Sentences with phrase «inspiration for visual artists»

For centuries, Dante's literary works and metaphorical language have been a source of inspiration for visual artists, inspiring European masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, Eugène Delacroix, William Blake and Auguste Rodin, among many others.

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And the facility's monochromatic color lighting and minimalist design hark back to the work of visual artist James Turrell, who has been an inspiration for everything from Drake's «Hotline Bling» video to the interior of the alien vessel in Arrival.

Most recently, Hammill put together a fantastic look at the various & awesomely unusual visual inspirations for the game, which — in the spirit of recent inspiration posts by the God of Blades team and the artist - lineup behind Honeyslug's Frobisher Says — he's given Venus Patrol permission to feature here, included below the fold, with Hammill's own commentary.

For visual artists, the Microscripts offer up a wealth of visual and narrative inspiration.

Visual artist Monika Bravo will give a workshop on her sources of inspiration for her large - scale installations.

Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist's visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry - like world are some of the inspirations for the paintings shown here.

Culling inspiration from advertisement, film and television, and creating visual spaces for social criticism, the Pictures Generation artists were deeply influenced by the pedagogy of writers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Julia Kristeva.

This exhibition pushes the boundaries for viewers accustomed to finding meaning in visual images and for artists who use words as inspiration, commentary, design and poetic dialogue.

There is a space between the two that offers possibilities and inspiration to the artist where words are a catalyst for visual expression.

With such close connections, it's natural to spend time exploring the visual interplay in works from one artist to the next, searching for influences and shared inspiration in the abstract paintings.

For this, its fourth iteration, 7 women choreographers have been paired with 7 Brooklyn based women visual artists to collaborate and create both a new physical and visual work by each — investigating the process of creation, inspiration and development.

Fonds voor Beelende Kunsten Vormgeving En Bouwkunst (Fonds BKVB)(The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) With their International Studio Program, the Fonds BKVB seeks to offer the opportunity to gain fresh or revived inspiration, to improve artists» career prospects by linking up with international and local networks, to gain knowledge of other (urban) cultures, a «time out», reflection on one's own work, on one's own career and on developments in the (international and Dutch) art world.

Stylistically, some artists build upon the rich visual culture of the continent, looking to carved and painted African masks, colorful woven kente cloths, and ancient bronze sculptures for inspiration.

Artsy: Not necessarily a blog — more an online resource for the art world, featuring galleries, museum collections, foundations, artists, art fairs and auctions — but still a great source of visual inspiration.

Since ancient times, music and visual art have been an important source of passing down stories through the generations, and musicians and artists have drawn upon each other for inspiration and stimulation.

As a co-founder of the legendary collective Hi Red Center in 1963 and the central inspiration for Mono - Ha, Jiro Takamatsu brought significant changes in the evolution of visual art in Japan as an artist, theorist and teacher, challenging the prevailing orthodox methods of painting free of representation and sculptures that emphasized truth to materials and the anti-illusional during the 1960s and 1970s.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

The inspiration of European artists has always fueled Ferrer's active mind, offering vast material for visual exploration as well as invention.

I'm inspired by so many different aspects of people's artistic practices - not only visual artists but choreographers, musicians, textile / fashion designers, writers — the different creative processes are what often sparks inspiration for me, and those who are passionate about their practice.

The Watermill Center is a laboratory of inspiration and performance, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson, which provides a unique environment for a global community of emerging and established artists and thinkers to gather and explore new ideas together.

As they search for a contemporary visual language with which to express our anxieties, our harmonies, our questions and our trepidations, our contemporary abstract artists happily are finding inspiration and conceptual guidance in the iconic Modern voices of the past.

Originating from drawing's role as the original source of inspiration for artists as well as the basis of the creative process, Between the Lines revisits works by old masters as well as by contemporary artists, celebrating the skill of both and drawing as the basis of visual art.

-- If the Oscar - winning fortune of Life of Pi didn't bring enough glory to Alexis Rockman, the painter who created the visual inspiration for the film, then the artist is about to encounter plenty more with a solo exhibition of new work inspired by the New York City's ecosystem opening at Sperone Westwater in mid-September, followed by an exhibition of his watercolors from the Ang Lee film at the Drawing Center later in the month.

Via a collection of renowned visual artists including Bruce Nauman, Karina Smigla - Bobinski and Willi Dorner this exhibition will present artworks in an engaging and imaginative way, allowing visitors to interact and contribute to the fabric of the exhibition through selected works while offering further activities and inspiration for families of all ages.

In the artist's words, the inspiration for these new paintings is the «visual distillations of observed geologic phenomena that occurs in the high elevations of the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree California.»

Youth culture has managed to produce new visual expressions, but also serve as an inspiration for generations of artist.