Sentences with phrase «on ordinary objects»

Ceal Floyer examines a dialectical tension between the literal and the mundane through subtle interventions into existing spaces and witty plays on ordinary objects.

The paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos focus on ordinary objects, such as a brown paper lunch bag, a pink eraser or a 2 - ply, white garbage bag, which are transformed by the artists, who employ unexpected materials or play with scale.

Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary objects held in their hands, and told a pair of stories about how we look for things that are lost.

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For Whitehead God is a metaphysical necessity, not as the world's creator, ex nihilo but as that foundational actual entity which is the home of eternal objects and the medium by which they can become objects of that aspiration on the part of ordinary actual entities which is the moving force of the world.

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

21 In his James Lectures at Harvard in 1940, he abandoned the term «particulars» for «universals» or «qualities» that, based on the examples he cites, functioned somewhat like Whiteheadian «eternal objects»: that is, ordinary macroscopic objects or experiences are to be conceived as a particular togetherness of these qualia at a given locus in spacetime.22

It is, indeed, true that we can not place God on the table, we can not touch Him or pick Him up like an ordinary object.

Ordinary objects of our experience, such as rocks and tables, are composed of many strands of enduring objects; and the story of planetary evolution focuses on the careers of incredibly complex organisms which may be analyzed into societies with sub-societies of many kinds.

On the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecOn the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecon just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single object.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

Firstly, he has to come up with an initiative which will be seen as fair to the ordinary person trying to get on in life or the «striver» (a word that I object to — when was the last time you heard someone in the pub use it?).

In the past decade, physicists and engineers pioneered new ways to guide and manipulate light, creating lenses that defy the fundamental limit on the resolution of an ordinary lens and even constructing «cloaks» that make an object invisible - sort of.

In the past decade, physicists and engineers pioneered new ways to guide and manipulate light, creating lenses that defy the fundamental limit on the resolution of an ordinary lens and even constructing «cloaks» that make an object invisible — sort of.

The potential revelations include details about objects both ordinary, such as stars, and exotic, such as dark - matter particles, that CMB photons might encounter on their travels through space.

Simply a Smile My collection of short stories (romance, mystery, historical, general fiction all inspired by ordinary objects or art) will be available on Amazon in April from Cane Hollow Press

During their 33 - year collaboration, the husband and wife team have garnered attention for their playful sculptures of ordinary objects on a monumental scale.

Monographs on her work include Squeak Carnwath: Lists, Observations, & Counting (Chronicle Books), and Squeak Carnwath: Painting is no Ordinary Object (Oakland Museum of California).

McGill's paintings draw on the recognizable to add mystery to everyday objects and animals inhabiting a wash of abstraction that helps to alter the ordinary into something new and fraught with mystery.

On Level 2, «Between Object and Architecture» looks at the way post-1960s artists employed geometric shapes and ordinary building materials like bricks or cubes, and includes artists from Latin America and China as well as Europe, emphasizing the museum's commitment to what Frances Morris, the director of the Tate Modern, called «a more global story of art.»

Barriball often coats ordinary objects such as bags and lamps in pen and ink or makes impressions of windows and doors by meticulously tracing their surfaces with pencil on paper and magnifying the incidental details and textures created by every day wear and tear.

Duchamp, who was on the Society's board, tested the limits of the organization's guidelines by anonymously submitting what would become his most famous readymade (an ordinary manufactured object that he designated as a work of art).

His art is based on the power of simple evocation, which transforms ordinary objects into instruments of poetry.

Over the past three decades, Steinbach has become known for his sculptures that place ordinary objects on display — some purchased, others borrowed — to explore the intersection of our personal desires, memories, and cultural values.

A true believer in technology's aesthetic potential, he is intent on reinventing traditional pictorial methods — specifically, painting and drawing — by using the computer's capabilities and limitations to turn ordinary, Pop - inspired objects (video games and their characters, computer cables, screens, Apple Quick - Take cameras, etc.) into motifs but also stylistic models, painting them as if seen on - screen.

