Sentences with phrase «often abject»

In her fresh and airy 3 - D works, she combines found objects, often abject detritus, with carefully constructed forms made of tinted glass and steel.

By using quotidian, often abject materials, Arte Povera artists aimed to break down the barrier between fine art and the rest of life.

He helped me appreciate the efficiency, speed, and inherent conceit of intuitive judgment, and its infrequent but often abject failures.

Not exact matches

First, necessity is often driving the migration — people are fleeing persecution or abject poverty or the prospect of living for years and years without family.

Too often Full Gospel leaders insist on total, abject loyalty and uncritical acceptance of whatever they say.

His film echoes with a deeply felt pain - a sense of anguish, often depicted as scenes of celebration clash with unexplained images of abject grief.

They may be serial killers, but they take responsibility for their own actions, no matter how often they may cite the abject nature of humanity as inspiration for their crimes.

«Making penises abject and silly works well because masculinity is so often portrayed as powerful and successful,» he said.

He often exploits abject or marginalized subject matter to breach preformed dichotomies such as liberation and repression, conformity and marginality, passivity and aggression.

His works navigate minefields of desire, fear, regression and the abject in everyday life, often by creating a hybrid of high and low art.

Using leftover paint from construction supply stores, McMillian responds to the absence of bodies in the history of landscape representation; his pours and splatters evoke what he describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the pastoral tradition.

He often favors abject materials — found bits of detritus, such as wood, metal, plastic, or cloth in seemingly ad hoc compositions.

«Often it's abandoned landscapes or these more abject landscapes that appeal to me because in a very particular moment in a particular light you can see something beautiful in them, and that interests me,» he says.

Rooted in literature, cinema and music, his work preys on these categories, their genres and their legibilities: his works are often abortive, interruptive and abject.

With a rare, refreshing distillation of formal acumen and social issues, McMillian engages with the layered concepts of landscape — the body's interior and public landscape; the landscape as a physical place and a repository of memories, myths, and obsessions; and the absence of bodies in the history of landscape representation, or what the artist describes as an «abject history of turmoil or the spillage of blood» that is often missing from the pastoral tradition.

Challenging Minimalism, Murray incorporated in this work the visual panache of contemporaneous Pop artists and Neo-expressionists and the formal provocations (often in two - and - a-half dimensions) of foundational modernists like Picasso and Miro and surrealists like Dali without saddling the paintings with overbearing angst, obtuse self - seriousness, or abject absurdity.

He's often been characterized as a leading figure in so - called abject art — work that plumbs the depths of mortification and abasement, made by artists as diverse as Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, John Miller and Tony Oursler.

Often framed by double - edged terms such as bad taste, irony, or contamination, Oehlen's work slides deftly from the abject to the impressive.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

Often I despair at the abject failure of well - intentioned policies to make a substantive difference to the appalling conditions in which too many indigenous Australians live.