Sentences with phrase «iconic art forms»

As the British Library's new exhibition of UK comic books opens, we look at how an unlikely group of outsiders from Britain conquered one of America's most iconic art forms.

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Together they not only forged one of the most iconic films of the last decade (Drive), but continue to push the envelope of film as an art form into bold and exciting new territory, with each collaboration.

Between Cuphead, Kirby, and Yoshi's Woolly World, technology has hit a point where we can stylize games to a point that they mimic iconic forms of animation and art.

Curated by the iconic Art Dealer John Kasmin, a figure who formed much of the artistic taste during the Postwar period.

Ward's work, presented for deFINE ART 2015 in the SCAD Museum of Art's Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, features conceptual pieces that mix and meld found iconic objects with popular idioms and forART 2015 in the SCAD Museum of Art's Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, features conceptual pieces that mix and meld found iconic objects with popular idioms and forArt's Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, features conceptual pieces that mix and meld found iconic objects with popular idioms and forms.

Iconic pieces of performance art from the past are known through documentation of the original performances, in the form of film, photographs, and written accounts.

The work — presented in partnership with Swiss luxury watch manufacturer and global associate partner of Art Basel, Audemars Piguet — takes the form of a chalet floating in front of the iconic modernist and disused Miami Marine Stadium.

Wendell Castle's exploration of form and function blurs the boundaries between art, craft and design and has changed the way we look at furniture today.The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946) has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form, exploring her physical and emotional limits in some of the most iconic works in contemporary art.

Informed by memory, fantasy, popular culture and the decorative and ornamental arts, Pierre manipulates iconic imagery and random abstract forms into sensual, languid characters and totems.

The selection of works range from Frida Kahlo's confident self - representation to Gerhard Richter's blurred likeness; from Paul Cézanne's iconic tabletop arrangements to Jeff Koons» commodified objects; from Vincent van Gogh's roiling olive trees to Richard Long's land art, each demonstrating how modernism's radical new forms have continuously revitalized art history's conventional subjects.

Utilizing patterns and formulas from the work of iconic Abstract Expressionist painters, William Bradley re-imagines the bold lines, geometric forms and chromatic compositions of his art - historical predecessors.

Commissioned by hotel owners and art collectors Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos and Paul Kanavos, Freedom (2014) re-creates the iconic pressed - steel forms of a Harley Davidson, down to the chain, gas cap, and texture of the leather seat, in Bounty paper towels — approximately 20 rolls — fortified with resin and glue.

The abstracted and simplified shapes, however, also recall the earliest forms of sculptural representation, such as the iconic carved Moai statues of Easter Island and the ancient sculptural forms of Asian religious art.

Back inside, the Whitney still has a pretty impressive collection of art housed in its multi-floor gallery spaces — from Patrick Henry Bruce's Painting, c. 1921 - 22, a collection of vivid pinks, ocean - like blues and deep navy in geometric forms; and Mark Rothko's impactful Four Darks in Red, 1958; to Edward Hopper's iconic Early Sunday Morning, 1930; and more.

Benjamin Abramowitz died in 2011 leaving a legacy of visual art that ranges from abstraction and social realist paintings to iconic sculptural forms.

Sturtevant, whose repetitions of now - iconic Pop and Minimal artworks in the 1960s anticipated the rise of appropriation art more than a decade later and formed the core of one of the most radical and beguiling artistic practices of the past 50 years, has died in Paris.

His «Scarlet» collection bears Reka's iconic visual language, with hints of a modern romance amidst historical sculptural artefacts, erotic art forms and Berlin's unavoidable pleasures.

But he consciously makes a distinction between his work and that of his close circle of peers on the West Coast: «Bruce [Nauman] was very much concerned with process, and Chris [Burden] was not so interested in video as he was in the single iconic moment, but I was immediately intrigued by how the videotape itself could be an art object, a form that when watched would not be a surrogate explanation for some previous event, but a narrative body itself.»

Graves's iconic early work used the form of a camel as a starting point from which to test the boundaries of art - making.

Touching down on her annual themes of Terrain, Reference, History, Identity, Form («a palate cleanser»), Alchemy, Flesh, Storage, etc., Schaffner offered up ICA shows both iconic (Andy Warhol, 1965; Agnes Martin, 1973; Robert Mapplethorpe, 1989) and lesser known (Allan McCollum, 1991; Pepon Osorio, 2004; Amish Quilts, 1976), illuminating the dynamic range of ICA's history and how deeply the institution has participated in shaping the landscape of art across the last half century.

An iconic figure in avant - garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 «musical composition» 4 minutes 33 seconds (4» 33»)(which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg.

Over the years, his filmic signature style has evolved into other art forms including lightboxes, neon installations, etching on crystal starfire glass and most recently, the revolutionary «photo sculpture» where he transforms his iconic muses and femme fatales into breathtaking high - definition 3D art masterpieces.

For Art Basel Miami Beach week 2013, the French artist duo Kolkoz created Curiosity, a new large - scale outdoor installation in the form of a snow covered wooden hut floating in front of the Miami Marine Stadium, an iconic modernist structure designed powerboat racing stadium by architect Hilario Candela in 1963.

On the occasion of her solo exhibition First Person Plural in summer 2018 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941, Cleveland, US) revisits her iconic installation The Dante Hotel in the form of a new commission entitled The Novalis Hotel.

In the new series on view at the gallery, Sultan expands his investigation into the industrialization of nature by transforming fruit, flowers and other natural elements into iconic forms meant for consumption, both in a mass production and a fine art context.

Mitchell's fascination with trees is well - known, having painted tree - like forms on and off over the course of her career; indeed, one of her most iconic paintings Hemlock (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) also dates from 1956.

Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity examines contemporary works of art that take as their subject the form, technology, myth, message, and image of that iconic building structure: the skyscrapArt and Architecture Against Gravity examines contemporary works of art that take as their subject the form, technology, myth, message, and image of that iconic building structure: the skyscrapart that take as their subject the form, technology, myth, message, and image of that iconic building structure: the skyscraper.

For her early series of silk screens titled The Pleasure Is Back (1982), Bender reproduced on tin images from the work of successful male artists such as Sandro Chia, Roy Lichtenstein, and A. R. Penck, reducing them to their most iconic forms to generate art «logos.»