Sentences with phrase «ordinary materials»

Some researchers suggested the dark halo consisted of ordinary material that simply didn't emit light.

The «etc.» encompasses other ordinary materials that have been used in both design and art.

West uses ordinary materials like plaster, papier - mâché and aluminium to produce crude abstract sculptures.

Tania Pérez Córdova (* 1979) makes an art of turning ordinary materials with their intricate backstories into conceptual sculptures.

His skill was to convert arrays of ordinary materials into abstract universes.

Martin's pre-minimalist paintings did so with vertical and horizontal lines and grinds painted upon washes of subdued color, while Tuttle investigated the same concerns in handmade constructions using ordinary materials like wire, tape, thread and cardboard.

With ordinary materials such as mirrors, PVC piping, fiber optic cable, hardware or magnets, Julianne Swartz turns stable structures into ethereal environments.

Contemplative environments positioned throughout the gallery invite audiences to sit or stand in meditation with sculptures and paintings constructed from ordinary materials associated with mending.

Some are delightfully low - tech, transforming ordinary materials into awe - inspiring visuals, while others make use of experimental new media, fusing art and technology in interactive works that change in response to the viewer.

Emergency Case: Homage to Joseph Beuys (1969 — 2011) presents first - aid cabinets containing miniature phials filled with water taken from holy wells and streams, referencing both Beuys's ability to endow ordinary materials with sacred values and persistent popular myths.

His idiosyncratic, hybrid practice blends sculpture, architecture, painting, and performance, and often draws on ordinary materials such as dirt, concrete, wood, or wire that he collected over time.

Lead could shield radioactive substances, but most ordinary materials like walls or glass do not stop gamma rays.

Contributor Joan Davidow shows us how this exhibition, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, highlights 25 years of turning ordinary materials and overlooked craft into powerful artworks.

In a clever twist on the Arte Povera credo, Pistoletto employs ordinary materials as subjects and uses the viewer as accomplices to elevate things usually found in basement storage rooms or garages into art.

His selection of ordinary materials represents the hair salon, Home Depot, and the streets of Los Angeles — both the culture industry and the grey economy.

By demonstrating experimentally that, at the heart of ordinary material things, there is a mystery, a connection is made with the non-rational sciences - with theology of course, but also with an ancient art that specialises in the relation of mind and matter but is not considered worthy of attention by today's scientists.

Through the great religions of the world man is trying to find some clue to the mystery of life and to find some expression of those longings within himself which transcend the confines of ordinary material existence.

And for some frequencies of light — such as terahertz radiation, a type of radiation that falls between the infrared and microwave bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and passes through many materials that block visual and infrared light — ordinary materials developed so far don't work as lenses at all.

Topological effects might be hiding inside perfectly ordinary materials, waiting to reveal bizarre new particles or bolster quantum computing

Unlike ordinary materials that are either insulators or conductors, topological insulators are in some sense both at the same time — they are insulators inside but always conduct electricity via the surface.

Driven by materials and an interest in transformation, Hawkinson continues to create unlikely and thought - provoking associations by repurposing ordinary materials into extraordinary works of art.

Many of the Minimalist sculptors integrated ordinary materials more associated with construction than fine art into forms that evoked less hallowed professions than the quintessential, marble - carving «sculptor.»

Finding the spectacular in the everyday, Oliver transforms seemingly ordinary material building blocks into images and installations that stretch the confines of human structures and bodies into the greater universe.

He frequently collaborates with technicians, scientists, and even dogs, to reveal unexpected beauty in ordinary materials.

These creative reuse projects have included water bottles (photographs below) transformed into galaxies, and other ordinary materials reinvented into shimmering beautiful decorations.

For the exhibition, Robert Morris contributed his experiments with felt, which he piled, stacked and hung from the wall, exploring the effects of gravity and stress on ordinary materials [4].

By insinuating passion for ordinary material, the exhibition title (I like plastic) is intended to signal an attitude towards things rather than a specific medium.

Jim Hodges mines the symbolic and esthetic potential of ordinary materials through his light - handed approach to collage Read More

Transforming ordinary materials (wax, cotton, mud, PVC pipes, plastic sheeting) into ethereal sculptures that mimic natural structures such as beehives and spider webs, Shettar fuses the mundane with the metaphysical.

Photographer William Eggleston found heightened color in everyday situations, while contemporary artists Polly Apfelbaum and Ginny Bishton bring together ordinary materials and bold color to create vibrant works of art.

This radical re-appropriation of an otherwise ordinary material enabled him to capture the spirit of the times and the image of a society driven by communication, which expressed itself above all through its obsession with current affairs and the omnipresence of the media.

West uses ordinary materials like plaster, papier - mâché and aluminium to produce crudely shaped abstract sculptures.

«Luna has created a space for ritual from ordinary materials, many of which represent suffering and poverty,» said critic Laura U. Marks in her review of the artist's show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles for the October 1996 issue of Artforum.

Engineers have found ways to endow ordinary materials with intricate microstructures, creating «metamaterials» that can curve light around very small objects and make them invisible.

Drawing on a wide range of materials and references, these artists apply a keen eye and a steady hand as they transform house paint, thread, old and newly woven fabric, industrial tape, and other ordinary materials into poetic abstract forms.

It stresses the use of ordinary materials such as sand, stones, twigs, etc., and the temporary, non-collectable nature of the work.

Like Beuys, Polke created extraordinary assemblies of the most ordinary materials, which also appeared in his collages and paintings: at one point he developed a particular penchant for liverwurst and potato that culminated in 1967 with Potato House, a remarkable flat - pack installation.

For the former, Calder employed ordinary materials — wire, string, cork, wood, paper, bits of metal, and cloth — to create a miniature circus, whose acts he staged for friends and patrons as narrator and puppeteer between 1926 and 1931.

His selection of ordinary materials represents the hair salon, Home Depot, and the streets of Los Angeles.

Korean artist Jae Ko (born 1961) works in fiber, transforming ordinary materials like paper and vinyl cords into extraordinary sculptural objects.

Double Vision features works by six international artists — Samantha Bittman (New York), Manor Grunewald (Ghent), Tony Marsh (Long Beach), Rafaël Rozendaal (New York), Joshua Saunders (Los Angeles) and Michael Staniak (Melbourne)-- whose practices encompass special skills that transform ordinary materials into something extraordinary.

Albers had arrived from Germany in 1933, bringing Bauhaus precepts with him: Focus on ordinary materials, what's close at hand; consider all materials and forms of equal value, and all combinations valid.

The exhibition also includes First Aid: Homage to Joseph Beuys (1969 — 2017), a display of first - aid cabinets containing miniature phials filled with water taken from holy wells and streams, which references both Beuys's ability to endow ordinary materials with sacred values and the potential healing power of art.

Kenji Fujita is a visual artist who makes work out of ordinary materials such as cardboard, aluminum foil, felt, wood, fabric, paper, and paint.

How does an ordinary material like aluminum become a medium for high end art?

They foresee a time when the very fabric of modern life — ordinary materials such as plastics and concrete — will hold much of the electricity we need.

One group, led by Xiang Zhang of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, created a «hyperlens» that bends light in a way no ordinary material can.

But metamaterials can transcend those limits, providing a tight focus that no piece of glass (or any other ordinary material) ever could.