Sentences with phrase «painting as an artifact»

He views his practice as an exploration of painting as an artifact of how life is lived; and the notion of art as a nexus at which nature, culture, and self come together.

The artist sees these two modes of working as inter-connected and engaged with the same ideas: an exploration of painting as an artifact of how life is lived; and the notion of art as a nexus at which nature, culture, and self come together.

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Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

As a historical artifact, this featurette is priceless (dig Farrow and Polanski painting flowers and the words «peace» and «love» all over her trailer) and strangely prescient (Farrow rattling off a long list of pets more than foretells the large brood of adopted children she would eventually have).

Additionally, as visitors tour the decks of the Royal Yacht Britannia, they will be surrounded by nearly all of the original furniture, paintings, photographs and artifacts that were on the ship during her royal service.

You'll see dozens of permanent sculptures, paintings, artifacts, and murals by such artists as Fernando Botero, Shige Yamada, Yvonne Cheng, Herb Kane, and many more.

Ubud has been the cultural focus of Bali for decades and is the place to visit if you are searching for original carvings, sculptures, artifacts, and paintings from across the Indonesian archipelago as well as Bali itself.Villa Alamanda lies to the east of Ubud an approximate ten minutes away and as welcome guests approach the villas they pass through a traditional carving village known to most as Tengkulak.

Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.

7 Bringing Jutta Koether, Wade Guyton, R.H. Quaytman, and Stephen Prina into the discussion, Joselit introduced «transitivity» as a term for work that «moves out from painting - as - cultural artifact to the social networks surrounding it.»

Sendor's paintings - executed in a reduced black, white and gray palette - serve as artifacts of arrested movement that evoke mysticism, the occult and the absurd.

Brownish, liquidy paintings in artificial resin on translucent polyester fabric are spotlighted in a space that is painted a brooding eggplant purple; display cases present authentic Renaissance and Baroque amber artifacts, such as candlesticks and figurines.

As Semmes heads down the rabbit hole of artistic inspiration she takes artist Erle Loran's 1943 book, Cezanne's Compositions as her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardoAs Semmes heads down the rabbit hole of artistic inspiration she takes artist Erle Loran's 1943 book, Cezanne's Compositions as her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardoas her guide: Loran's attempts to diagram and unlock the powers of Cezanne's paintings are a touching artifact of pure formalism and ardor.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

Escudos mimicked the stone artifacts in metal form and religious function in order to make the presence of the Christian divine - painted on escudos as the Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception - comprehensibely analogous to the way in which some pre-Columbian divinities had been traditionally experienced.

Through paint, pixel, word, and fabric she creates work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.

I've been thinking more and more about the physicality of the paintings and how important that some of the shapes in the works read as natural elements, whether that is rocks, caves, forms of decay, artifacts, relics, etc..

Broken dishes recall Julian Schnabel's plate paintings of the 1980's, but in contrast to his grandiose presentations, Banks» assemblages of tiny «abject pottery» serve as humble artifacts of domesticity, archeological remnants of family, food and love.

While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts, arranged in concert with other art or art - like objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.

In his second series, small, quirky yet contemplative assemblages of reclaimed pieces of wood, glue, paper and paint serve as artifacts of sorts from an idealized place -LSB-...]

This body of work plays with the idea of art as an ongoing conversation with posterity in which artifacts of the past are painted over, yet traces of the original art remain — and using the cave - dweller as a metaphor for the fundamental human condition: forever shrouded in darkness and uncertainty, yet determined to leave our own visions upon the walls of the cave.

As paintings burn and statues tumble, it is not difficult to imaging the audience of the films included reveling in fine art disaster: the media for the masses depicting destruction of elitist artifacts.

These paintings are a blueprint for the ecology and energy of views of common areas; they translate into an abstract representation of contemporary structures, yet indicate a ghost of ancient artifacts associated with places such as Stonehenge.

«Art as Artifact» provides a glimpse into the dramatic world of Dona Simons» flooded paintings where beauty and destruction collide.

The «Art as Artifact» catalog presents the oil paintings both before and after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.

The presentation of more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, and personal photographs and artifacts, will allow visitors a multifaceted view of Picasso, the man and the artist, to «see him as never before.»

Permanent collection includes a wide range of artifacts, Judaica, Jewish ritual and ethno - graphical objects, as well as haggadah illuminated manuscripts, painting, collage, ceramics and Jewish craftwork.

