pictures of objects from the most ordinary of worlds — the table, the kitchen, the grocery store — allows me to look at these objects long and differently,» The still - life painter writes.

The inspiration for Cristina Tufino comes from her everyday surroundings and discarded, ordinary objects that she finds particularly fascinating.

Sometimes the most extraordinary inspiration comes from the most ordinary objects and the routines associated with them.

Through ordinary objects salvaged from the activities of everyday life — empty bottles, washboards, children's toys, and mirrors — Saar reminds us that people can be imprisoned just as surely, just as securely, by desires, stories, and ideas as by stone walls and iron bars.»

By investigating the ways in which reality can become dissociated from recognizable forms and ordinary knowledge, the exhibition considers the manual labor, or craft, within an artist's practice and its potential to modify, shape, overturn, and radically change an existing object, shape or event (historical or current) in the process.

Taylor worked as Rauschenberg's studio assistant from 1975 to 1982, and the legendary artist's repurposing of trash and ordinary objects for fine art is an evident influence on his Collection of Perishable Rings (1988), where assorted discarded circular items — a tin can, a cork, a roll of masking tape — form a mesmerizing sequence of shapes that seem to roll around, on top of, and within each other.

This work is from a new series of paintings that develops from my earlier practice, by considering ordinary objects related to the practical tools used in offices, record keeping and work environments.

Nelson's interest in the representation of ordinary objects derives from his curiosity about the ways in which objects and memories are assessed.

Artist Alex Chitty liberates ordinary objects from their mundane life in her solo show Turning Spoons into Forks.

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In his series Animal Farm, Miami - based Colombian artist Federico Uribe creates beautiful animal sculptures using the most ordinary, everyday objects, including everything from thousands of shoes, champagne corks, coloured pencils and shoe laces.

On the surface, the ordinary objects collected by the artist Zhu Jinshi during his time in apartment Ganjiakou 303 are very different from the heavy impasto strokes characteristic of his later oil paintings.

He also leverages unorthodox materials in his work, ranging from using ordinary household objects to firing a shotgun into a box of photographic paper.

While historic pieces such as the iconic code - breaking Enigma machine from World War II are on display, SPYSCAPE isn't an ordinary museum with antiquated objects in vitrines and dry wall texts.

I categorized and archived some of the papers and objects, especially from my father's family who tended to keep things, beautiful objects to the ordinary.

The exhibition, which will now travel to Aspen, was restrained and ebullient, with selections from a few salient series tracing an evolution in his use of specific materials as hand - and - machine - tools, wood, bone, fabric, and hair in witty, emotional objects recalling old - timey toys, ritual charms and artifacts, totems of social experience, and items of ordinary household magic.

Ordinary Things locates Lucas» works firmly in this history, with the works pointing to the canon of sculpture, ranging from third century Italian votives, Bernini's classical statuary, the figures of Henry Moore and the natural materials of Barbara Hepworth, to the Arte Povera strategies of Mario Merz and the found objects of Robert Filliou.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

Vaguely resembling ordinary and ubiquitous products like cars, vacuum cleaners, and shampoo bottles, Baskin begins with the objects themselves, making molds and casts directly from their forms, or disassembling and reconfiguring them to highlight their not so subtle appeals to our unconscious desires.

Through a meticulous mise - en - sce ̀ne, the artist critically unfolds the perception of a series of ordinary objects found in his urban drifts, articulating with them minimal installations in which the elements that configure them are deprived from their conventional meaning.

By confronting both the forms stemming from art history and ordinary forms, Gabriel Kuri thus offers us a broader conception of sculpture, in which the objects from everyday life fully participate in the aesthetic experience.

Designs by artists for coins, playing cards, lithographs and children's toys (a special Christmas venture) promoted the artistry of ordinary objects, imagining fine art away from the white cube and in the home.

Continuing in the traditions of Marcel Duchamp - whose urinal entitled «Fountain» (1917) was the first famous example of an ordinary object being made into a work of art - postmodernists have made a point of creating art from the most unlikely materials and scraps of rubbish.

Using ordinary manufactured objects, designers Achille Castiglioni and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni created the Mezzadro Stool in 1957 from a tractor seat and a steel and wood base.

The show continues through January 11, 2013 — and on December 18 from 7 — 8 pm, artist, András Böröcz will perform «11 Grapefruits 2», a conceptual work that introduces the fruit into his repertoire of ordinary, round sculptural objects and includes a new video.

With their contrasting white pitched roofs and black bases, the toilets, especially in the bright primary colors chosen by Slominski, transform from ordinary utilitarian objects into playful sites of refuge.

Thick, black outlines frame Baechler's carefully selected imagery that ranges from cartoon - like figures to ordinary objects like candy and flowers.

The self - evidence and simplicity of an ordinary, rectangular box, made from a standard industrial material, is exposed as endlessly complicated once we try to catalogue how it appears to us as a three - dimensional object».

Steinbach presents objects, ranging from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to art works that underscore their identity and inherent meanings.