Sentences with phrase «historical objects used»

Instead, the museum aesthetic of their presentation prompts the audience to consider them as historical objects used in the distant past.

Not exact matches

Recently the company sponsored its «Make and Bake» event, where families created historical objects or landmarks using Diamond Bakery crackers.

Absolute Dating Absolute dating can be achieved through the use of historical records and through the analysis of biological and geological RELATIVE VS. ABSOLUTE DATING RELATIVE DATING A method of determining whether an event or object is younger or older than another event or object.

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Kessling works across a range of media such as photography, film, and performance, and here the images reflect performative tools for exploring identity, often juxtaposing the artist's own body with objects and materials such as dust sheets, clay, fabric and paper bags used with transformative effect — the temporal nature of the performative movement frozen in a single gesture — a single still from an action, or a response to an art - historical identity.

'' News / Prints: Printmaking and the Newspaper» (at IPCNY, New York, closed October 19) included historical editorial cartoons, Meiji - era Japanese newspapers, collages using newsprint as a found object and other works of contemporary art in its exploration of newspapers as both primary and secondary sources for art.

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.

Fo Wilson uses constructed space and furniture forms to create experiences that reposition historical objects and / or aesthetics in a contemporary context and offers audiences new ways of thinking about and interacting with history.

«Romauld Hazoumè, from Benin, uses found objects to make monumental works that incite critical discussions of the historical, political and economic problems facing Africa.

Even as his work historically emerges from these traditions — organizing simple structures, the use of objects as integers in a larger series, a simple declarative use of materials — his work also foregrounds aspects of such works that have become lost in the art historical context.

The uses of imagery and materials in this exhibition are wide - ranging and experimental: rhinestones, sand, matches, cowrie shells, handmade set designs, appropriated sports footage, family snapshots, found objects from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and black contemporary and historical icons such as Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, John Coltrane and Terrell Owens.

As the group of students moved from room to room, LaGamma illuminated the historical backdrop that led to the creation, use, and trade of the objects and sculptures.

Consciously employing commonly used artistic techniques, such as trompe l'oeil, action painting, graphic design, screen printing, and rudimentary drawing, Josh Reames» paintings break down hierarchies of mark - making, art historical references, computer graphics, labels, and everyday objects in a manner drawn from the non-objective «infinite scroll» of images and information we encounter in both the online and real world.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

Referencing a range of historical and contemporary codes and double meanings including floriography, the Victorian cultural phenomenon that used flowers as tokens to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures, Fox developed the «Phantasieblume» body of work (2008 - 11), a series of intricately hand cut decorative objects resembling the preciousness of handcrafted Victorian lace sited within a series of cabinets.

Khaled makes use of video stills, found objects and various photographic resources, to test the boundaries between the personal, the political, the historical and the social domains.

Using as a point of departure a small but charged set of historical and popular archival images, film clips, writings, and music, they will share their insights on the ideas and themes embedded in these objects and ephemera.

Often created for use in a specific location or inspired by a particular historical account, the work's meticulous craftsmanship lends it authority as a functional object, but upon inspection may seem quite absurd, fetishistic, alchemical, or otherwise baffling.

Using objects, film and printed matter, she often seeks instances where historical and political events collapse into personal ones.

The exhibition examines this parallelity of magic carpet and unmanned air vehicle using contemporary artistic means: objects, drawings, photographs, videos and installations circle between fascination and horror around a historical issue of great topicality.

He uses installation, photography, video archives, and objects to create new perspectives on dominant historical narratives.

By inserting the trickery of art into old, used historical objects, Ratna Wulan intends to reconfigure these things again as an artist - trickster.

Questioning notions of ownership and originality, Oliver Laric uses 3 - D scanning technologies to make historical artworks and other objects available to be copied on his website, threedscans.com.

In their wall drawings and large installations they use very different elements - art historical influences as well as the objects of daily life, or the records and equioment of the musical passion; at...

The Russian - born, Brussels - based artist uses historical examples of product branding to explore the politics behind objects and images of them.

Commonly using found objects such as photographs and texts, Guimarães centers much of her work on historical narratives.

Another, equally powerful piece, Cabinetmaking, 1820 — 1960, juxtaposed a group of ornate nineteenth - century chairs with a crude whipping post used to hold slaves for beating; Wilson discovered all of the objects in the historical society's archives.

The undated «Untitled (Blue Object)» and «Untitled (blue table, blue objects)» salute Yves Klein (1928 - 1962), who used a signature shade of blue to take possession of everything from live models to art historical chestnuts such as the Venus de Milo.

Combined with the use of three - dimensional objects, and historical and contemporary influences, her work expresses the simultaneous co-existence of the past and the present, illusion and reality, and the physical and the spiritual.

Morton's work reflects upon historical painting and literature, whilst also considering notions of the everyday and alluding to the domestic through her use of found household objects.

Using tobacco as both subject and object, the exhibition includes Xu Bing's adaptations of historical texts and graphics: a book made of whole tobacco leaves and printed with an early - seventeenth - century account of Jamestown, Virginia; a poem composed from historical tobacco brand names and printed on cigarette paper; and Chinese cigarettes printed with selections from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse - Tung (the «Little Red Book»).

Art spaces are invited to source local details such as furniture, literature, decorations, and objects that further relate to early modernity, and to organize readings, talks, screenings and events that use the salon as a forum for discussing diverging art historical narratives.

This eco-concept project appealed to the Turner judges, who liked how «he transforms and reframes existing objects using a rigorous process of research» and admired his «unique ability to create poetic narratives which draw together a wide range of cultural, political and historical narratives».

These stations are classified on proximity to artificial surfaces, buildings, and other such objects with unnatural thermal mass,» according to the study, entitled Comparing of Temperature Trends Using an Unperturbed Subset of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network.