Sentences with phrase «of ikebana»

One of the principles of ikebana is to use materials that are at hand.

Halpern took her show's title and tripartite arrangement from the shōka style of ikebana, which symbolizes the balance between ten (earth), chi (heavens), and jin (human).

The artist Dike Blair depicts ordinary, mass - produced objects in striking compositions inspired by the Japanese tradition of ikebana, a method of arranging flowers and other objects in a way that achieves an overall sense of harmony.

This focused exhibition examines representations of the Japanese practice of ikebana — the artful display of flowers.

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Makoto is a self - described «flower artist,» bringing ancient traditions of Japanese ikebana and bonsai into modern contexts.

I've been fascinated with ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arranging, and the current fall flower display of kiku, or known in English as chrysanthemum, which works to train different species of the flower over months to grow in a certain direction, and hail from a centralized stem system.

This spiral - bound hardcover book offers general coverage of Japanese traditions from ikebana (flower arranging) to matters of etiquette and superstiti

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When Paris - born Henrot moved to New York, temporarily leaving many of her personal belongings behind, she discovered a surrogate for her literary heroes and favorite books in Japanese ikebana flower arrangements.

And at the Palais de Tokyo, Camille Henrot's brilliantly assured midcareer retrospective, through Jan. 7, includes not just a landmark new film, shot partly in the island nation of Tonga, but also ikebana arrangements of dried flowers and scrap metal.

These works are linked together through a bamboo motif or related themes of flower arranging (ikebana) and the tea ceremony.

A Camille Henrot ikebana flower arrangement sits on a table by the window, two spooky, sooty drawings of fireflies by Philippe Parreno are squeezed into a transom, a weighty mastodon fossil sits on a shelf, and Carsten Höller has provided Raza with special toothpaste reputedly formulated to induce dreams.

While ikebana is a practice still immersed in centuries of tradition, Kasuya's Ichiyo School seeks to update the form and stress the arranger's ability to express emotions or ideas.

Now the Paris - born, New York - based artist will be building on the promise of that success with «The Restless Earth,» a show at the New Museum that will be her first major survey in the United States, featuring her now - famous Grosse Fatigue along with earlier videos, works on paper, and an installation of books from her library transformed into ikebana flower arrangements.

Inoue says that his creative practice in these flower - based insect works is inspired by the Japanese art of flower arrangement, or ikebana.

Accenting without detracting are circular ikebana vases of pea pods and cotton — whose bolls, Ramsay notes, are quite sculptural in themselves.