Sentences with phrase «of sublime»

They engage the viewer in a sense of the sublime, echoing the concerns of Barnett Newman; but once it becomes known that the basis of these works is from a page of a book that he ripped out, they recoil into the frivolous.

It's no problem to me that these wave photographs are now becoming symbols of climate change — as well as pictures of a sublime element of nature.

Incorporating natural, artificial and industry - standard elements, his sculptures address our understanding of the sublime and the mundane.

Grossman's color palette is reminiscent of early Impressionist paintings, but brushstrokes are languid and deliberate with a modern maturity and sensibility that expose a delicacy of sublime.

America has a cultural iconography tied to the idea of a sublime connection to an all - encompassing untamed wildness.

It was not that geometry could represent the reality of the sublime, but that it could offer a means of attaining a «plane of attention and awareness» upon which the perception of sublimity depended» (Barbara Haskell, «Agnes Martin: The Awareness of Perfection,» Agnes Martin, exh.

Cole's significance as an artist lay in his exploration of the Sublime element (an aesthetic idea associated with notions of awe and vastness) in the American landscape, something no other American painter had so far attempted.

The philosophy of the sublime was first manifested in art through 19th century Romantic painters» vast and awe - inspiring landscapes that emphasized mankind's diminutiveness in the face of God's treacherously beautiful creation.

On the other hand, Gabriel Kuri uses newspapers to wrap avocados placed in a bowl (The Recurrence of the Sublime, 2003) or as boards on which to stick products» price labels.

A deep and abiding sense of the sublime is tantamount in Untitled # 1.

Edmund de Waal: «Atemwende» (closes on Saturday) If you like the work of Robert Ryman, Ken Price, Cy Twombly, Giorgio Morandi, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst, the small elegant porcelain vessels in subtle blacks or whites by the author of the best - selling memoir, «Hare With Amber Eyes,» may be your idea of sublime.

de Young Museum «Friday Nights: An Evening with Hisham Mayet of Sublime Frequencies.»

I utilize geometric obstruction to interrupt the landscapes, creating a sense of the sublime in conflict with human - made order.

Through a combination of sublime imagery, ambient sound, and existential thematic material, the works in this exhibition embody a unique «digital aura» and inspire ongoing dialogues about how globalized society understands and assigns value in the digital age.

Dorf's digital manipulations of photographs taken while working in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory explore the concept of sublime landscapes and highlight the ways we measure and categorize our world through scientific means.

This magnificent subversion of everyday materials was used to express the intimacy - in - distance and distance - in - intimacy as a conjoined dynamic, while it spoke tales of lost love, of photographs of the sublime everyday, the Minimalist economy.

The idea of the sublime has a special significance in American art history.

Cole acknowledged the traditions of the sublime and the picturesque as it had evolved in the mature art of British Romantic artists such as J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, and then transformed it into his particularly local, radically new, but cautionary visions of nature.

Katz's monumental landscapes are immersive, contemplative paintings that prompt conversations about the confluence of perception and awareness, the relationship between art and nature, and the nature of the sublime in this contemporary moment.

The artist presents a new body of work, ranging from sculpture and neon to video and painting that engages with cosmic energy and portrayals of the sublime, whilst also integrating elements of Grasso's recent research on Japan.

The similarities Twombly saw and that this exhibition makes explicit include what Lewison lists as: «An interest in allusion and metaphor, a preoccupation with mortality, a liking for atmospheric effects and an engagement with the tradition of the sublime.»

Fu paints her perception of the Sublime in the Techno age.

They express the artist's understanding of the conception of the sublime, in the spirit of European Romanticism, with regard to the local landscape.

Sourced from a viral photo of a yoga teacher, the work typifies how Fernández abstracts his figures from internet images, advertising, posters found on the street, or his own photographs — and uses the eroticism and ideality of his nudes to add a layer of the sublime to the visual feed of our lives.

Situated between the 19th and 20th century's respective representational paradigms, the skyscape borrowed both the dramatic special effects of film and the visual affects of the sublime within landscape painting.

