Sentences with phrase «often challenges the viewer»

Jenkins's work is generally performance - based, and he often challenges the viewer by questioning what it means to be an artist; indeed, he recently gave an artist's talk which included employing hecklers to shout him down.

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(Among other challenging questions that could serve no other purpose but to embarrass the Party and its candidates in the eyes of any random cable viewer were such pressing, burning 2016 presidential campaign questions so often thrown at Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as: would you have fought World War I?

The «wallpaper», which formulates a deceptively innocent pattern, is in fact created from endoscopic images of the artist's own internal organs - Rehberger often plays with the viewer's ideas and expectations in order to challenge preconceptions and routine «thinking habits».

The images questioned accepted taste, challenging the viewer to think through how they had been made; their random juxtapositions often seemed to mimic thought itself.

The experience of overlapping sounds, images, text, and even shifting climates, challenge the viewer with unceasing stimulation — often bordering on sensory overload.

Laying aggressively directive slogans over photographs sourced from magazines, Barbara Kruger often addressed the viewer directly, challenging them to critically assess their influenced, consumerist lives.

Several women artists who are left out of this exhibition, such as Jenny Holzer or Adrian Piper, have challenged the commodification of text by reclaiming it as representational in contemporary art, often portraying direct, confrontational statements to viewers.

His site - specific works challenge viewers» perception of their bodies in relation to interior spaces and landscapes, and his work often encourages movement in and around his sculptures.

«The shows present often unsettling hybridized figures that encourage and challenge the viewer's willingness to accept difference.»

Cutting, a video projection by Wangechi Mutu, also positions the female body as a central site for investigating history and culture, challenging the viewer with often violent visions of the past, present and future.

Nauman infuses his pieces with irony and humor, creating verbal and visual puns to often - unsettling effect, challenging viewers and making them aware of their own physicality.

For the past three decades, the influential American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer has been challenging viewers» assumptions about the world through language that conveys the multiplicity of often contradictory voices, opinions and attitudes that form the basis of contemporary society.

Often drawing from popular culture and mass media, Baldessari questions received meaning and challenges viewers to interpret their own meaning for unique or unlikely combinations.