Sentences with phrase «good art gestures»

Like most good art gestures, the idea itself is actually very simple — it just opens naturally onto a multitude of associations.

Not exact matches

These artists are acting like industrious junior postmodernist worker bees, trying to crawl into the body of and imitate the good old days of abstraction, deploying visual signals of Suprematism, color - field painting, minimalism, post-minimalism, Italian Arte Povera, Japanese Mono - ha, process art, modified action painting, all gesturing toward guys like Polke, Richter, Warhol, Wool, Prince, Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Wade Guyton, Rudolf Stingel, Sergej Jensen, and Michael Krebber.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Fontana surprised everyone with the calculated gestures of his spatial, well - ordered abstract art

There is surely a jaded brand of cynicism at play here, surprising in an artist as young as Singer, but even more, these gestures indicate a critical self - awareness that is a much - needed antidote to the powers and hubris of an inflated art market and a faith in seemingly bigger, better art spectacles.

Uncertainty and confusion do not bode well for the future, but perhaps art will find that it can build more quietly without all the big money and macho gestures.

Her romantic, surreal, often disturbing black and white photographs reference the history of modernist photography as well as presciently gesture towards more recent art about objectification and the female gaze.

His writings on art include monographs on Andy Warhol and John Singer Sargent, as well as The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art and Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art 1965 — 19art include monographs on Andy Warhol and John Singer Sargent, as well as The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art and Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art 1965 — 19Art and Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art 1965 — 19Art 1965 — 1975.

In (You (People) Are All The Same) he expounds the problems of the «artist as observer of others» and examines to what extent good art and good gestures correlate.

«Artists who engage in acts of silencing, erasing, covering or masking, as well as conceptual gestures related to eclipsed narratives in American art and culture, will examine themes of blindness, censorship, obscurity and suppression.»

At the same time, recurrent intellectual property battles around appropriative gestures in contemporary art have threatened its viability, giving rise to College Art Association's important report published in February 2015, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arart have threatened its viability, giving rise to College Art Association's important report published in February 2015, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual ArArt Association's important report published in February 2015, the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts.

They were unafraid to explore gesture, improvisation, relational compositions, allusions to figuration and landscape, as well as art historical and cultural allusions, high and low.

Doeringer is putting conceptual art truisms to the test: The most obvious is the age - old conceptual saw that the idea or gesture, and not the object itself, is the art (tell that to the auction houses that do well selling Ruscha bookworks or Ray photographs for hundreds of thousands of dollars.)

I think it's fair to say that Murillo's labor - attuned gesture, though certainly not unprecedented in recent art history — Mierle Laderman Ukeles's longtime Department of Sanitation residency and Fred Wilson's «Guarded View» (1991) come to mind — represents a welcome transition away from the large and largely derivative canvases for which he has thus far been best known, and delivers more bite than the Chelsea chocolate factory that may have presaged this line of thinking.

Given the basic humanity of geometry, it may come as a surprise to find that many contemporary painters, both figurative and abstract, think plain geometrical figures are chilly, «intellectual,» inhuman things best kept out of art or buried deep beneath lots of colorful, painterly gestures, thrustings and parryings.

Blind Handshake, the title of his new collection of writings, is a good indication of his stance on art and opinion - making, suggesting both the trust and trepidation that come with hopeful gestures of intimacy and social contract.

Perhaps most interestingly, the premise was built on the simplest of ephemeral gestures and still had the capacity to travel widely and engage many, many people — when this is possible, art is at its best.»

As a patriotic gesture, the American had stopped making sculpture from aluminium sheeting during the war, reasoning that it would be better used for bombers than for art.

Like most serious art, this basic gesture found a symbolic way to illuminate an entire other world — in this case, one we'd like to see banished for good.