Sentences with phrase «history as a point of departure»

Hughie O'Donoghue often uses historic events and figures from art history as a point of departure in his work.

Her work «revolves around black American history and ways in which technology shapes identities, often with her own personal history as a point of departure.»

Perry makes work about blackness, black femininity and African American heritage, often taking her personal history as a point of departure.

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History It is possible that a Portuguese recipe was minimally adapted in Sri Lanka or used as a point of departure.

For example, as students study the Korean and Vietnam Wars in history class, a teacher will have them review the causes of the previous wars they have studied that year to find points of intersection and departure.

«Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kostërrc, Skenderaj - Kosovo) often uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective histories.

Mixing pop culture with elements of Surrealism, French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin's theatrical films take history or myth as their points of departure and use improvisation, excessive characters and strange forms to create a «patchwork narration».

That she selected a 17th century painting of a vase of flowers as the point of departure for her investigations reflects not only Steir's interest in art history but her predilection for painting flowers.

At times, her vessels allude to the historical depiction of severed heads, using the myth of Medusa as a point of departure to address the terror of female sexuality as it is represented throughout art history.

Video and audio guides will be available of interviews and discussions with Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Peter J Chelkowski, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, taking the two paintings by Mousavi as a point of departure to discuss issues of history, context and politics.

Thus, the aim of Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow, is not to establish a definitive history of the gallery, but to re-activate its past as a point of departure in the present.

Marco Scotini, artistic director of the FM Centre for Contemporary Art, will curate «The Szechwan Tale: Theater and History,» which will use the German playwright Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Person of Szechwan (1940) as a departure point.

Light and the Unseen recognizes this history and takes it as its point of departure, using it as a touchstone for further exploration.

Taking as a point of departure the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant, Overtures explores the complexities of both translation (from French to Créole) and fiction when looking at Haitian history.

The Puppet Show takes as a historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avante - garde art history: Alfred Jarry's 1896 play Ubu Roi that was conceived as a puppet show.

As points of departure for these individual experimental arrangements, Germann uses characters from history such as Napoleon or motifs from myth and fantasy such as lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, «wolf,» and anthropos, «man»: the werewolf motif), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspectAs points of departure for these individual experimental arrangements, Germann uses characters from history such as Napoleon or motifs from myth and fantasy such as lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, «wolf,» and anthropos, «man»: the werewolf motif), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspectas Napoleon or motifs from myth and fantasy such as lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, «wolf,» and anthropos, «man»: the werewolf motif), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspectas lycanthropy (from the Greek lukos, «wolf,» and anthropos, «man»: the werewolf motif), which he subjects to a revisionary rewriting, interweaving factual and fictional aspects.

Taking this as a point of departure, the exhibition selects significant moments throughout contemporary art history, beginning with one of the early proponents and a member of Los Angeles» informal Light and Space movement, Robert Irwin.

The rereading takes as its point of departure the socio — political upheavals of the 1960s and considers the Bauhaus, its historical contexts and the history (ies) of its reception from today's perspective.

Past Times reimagines art history, taking as his point of departure Western masterworks of narrative painting such as Giorgione's The Tempest, Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Harold Mendez, meanwhile, uses archival images as a departure point for works that aim to manifest the instability of memory and political history.

(Suprematism, Constructivism, and De Stijl, the early avant - garde movements that were Minimalism's point of departure, had a conceptual dimension, as the theoretical writings of their artists make clear, but it was their rejection of representation in favour of pure abstraction that gave them their important place in the history of modern art, in the eyes of Greenberg.

As a former Afro Latin dancer, her work seeks to underscore and use sacred space, the patterns of dance, music, and fragments of histories as departure points to investigate and build the structure and space of the installationAs a former Afro Latin dancer, her work seeks to underscore and use sacred space, the patterns of dance, music, and fragments of histories as departure points to investigate and build the structure and space of the installationas departure points to investigate and build the structure and space of the installations.

Known for confronting history and addressing political and social issues in his abstract collage paintings, Bradford plans to incorporate figuration in his work for the first time and is «taking as a point of departure» a major Civil War painting.

These images were originally based on photos Anderson took while watching his father get a haircut, but photographs function for Anderson much as they do for the two artists who most evidently influence him, Luc Tuymans and Peter Doig (Doig is a former teacher of Anderson's): not as objective documents but as points of departure for painterly reveries about the nature of history, whether personal or shared.»

The group presentation takes its point of departure from one of the most important exhibitions in history of exhibition making: Questioning Reality — Image Worlds Today, 1972 curated by Harald Szeemann as a part of Documenta 5.

The Puppet Show takes as a historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avant - garde art history: Alfred Jarry's 1896 play Ubu Roi that was conceived as a puppetshow.

Taking into account the history of painting as a point of departure — from such figures as Fairfield Porter, Henri Matisse, and Alex Katz, to the contemporary Masters of Nicole Eisenman, Laura Owens, and Tal R — the painted image is a work of embodied references.

While not directly commenting on these issues, the ominous soundscape of Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. nevertheless suggests Nauman's engagement with that turbulent moment in American history and served as a point of departure for Ligon to consider other works in which the artist's studio has acted as a conduit for contemporary events.

While her approach — which takes as a point of departure the region's long history of abstract art — seems familiar at first glance, the show unfolds into something much more nuanced.