Sentences with phrase «from quotidian»

Made from reclaimed materials that range from quotidian to quirky (wooden spools, wooden rings, rubber gas tubes), Soares» pieces are undyed so their natural beauty shines through.

Paul Winstanley is best known for his delicate paintings from photographs, which pull beauty from quotidian environs with tactile precision.

Others, including Moyra Davey, Christian Marclay, and Alison Rossiter, draw inspiration from the quotidian, the obsolete, and the ephemeral.

Weber uses cardboard as her medium (sometimes cast in bronze for public projects) and achieves beauty from the quotidian on a monumental scale that is both humble and spectacular at the same time.

Hudson argues that Ryman's approach to painting developed from quotidian contact with the story of modern painting as assembled by MoMA director and curator Alfred Barr and rendered widely accessible by director of the education department Victor D'Amico and colleagues.

Bradley and Soto take inspiration from quotidian forms, but then affect those forms to create carefully fabricated works that challenge their original banality.

One purpose of art is to provide the viewer with breathing space, with an experience that moves one from quotidian «reality» to a place where contemplation can yield a measure of transcendence.

Likewise, texts collected from the public domain and fragments of news stories are promoted from the quotidian to the iconic.

Hovering between photography, collage work, and watercolor, Rafferty's portraits examine the hangdog undertones of the humorous and the hilarious overtones of the mournful; the presence of the gendered body in actions ranging from the quotidian to the extraordinary; and the ability of pop cultural artifacts to generate not just nostalgia, but a comment about the here and now.

As diverse as his subject matter, Pettibon's images have included quotations from quotidian and literary works by authors including Marcel Proust, Henry James, William Blake, John Ruskin, and Art Clokey, as well as texts written by the artist himself.

What could very well be found in any number of gardens or woods is transformed from the quotidian to a time and place we may have inhabited only in dreams.

Lazlo Strange is the eponymous dreamer in Taylor's brilliantly epic fantasy, which takes him from the quotidian library where he works to the fabled lost city of Weep, which has fascinated him since he was a boy.

This collection of Campbell's stories about Bacchus and his everyday exploits among humans epitomizes the artist's great skill in extracting magnificence from the quotidian and infusing outsize characters with quirky humanity.

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If it doesn't sound crazy to someone, it's probably too quotidian to have issued from the mind of Peter Thiel.

Written from Jerusalem: Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City on my first visit here in fifteen years, I was powerfully struck once again by the grittiness of Christianity, the palpable connection between the faith and the quotidian realities of life.

Maybe custom and habit and the quotidian ramble are just The things we need to keep us from being overwhelmed by the profligacy Of miracle, the huge of the tiny, the gift of every single thing there ever is.

I studied The Quotidian Mysteries and prayed the prayers of Brother Lawrence, who famously declared that «the time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen... I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.»

A narrative history of the alternative - foods movement of the past half century explores the diverse fringe trends, charismatic personalities and counterculture elements that have rendered quotidian wholefoods, from whole grain bread and tofu to yogurt and brown rice, part of the mainstream American diet.

From an onstage conversation with Elvis Costello to a community discussion of the misrepresentation of slavery in McGraw - Hill textbooks to a Gabriel Garciá Márquez book group so smart and impassioned that I wanted to sign up for it immediately, «Ex Libris» demonstrates Wiseman's usual genius at constructing a mosaic of the quotidian.

Mannix's job is a quotidian nightmare of putting out fires, making sure the trains run on time, preventing the embarrassing stuff from getting into the press and keeping the tantrums / temptations of the stars to a manageable minimum.

The film depicts stories of quotidian life in Rio, such as the boys from the favela who sell peanuts at Copacabana beach.

Though its incantatory middle suffers from too many indistinguishable quotidian encounters, this is a masterful work.»

The perpetual movements of an ocean, or the endless variations of a skyscape, reflect in Bianchi's work our shifting internal gestures and motions — in a constant movement from still to moving images where the eternal is reconciled with the quotidian.

Opening reception for» #MichaelCraigMartin Quotidian: #Editions» at @neptunebrown tomorrow from 5 - 7 PM.

Often incorporating quotidian office supplies, her work evokes the banalities of the everyday that underpin creative work, from PowerPoint presentations narrating her typical studio routine to collaged works on paper that use materials such as carbon transfer paper, discarded printed matter, and tape.

