Sentences with phrase «of unconscious»

The agenda was outlined in Andre Breton's 1924 Surrealist manifesto, which itself has its origins in Sigmund Freud's «analysis of the unconscious and the realm of dreams and this reverberated in the works created by the group members,» the gallery says.

«Her works epitomize a shift in abstract expressionism from chance, hazard, and the uncontrolled freedom of the unconscious to a new direction with breath, freshness, and light within a highly structured armature...» (P. Schimmel quoted in J. Yau, «Joan Mitchell's Sixth Sense,» Mitchell Trees, exh.

The book's title, The Dream Colony: A Life in Art (2017), is borrowed from a phrase Hopps encountered while doing a stint at a think tank and describes the region of the unconscious mind in which artists dwell.

It is the presence of the unconscious.»

This sort of data compression, which extends the interplay of positive and negative spaces within the paintings, recalls Freud's analysis of the efficiency of the unconscious in creating dreams, but goes further.

Inspired by Freud's theories of the unconscious, nineteenth - century mysticism, and Symbolist art and literature, surrealists sought to liberate the imagination by making art that included chance, dreams, the unconscious and thought as play.

«This resulted in an obsessive exploration of his unconscious symbolism, mediated through the stylistic influence of Picasso, Orozco, Joan Miró and the theories of John Graham.

Study on the Amazing Comeback of Dr Freud (2005), for instance, shows a naked, turbaned man in high heels standing vulnerable against a wall in a forest setting, its title suggesting at once a specific event, a romanticised account and the vagaries of the unconscious that were Freud's object of study.

And instead of crisp clear lines, he allowed random splashes of paint to allude to an underlying disorder, to the disruptive forces of the unconscious.

To explore and reveal the unconscious, Surrealists such as Joan Miro and Roberto Echuarren Matta developed a technique known as psychic automatism, a spontaneous expression of the unconscious through line.

The legend suggests that slaying the dark forces of the unconscious is a prerequisite for spiritual growth.

The Crow exhibition catalog states that the pieces «have a dreamlike quality reminiscent of surrealist explorations of the unconscious that melds, unexpectedly, with visible brushstrokes and the traces of swift, decisive action.»

«Above all», he writes, «what must be emphasized about the New New painters is their painterly excess, even violence, with its virtually overwhelming sense of erotic richness and fatal energy, bringing in its wake a sense of sounding the depths of unconscious emotion - or rather, of a sense of self we only become fleetingly conscious of in ecstasy.

Spanning the late «40s through the early «60s, these works examine Abstraction based upon oblique evocations of the fragmented body and the influence of the unconscious, with seriality and repetition emerging as essential idioms of a new sculptural language.

In their continued preoccupation with colour, light and form, the artistic duo Rob and Nick Carter have created a new departure in their practice in the form of Unconscious Paintings.

Ms. McAdam Freud's new collection, «Random Plus,» explores theories of the unconscious, dream analysis, sexuality and repeated experiences using a vast collection of multimedia pieces fashioned from bronze, clay and copper.»

But as an artist and the great - granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, she has plenty to say about theories of the unconscious that have shaped our understanding of the human condition for more than a century.

This body of work can be grouped into two categories: watercolors with web - like black lines interwoven over masses of color suggesting successive layers of depth, and oil paintings of extremely heavy consistency in which controlled randomness allows for the appearance of an unconscious, interior landscape or what the French surrealist artists called an «inscape.»

For me, though, in its frank, proto - Freudian symbolism of the worries of the unconscious, it offered strange comfort.

While she never explicitly declared herself a feminist artist (she has described her work as being «pre-gender»), her explorations of unconscious sexual desires as a woman were pioneering and authoritative and in 1982, she became the first woman to receive a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives (London) and OtherFilm (Australia), Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: «liveness» the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art and the contemporary role of the audience.

Many pieces explore the liminality of certain phenomena including the practice of automatic writing (Sisters of Menon, 1972/79), near death experiences (Channels, 2013), and collective experiences of unconscious, subconscious and paranormal activity (Belshazzar's Feast, 1983 - 4; Psi Girls, 1999; Witness, 2000).

Such dream states and the ramblings of the unconscious are rooted in Graham's earlier upside - down photographs of oak trees.

