Sentences with phrase «ideas of living artists»

Our mission is to offer the public direct engagement with the work and ideas of living artists, and to help them understand the historical, social and cultural context of the art of our time,» said MCA Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn.

The MCA is an innovative and compelling center of contemporary art where the public can experience the work and ideas of living artists, and understand the historical, social, and cultural context of the art of our time.

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There is perhaps no other tribe more obsessed with others» personal routines and rituals than creatives — a visceral desire to peek into the lives of great artists and to borrow any or all ideas that champion creativity.

At the conclusion of one of her books of philosophy, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists, Murdoch summarizes her view of the artist's role in modern life: «To present the idea of God at all, even as a myth, is a consolation.»

Artist Jamie Wardley said, «The idea is to create a visual representation of what is otherwise unimaginable, the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the Second World War Normandy landings»...

Walden, a Game Artist: Tracy Fullerton; Key Collaborators: Todd Furmanski, Lucas Peterson, Michael Sweet In this game simulation of Henry David Thoreau's experiment in living at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847, players walk in Thoreau's virtual footsteps, attend to the tasks of a self - reliant existence, discover the beauty of a virtual landscape, and engage in the ideas and writings of this unique philosopher.

Sundance Institute was founded on the notion that by awakening new ideas, pushing creative boundaries, and creating a space for independent artists to share their work, we could make social change a part of our everyday life.

For those offended at the idea of director Roland Emmerich taking liberties with the biography of a beloved artist, consider the long cinematic tradition of this M.O. Start with «Shakespeare in Love,» which won a Best Picture Oscar for a wholly fictitious take on the Bard's love life.

Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.

Like «The Disaster Artist,» this film takes us behind the scenes of a real - life catastrophe based on dreams of stardom, hopeless miscalculation about their own abilities, and a distorted, media - fueled idea of reality.

Performance artist Laurie Anderson offers up something of a living painting with «Heart of a Dog,» her provocative free - form reflection on life and death, humans and animals, the moon and the stars and other big picture ideas.

Maro: «Átiko13 are five social workers, and there are also community organizers; there are monitors of leisure time; a recent addition of a degree in geography has also long been living in Mexico and has many ideas in music; there are musicians; we have psychologists; a social educator, designer, and artist... Apart from that, everyone then has a master's degree in Journalism, a master's degree in Human Rights, a more or less promising career in music and art in general... Right now, we are 11, with two recent additions.

It was about a succubus, who gave writers and artists and songwriters ideas, in exchange for some of their lives.

The works of other artists, the effect of a busy and curious life, the active exercise of my imagination and memory through a journal — these are the three main sources of ideas.

Title: The Goblins of Bellwater Author: Molly Ringle Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing Cover Artist: Michelle Halket, Sinna Nyan, Anna Ivanova Release Date: October 1, 2017 Romance Genre (s): New Adult, Paranormal Words: 81,000 View on Goodreads About the Book Most people have no idea goblins live in the woods around the small town of Bellwater, Washington.

For this show Andi and I came up with the idea of asking artists to illustrate «Missed Connections» from Craigslist, using iconic animation characters to bring these missed connections to life.

Mattias Snygg, co-founder and artist at Villa Gorilla, says the approach to building the island was inspired by Japanese animations, particularly the work of Studio Ghibli: «[Hayao] Miyazaki's work centres on the core idea of nature as a living, breathing thing.

Hi Cory — sounds like a great idea, although there are a ton of artist forums around — my greatest issue with all of them is that I live in Australia, travel alot, and the majority of masterclass «anythings» occur at 0400 in the morning for me....

I am a glass artist, lampworker, and after many years of being lost I now feel more creative and have an abundance of ideas, I am grounded and feel if I had the space and piece of mind that I have somewhere safe to live that I can accomplish endless amounts of things.

am a 70 some artist who rarely sold anything, despite years of being online... for one, I paint with pen and ink, and do not put out anywhere enough for galleries to want to bother with, plus my work is realistic tho from my head... also, I work from themes, visualizing metaphoric ideas, so they're not the usual still life or landscapes..

The idea is based on a Polish mosaic from the 1960s situated on the side of a public school in the village of Raba Zdroj, where the artist lives.

The chief artists associated with the idea of the School of London, in addition to Kitaj himself, were Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney (although living in the USA), Howard Hodgkin, and Leon Kossoff.

«While they were opposed to the idea of art as commodity, and disdainful of Pop Art,» said Rachleff, «most of the artists would have loved to make a living off of their art work.»

To highlight the importance of exchange for Rauschenberg, this exhibition is structured as an «open monograph» — as other artists came into Rauschenberg's creative life, their work comes into these galleries, mapping the play of ideas.

Using ephemeral and found materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing turn what may seem like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.

Showing the solitary life as the final stage of that journey, the artist is also speaking about ideas of alienation, a growing issue that both Japanase and Americans can identify with.

Using ephemeral and found materials, the artists represented in All of this and nothing (p. 4 — 5) turn what may seem like «nothing» into artworks exploring very big ideas — what it means to be an artist, to understand the world, and how to communicate through the shifting life of an object.

With each of these artists their ideas are realized in drawings, chiaroscuro portraits and still lifes.

