Sentences with phrase «most ordinary objects»

You would be insured for the full limits of your policy for most ordinary objects, like your wardrobe.

Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.

Sometimes the most extraordinary inspiration comes from the most ordinary objects and the routines associated with them.

You would be insured for the full limits of your policy for most ordinary objects, like your wardrobe.

He shares with Jacques Tati and with few contemporaries I can think of the desire to build everything, even the most ordinary objects, afresh.

Most ordinary objects would be ripped to shreds by the pulsar's gravity.

Not exact matches

Most of the ordinary objects of human interest — such as food, companionship, vitality, and security — are good.

Some scientists objected to Harran being «railroaded» for conduct most considered ordinary.

«This is in some ways the most Platonic work that Jeff Koons has ever made — taking this mundane, ordinary object and giving it a presence or dimension that makes it more real than the real thing.»

Duchamp, who was on the Society's board, tested the limits of the organization's guidelines by anonymously submitting what would become his most famous readymade (an ordinary manufactured object that he designated as a work of art).

«Painting pictures of objects from the most ordinary of worlds — the table, the kitchen, the grocery store — allows me to look at these objects long and differently,» The still - life painter writes.

The oversized, hyperrealistic renditions of ordinary objects made by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje Van Bruggen can be found around the world, but perhaps his most famous artwork is on view at the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

In his series Animal Farm, Miami - based Colombian artist Federico Uribe creates beautiful animal sculptures using the most ordinary, everyday objects, including everything from thousands of shoes, champagne corks, coloured pencils and shoe laces.

One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) is best known for sculptures and drawings that disrupt our expectations of how ordinary objects «behave.»

Continuing in the traditions of Marcel Duchamp - whose urinal entitled «Fountain» (1917) was the first famous example of an ordinary object being made into a work of art - postmodernists have made a point of creating art from the most unlikely materials and scraps of rubbish.

Most well - known for assembling and transforming ordinary domestic objects into evocative sculptures and installations, Willie Cole's drawings also explore the implied references of everyday objects.

The «nonassisted» ready - mades like «Porte - bouteilles,» now recognized as among the most influential artworks of the 20th century, were defined by André Breton in his 1938 book «Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme» (The Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism) as an «ordinary object promoted to the dignity of an art object by the mere choice of the artist.»