A new series of occasional conversations at the Menil Collection, A Common Language invites artists from different disciplines to focus on and consider
particular works of art in the collection.
Not exact matches
And yet this correct suspicion clashes with another basic intuition: the greatest
works of art and all the major religions are
in fact highly
particular in both origin and expression.
«If there occurs
in the
work of art a disclosure
of a
particular being, disclosing what and how it is, then there is here an occurring, a happening
of truth at
work.»
Nature is a «
work of art»
in which «rightness» is defined by the comprehension
of particular details that constitute it as a
work of art.
I believe a reading
of Adventures
of Ideas and the other
works would justify saying there can be «no living [
art, morality, religion and science] unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction
in the existence
of an Order
of Things, and,
in particular,
of an Order
of Nature» (SMW 5).
In the opinion of the Times» photography editor, the curator of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the physical beauty of the photograph and the brutal nature of what's going on in it that gives it the particular quality that this work of art ha
In the opinion
of the Times» photography editor, the curator
of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the physical beauty
of the photograph and the brutal nature
of what's going on
in it that gives it the particular quality that this work of art ha
in it that gives it the
particular quality that this
work of art has.
Her
art work is primarily focused on human rights themes and
in particular the human rights
of women and the need for bodily autonomy.
That may well be the case, but, to these eyes, The Tree
of Life remains an open, porous, searching
work, unmistakably rooted
in the tradition
of religious
art, and yet unbound by any one
particular dogma.
The Hong Kong brand
of wire - enhanced martial
arts (a major deviation from the TV series, for staunch gun opposer Barrymore nixed the use
of any firearms
in the film)
works especially well
in the over-the-top context, and the stars are all game —
in particular Diaz, who is given a large share
of non-wire fight scenes and more than holds her own.
The girls [studying the International Baccalaureate and the Victorian Certificate
of Education] are doing their portfolios for their final pieces
of work, and they're looking at how their
particular art pieces can be enhanced through using the equipment
in the fabrication lab.
Previous
work on the impact
of philanthropy
in education terms these types
of status quo investments as «lower leverage» grants, which can include funding for efforts
in professional development, unrestricted or general purpose grants to schools, or special - purpose grants to fund a
particular program or activity (e.g.
arts enrichment).4 The contrasting approach — the «higher leverage» investment — is investment with the potential to exert systemic influence on public education, which can be divided into two broad categories: 5
The second issue studied
in this volume is related to the ontology
of the
work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type
of objects, containing
particular kinds
of representation which elicit a par...
I want to switch the tables and make
art my primary source
of income, and my B.A.G is to help animals,
in particular African wildlife through my
work.
His paintings are usually about a
particular moment — «The
work of art — a stop
of time», he wrote
in a diary — a chance arrangement
of things on the breakfast table, with a figure perhaps, or a landscape as he saw it
in the light
of an instant, and so they are usually painted from a single drawing, or from more than one made
in quick succession on the same occasion.
Using a condensed and dramatic form mixing elements
of comic book
art, Californian underground, and murals with the great European tradition, the large scale religious implementations
of the Baroque
in particular, Danø
works range from the traditional painting to reliefs and singular objects.
Martha Buskirk argues,
in The Contingent Object
of Contemporary
Art (2005), that «the possibility that a work's physical manifestation might be of limited duration, or that it might come and go as needed, has also helped facilitate the multitude of highly particular materials now commonly found in the context of the work of art.&raq
Art (2005), that «the possibility that a
work's physical manifestation might be
of limited duration, or that it might come and go as needed, has also helped facilitate the multitude
of highly
particular materials now commonly found
in the context
of the
work of art.&raq
art.»
Launched
in 2014, the
Art Icon award, supported by Swarovski, celebrates the
work of an artist who has made a profound contribution to a
particular medium, influencing their own and subsequent generations
of artists.
Though it is difficult to associate a
particular style with her
work, several concurrent themes can be identified within her oeuvre, such as sexuality, the place
of craft and mechanization
in art as well as her fascination with ethnographic and scientific studies.
This genre
of work reflects,
in part, the early Cubist style and the era's preoccupation with the psychological symbolism
of African
art, masks
in particular.