Many of the images I have been collecting draw on this sense of the sublime and its affects of empowerment.

Each of them approaches painting with different motivations and processes, and whether their final works are multi-colored, monochromatic or somewhere in between, they all share a pursuit of the sublime.

Abstract Expressionist artists like Newman escaped traditional patterns and aesthetics to create their own understanding of the sublime.

The contemporization of the sublime is explored in this exhibition through the various approaches of contemporary artists to the theme of clouds.

Although at first glance these paintings hark back to the tradition of the sublime and of grand tour travel paintings, on further examination they reveal a wistfulness for wilderness and its passing, permeated with a sense of urgency that is emblematic of our current period of rapid climatic change.

Pursuit of the Sublime: «The Art of David Cargill and Richard Stout,» through Saturday; William Reaves Fine Art, 2143 Westheimer; 713-521-7500, reavesart.com.

Through his frequent references to Romantic poetry and painting, Rafman continually presents himself and the subjects of his videos, installations, sculptures, and images as wanderers on a quest, exploring uncharted (virtual) territory in search of the Sublime, in the form of a lost ideal or a transcendent experience.

Although her works often evoke a sense of the sublime prevalent in natural phenomena, there is nothing accidental nor incidental about Donovan's creations.

In light of this, the works simultaneously speak to ecology and land ‐ use; incongruous representations of the sublime; and inherited assumptions of the landscape from advertising, art history and broader visual culture.

True North (2004) contains reflective images of the sublime, using the landscape as a key location and theme, offering a fascinating, new visual reading of space and time and its relation to counter histories.

Through a selection of ten large format works, the exhibition appeal to the sensitivity of the spectators, taking them to reflection and emotion spaces where the idea of the sublime prevails.

Hauntingly poignant in their post-apocalyptic beauty, Richardson's installations are a resurrection of The Sublime - playing on our greatest fears through awe - inspiring visuals that offer us a rare glimpse into what the future may hold.

Not only is Monstein an object of sublime beauty, it also belongs to a group of works that became one of the cornerstones of Richter's career, as Elger concludes, «Richter's landscapes occupy an important position within his output and there is no other genre to which he has devoted himself with such intensity and endurance» (D. Elger, «Landscape as Model,» in Gerhard Richter: Landscapes, exh.

The romantic notion of the sublime - the overwhelming sensation of vastness, grandiosity and awesome power of the natural environment - and the effect it has on our consciousness, emerges again through technological objects and the seemingly infinite possibilities contained in their development.

Both meditative and visually stunning, they evoke color field painting as well as notions of the sublime in painting, in which nature provides an awe - inspiring spectacle that goes beyond mere beauty to provide a spiritual experience.

This exhibition is an impressionistic journey of sublime photographic imagery that evokes timeless emotion and takes the viewer into aesthetic realms.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, the grid has been the premier expression of this aesthetic of the sublime, and Piet Mondrian is its original champion.

Dan Perkins newest works question painting's ability to communicate notions of the sublime in the contemporary era.

The museum has also unveiled two other exhibitions: «The Feminine Sublime,» a group show that takes ideas of the sublime, generally depicted from a male point of view, and gives it a decidedly feminine twist, as well as an installation by Ana Serrano, who is creating an immersive «garden» out of simple art materials such as cardboard, paper and paint.

The works have elements of the sublime, but not without a little tension.

Though linked to their own times and places, such works are also connected to larger questions of being in the world, questions that are primarily considered philosophical or religious, linked to the language and pursuit of the sublime.

For Michael Krebber, no aspect of the medium is taken for granted as the canvas becomes a kind of sublime flypaper, fixing individual gesture and media grabs.

A sincere gesture towards making a curious and beautiful object, brimming with anxiety, combining notions of the sublime and its fragility into one canvas.

(The real Guston, meanwhile, is here with one of his sublime «Poor Richard» Nixon drawings from 1971.)