Sentences with phrase «of high art»

And I actually think we've already reached the levels of high art.

It's game design which definitely pushes the genre into the realms of high art.

Presented here are numerous images from roughly 100 artists that visually demonstrate the various ways in which comics have become a form of high art.

This painted metal sign incorporates graphic sensibilities and a social message in a work of high art.

So it is worth the patient development of the high art of worship to secure its invaluable results.

Those painters may make fun of high art, but they sure want to be a part of it.

Rather the important and different meaning of high art from the most creative of pursuits.

The work he creates supply commentary on minimalist belief systems and the ultimate importance of High Art practice.

She is returning the medium to the realm of high art.

Over time, language - based conceptualism became his primary concern, as notions of high art modernism gave way to the fraught cultural atmosphere of the time — one profoundly affected by AIDS and racial tension.

Indeed, Oldenburg's work is more than the Pop Art fascination with merging of high art with the commercial; his large - scale pieces in particular are a critique of capitalism and American consumer culture.

Defying the two fold binary present in the nature vs. culture discourse, where artistic practice explores either to serve as mimesis or self exploration, one observes a polarity developing in the world of high art today.

Another Brit, Cecily Brown, turns to the same decade for a slightly different mix of high art and carefree expression.

Greenberg's essays Modernist Painting and Post-Painterly Abstraction became canonical in their definition of high art as reduced to its exclusively optical essence.

Over time, language - based conceptualism became his primary concern, as notions of high art modernism gave way to the fraught cultural atmosphere of the time — one profoundly affected by AIDS...

Themes emerge, including an intense investigation of the Duchampian concept of the readymade, and Koons's elevation of the commonplace or the familiar to the status of high art; his ambitious pursuit of beauty through technical rigor; his unwillingness to accept any technical limitations; and his search for perfection.

A contemporary of the YBA (Young British Artists) generation, he has forged a distinctive career that sits apart from the cooler theoretical approach of some of his peers, favoring a more flamboyant, accessible aesthetic that blurs the division of high art and popular culture.

The pieces integrate appropriations from commercial culture and combine multiple mediums to parody and critique previous conceptions of high art.

KEITH MAYERSON Artforum International; February 1, 2005; Ammirati, Domenick; 700 + words KEITH MAYERSON DEREK ELLER GALLERY Keith Mayerson's painting cycle «Hamlet 1999,» 2.OOI - ZOO4, is nothing less than an attempt to synthesize received images of high art, popular entertainment, and American history into a chronicle of an alternative, potentially revolutionary masculinity.

We must accentuate the positive of high art, telling our students and kids and friends not «The music and movies you consume are junk,» but «Today, let's try The Magnificent Ambersons, not Breaking Bad,» or «Let's listen to Mahler's Fifth, not Classic Rock — just for a change.»

Individualism has been raised to the point of high art.

(Simple chemical systems are products of high art.)

Additionally, a pilsner is not the lowest common denominator; it's mark of high art, as tough to perfect as a soufflé or macaron.

Having a higher proportion of Protestants in a country explained a large part (25 %) of higher ART take - up.

It is a landmark entertainment, and the high water mark for a director who, for an incandescent period of time, sought to elevate the splatter / slasher film into the auspices of high art.

Far from the dark ambiguity of High Art, Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon is actually about happy endings and reunifications of familial structures — it's not that I didn't enjoy the film, it's that by the end of it, I didn't respect it so much.

It's deplorable drivel masked in a sheen of high art.

Sarris also complained about the vagueness of the finale, stating the film ended on an arrogant note of artiness: «The ending is a mishmash of psychedelic self - indulgence for the special effects people and an exercise in mystifying abstract fantasy in the open temple of High Art» (Sarris 45).

It's a perfect storm of high art and low culture, and — for better or worse — it makes for viewing conditions unlike those of any fest.

Children in the top quartile of high arts exposure (both in and out of school), as determined by the student questionnaire, were compared with those in the lowest quartile of arts exposure.

- Kirkus «Allison Amend has given us a flawlessly rendered, totally engrossing, class - and - continent hopping story about the day to day struggles of marriage and loss, the commerce and caprice of high art, the reality of being talented and ambitious when talent and ambition are not enough, and the ethics of cloning.

Full of high art and monuments, almost every small village in Italy offers a few interesting locations.

The Grand Atrium isn't just a room with a high ceiling — it's a place of high art.

every peace of material of the building is an art and also all the meuble and furniture is from finest wood quality and a taste of high art design.

Belize may not have an opera house, but it more than makes up for a lack of high arts with an eclectic mix of cultures, traditions, and languages.

Image courtesy of High Art.

Diaz was mortified at what he saw as a betrayal of his high art ambitions.

Today people who did not live through the period when the mainstream of high art seemed to run straight through Manhattan may find that hard to believe.

This collective and their contemporaries rejected traditional modes of high art - making practices in favor of performance, site - specific installations, and video art that incorporated local imagery better suited to illuminating social issues relevant to a domestic audience.

The absurd juxtaposition of a baby stroller and a bronze cast of a pig leg in place of a child elevates the sculpture to an object of high art and, in a literal replacement of progeny, suggests that his artwork is his lasting contribution to humanity.

For all her overbearing air of high art and mysticism, she echoes the beaten, spare texture of old roadside Coca - Cola signs.

The populist comic - book imagery in Untitled (Comics) also alludes to the languages of high art — from Roy Lichtenstein's brushstrokes to the geometric forms of Modernist abstraction.

Displayed as if in a high - end retail showroom, the work continues the idea of Marcel Duchamp's readymades, which debuted a century ago and featured ordinary objects elevated to the level of high art by the choice of the artist.

Reigate consciously makes his journey in the footsteps of giants, leading from the grandfather of bad painting and appropriation art, Duchamp's pal Francis Picabia, to successors like Sigmar Polke (who rediscovered and elaborated the pictorial strategies of the Dada movement) and Martin Kippenberger (who not only in his painterly pastiches and grotesques, got heavily involved at the junction of high art and low life).

Giving birth to an entire artistic language, Duchamp's conversion of an unadorned, everyday object into a figure of high art completely inverted how people considered artistic practice.

Pop Art may have had the intention to challenge certain aspects of high art, but it wasn't even close to being as «low» as Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut was.

We are left, in short, with some dark thoughts about the fate of high art in the California sun.»

In our post-factual reality, the transition between throwaway rubbish and that which is elevated to the bastions of high art - through casting in bronze with Turk's pioneering trompe l'oeil surface - is not so instantly perceptible and requires our close observation.

As rooted in the tradition of the Blues, as he is grounded in his knowledge of Hollywood's attitudes toward African - Americans, Marshall uses his knowledge of high art, folk art, and Pop culture to celebrate African - American culture and to

The artist's work is both a powerful lens on America and a sophisticated, anarchic continuation of high art's love affair with the readymade.»