Her self - deprecating attitude helps this viewer move past the slightly shallow aspect of art world in - jokes, to the idea that the art world construct might be one more cosmic joke of the unconscious.

From his signature «blackboard» paintings (which are oil on canvas) to the more representational landscape paintings in this exhibition, Fisher constructs constellations of ideas, thoughts, and images much like the disjointed nature of the unconscious and that of memory.

In these works Casebere conceptually articulates «the revelation of an implied future for architectural space, a space at once of our unconscious and our lived reality, that describes the fragile treaty between the two».

The exhibition also includes seminal object / documents, like Breton's «Les pas perdus,» a collection of essays Breton wrote between 1918 and 1923, the years leading up to the formation of Surrealism and «Le message automatique» published in Minotaure in 1933, in which he claims that parapsychology was an antecedent to the Surrealists» exploration of the unconscious.

Early paintings reflect his interest in Cubism, biomorphic Surrealism, Jungian and Freudian theories of the unconscious, and African and Native American art.

Shapiro takes the installation into the realm of a metaphysical playground that bounces from dream states, hence the infinite possibilities of the unconscious, toward utopian spirituality as a reference to precedents observable in numerous examples within the 20th century avant - garde.

Central to Freud's thinking is the idea «of the primacy of the unconscious mind in mental life,» so that all subjective reality was based on the play of basic drives and instincts, through which the outside world was perceived.

Screened within a dark room, this video immediately absorbs the viewer and implicates them in the never - ending cycle of yawning due to the infectious nature of this unconscious action.

Stylistic affinities with her work can be found with Fauvist color palettes and Surrealists articulations of the unconscious.

Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives and OtherFilm, Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: «liveness»; the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art; and the contemporary role of the audience.

In March / April 1961, the Knoedler gallery in New York produced Symbols, an exhibition of Callery works; it included Composition, The Letter S. Christian Zervos, writing in the catalogue and making an argument for Callery as an artist equally in thrall to «reality, sign and technique,» noted that «For Callery the sign has the same power as a living model of creating tension in the depths of the unconscious, of provoking unexpected stimulations, of containing a host of formal combinations.»

On the pieces she recorded her observations from the bypath to Eden which are, according to her, an incarnation of the unconscious.

Exploring the automatic drawing and allowing his hand to move freely across the canvas without a conscious plan, he aimed to express the creative force of the unconscious.

March 29 Nicola Tyson's body of work explores notions of the unconscious while examining self - identity, sexuality and desire.

«These forms come from a long process of unconscious drawing.

His book, Systems and Dialects of Art (1937), introduced the budding New York artists to the significance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration, and thus contributed to the earliest developments of Abstract Expressionism.

Hollywood actor, producer and writer Geena Davis ** has become an advocate for the cause and says, «We have to keep in mind the tremendous amount of unconscious bias against women.

It announced the discovery of the unconscious and the primacy of sexuality — like that intruding into the cathedrals of art.

Their goals differ from Bess's, of course; they're looking to reconcile their bodies with their identities rather than to merge the genders through surgery — or, as Gober said while visiting the Menil just before the show opened, to create «an opening of the unconscious, both in and out of his body.»

Like an exercise in psychoanalysis, it enabled her to plumb the depths of her unconscious and sublimate certain aspects of the past, especially those related to her childhood and family relationships.

Influenced largely by traumatic psychological events from her childhood, especially her father's infidelity, her sculptures revolved around themes of unconscious, sexual desire and the body.

The outlined people, a bit like cartoons, have the charm of folk art as much as the terror of the unconscious — or of modern life.

And the fact that it was all lying around sort of explains our methodology of working which is a form of unconscious collage, we didn't pick all the objects with the idea of making art.

He discusses his portrait commissions, his choice of subject matter, theories of realism versus abstraction and drawing versus color, and the role of the unconscious and the accidental in his art.

I would find it interesting if, through the creation of this avatar, we could expose some of the unconscious behaviours that we do in our online surfing, general computer use and gameplaying.

When he arrives, though, he is shocked by the sight of unconscious Waddle Dees scattered about the place and a new foe, a spider named Taranza, carting King Dedede away in a magical web.

As always, once you've reduced the hostile crowd to a heap of unconscious bodies, the last man standing gets dropped in spectacular fashion in slow motion with exaggerated audio, so you can hear his skull hit the pavement.