Sentences with phrase «plop art»

This «Plop Art,» as one tabloid called it, is by Paul Noble, the hot favorite to win this year's $ 40,000 Turner Prize, the UK's most prestigious contemporary art award, whose winner will be announced Dec. 3.

... that the derogatory term «plop art» is used for uninspiring sculptures made for public places such as office plazas?

«I'm not a great fan of what I call «plop art,»» she said.

Whiteread declined to name which sculptures she thought were plop art, but there will be many people who have strong views on the subject, given how fiercely divisive the subject of public sculpture can be.

Too many public sculptures are examples of «plop art» — works dropped into an apparently random site and hardly noticed — according to artist Rachel Whiteread.

The problems are further underscored by a display on the Met's open - air roof garden, where two more of Mr. Stella's architectural models are joined by two large sculptures that are little more than mildly Stella-esque plop art.

Whiteread's own comments on her sculptural practice also sparked a resurgence of discussion on the topic of «plop art» — public art that seems to have no bearing on the environment in which it is placed.

Not exact matches

I plopped down on the couch, tore open the package, and beheld... the incredible work of art titled «Every Last Crumb» by my friend, Brittany Angell.

However, no amount of reading and consciousness - raising done within the brick walls of my liberal arts college could have prepared me for that moment when «unfairness» and «injustice» were plopped in front of me in a (hopelessly adorable) flesh - and - blood package.

Briva has no hesitation in plopping her giant paw down in her owner's lap, and look at those eyes — she's mastered the art of begging and looking absolutely adorable.

But one person's plop is another's poetic vision, says Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones

Art today is expected to take a crew to build and have a Medici in the background to plop down the gold coinage.

Plop Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, New York, 2004, p. 63 (another example reproduced).

PLOP: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund, London and New York, 2004, p. 63, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, introduction by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 2004 «Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund.»

Neither could have worked anywhere else: while pop art — Mitchell derided it as «pop, slop and plop» — and conceptualism ruled New York, Mitchell in France and Twombly in Italy alone held up the American abstract expressionist aesthetic in a sort of internal exile.

There were other things to consider: at Macarrone, a functional chimney sculpture by Oscar Tuazon that you could «activate» by burning leaves in it; a Tal R sofa at Contemporary Fine Arts; a speedboat at Franco Noero that Daren Bader plopped onto a Ping - Pong table and kitted out with objects from the titles of twenty - one short stories he found in an abandoned FedEx envelope — and a live actor to go with them, always.

Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund.

Another option is if you're already doing other flips or are definitely planning on doing more, you could take some time and shop for some deals on buying your own furniture and accessories (remember, great staging is much more than just plopping a rug and a couple couches in the living room - its really setting a mood with little knick knacks, accessories, art, etc) but often on craigslist you can find barely used decent furniture for some good or even great deals.