In particular,
works from some 90 French and overseas artists, mainly from the young generation are on show, forming a rich and diversified panorama
of art today.
Indeed, the social histories and identity politics explored
in work made during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black
Arts Movements is being investigated by a new generation
of scholars and curators, bringing attention to overlooked artists central to the era, AfriCOBRA artists
in particular.
Also drawn to the public and participatory nature
of Christo's
work,
in particular Running Fence, and by Andy Warhol's unique fusion
of art and life, Haring was determined to devote his career to creating a truly public
art.
As Philippe de Montebello, then director
of New York's Metropolitan Museum
of Art, put it
in 2003, when the museum staged a major retrospective
of his
work, «Guston's
particular genius was
in mediating seemingly diverse traditions, and, with fluent brushstrokes that speak to the artist's hand and brilliant colour, creating
works that vigorously defied conventions.»
With
particular strengths
in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, also not to mention the important mural series The
Arts of Life
in America by Thomas Hart Benton, the Museum relies heavily on its permanent collection for exhibitions and programming, yet also displays a significant number
of borrowed shows and
works by emerging artists.
His experiences lead him to conceive
of a project
in situ, that he calls «conditional
art,» where the
work is determined by the
particular circumstances
of their precise location.
American
art, with a
particular emphasis on artists
working in Louisiana and the South, has long been one
of NOMA's key collection strengths.
Jonas, who studied sculpture and
art history, was deeply influenced by the
work of Trisha Brown, with whom she studied dance, as well as John Cage and Claes Oldenburg,
particular in their exploration
of non-linear narrative structure and form.
Later she recognised that familiarity with non-European
art gave her insight into the
work of her contemporaries, and that Chinese
art,
in particular, had presented her with a key to abstraction.
Tate St Ives presents international modern and contemporary
art in the unique cultural context
of St Ives, including
works from the Tate Collection,
in particular works by the artists from the St Ives school.
Followers
of Il Lee's
art — as well as newcomers to his masterful, nuanced renderings — will find
particular satisfaction
in his new large format
works.
Genzken, who has often dedicated
particular art works to specific people, naming sculptures after friends, artists, or people whom she admires, focuses
in this exhibition on her own image, thematizing the idea
of portraiture and self - portraiture, being at once the artist and the subject.
Teresa's
work is inspired by Pop
Art,
in particular the
work of British pop artists such as Peter Blake, as well as familiar objects from her North East upbringing: like the ice cream vans
in her»Em peror
of Ice Cream Van» series.
There were artists whose
work had to be written out
of the story
of a
particular period (the late
work of Stuart Davis, for instance) or minimized
in importance
in order to streamline the pedigree
of American
art (Edward Hopper).
These
works marked his rejection
of making figurative
art with clear references to the real world, and
in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group
of artists who were painting ordinary scenes
of everyday life.
One New York gallery
in particular, Untitled Space, is currently inviting multidisciplinary women artists to submit
work to an upcoming exhibition titled «Angry Women,» which will channel the feelings
of election - related rage and anxiety into challenging and confrontational
works of feminist
art.
The Ackland
Art Museum is well known for its extensive collection
of works on paper and
in particular, its outstanding collection
of drawings, making it a natural venue
in which to explore this less - known but highly significant portion
of Dial's oeuvre.
This is not to diminish the importance
of Schapiro's
work from this period, but rather to place her
in the competitive field
of a
particular moment
in history, and also
in the
art world culture
in which she operated and established a strong and successful presence.
In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york
in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits
of the
art world that she saw reflected
in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices
of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production
of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the
work of a greater local network
of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics
of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images
of a lesser
art industry itself within a critique
of a greater institutional relationship to
art production; as such, the lesser display
of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex
of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection
of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion
in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution
of art consumption; whereas
in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value
of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value
of precious originals; so the act
of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm
of Capitalism that can morph into an owner
of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a
work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving
in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in its new contexts; the collective spirit
of artists
working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique
of how artists can imagine
working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture
of a curated mixed - media installation
in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this
particular lesser becomes greater
in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities
of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features
of art production
in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greate
in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question
of what constitutes an
art as a lesser
art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater
art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested
in its lesser relationship to the greate
in its lesser relationship to the greater.
