Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic art»

That's the premise of Flair: gorgeous, wonderfully idiosyncratic art, confident about its own importance in an era of platitudes, self - serving power, and divisive fear - mongering; art full of risk and driving ideas in this exceedingly difficult time, art chock - full of flair.

The idiosyncratic art impresario's highly entertaining memoir spans the six spectacular months he spent running a Surrealist gallery in Beverley Hills in the late 1940s.

One of Berlin's best - known spaces, Contemporary Fine Arts has been presenting idiosyncratic art from around the world since 1992.

Both specific and global, contemporary and ancient, grounded and extraterrestrial, Harrison's sculptures set up their own idiosyncratic art historical lineage, which includes artists such as Melvin Edwards, Larry Bell, David Hammons, Damien Hirst and Huma Bhabha.

Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Sixteen paintings from her estate, currently on display at LA Louver Gallery, provide a brief but satisfying introduction into her highly idiosyncratic art and - to put it mildly - into her unconventional way of life.

The romance cover is a highly idiosyncratic art form.

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However, his ambiguous relationship to the art was not merely personal and idiosyncratic; it is endemic to the very nature of «Christian» art itself.

We tend to think that few things are more individual than art, and it's difficult to accept that our idiosyncratic tastes might have a common biological basis.

Howard University physiology professor Mark Burke says the idiosyncratic way Harvey cut up the brain makes it hard to study, even with unbiased, state - of - the - art cell - counting techniques.

True «outsider» art is a rarity in any age, but more so in the plugged - in present, when technology makes the idea of privately cultivating an idiosyncratic style very nearly obsolescent.

However, with an idiosyncratic, art - house cinema virtuoso at the helm, it is reasonable to expect that Vinterberg's aberration in directing Far From the Madding Crowd could transgress and alter the conventions of the traditional period drama by bringing a distinctive avant - garde style to a staid and stubborn genre.

The tales — from some of the world's most insightful and idiosyncratic directors — include a modern - day fable of love, a hate born from war and an unreconciled past, and a satirical skewering of a well - heeled, ego - driven art world that often falls short in its espousals of human empathy.

With its sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic take on one of film history's most durable genres.

8:20 am — IFC — American Splendor Harvey Pekar is one of the more idiosyncratic graphic novelists there is -LRB-» comic book» doesn't quite cover his very adult, neurotic art), and Paul Giamatti brings him to life perfectly.

Ashes harkens back to the New Wave projects of modernizing the martial arts genre, with a convoluted plot structure (made somewhat clearer in the recent Redux version, the only version currently available, though there is a DVD of the original somewhere, I saw it 15 years ago), narration in Wong's idiosyncratic fashion and a story that focuses more on Wongian themes of lost love and memory that it does on fighting.

It's a festival The New York Times called «a combination of under - the - radar art house entries and idiosyncratic revivals that reliably deliver an atmosphere of cutting - edge eclecticism.»

When [Landesman] starts talking about his ideas for integrating the arts in education, his rhetoric becomes less bipartisan: «We're going to try to move forward all the kids who were left behind by «No Child Left Behind» — the kids who have talent or a passion or an idiosyncratic perspective.

A VTS paper describes what happens when teachers stop telling stories about art that children are not developmentally ready for, and students start «reading» art that they have the capacity to understand: «Over time, students grow from casual, random, idiosyncratic viewers to thorough, probing reflective interpreters.

Removing the stylized aesthetic of cartoons and offering realistic, idiosyncratic character art adds an extra jolt, forcing us to look ourselves in the ludicrous, Stone Age face.

Each artist is so idiosyncratic that they should not be mistaken for ambassadors of a country, or even its art scene.

Within two decades, she exchanged the language of classical sculpture with an idiosyncratic lexicon of new shapes, unusual materials, processes and themes that held a dialogue with the contemporary art scene and her own biography.

A key figure in Australian art since the mid-1980s, Linda Marrinon has developed an idiosyncratic language of painting and drawing steeped in postmodernist irony and feminist wit.

A key figure of Australian art since the mid-1980s, Linda Marrinon has developed an idiosyncratic language of figurative painting and sculpture that merges contemporary cartoons with neoclassic tropes of the nude, reclining figure, and bust or standing portrait.

At the same time, I appreciate blogs that keep me informed about a wide range of art and art news, such as Hyperallergic; painter Sharon Butler «s blog Two Coats of Paint; and critical writing that does keep current with art exhibitions but in an idiosyncratic way, like painter Bradley's Rubenstein «s reviews on Culture Catch.

Art has always been a vehicle for complex and idiosyncratic procedural belief systems, for constructing arcane visual systems for whatever ideology or fantasy or obsession that might be mesmerizing some artist somewhere.

More than 70 eyewitness accounts and idiosyncratic recollections from artists, curators, critics and friends create a vivid sense of the exhibitions, performances, screenings, discussions, ideas and people that were part of Exit Art during its three - decade run.

Dylan Kerr caught up with the Swedish artist to learn how his version of paint - by - numbers has led him back to a more emotive, idiosyncratic appreciation of art.

«He's building on a tradition of idiosyncratic, individualistic art making,» said the Los Angeles dealer David Kordansky, «with a heightened attention to the physicality of materials.»

Marie Lorenz at Jack Hanley Gallery April 18 — May 17 One of New York's most pleasantly, refreshingly idiosyncratic artists, Brooklyn - based Marie Lorenz has recently been making art about her journeys in homemade boats throughout the five boroughs, videotaping her travels and fashioning prints from the flotsam she discovers.

«Sydney Albertini: Stuffed and Other Feelings» at ILLE Arts On view through June 3, 2013 Humor, idiosyncratic craft and...

