Sentences with phrase «playful irreverence»
By re-staging painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable materials and willful deliberation, the processes of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix of the serious and the sensual.
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As Paul Morrison wrote (in Contemporary Visual Arts) of an earlier phase of Stubbs's work,» the paintings operate as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with playful irreverence».
She found the earnestness of much feminist art extremely oppressive; her recent work reveals that a playful irreverence is important for her in addressing serious issues.
The paintings operate as perceptual palimpsests in which the artist overwrites modernist tropes with a playful irreverence.
With a playful irreverence to the sanctity of a photograph as a mirror of reality, Shahbazi drains details out of images.
He pursued his M.F.A. at the University of Colorado and during the late 1960s gravitated towards a Pop sensibility, particularly admiring the playful irreverence of the Chicago Hairy Who artists and the California Funk movement, having studied under visiting professor William Wiley.
Yagi's work nods both to Paik's playful irreverence and media deconstruction and to John Cage's chance procedures and notion of indeterminacy.
«Abandoning deference for playful irreverence, Sommers draws on her interests in renaissance and baroque art, toying with staid motifs and trading solemnity for nose - thumbing whimsy.
He was keenly aware that he had become the public face of science, a role he treated with seriously playful irreverence.
Not exact matches
As soon as the film started, it was clear that July's voice as a filmmaker hasn't changed that much in the past five years — the same irreverence, black humour and playful charm abounds — but the film lacks the bounce of her first feature.
After a solemn run of recent winners, «The Square» is looking to return some irreverence to the category, which is not to say that Ruben Ostlund's playful art - world satire is a lightweight option.
Benglis» sculptures see her register aspects of Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism, but in a playful and parodic way that merges the irreverence of Pop with her own brand of abstraction.