During their 33 - year collaboration, the husband and wife team have garnered attention for their playful
sculptures of ordinary objects on a monumental scale.
By interpreting images through diverse painting techniques and styles, as well as constructing
simulations of ordinary objects with paint, the overall body of work functions as documentation of emotion and memory.
These artists used
images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high modernism.
Like many other Fluxus artists, Mr. Brecht created assemblages consisting
of ordinary objects in boxes and cabinets, as well as arrangements that often included chairs.
He often cuts his images out of linoleum tile, filling the incisions with tar or plaster to create his decorative, monochromatic silhouettes
of ordinary objects like buttons, dominoes, and lemons.
His sculptures which investigate the value
of ordinary objects as symbols and imagery of Southern Africa's recent tumultuous times, encourage the viewer to question how an individual piece relates to the whole.
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.
Frantic (1988): The answer to a mystery is always disappointing because it blows away the pleasantly disorienting fog in which we've found ourselves, leaving behind nothing but the sharp
edges of ordinary objects.
The exhibition presents the work of some 30 artists known for their hyperrealistic
depictions of ordinary objects and scenes of everyday life such as American diners, chrome features on cars and motorcycles, as well as meticulous portraits.
Professor Curlee R. Holton, the center's director describes Cole's
transformation of ordinary objects as «resurrecting new meaning and spirit» in order «to assert his own vision of art and beauty.»
The handmade umbrella, hatbox and headphones are part of a documented live performance that sheds light on the
role of ordinary objects in everyday life.
Nashashibi pairs the ocean's painterly landscape with drawn - out
pans of ordinary objects to fill the dynamic 31 minute film.
Mercier's pictorial invention and playfulness make reference to the contested space at the intersection of modernity and post-modernity where popular culture and high culture converge in his
arrangement of ordinary objects presented in a museum or gallery context.
His work often utilizes his mother's schematic drawings /
inventions of ordinary objects influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, Surrealism, mathematics, sex, philosophy, astrology, and Matrilineal concerns.
The artist, who has received much acclaim over the years for his public installations, many of which feature oversized
versions of ordinary objects − made extraordinary by their unanticipated appearance in assorted public spaces.
Spencer Finch's continuous - line drawings of vulture flight patterns, like Trubkovich's work, reflect on the limits of visual perception and the fallibility of recollection, while Adam McEwen's machined graphite
facsimiles of ordinary objects underscore the schism between memory and reality.
Through a meticulous mise - en - sce ̀ne, the artist critically unfolds the perception of a
series of ordinary objects found in his urban drifts, articulating with them minimal installations in which the elements that configure them are deprived from their conventional meaning.
Saturday 3 September, 2 — 5 pm Anne Wagner & Haegue Yang Professor Anne Wagner, The Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate, gives a lecture on Haegue Yang's practice focusing on the
status of the ordinary object in Yang's sculpture.
Designs by artists for coins, playing cards, lithographs and children's toys (a special Christmas venture) promoted the
artistry of ordinary objects, imagining fine art away from the white cube and in the home.
Donovan, a recipient of the 2008 MacArthur «genius» award, is known for using mass
accumulations of ordinary objects, such as straight pins, paper plates, toothpicks, drinking straws, and pencils, to mimic the organization of geological or biological forms.
While the British painter Howard Hodgkin has been collecting precious art pieces of Indian painting since he was a schoolboy, Sol LeWitt built an autobiography made of photos of different
categories of ordinary objects he handled throughout the years.
Through a variety of media and processes, these artists explore the
potential of ordinary objects, historical events, invented narratives and in some cases even other artworks, to expose reality through the lens of fiction.
The living room displays just a
couple of their ordinary objects turned into art, like this couch covered in doodles and coffee table carved by hand from a felled tree.
The German artist is well known for her cast
sculptures of ordinary objects, figures and animals, with their light - absorbing, matte finishes in unnatural hues.
Gyula Várnai is a leading Hungarian contemporary artist, best known for his large - scale installations created
out of ordinary objects.
Born in Colorado in 1976, his work employs some of the techniques of traditional documentary photography to capture the hidden
beauty of ordinary objects and everyday situations.
Both used
images of ordinary objects, or the objects themselves, in their work, while retaining the abstraction and painterly gestures of high Modernism.
Claes Oldenburg's 1960s soft sculptures
of ordinary objects are Pop art icons.