Auerbach paints in the same studio he has occupied since 1954, reputedly working all day, seven days a week, revisiting the inventory of subject matter he has accumulated from his regular models and his quotidian local life.

The works currently on display include traditional ephemera (Italian language guides, bakery business cards) as well as original works of art that mimic knickknacks, such as Sinead Cahill's hand - embroidered «girl scout» merit badges made from lithographed fabric, and many things that are not ephemeral at all, but step outside traditional fine art forms into the realm of the quotidian.

Redolent of everyday devices in certain communities and populations such as a hut or a wheel, the artist focuses not just on ideas around personal or interpersonal identity, but he also emphasizes on how memory can be the vehicle for transmitting certain typologies of quotidian practices from generation to generation.

Employing both found and made material, her work makes satirical and exaggerated use of de - and re-contexulized, unassuming fragments extracted from or mimicking the internet and the quotidian, speaking of an emerging, and in ways increasingly disoriented, generation born into an information matrix that tells the story of who they are and what they desire.

In other works, the same lightness of hand with paint, color and line, hints at the somber and dejected aspects of the domestic and quotidian - drooping flowers, in a vase or overcome by rain, and the view, from a distance, of the warmly lit interiors of people's homes through window panes.

In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

It was a refuge from the pressures and quotidian nature of the city, and as such, a fragmenting of dense urban culture.

Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.

But in more recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.

Ruppersberg is one of the most important figures to emerge from the conceptual art movement associated with the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s, and his work has consistently worked to bridge the divide between art experience and the quotidian experience of the world.

Imagining these quotidian moments, which range from flossing, to practicing yoga, to putting on a pair of boots, Hurzlmeier's paintings seek to draw insight from the everyday.

Traversing a wide range of media, from collage to performance, Haegue Yang's body of work often features quotidian and domestic found objects...

With no prior sketching or planned outcome, Huen's large - scale oil paintings are derived from observation of his own life, portraying quotidian experiences.

Hergenhahn's installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery.

2017 Colonial Stories, GL Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark From Life, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Enlightened Princesses; Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA toured to Kensington Palace, London, England Quotidian, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England Un bal masqué (A masked ball), Le Chateau de Nyon, Switzerland Diaspora Pavilion, International Curators Forum Mentoring Programme, Venice Biennale, Italy Tous, des sang - mêlés, MAC / VAL, Vitry - sur - Seine, France Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

The spirit of Yu Hong's creation most often arises from her personal life and the surroundings of quotidian existence, constructing a world which ingeniously fuses together perceptions of time and memories, as well as adeptly seizing the sporadic emotional evolution of human experience.

From reinventing the past to taking a fresh look at the quotidian, these exhibitions provide examples of how creative practice can change ideas.

In installation, photography and video, the authoritative fixity of representational media is betrayed as those bodies presumed to be contained — as ghosts, as pop culture signifiers one step removed from the referent — return to haunt the image as desiring bodies, as spectres, as present absences that make even the quotidian an uncertain experience.

Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950 — 1965 features compelling examples from the cuciti a macchina, daini, and diagrammi series, which collectively demonstrate the high level of variation Nuvolo achieved using quotidian materials and direct processes.

A set of monochromatic illustrations to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from the late 1930s incorporate a greater sense of narrative than many of Neel's other compositions and show the actors at various key stages of the existential drama; her own life is referenced in often richly colored, quotidian scenes depicting herself in the company of her lovers.

From the 1970s onwards, Wurtz has been using commonplace materials that relate to the basic categories of life — food, clothing, shelter — to create sculptures that probe and explore the notions of monumentality and the quotidian.

Through her work with photography and film, Los Angeles — based artist Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964) captures intimate quotidian moments from a wide range of communities.

January 30th - February 9th, 2008 Hergenhahn's installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery.

Artists like Nari Ward, who reclaimed discarded refuse from urban settings, and Gabriel Orozco, a Mexican artist who photographed quotidian scenarios gone slightly awry, achieved prominence for their ambiguously interpretable commentaries on poverty and consumer culture.

These are situated atop large, white - plaster sculptures that have been alternately modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, or after such quotidian objects from the contemporary residential landscape as a rustic mailbox, a birdbath, and an inflatable garden snowman.