In an interview for the Rolling Stone magazine, the American artist explains that whether our life ends tomorrow or five decades from today, there will always be some things left undone, some unrealized ideas sitting in the back of the mind itching to be shown to the world; he never really feared facing it, as it never really mattered to him: he was doing what he wanted to do until his last day.

Two weeks ago, Schad grappled with artist Piero Golia's exhibition at Gagosian's Beverly Hills space, posting a review of the artist's concrete cakes and debris - covered paintings, and questioning whether the art lived up to the artist's ideas.

From friendship circles to plaster of paris hands, abstract sculptures to life - sized Olympians, each class took a different approach to the chosen theme, collaboratively developing exciting ideas with artists and teachers which reached the heart of the Olympic values.

In 1969 he formed the artists» group General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal; for the next 25 years they lived and worked together to produce the living artwork of their being together, undertaking over 100 solo exhibitions, and countless group shows and temporary public art projects.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

Alastair Morton was an artist from Scotland who was certainly in full sympathy with the new ideas in art, architecture and design commonly found during the time of his life.

The exhibition looks at the international exchange of ideas opened up by early twentieth - century Russian artists, suggesting how we might re-conceive spheres of public and private life to bring about social change.

Putting the ultramarine color aside, this artist also introduced ideas such as sponge sculptures, living paintbrushes, fire paintings and other conceptual works, as well as some of the most original performance acts ever assembled.

New York — based artist Jim Hodges is known for his singular ability to infuse emotion and narrative into the objects of our daily lives, creating poignant studies on ideas such as temporality, life, and love.

MoMA presents the exhibition as an «Open monograph,» inviting other artists who influenced Rauschenberg's life and career to display their work, documenting the exchange of ideas that the artist held as a central tenet of his art - making practice.

«Sylvie has played an important role in building our dynamic special exhibition program, which brings living artists and new ideas into conversation with our permanent collection, and she has also expanded our relationship with leading arts institutions around the world,» said Thom Collins, Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation.

The Artist - in - Residence program offers emerging and established artists a platform for the investigation, experimentation, and development of ideas regarding contemporary artistic practice while living and working in the city of Chicago.

The Skowhegan institution exposed the aspiring artist with a concept of painting from life — an idea that will prove to be pivotal when Alex develops as an author.

Join artists and MADA staff, Tamsin Green and Leslie Eastman, for an informal conversation around their own use of film and video, together with ideas of memory, perception and the framing of museum collections, in response to the current MUMA exhibition Life inside an Image.

The idea for this exhibition sprang from Donald Judd's great interest in Dürer (Judd owned several woodcuts and etchings) and the wish to see the stark images of two such different artists, who lived five centuries apart, while simultaneously considering the motivation for one's interest in the other.

The work stimulates live musical compositions, as the artist's description of the work explains: «The basic idea of these sound spaces is to provide the viewer / listener access to his own individual spaces of time and motion.

Some artists, both current and those who worked during the heyday of Abstraction, approve of the connection to where they live and work, while others move from place to place and prefer a more universal identification, resisting the idea of «regionality.»

This idea of living with great works of art, of seeing a work day in and day out and learning new things from it all of the time, lies at the heart of CIMA's Fellowship Program, which offers young art historians the opportunity to spend six months studying the artist that is the focus of CIMA's season.

For noted art historian and author James A. Porter, Charles White was one of the great interpreters of the history and culture of black Americans: «Charles is an artist steeped in life; and his informed artistic vision conduces to an understanding of vivid pictorial symbols which, through large as life itself, are altogether free or false or distorted ideas or shallow and dubious emotion.»

JEFF KOONS talks politics and fear; the three - part series AXIS OF EVIL profiles artist ANDREAS GURSKY penetrating the geo - political fortress that is North Korea, artist TREVOR PAGLEN turning his lens to the moonlight activities of the CIA, and photographer SIMON NORFOLK revealing new forms of war photography; Vogue features editor SALLY SINGER enunciates optimism and Vogue «s idea of lifOF EVIL profiles artist ANDREAS GURSKY penetrating the geo - political fortress that is North Korea, artist TREVOR PAGLEN turning his lens to the moonlight activities of the CIA, and photographer SIMON NORFOLK revealing new forms of war photography; Vogue features editor SALLY SINGER enunciates optimism and Vogue «s idea of lifof the CIA, and photographer SIMON NORFOLK revealing new forms of war photography; Vogue features editor SALLY SINGER enunciates optimism and Vogue «s idea of lifof war photography; Vogue features editor SALLY SINGER enunciates optimism and Vogue «s idea of lifof life;

«Philip Morris K.K. is committed to creating opportunities for emerging artists living and working in Japan to contribute to a vibrant cultural life in their own country and gain recognition in the international art community,» said Paolo Degola, President of Philip Morris K.K. «Supporting P.S. 1 in the development and presentation of First Steps advances this effort to encourage aesthetic dialogue and the exchange of ideas across cultural divides.»

These ideas are further conveyed in his Hub works, where transitory, connecting spaces between rooms, such as vestibules and corridors, speak metaphorically about movement between cultures and the blurring of public and private, as well as reflecting on the passage of the artist's own life.