Artists responded to these developments by
incorporating absurdity, disorder, nonsense, disorientation, and repetition into their work.
Between 1950 and 1980, artists responded to social and political unrest around the world by
incorporating absurdity, disorder, nonsense, and repetition into their work.
Not exact matches
So that to attempt to suppress unemployment by
incorporating the unemployed in the machine would be against the purpose of Nature and a biological
absurdity.
Focusing on his «imaginary portraits», which conjure varied mental states with a mixture of comic
absurdity and the heart - rending pathos, and
incorporating sculpture as well painting, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of three decades of his art.
Often
incorporating exercises in
absurdity, physical exercise, costumes, spontaneous nudity, and various random and seemingly disconnected acts.
Many Fluxus artists
incorporated found objects into their work and like Dada artists before them, also embraced
absurdity in their work.
Challenging Minimalism, Murray
incorporated in this work the visual panache of contemporaneous Pop artists and Neo-expressionists and the formal provocations (often in two - and - a-half dimensions) of foundational modernists like Picasso and Miro and surrealists like Dali without saddling the paintings with overbearing angst, obtuse self - seriousness, or abject
absurdity.
The solo exhibition runs through July 19 and includes numerous black and white works that
incorporate cartoonish illustration, political satire, insightful
absurdity, and preposterous predicaments that have come to define the artist's «signature style».