Sentences with phrase «making precious objects»

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My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

It can be erected quickly and is self - supporting so provides an easy way of eliminating all the distractions in the room at a stroke and make a clean and clear space in which to tell a story, meet a puppet or pass round a precious object.

Olga de Amaral transforms two - dimensional textiles into luminous three - dimensional objects by combinung diverse materials, including fiber, gesso, acrylic and precious metals, to make works of unique aesthetic power.

Making art, which is theoretically prized and precious, out of cast - off objects is one of the basic paradoxes central to many projects that have appeared in the Mexico City gallery, which has presented work by artists like Sarah Lucas, Damián Ortega, Allora & Calzadilla, Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vo and Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez).

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

These were private objects, often made for the same reason people use cameras to this day: to commemorate events or capture precious moments with friends or loved ones.

Works included speak to innovation, craft, history and science, as well the use of artistic materials — clay, paint, found objects, and precious metals — and the way in which they are employed in the making of artworks.

Made from the bits and pieces accumulate over a lifetime, Memory Ware revives those objects that are too chipped, broken or dated to keep, but too precious to throw away, with new life.

«Meziat shares the ability of the best hyperrealists to render ordinary objects in such exquisite detail as to make each so precious that we look at it in a different, more appreciative manner, transcending actuality,» notes Virginia Miller.

Works included speak to innovation, craft, history and science, as well the use of artistic materials — clay, paint, found objects and precious metals — and the ways in which they are employed in the making of artworks.

They emphasized ideas and concepts rather than precious objects and the skills needed to make them.

Robert Carioscia bejewels his hand - made and found objects transforming the dross into the precious.

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.