Werksatz exemplifies the type
of art for which Walther is best known: wall - hung or floor - bound cloth
works that are meant to be activated
in particular ways by visitors, or «users.»
Rappolt said a lot
of the YBA
works represented
art at a
particular moment
in time.
As a student
in 1949 at the
Art Students League
of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor
of the building's entrance to capture the footprints
of those entering and exiting.10 The creation
of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint
of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955
works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State
of Criticism» isolated this
particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution
of Rauschenberg's
works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar
art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the painted surface is no longer the analogue
of a visual experience
of nature but
of operational processes.»
Inspired by his memory
of living near the river
in Shanghai, Nature C was part
of Zhang's four Nature
works that were first presented
in his solo exhibition at the Shanghai
Art Museum
in 1987, a tumultuous decade for artists
in China and pivotal for Zhang
in particular.
Created
in 1987
in Shanghai, a tumultuous decade for artists
in China and pivotal for Zhang
in particular, Nature C is one
of only four four - panel Nature
works that were first presented
in his solo exhibition at the Shanghai
Art Museum
in 1987.
With a
particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal
works that provide an overview
of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns
of artists
in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma
of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom
of expression and constantly pushing the limits
of modern and contemporary
art.
For this special occasion we have selected with Pilar Ordovás a group
of works which are all closely related with Chillida's interest
in public
art and, therefore themes such as scale -
in particular the human scale, which is always an important reference
in his
work, making his sculptures monumental regardless
of their size.
In a focused manner, Maunz's
work mines the history
of classical
art, architectural structures abstracted from memory,
particular aspects
of the artist's past, and family and childhood psychological theory.
In other words, the exhibition does not aim to track a historical development, but to identify precedents for the particular mix of instruction - based art making amongst close acquaintances or intimates that characterizes the more recent art in the show, and the spaces and contexts within which these works are se
In other words, the exhibition does not aim to track a historical development, but to identify precedents for the
particular mix
of instruction - based
art making amongst close acquaintances or intimates that characterizes the more recent
art in the show, and the spaces and contexts within which these works are se
in the show, and the spaces and contexts within which these
works are set.
In one weird, hyphenated word, NOW - ISM insists that the works in it are both of the moment — particular to the circumstances in which they were made and attuned to the digital phase of the Information Age as it hurtles us through the first decade and a half of the twenty - first century — and outside of time: unshackled by the constraints of context and the restrictions of history because, as works of art, they are fully present in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again, in perpetuit
In one weird, hyphenated word, NOW - ISM insists that the
works in it are both of the moment — particular to the circumstances in which they were made and attuned to the digital phase of the Information Age as it hurtles us through the first decade and a half of the twenty - first century — and outside of time: unshackled by the constraints of context and the restrictions of history because, as works of art, they are fully present in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again, in perpetuit
in it are both
of the moment —
particular to the circumstances
in which they were made and attuned to the digital phase of the Information Age as it hurtles us through the first decade and a half of the twenty - first century — and outside of time: unshackled by the constraints of context and the restrictions of history because, as works of art, they are fully present in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again, in perpetuit
in which they were made and attuned to the digital phase
of the Information Age as it hurtles us through the first decade and a half
of the twenty - first century — and outside
of time: unshackled by the constraints
of context and the restrictions
of history because, as
works of art, they are fully present
in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again, in perpetuit
in the moment and available to be intimately engaged by innumerable viewers, over and over again,
in perpetuit
in perpetuity.
Of Warhol in particular, Craig - Martin said: «Warhol is possibly the most important figure in the fundamental change that occurred in art in the early 60s... [he] changes the whole notion about what a work of art is and how one deals with it.&raqu
Of Warhol
in particular, Craig - Martin said: «Warhol is possibly the most important figure
in the fundamental change that occurred
in art in the early 60s... [he] changes the whole notion about what a
work of art is and how one deals with it.&raqu
of art is and how one deals with it.»
A specialist
in modern and contemporary
art she is known for her
particular expertise
in the
work of African, Latino, Native and Asian American artists.