Sentences with phrase «making utilitarian objects»

Recent projects include Another Utopia (2015), a year - long project culminating in an installation and film exploring the squatting and housing co-operative movement of the 70's and 80's in London, and The Potential Space (2014), a film looking at parallels between making utilitarian objects and artistic practice, developed with members of Friends of Cathja, a charity that supports people experiencing mental health issues.

Paint exposed pipes or ducts the same hue as their surroundings to trick the eye and make the utilitarian objects appear less prominent.

Not exact matches

It makes so much sense to have a beautiful, utilitarian object that serves a specific purpose and can accompany you throughout the years.

This is done using great attention to craft in sculptures that elevate simple utilitarian forms, that are themselves utilitarian, or made from found objects.

His work is untimely in the best sense, infused with nostalgia for an age (part historical, part mythical) when utilitarian objects were not just finely made but had a sacred aura.

While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.

Explore the cultural diversity and rich history of Africa's people through works made from ancient stone, clay, wood, and metal, as well as utilitarian objects, musical instruments, ceremonial costumes and contemporary paintings.

He was not interested in fabricating utilitarian objects, such as the workers» uniforms designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko or the teacups and saucers made by second - rate Productivists.

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

Functional objects, such as his infamous sculpture Fountain (1917), were divorced from their utilitarian purpose and designated — as opposed to made — by Duchamp as works of art.

Tran's practice is defined by the use of artifacts found in passed - over places and in this exhibition he inventively recombines common utilitarian objects to make them decorative and strange.

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.

They're really utilitarian objects that make you feel like it's okay to write something down in them.»

Traditionally painted by the women of the tribes, parfleche were made as utilitarian objects for the Native Americans themselves to carry things like clothes, tools, food, and medicine on horseback — and as souvenirs sold to European Americans touring the West.

The subtly altered forms become a sculptural proposition cloaking itself as a utilitarian object that should be placed in a salt mine until the year 2300 to see what people make of it.

Cragg's transformative relationship to form, surface, scale, volume, his interest in providing an alternative to the utilitarian realm, and his synthetic approach to object making has brought constant innovation to the language of sculpture.

Duchamp himself had contributed to the movement, largely by depicting what he called «ready - mades,» (utilitarian articles such as snow shovels and bottle racks) signing the resulting pictures, and presenting the result as objects of art rather than objects made for everyday use.

I made things that looked utilitarian, but like Oppenheim, I wanted them to be purely aesthetic objects.