Sentences with phrase «notions of surrealism»

But it was Andrea Grützner who shone with her series «Hive», which addressed notions of surrealism and a sinister side to architecture.

Not exact matches

Despite the work's dizzying surrealism, Castator has distilled a contemporary notion of reality, where societal collapse is suddenly plausible and an entire generation of young people, faced with an uncertain future, have retreated into humanity's most simplistic pursuit: unadulterated, hedonistic pleasure.

Featuring new and recent work by six artists from the UK, US, and France — Jonathan Baldock, Genesis Belanger, Matthew Hansel, Matt Lipps, Theo Mercier, and Adam Parker Smith — the exhibition reflects on the legacy of surrealism in contemporary art while investigating the notion of the uncanny in reference to the history of art.

A central figure in the history of feminist art, Christina Ramberg explored traditional notions of beauty and their relationship to our bodies in her paintings from the 1960s and 70s exhibiting a wide range of influences including costume history, surrealism, outsider art, Pop art, and comics.

But Twombly was drawn to the dreaminess of those big boys — their debts to surrealism, their Jungian notions of «myth».

** Schmidt and his vision were, however, one and the same: there was no conceptual detachment, no cynicism, and in the process of pursuing his own truth, he touched on the theatricality and the teasing antilogic of surrealism, the notion of the readymade, the improvisational vitality of abstract expressionism, the psychological fabric of assemblage, environmental sculpture, and light phenomena as subject matter.

With an aesthetic reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints, art nouveau, surrealism, and street art, Tudor's work depicts abstracted notions of nature, pulling patterns from the micro to the macro universe.