Alongside Rodin's work, large - scale books with Kiefer's illustrations will be on view, as well as his paintings and vitrines containing historical artifacts such as desiccated plants, scraps of fabric and stones.

As the artist explains, he has adopted a technique formerly used to mend broken pottery and metal artifacts to encase the paintings.

The paintings function as meditative artifacts of a geological time, evoking natural processes of growth or decay.

Collections range from art historical treasures such as works on paper by Rembrandt van Rijn and David Hockney, paintings by Sir John Everett Millais and Hans Hofmann, sculpture by Hiram Powers and Louise Nevelson, as well as artifacts from the ancient world, ceramics, and textiles.

De Wit's ceramic fragments double as both raw archeological objects and architectural artifact, where found ceramics are re-cast and hand painted, alongside the artist's own fabricated shards.

The work draws upon the traditions of landscape painting and natural science illustration, and incorporates the visual language of maps, diagrams, and artifacts, as a way of exploring our connection — many times via objects — to specific places and occurrences.

The works are rife with clichéd symbols, such as Arabic calligraphy, fragments of ceramic artifacts, images of camels and political cartoons, in an attempt to create work that will meet Western expectations for a brand of contemporary Middle Eastern art much in the same way that smiling Mao and Panda paintings became the brand for post-Cultural Revolutionary art in China in the 1980's.

The Mimbre paintings perfectly interact with the portrait series, as they were inspired by the Mimbres: a tribe that lived in what is now the southwestern part of the United States during the 11th century and whose legacy, among other things, were several artifacts and pottery, which not a lot of people had studied.

Through layers of paint, plaster, chalk, and addition of gravel and collage, these heavily textured abstractions serve as urban artifacts preserving the elements of artist's life.

Lawlor's response is not to embellish or subvert painting by bending to fashionable will, especially one that views painting as marginal artifact.

Roth returned to painting in 2006 after an almost ten - year hiatus during which his practice consisted of collecting and archiving cultural artifacts such as commercial paint color charts, blank legal forms, targets and women's compact mirrors.

Munster, consisting of counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, has a rich cultural heritage of Celtic artifacts, landscape painting and stone sculpture, as well as a modern infrastructure including numerous important museums and arts centres in Cork, Limerick and Waterford.

Free standing sculpture, in stone and wood begins to be seen, as well as bronze statuettes (notably by the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the early engines of painting and sculpture in India), primitive jewellery and decorative designs on a variety of artifacts.

Just as time has left its mark on the Egyptian artifact, Franziska Klotz's recent paintings tell the story of an artist who, in the digital age, is grappling with an object that stands the test of time.

The artist lived the painting entirely in the present, and the object was left over as an artifact of that event.

«The Western art tradition has mainly conceived of paintings as frontal («recto») artifacts.

In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that used in the colorful endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.

Asked why he began collecting American Indian artifacts, Weisel, who has also collected postwar American art, said, pointing to a rare «first phase» chief's blanket, «Look at this in relation to a painter such as Barnett Newman - very simple, just a few lines - this is like an amazing painting, but made by a woman weaving on a loom on the Great Plains, outside.»

Honolulu Academy of Arts Founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke, its collection now holds over 40,000 works, featuring the Samuel H. Kress collection of Italian Renaissance paintings, American and European paintings and decorative arts, as well as artifacts from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Many works illustrate artifacts of the imaging process — white borders on the canvas suggest cropping, drips of paint reference scratches on the surface of the negative — which the artist describes as the «abstract consequence» of the photo.

Other types of art, including Contemporary folk artifacts, 19th century landscape painting, American Impressionism, and pieces from the Gilded Age are all well represented, as is African - American art, photography, sculpture, prints, drawings, folk art, 20th century abstract art and New Deal projects.

Allowing pop - cultural artifacts to function as «information,» as opposed to «form,» Baldessari's works represented a radical departure from, and often a direct critique of, the modernist sensibility that dominated painting for decades.

Joanne Greenbaum's works take center stage at Rachel Uffner gallery, sharing the space with small colorful artifacts that the artist has assembled in the same lexicon as her engaging, large - scale paintings.

I'm not familiar with his explanation about how he came to become curious about Stevenson screens and the possibility of temperature record deviations as the result of changing the paint on the boxes from old - fashioned whitewash in a strictly specified formulation to modern, more durable, but more heat - artifact - inducing white latex paint.