Sentences with phrase «ordinary materials like»

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.

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

A new material that appears to be an ordinary liquid, but can be shaped, moulded and sliced like Play - Doh or plasticine, could be used to make novel lenses or mini-containers for chemical reactions.

On the other hand, like Greta Garbo, she seems doomed for ordinary and mediocre material — the kind of material that she must overcome rather than enhance, as in Home Fries.

Efforts to collapse the barrier between art and life during the past half century are often associated with the material innovations of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg — with his rejection of notions of mastery and craftsmanship and insistence on bringing everyday materials into his work, like his bed, the morning newspaper, or an old tire — and the enactment of ordinary daily rituals like eating and drinking in the «happenings» of Allan Kaprow and others.

«The reality I use — such as the tires in my work of the»70s, which represent my father's factory, which later had to close, we became poor, and he committed suicide — is always an ordinary material, like the knee, or the Eros, of my drawings.»

Like Turrell, too, he is hardly above illusion, but his ordinary materials, simple constructions, literal titles, and refusal of events root him more closely in the everyday.

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.»

At first he applied that insight to most ordinary items of American life, especially humble edibles, all those cheeseburgers and ice cream cones and pillowy wedges of pie, made even more dream like because they were rendered in soft materials, with their inevitable hint of the pliancy of the human body, and splattered with mock - Abstract Expressionist drizzles of paint.

Carl Andre (b1935) became a leading artist in the emergence of Minimalism in the United States in the mid-60s, making sculptures out of ordinary industrial materials — wood, bricks and metals — arranged on the floor in simple linear or grid - like patterns.

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.

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 Neo-Dada artists like Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002), Richard Stankiewicz (1922 - 83), Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) and Jim Dine (b. 1935), art should be expansive and inclusive, appropriating non-art materials, embracing ordinary reality and celebrating popular culture.

His flags, targets and stenciled numbers were emptied of all illusion or grandeur, and they made viewers wonder whether a painting, like a cup or a chair, wasn't just an ordinary material object.

Do you have a rigorous QM proof that gases do not emit ordinary BB like thermal continuum spectra just like any other material above absolute zero does?