Sentences with phrase «life as the artist transforms»

Portrait paintings found in flea markets are given a new lease of life as the artist transforms the sitters» eyes with a few brushstrokes, producing humorous cross-eyed portraits.

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It will also be the first to explore the complete spectrum of his astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940's to his untimely death in the 1980's — and the first to put Warhol himself — his background and history, his family life and formative experiences in Pittsburgh, his crucial experiences as a commercial artist in New York, and his trajectory across three of the most transforming decades of the century — back into the presentation of his life.

I thought Terrence Howard gave the year's most complex and nuanced performance in «Hustle & Flow,» as a pimp who wants to become a rap artist, and finds his life and his attitudes toward women transformed by the experience of art.

New York - based artist Kevin Beasley (b. 1985) transforms personal and familial artifacts into sculpture and sound performances, influenced by house music, hip hop sampling, and the post-industrial decay of once prosperous urban centers, such as Detroit, where Beasley lived for a number of years.

Stories from Bryan Zanisnik's life as an artist are transformed into animated comics by his friend Eric Winkler in a special new film from the ART21 «New York Close Up» series.

As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore the rich traditions of large - scale artworks and to develop new scholarship around the mural format, Nadia Haji Omar, a Sri Lankan multimedia artist living and working in Rhode Island, will transform the exhibition space with mirrored surfaces and her signature alpha - numeric abstraction.

For The End — Venezia, Kjartansson transformed Iceland's pavilion into an artist's painting studio and had fellow Icelandic performance artist Páll Haukur Björnsson act as his life model for the entire six months of the exhibition.

«At a moment when so many artists are looking to the so - called post-digital,» Filipovic continues, «Yi manages to reflect on our contemporary condition and how we are transformed by digital technologies without forgetting that, as beings, we live and love and die — and rot along the way.»

As an artist working under the influence of China's rapid urbanization, Wei heavily nourishes from ever - transforming cityscapes and the eventual changes in people's daily lives.

Andrea Zittel is an American artist, whose sculptures and installations transform everything necessary for life — such as eating, sleeping, bathing, and socializing — into artful experiments in living.

Miracle contains the essence of the artist's same - named painting, inasmuch as the story is told of a strange day in the life of an auto mechanic, who is magically transformed as he rebuilds the carburetor on a 1965 Ford Mustang.

In Matisse's art, as in Giorgio Morandi's, still life becomes a version of self - portraiture; the objects on display are transformed by the personhood, if not exactly the personality, of the artist.

So it came as a pleasant surprise when artist Heather Clark decided to transform a boarded - up property in Frederick, Maryland into an interactive living artwork.

It envisions a world in which artists are understood as valuable assets in every community and everyday people know the power of their own creative capacity to transform their lives, their relationships, and their surroundings.

As they challenged themselves to transform rough materials into serious art, the artists featured in the exhibition grappled with how these developments were affecting their minds, sex lives, and the city where they lived.

The artist theatrically transforms the gallery space, conjuring up the constructs of a refashioned archaeological site or museum, which serves as a platform for live events and participatory experiences.

As an artist Mahbubur Rahman absorbs the environment he lives in, and transforms it into an artwork which functions as a critical mirror for the audiencAs an artist Mahbubur Rahman absorbs the environment he lives in, and transforms it into an artwork which functions as a critical mirror for the audiencas a critical mirror for the audience.

As part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materialAs part of his studio practice, the artist transforms materials such as particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materialas particleboard, scrap metal, wood, discarded signs, and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materials.

As the artist states, «science is always transforming our idea about the world and the reality in which we live.

Correspondent Martha Teichner meets with Cuban - American artist Teresita Fernandez as she transforms New York's Madison Square Park into a living art space.

Directions, established in 1979 by the Hirshhorn's first director Abram Lerner as a group installation and transformed in 1987 to highlight the work of a single artist or paired artists, has been a long - standing hallmark of the museum's exhibition program and partnership with living artists.

For her first museum show in Paris, Charlotte Moth — a British artist living in France — continues her exploration of space as architecture and as potential, tendentially transforming history of art into poetic vision.