The Idiosyncratic Pencil is an experimental group exhibition inspired by both the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s and William Henry Fox Talbot's groundbreaking 1844 The Pencil of Nature, each a radical break from past methods of art production.

«The Art of Alice Neel,» a traveling exhibit organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and opening at the Whitney on June 29, stands to reveal the painter not just as an idiosyncratic voice but an influential one.

Liu, an idiosyncratic case in Chinese contemporary art history, was actively engaged in the new wave of the fine arts movement in 1980s and later founded the Post-Human Book Store in Huangshi, Hebei Province.

The two words that best describe the art of Elizabeth F Hoff are eclectic and idiosyncratic.

Dubuffet saw the Victorias paintings within the framework of his own notions of art brut — a spontaneous and idiosyncratic approach to art making that stands as a corrective to the mimicry of the formally - trained cultural avant - garde.

Through the intersection of art historical, mass media and popular culture clichés, Richter creates idiosyncratic worlds and images of unstable realities.

Murray studied painting in the late 1950s and early 60s in Chicago and San Francisco, two regions with their own idiosyncratic and vibrant art scenes.

«Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,» which opens to the public Monday at New York's Museum of Modern Art, presents a fascinating account of the chameleon painter's shifting styles over four decades, from his pointillist pastiches of Camille Pissarro to his idiosyncratic innovations on Hollywood movie - poster kitsch.

However, instead of trying to establish a pedigree that approximates the emergence and development of modern art in larger metropolitan areas like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, with its requisite local variations of welded steel sculpture and lyrical abstraction, the historic past proposed in this exhibition is one that is just as idiosyncratic as the present it influences.

All the while, Copley — working under the name CPLY — made his own highly idiosyncratic, expressive, often erotically charged art, which has in recent years come to be an important influence on contemporary artists like Bjarne Melgaard (who staged a show with his work in 2013).

Influenced by both the avant - garde performance of artists like Vito Acconci and Richard Foreman as well as forms of popular entertainment, particularly stand - up comedy, Michael Smith has been cultivating his own idiosyncratic brand of performance art since the late 1970s.

From Group Material co-founder Julie Ault's personal art collection from the 1980s and»90s on view at Artists Space to Fiona Tan's film of the Sir John Soane Museum's antiquities collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (echoing Alain Resnais's great 1956 documentary of Paris's national library, «Toute la mémoire du monde») to the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming show of graffiti art collected by the late artist Martin Wong, artists and institutions are devoting considerable efforts to showing groups of historical art objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gestuart collection from the 1980s and»90s on view at Artists Space to Fiona Tan's film of the Sir John Soane Museum's antiquities collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (echoing Alain Resnais's great 1956 documentary of Paris's national library, «Toute la mémoire du monde») to the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming show of graffiti art collected by the late artist Martin Wong, artists and institutions are devoting considerable efforts to showing groups of historical art objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gestuArt (echoing Alain Resnais's great 1956 documentary of Paris's national library, «Toute la mémoire du monde») to the Museum of the City of New York's upcoming show of graffiti art collected by the late artist Martin Wong, artists and institutions are devoting considerable efforts to showing groups of historical art objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gestuart collected by the late artist Martin Wong, artists and institutions are devoting considerable efforts to showing groups of historical art objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gestuart objects gathered through an idiosyncratic personal vision — with that act of curation being foregrounded as an artistic gesture.

The gallery participates in different art fairs such as Art Rotterdam, Paris Photo, Art Brussels and participates in festivals such as Impakt for idiosyncratic and innovative media art in Utrecht; Festival a / d Werf (with Ugo Rondinone) and Unseen photo fair, Amsterdart fairs such as Art Rotterdam, Paris Photo, Art Brussels and participates in festivals such as Impakt for idiosyncratic and innovative media art in Utrecht; Festival a / d Werf (with Ugo Rondinone) and Unseen photo fair, AmsterdArt Rotterdam, Paris Photo, Art Brussels and participates in festivals such as Impakt for idiosyncratic and innovative media art in Utrecht; Festival a / d Werf (with Ugo Rondinone) and Unseen photo fair, AmsterdArt Brussels and participates in festivals such as Impakt for idiosyncratic and innovative media art in Utrecht; Festival a / d Werf (with Ugo Rondinone) and Unseen photo fair, Amsterdart in Utrecht; Festival a / d Werf (with Ugo Rondinone) and Unseen photo fair, Amsterdam.

The artist Louise Fishman, primarily known for her large - scale abstract paintings, is the subject of two forthcoming exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective,» a fifty - year survey show at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, opening on April 3, 2016, and running through July 31, 2016; and «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock,» an idiosyncratic presentation -LSB-...]

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

His eccentric compositions shared Neo-Ex's blend of highly subjective figuration and gestural abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach was more akin to outsider art than to the style's usual bombastic clamor.

Renowned for influential, idiosyncratic conceptual work addressing race and power in America, Illinois - born David Hammons is art's Greta Garbo, forgoing interviews and exhibiting rarely.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.&raqArt as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.&raqart dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.&raqart's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

In each case her idiosyncratic style traverses and ultimately defies categorisations such as photojournalism and visual art.

Instead and pressingly, even with wild up and downs, flaws and all, the 2017 Whitney Biennial is the best of its kind in some time for the multiple ways it reveals how — selected as it is, without overdetermined political and aesthetic dogma, and curators remaining open to the exigencies of pleasure and the mysterious ways that art mutates but doesn't play catch - up — a show of artists simply at work, whether making expressionistic paintings, idiosyncratic functional constructions, casting the further shores of socially activist conceptualism, or documenting collapsing ecosystems or family dynamics — that artists are always addressing and channeling issues of the day.