Sentences with phrase «less about art history»

Despite these superficial resemblances, the works in this show reflect less about art history than the artist's own triangulation of space and color.

Not exact matches

This is a deeply disturbing story about loss of identity, which draws together the less attractive side of eco-awareness and contemporary fears about designer drug research, in a setting of art research and deception, the history of the Hapsburgs, and what might or might not be dark magic.

Fictional people are allowed to have feelings about art entirely unconnected with the analysis of formal attributes, still less any knowledge of art history.

Presenting perhaps lesser known works by such influential artists upends our usual assumptions and base of knowledge, allowing us to reevaluate our own ideas about this work and affords the challenge and the pleasure of grappling with ideas and the ever - changing web of art history.

I was also confronted and told that contemporary art is useless and furthermore that the MAC's could care less about the history and labor of the miners in the surrounding region.

We spoke to Finley about his work, his process, and why the integration of technology into the visual arts is less a break from the history of abstract art than a beautiful evolution.

It's tiny, just a single room with less than a dozen paintings in it, but it tells us more about Riley and her place in art history than any interview ever could.

Because many of the works on view challenge the less - than - utopian aspects of digital platforms within capitalism, however, the exhibition provokes a rich conversation about how various feminisms interface with art history.

And for Thornton, unlike a rash of other contemporary painters, the work is less about making specific references to art history and calculated departures from it, than in developing a broader vocabulary that draws inspiration from far outside the art world.

Moreover, because the images are now thirteen to twenty years old, the relevant issues in the current exhibition are less about recent artistic production and more a matter of curatorial practice, art history, and the history and generative possibilities of the photographic image itself.