Not exact matches
Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude,
into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the
objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and
painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water
as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.
These deeply personal emotions I have toward these
objects... breathe life
into them
as the subjects of my
paintings.»
That tone was set at the opening night's performances: Lee Mingwei's durational performance Our Labyrinth (2015), for which a dancer swept the floors of the galleries with a mixture of grains, purifying a path for visitors; Aki Sasamoto's Delicate Cycle (2016), which included such domestic
objects as washing machines and bundles of clothing; and Olivier de Sagazan's Transfiguration (2016), in which de Sagazan used clay,
paint, and hair to transform himself
into a shamanistic figure.
It was
as if the forms were found
objects that when pulled
into the
painting brought some of the feel of where they had been in the world with them.
Returning to the years immediately following his move to New York City in 1958, the exhibition illustrates the ways Dine incorporated household
objects ---- often loaded with autobiographical import ----
into his
paintings and sculptures
as extensions of and metaphors for the human body.
In contrast to works that incorporate found everyday
objects, such
as the «Combine»
paintings of Robert Rauschenberg or the Dada collages of Kurt Schwitters, Almquist's experimental
paintings extend his picture plane
into three dimensions with constructed elements of disjointed, dream - like imagery.
His work spans a range of media including photography,
painting, sculpture, installation and use of the ready - made to create assemblages from everyday found
objects such
as books, ceramics, TV sets and other house - hold goods and paraphernalia, which Liu Wei transforms
into sculptural
objects and installations of eloquent complexity.
Serving
as an overdue affirmation of Hoyland's significance within the field of abstraction, they provide fascinating new insights
into the artist's practice, and through it, the
object of
painting itself.
But her relation to representation is not in the realm of narrative or allegory, the thing itself is the important thing, the
painting as an
object that projects
into our space carrying pigment on its surface.
Deftly working in a range of media — including photography,
painting, sculpture, and video — Johnson incorporates commonplace
objects from his childhood
into his work in a process he describes
as «hijacking the domestic.»
However, I can also see them
as objects and even make them
into objects — by
painting them, for instance.
Wood, paper, photography, playing cards and
paint are transformed
into objects that are simultaneously precise and diffuse, real and unreal,
as well
as rhythmic and static.
The gallery's website describes Chamberlain's process
as «crumpling, crushing, bending, twisting and welding to form individual
objects, which may be further
painted and sprayed, [and combined]
into aggregations, often on a monumental scale.
Leckey, suave in evening dress, delivers his peroration on images and
objects, on Philip Guston's «thick -
as - a-brick»
paintings, on deformed feet in Georg Baselitz, on cats, on James Cameron's movie Titanic, on Marx's «All that is solid melts
into air», and a great deal more.
And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such
as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them
as fetishized aesthetic
objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning
into the history of
painting.
Fantastic and exotic representational subjects sourced from
objects found in nature such
as dried plant detritus, (leaves, pods, twigs, etc...) are ruminated over, then transformed
into bronzes and
paintings in this most recent solo exhibit of Kat's work.
«I wish to face things quietly, attentively» the artist has stated, «I treat
painting [and
objects] sincerely; I am communicating with them...» Her
paintings turn these vessels
into small monuments — monuments to usefulness and its reverse, emptiness,
as well
as the humanity we breathe
into the
objects of our world.
Although the heretical «maximalist» Stella divided critics, his extravagant flights
into literal space extended his definition of
paintings as objects and seeing
as a physical act.
Following his Sky and Torn Sky / Cloud series from the early 1970s, Goode turned towards what can be seen
as an existential inquiry
into Minimalist
painting, color, and the reification of the
painting as an
object.
The inclusion of both found
objects (tape, photos, books) and his fine art
paintings work together to illustrate an expansive view
into Evans» history and biography
as an artist.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s he made
paintings and began
as soon
as 1961 to incorporate glass
into small
objects.
As ephemeral as they are translucent, these works present an elusive complexity as the striations of paint, fabric, keepsakes, collected and found objects, and clippings from mass - produced paper media coalesce into collages and assemblages that, taken individually or as a series, are most succinctly described as a multidimensional gestalt.&raqu
As ephemeral
as they are translucent, these works present an elusive complexity as the striations of paint, fabric, keepsakes, collected and found objects, and clippings from mass - produced paper media coalesce into collages and assemblages that, taken individually or as a series, are most succinctly described as a multidimensional gestalt.&raqu
as they are translucent, these works present an elusive complexity
as the striations of paint, fabric, keepsakes, collected and found objects, and clippings from mass - produced paper media coalesce into collages and assemblages that, taken individually or as a series, are most succinctly described as a multidimensional gestalt.&raqu
as the striations of
paint, fabric, keepsakes, collected and found
objects, and clippings from mass - produced paper media coalesce
into collages and assemblages that, taken individually or
as a series, are most succinctly described as a multidimensional gestalt.&raqu
as a series, are most succinctly described
as a multidimensional gestalt.&raqu
as a multidimensional gestalt.»
As he became more successful, Hawkins began to collage mass media images and eventually found
objects into his
paintings, and he developed a technique he called «puffing up» a shape: building it up from the support by mixing cornmeal
into the enamel
paint.
Scott's familiar household
objects stayed in his
painting, becoming simplified
into plain, recognisable shapes such
as the frequently included black frying pan (which he compared to Braque's guitar) and this jug.
A true believer in technology's aesthetic potential, he is intent on reinventing traditional pictorial methods — specifically,
painting and drawing — by using the computer's capabilities and limitations to turn ordinary, Pop - inspired
objects (video games and their characters, computer cables, screens, Apple Quick - Take cameras, etc.)
into motifs but also stylistic models,
painting them
as if seen on - screen.
