Sentences with phrase «meditates on contemporary»
They meditate on contemporary life, but especially black life.
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Less an exhaustive survey of contemporary abstract painting than a bringing together of extraordinary works by exceptional artists, Inherent Structure encourages viewers to meditate on the underlying sources and influences of abstraction by providing varied and multiple manifestations of it.
Still & Art begins with Still's acknowledgment of Old Masters he admired (among them Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh); progresses to his interrogation of near - contemporaries such as Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso; and concludes with epic canvases, pastels, and photographs that reveal the artist meditating on his own past production as well as the spirit of color - field painting, minimalism, and comparable avant - garde movements of the 1960s and»70s.
Joaquin Segura's highly - diverse oeuvre meditates on violence as an omnipresent motif in contemporary life, reflecting as well on the crisis of cultural, social & political institutions.
According to publishers, Price's novel centers on an unnamed male artist who «moves in and out of contemporary non-spaces, all the while meditating on art in the broadest sense.»
In realising his witty and poetic ideas and thoughts through self - reflective and philosophical gestures, Pak goes beyond meditating on the legitimization of his seemingly random acts as contemporary art, to successfully blur the boundaries between the personal and the political.
Having spent eight years at the helm of Instituto Inhotim in Minas Gerais, Brazil (just north of Rio de Janeiro), from 2004 — 2012, Volz has a deep knowledge of contemporary Brazilian art, experience that he leveraged to bring together a powerfully evocative group of works that often meditated on the environment and indigenous cultures, conveying a longing for simpler, agrarian lifestyles.