Sentences with phrase «how ordinary objects»

One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings that disrupt our expectations of how ordinary objects «behave.»

The work combines both image and spoken narrative with the intent of changing how these ordinary objects might be perceived and imbue them a sense of the «abnormal».

Not exact matches

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary objects held in their hands, and told a pair of stories about how we look for things that are lost.

How can we face the future if it is not verifiable as are the objects of science and ordinary experience?

We must use what is familiar to talk about the unfamiliar; so we turn to events, objects, relationships from ordinary, contemporary life in order to say something about what we do not know how to talk about — the love of God.

To my surprise, I developed a love for photography and a more sophisticated eye that makes ordinary objects seem beautiful and artistic because of how my eye frames them — a perspective that will last forever.

Despite the scary monster, this has children's tale written all over it, and unless you're ready to succumb to a temporary state of ignorance, you'll find it's very hard to enjoy the flick without constantly inquiring how objects from the extraordinary can interact with those from the ordinary.

In the Classroom: Ordinary objects, such as the toilet, will be viewed in a completely different way after reading Toilet: How It Works, the third book in David Macaulay's series of beginning readers.

The installation examines how discarded and ordinary objects, including the floor of a Chicago high school gym and the archives of Ebony magazine, acquire value through the stories we tell.

Contributor Joan Davidow explains how Jim Hodges made a career of turning ordinary and overlooked objects into things of beauty.

His sculptures which investigate the value of ordinary objects as symbols and imagery of Southern Africa's recent tumultuous times, encourage the viewer to question how an individual piece relates to the whole.

For Roy Lichtenstein the object, no matter how ordinary, was of primary importance.

Various sculptures in the exhibition — such as Kippenberger's Kippenblinky (1991) and Artschwager's Leaning Chair (2010)-- show how both artists confound our expectations of «everyday» objects (in these instances, a lamp and a chair), elevating the ordinary into the realm of the humorous and the profound.

The self - evidence and simplicity of an ordinary, rectangular box, made from a standard industrial material, is exposed as endlessly complicated once we try to catalogue how it appears to us as a three - dimensional object».