Sentences with phrase «genteel art»

Walker's ironic appropriation of this genteel art form — born of the era of colonialism and slavery — belies the violence and sorrow of the scenes she depicts.

She was great to work with because she really wanted to get under the surface of what might be a very genteel art form.

This is Nathan's dream, to create a work of genteel art from nothing.

Not exact matches

Are we willing to grant that it is good policy for persons to condone even a «more genteel» form of prostitution — the art of making one's body responsive to another's need but nothing else?

Jacob is a polite, reticent boy, clearly brought up to be stiffly genteel («Jardine residence, good evening,» he answers the phone), but with an individualistic talent for art; presented with his picture of a green sky with yellow stars, his art teacher cautions, «Van Gogh ended up cutting off his own ear.»

The art world is in a genteel panic — reliable work isn't selling, galleries are moving and closing, Andrea Rosen has said she'll no longer represent living...

But is it still the radical event it was, or a genteel way of adding a few more names to your art knowledge?

For the notoriously private artist, this exhibit seems to have presented another opportunity for subversion: Is there a better way to address the hard realties of racism and wag a finger at the institutionalized art world than to present his work in a genteel mansion converted into a gallery between Madison and Park avenues?

A genteel titan who did more than anyone to shape the art world as we know it today, Castelli was born in 1907 in Trieste with the Jewish given name of Leo Krausz and took his time finding his way to fame — he was nearly 50 years old when he opened the Castelli Gallery on East 77th Street in 1957.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

«I think art should be about now,» she says in her genteel but opinionated way.

Extraordinary pieces of public sculpture, luminous with reflected light, they distort ideas of space and play with the line between art and architecture, exerting a curious, totemic power over their often - genteel settings.

Extending this line of thought, «Home / Museum Arranged for Living and Viewing,» Lawler's 1984 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, transformed a gallery into a genteel domestic interior, complete with a grandfather clock and lemon yellow walls.

SFU Gallery is embedded within Arthur Erickson's Brutalist (and utopian) mountaintop university complex, while the BAG is located in a manor house that over the years has served as the home of a genteel Burnaby family, a monastery, a cult centre, an SFU residence, and since 1967 a public art gallery.

Thus - in sharp contrast to the conventional and rather genteel American Impressionism that represented the most popular American art of the period - these American Realists set about capturing the spontaneous moments of urban life.

Who better to sing you a genteel bedtime story than master of dark arts David Shrigley and king of glib, Arab Strap co-founder Malcolm Middleton?

Greenberg's dialectic made color - field sound formidable, but the art proved lightweight in practice, a genteel sort of taste — the visual equivalent of second - Martini euphoria.