Sentences with phrase «of banal»

So the NGO rises to the level of its banal and vapid agenda, to fill the void between politicians and the public.

His seductive, glossy sculptures — essentially monumental reproductions of banal objects like flowers or balloon animals — are a savvy dare to accept kitsch as high art.

The familiar grind of 1970s conceptualist retreads, the dry - as - dust photo and text panels, the production line of banal and impenetrable installations, the hushed and darkened rooms with their interchangeable flickering videos are the hallmarks of a decade of numbing right - on curatordom.

They highlight the humour that can often be found in random encounters, or in situations that are manipulated to upset the order of the banal.

A smiley face, the contemporary emblem of banal pleasantry, in Gbur's hands reads as both vacant and malevolent; rather than serving its standard purpose of evincing happiness, the smiling hieroglyph instead reconnoiters the potential for deception and psychological violence intrinsic to pictographic communication.

In his signature style of modern art, Rosenquist is noted for his immaculately painted canvases whose complex layers and juxtapositions of banal imagery commented sharply on the values of American consumerism.

This together with his conspicious modernity, his use of the banal vocabulary of everyday urban life, was a decisive influence on artists of the 1940s and 1950s and then on Pop Art.

Both these works present a kind of banal and situational activity / anxiety similar to Bruce Nauman's frustrating 1960's and 70's art.

He is often incorrectly associated with American Pop art because of his many images of banal objects.

Something Happened (2007) exemplifies the touchstones of the video aesthetic of Berlin - based artist Keren Cytter (a solo exhibition opens at Oakville Galleries April 14): domestic interiors, amateur actors recognizably «acting,» elaborately scripted dialogue, signifiers of banal rituals coupled with those of Hollywood melodrama.

Jeff Koons is an American artist best known for his work in the field of popular culture and his reproductions of banal objects.

What, exactly, is the anatomy of a banal seat we rarely give a second thought to on a Greyhound?

But what gained him international acclaim are McEwen's paintings created using wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the carpet bombing of German cities and towns in the WWII, as well as his graphite sculptures of banal, everyday objects such as ATM machines, water coolers and air conditioners which recall the funeral solemnity of memorials.

They are all fantastic artists and together the works all speak to the sensuality of banal, domestic objects and actions addressed in the poem.

Junk Art A sub-genre of «found art», pioneered by Duchamp, Picasso, Schwitters and Rauschenberg, and characterized by the use of banal, everyday materials.

The Atlanta series is ripe with Parr's recurring themes of consumerism, social mores, and an overall appreciation of the banal, conveying a relatable and revelatory tongue - in - cheek glimpse into the lifestyle choices of his subjects.

«She achieves a protean transformation of the «polka dot» pattern into the accumulation of banal found objects (airmail stickers, working gloves, sofa springs) and stuffed protruding sculptural units and maintains stylistic independence from major artistic schools of her time — Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Nouvelle Tendence — while indicating some overlap with their experimental characteristics.»

His paintings, linear representations of banal scenes, combined a Pop - style mockery of pictorial illusion and a Minimalist reliance on industrial materials (his favored support was Celotex, a textured ground created from sugarcane pressed over panels).

Three decades of sculptures by Hassan Sharif — colourful agglomerations of banal objects with coils of rope, elastic and rubber tubing — sit in the following gallery on shelves that could have been borrowed from the artist's studio, or a supermarket aisle.

The first museum survey of Tara Donovan's sublime sculptures and installations, which are unexpected and ingenious assemblages of banal, everyday products ---- plastic and Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, plastic drinking straws, paper plates, and Scotch tape — features sixteen works from 1996 to the present.

It is voyeuristic and full of banal observations that can not resist amusement (celebrities and Michael Govan, the Museum Director, are mentioned).

Robert Henry Contemporary featured Richard Garrison's solo show of beautiful abstract deconstructions of the quotidian colors of everyday objects, the beauty of the banal.

Worked as a fund - raiser for the New York Museum of Modern Art, before achieving major acclaim as a contemporary Neo-Pop artist, best known for his gigantic sculptures of banal and / or pop - culture objects such as toys, animals and celebrities, made from unusual, highly coloured materials.