On the other hand, each object is in the end just an ordinary bowl, spoon, knife, or some other purely utilitarian object.

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Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

Taylor worked as Rauschenberg's studio assistant from 1975 to 1982, and the legendary artist's repurposing of trash and ordinary objects for fine art is an evident influence on his Collection of Perishable Rings (1988), where assorted discarded circular items — a tin can, a cork, a roll of masking tape — form a mesmerizing sequence of shapes that seem to roll around, on top of, and within each other.

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.

The last artist is Donzeaud himself with a large - scale silksreen print and aerosol paint on tarp and wood work titled «Ordinary Objects for Common Use (Couch)».

On the surface, the ordinary objects collected by the artist Zhu Jinshi during his time in apartment Ganjiakou 303 are very different from the heavy impasto strokes characteristic of his later oil paintings.

While historic pieces such as the iconic code - breaking Enigma machine from World War II are on display, SPYSCAPE isn't an ordinary museum with antiquated objects in vitrines and dry wall texts.

Working predominately outside the gallery space, Heather and Ivan Morison focus on the interaction of people and ordinary things, objects forgotten and unnoticed.

Best known for his works with hand - painted cloth, Lee's works often focus on quotidian and ready - made objects that address ordinary daily rituals.

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.

His works often focus on quotidian and ready - made objects that address ordinary daily rituals.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

And while you listen, you watch a slow - paced, meticulously calibrated video in which, for long periods, the camera pans soothingly over ordinary domestic objects carefully arranged on a desktop of modernist design.

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.

Expanding on Marcel Duchamp's concept of the readymade, Rauschenberg imbued new significance to such ordinary objects as a patchwork quilt or an automobile tire by combining unrelated items and incorporating them into the context of art.

The show continues through January 11, 2013 — and on December 18 from 7 — 8 pm, artist, András Böröcz will perform «11 Grapefruits 2», a conceptual work that introduces the fruit into his repertoire of ordinary, round sculptural objects and includes a new video.

Expanding on Minimalist ideology, these coolections extend Roth's sense of reverence for ordinary objects -LSB-...]

During the 1970s, Camnitzer created a key body of work that blended both language and humor — producing a series of object - boxes that placed ordinary items within wood - framed glass boxes with text printed on brass plaques.

Inspired by Fox Talbots» first photographic images, she placed ordinary objects directly on the plate, exposing them to ultra violet light, so that they act as a photographic positive.

Often working on a large if not monumental scale, she takes ordinary, domestic items - such as platters and chargers - and elevates them into powerful, sculptural objects.

Video works in Chen Sai Hua Kuan Sei's «Space Drawing» series are his intuitive reflection on a specific time and place by deconstructing typical perceptions of ordinary items, found objects and existing situations in a playful way, according to Osage Gallery.

In her exquisite paintings on raw linen, such as Chopped Leek (2011), Helene Appel focuses her minimalist version of trompe l'oeil on often overlooked common objects, elevating the ordinary to the extraordinary.

Among the 50 or so sculptures, installations and works on paper, don't miss «Homebound,» an assemblage of ordinary household objects and furniture threaded together by a crackling wire of live electricity, and «La grande broyeuse (Mouli - Julienne x 17),» a steel sculpture that imagines a monstrously sized «vegetable slicer» as a menacing creature.

In 1964, after showing sculptures based on European edibles in Paris, he returned to New York and, continuing to use ordinary, everyday objects as his means of expression, developed «soft» sculptures and fantastic proposals for buildings and civic monuments.

During the early 1920s he collaborated with the writer Blaise Cendrars on films and designed sets and costumes for performances by Rolf de Maré's Ballets Suédois; in 1924 he completed his first film, Ballet mécanique, which was neither abstract nor narrative but a series of seemingly unrelated images (a woman's teeth and lips, machines, ordinary objects, and routine human activities).