As its point of departure, the exhibition at MMK Frankfurt takes Schneemann's landscape and portrait
paintings of the 1950s that evolved
into object - like «
painting constructions».
Graduating
painting at Columbia University and the University of Illinois, Carolee Schneemann started using simple mechanisms to set her
paintings in motion at the early stage of her career, integrating photographs and everyday
objects into works she referred to
as «
painting constructions».
The works in the exhibition range from
paintings marked by «water stains» resembling the patina of vintage photographs to Foulkes» tableaux
paintings, which are constructed on a massive scale, exhaustingly carved
into with a sandblaster, collaged with plaster,
paint, and found
objects (such
as two Coke cans, an American flag, and a tree branch in «Lost Horizon,» 1991).
As a student in the 1970s, Bender tinkered with variations on Pop art and began to incorporate found
objects into his
paintings and sculptures, eventually realizing that assemblage afforded a way to make use of his compulsion to collect.
As part of her ongoing investigation
into rethinking the
object, Saban has conceived eight
Painting Bags and four canvases touching on the deconstruction of painting, and in so -
Painting Bags and four canvases touching on the deconstruction of
painting, and in so -
painting, and in so -LSB-...]
As our spatial relationship with such works is reconfigured,
objects on view in Off the Wall permeate
into space and challenge our comprehension of both
painting and sculpture.
Bringing together some 80
paintings, collages, and
objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, the exhibition offers fresh insight
into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and Surrealist artist.
These
objects, elegant
as a banker's (or gangster's) suit, take
painting into the realm of architecture.
Brenna Youngblood (b. 1979, Riverside, CA) incorporates her own photographs, representational fragments, and found
objects, such
as wallpaper and book pages,
into her textured, atmospheric
paintings that read between pure abstraction and a slice of life.
The conversations within the gallery will be heightened
as a portion of the gallery will be transformed
into a shop with hand - made «store items,» including
objects that are hand -
painted to look like kitschy tourist goods.
Hyon Gyon's
paintings and sculptures teem with a raw and fervent energy,
as she incorporates materials such
as melted fabric, gold leaf, encaustic, spray
paint, hair and found
objects into her work.
Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such
as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism
into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand -
Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the
Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).
Focused on
painting and sculpture, it explores «visible reality through the analytical lens of the 3D computer - modelling world», delving
into the relationship between the art
object that takes visible reality
as its point of reference, and the boundaries of verisimilitude between observable reality, art and science.
Cembalest writes that «the lowly status of Pollock's
object - making has its roots in the artist's own day, when
painting was considered the pinnacle of Abstract Expressionism — and sculpture,
as Ad Reinhardt famously put it, was «something you back
into when you look at a
painting.»
He explains how his
paintings are aimed to cleverly test an individual's perceptions, saying: «To have a
painting that can exist
as an alluring
object and shift
into an eroticised figure disarms and naturalises the modern gaze; decriminalising sex in art.
Despite the efforts of the above pioneers, along with those of inter-war artists Marcel Jean (1900 - 93), Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) and Andre Breton (1896 - 1966)- see their respective works Spectre of the Gardenia (1936, plaster head,
painted cloth, zippers, film strip, Museum of Modern Art NYC);
Object (1936, stuffed parrot, silk stocking remnant, cork ball, engraved map, Museum of Modern Art NYC); and Poem -
Object (1941, Museum of Modern Art NYC)- junk art did not coalesce
into a movement until the 1950s, when artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) started to promote his «combines» (a combined form of
painting and sculpture), such
as Bed (1955, MoMA, New York) and First Landing Jump (1961, combine
painting, cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, oil
paint, board, Museum of Modern Art NYC).
As evidence of this ambient trend's beginnings, Pollock famously
painted the engulfing «Mural» (1943) for Peggy Guggenheim, where he transformed the canvas
into a whole wall instead of the usual small
object of contemplation visually and physically dominated by the viewer.
While «
painting as object» has often been a formalist issue, the works in this exhibition gather their identity through the subversion of formalism — scrambling and reassembling themselves in an aesthetic shell game where the act of
painting is always an investigation of a
painting's ability to push
into objecthood.
Most popular in Germany and America, the style is characterized by large, figurative works, rapidly
painted, often with
objects, such
as broken plates or straw, incorporated
into their surfaces.
Later in the»80s, he began using
objects as molds for acrylic
paint («ready - nows,»
as he dubbed them) which he then incorporated
into his compositions.
As well as co-producing several Happenings with Klein, Arman is noted for his Neo-Dada style stamp prints («Cachets»), his later prints made from objects dipped into paint («Allures») a range of cut - up objects («Coupes») and smashed - up items («Coleres»
As well
as co-producing several Happenings with Klein, Arman is noted for his Neo-Dada style stamp prints («Cachets»), his later prints made from objects dipped into paint («Allures») a range of cut - up objects («Coupes») and smashed - up items («Coleres»
as co-producing several Happenings with Klein, Arman is noted for his Neo-Dada style stamp prints («Cachets»), his later prints made from
objects dipped
into paint («Allures») a range of cut - up
objects («Coupes») and smashed - up items («Coleres»).
Quaytman has also displayed her
paintings on storage racks placed within the exhibition space, pointing to the eventual passage
into obscurity of most aesthetic
objects as they make space for others.
Curiously,
as much
as Reinhardt argued for a morphological history of
objects, his writing expands (rather than contracts) his
paintings into a nexus of activities, inquiries, and philosophies.
The
paintings, again, were like
objects because these were not flat planes, and then what he did with the plate
paintings was that he expanded the canvas even more
into three - dimensionality and transformed the existence of the
painting as something that does not live solely on a flat plane, but has a presence, a volume and an inherent complexity.
While Remi's art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional
object such
as a skull through the application of
paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas
into sculptural forms.