The featured imagery appears to be a component from a larger Greco - Roman scene, which is typical of the banal subject matter and second - hand imagery that Polke excelled at transforming from trivial into epic.

Gary Hume This unpredictable and often brilliant painter continues his explorations of the banal and the beautiful.

To explore these ideas, she utilizes everyday objects and transforms them via installations: assemblages of banal ephemera become systems capable of renewal and decay, or stores of memories.

The Black Mirror features a selection of White's haunting monochromatic paintings of the banal detritus of daily life, reimagining the still - life tradition through the lens of a contemporary Pop sensibility.

A ring of photographs of female hands holding, lifting, using an assortment of banal objects — a phone, an iPad, a notebook — seeks to provide some statistical insight into the gestures favoured by commercial advertising.

The work's mass - reproduced aesthetic recalls minimalism's mode of industrial production, whilst Pop art's seriality, festishization of the banal, and elevation of low consumer culture are evinced through the use of the humble woolen thread.

In his earliest paintings, Colen labored over precise oil renderings of banal interiors — a sloppy apartment bathroom, an adolescent bedroom, a camping tent — into which he introduced the presence of the supernatural — the Blue Fairy, Jesus Christ, twinkling cherubs, his deceased grandfather.

It pointed to the everyday subject matter (furniture, babies nappies, kitchen utensils, toilets) of the foursome, whose celebration of the banal in the lives of ordinary people was their attempt to make art more relevant and accessible, while making a clear social comment.

It showed wild animals nervously pacing the floor of banal hotel rooms, and spoke to the troubled encounters that humans and nature are having these days.

His work is characterized by incisive observation and reinterpretation of banal subversive situations - in this way the artist challenges our habitual perceptions of reality.

Earlier this summer at Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays, artist Georgia Sagri (born Athens, 1979) spent nearly a month executing her imagination of the banal rituals of an immigrant car sales person.

Ahearn creates imaginary environments through the inventive layering and juxtaposition of both banal and pop culture visual elements.

With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.

Already by the mid-1960s in screenprint and lithography Ruscha was exploiting the multiple meanings in signage (Hollywood, Standard gas stations) and other forms of text, with its innate ties to print, and making poetry of banal vernacular imagery.

Jennifer Bartlett: In the Garden (1980 - 83) catalog author Gregory Volk notes, «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

Writer Gregory Volk notes: «The remarkable thing is how this exhaustive and systematic, yet extremely diverse anatomy of a banal backyard scene winds up so emotive and complicatedly human, suffused with longing and alienation, grace and agitation, loveliness and unease.»

This group's thirst for nonconformist epistemologies is suffused with an appetite for irony quite capable of accepting the adoption of questionable tendencies, like white supremacy, as instances of banal posturing or jaded affectation.

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

In the art world, Tara Donovan has become the belle of the banal.

Although the work created by the Castelli circle — a group that included figures such as Richard Serra (b. 1938), Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), and Robert Morris (b. 1931)-- varied widely, all of those artists shared an interest in process, impermanence, variability, and the subversive potential of banal or industrial materials.

Breaking away from traditional methods of presenting neon, Rough utilizes the light and shadow effect to create a romantic and poetic atmosphere out of banal mercantile signage.

The series reaches an apotheosis of banal profundity with an image of Snoopy reclining on his master's disembodied, planet - like head.

Taking its name from the internet slang «catfish», or a person who takes on a false identity in social media, the show concerns the assemblage and dissemination of banal visual content through arbitrary and abstracted methods.

With its mirrored base, American Leg evokes the glamorous presentation of banal objects in retail spaces — while reflecting the legs of visitors standing nearby.

His works elicit a blankness of southern Californian suburbs, of patios and bungalows, architecture of the oblique, paired with deadpan dialogues, which reveal the absurdity of the banal.

In this body of work Darzacq's allusive photography of banal subjects is disrupted by Lüneman's visceral ceramic abstractions which are literally imbedded in the framed photographs.

Although the use of banal objects draws inspiration from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, the improvisatory gestures employed in applying both paint and object to Collection owe much to the generation of «action» painters to which Still and de Kooning belonged.