Sentences with phrase «poetic exploration»

Between 1948 and 1950, however, he was to develop a radical approach to image - making grounded in a poetic exploration of matter that challenged the two - dimensional nature of the wall - mounted artwork — an interest that he continued to expand and refine over the course of a long career, working with a wide range of materials such as rubber, pumice stone, plastic and sacking.

He came to prominence with his 1989 film Looking for Langston, a cinematically lush, poetic exploration of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance.

After graduating from St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1985, he came to prominence with his 1989 drama - documentary Looking for Langston, a poetic exploration of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance.

The poetic exploration succeeds in evoking Bachelard's evocation of memory and levels of meaning.

Artist and writer Việt Lê uses Dizon's images from White Gaze as a starting point for his poetic exploration of the legacies of war and imperialism.

Viet uses these alterations as a starting point for further poetic exploration into the legacies of war and imperialism.

My students and I were about to embark on an adventure in poetic exploration and self - expression.

Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hepworth, Wakefield Dion's cabinets of wonders fail to excite curiosity — unlike McCall's poetic explorations of light

These poetic explorations, increasingly complex and refined, carried him through a career that lasted more than 60 years.

Thomas Turner takes inspiration from Chinese folklore, Greek mythology, Buddhism, Astronomy and Quantum theories to illustrate poetic explorations of universal human origin and connectedness.

While I have always valued the profoundly poetic explorations of self and community found in Piper's earlier works, I experienced a crisis of conscience as I moved through the final galleries.

These paintings, subjective and poetic explorations of nature that carried suggestions of timelessness and spirituality, were commercially unsuccessful.

Not exact matches

-- The Village Voice «A poetic / fantastic exploration of a performer cut loose from performing» — Variety «A contemporary interpretation of Bergman's Persona.

By Bob Bloom «The Rider» is a poetic and melancholy exploration of a young man standing at a crossroads in his life, in which he must contemplate giving up what he loves to do and that which defines him.

The best - selling author (Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart) offers an often poetic and captivating exploration of the subject without running into cliché or sappy territory.

Most readers, however, will be drawn into Ferris's poetic, empathetic accounts of Tim's journeys and returns, and they will willingly join the author on his journey of exploration into one man's mysterious, heartbreaking decline... The Unnamed is both a surprising departure from the satirical social commentary of Ferris's debut and a second novel that - in its more personal focus and introspection - surpasses its predecessor.

These works are an amalgamation of a deeply personal range of art historical references, at once material explorations but also spiritual, philosophical, and poetic ones.

Compared to the very slow processes involved in making sculpture, Antony Gormley's drawing offers the most immediate form of meditative responses to place, an intuitive exploration to one's relationship with the wider world, creating a poetic and diverse range of images.

Installation / performance view April 8 — August 28, 2011 Brooklyn - based artist William Lamson (b. 1977) forges a captivating exploration of forces of nature and the passage of time through his inventive, often poetic interventions into natural and man - made environments.

The first includes an artist such as Paul Klee, for whom each picture is a singular and exacting exploration of a chosen poetic theme (the conflation, for example, of the structure of a stained glass window with that of a plant).

The debris of dreams and the mind presented as enigmatic words or phrases and poetic quotations hidden beneath layers of irony highlight Wynne's mastery of contradiction and his exploration of fixed meaning.

Through the use of such materials, Quinn's works are at once poetic and confrontational through their exploration of life, death, sexuality and religion.

Despite this curiosity for exploration of different media and techniques, the existential lyricism and poetic content is a constant in his work.

From literal urban jungles to the so - called untarnished wilderness, from the scientific realities of climate change to the poetic human longing for time outside, Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural world.

This minimal work, like Moorhead's others, is both poetic homage to intricate engineering and a melancholic exploration of the synthetic ways humans experience the natural world.

And while it's impossible to map such energy, I'm interested in the poetic possibilities of such exploration.

This intimate and incisive exploration of location, origin, material and process reveals poetic dimensions of space, mining the territories of history and archaeology.

Through their exploration of the urban space and those who inhabit it, these four artists are playing with it, denaturing it and rendering it with a poetics and sensibility which it deserves.

This had an immeasurable impact: she continues to be fascinated by exposed architecture, a key motif in her work, along with a committed exploration of the poetic potential of urban ruins.

One of the medium's pioneers is the American minimalist artist Dan Flavin, who from the early 1960s onwards developed a tightly structured exploration of electric light and colour through his poetic and atmospheric sculptural installations using found materials.

This may be a poetic take on it, but experiences are not rendered abstract: instead, the exploration of a fundamentally ambiguous central concept offers a tangible provocation for change.

John Akomfrah's video installation «Vertigo Sea», a three - screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale, is a sensual, poetic and cohesive meditation on man's relationship with the sea and exploration of its role in the history of slavery, migration, and conflict.

Exploration of the Soul 1994, was the first of Emin's published texts, a poetic but frequently harrowing account of her sexual history.

Lovell's poetic combinations «transgress cultural or racial boundaries» in their exploration of identity, heritage, memory, and our collective American past.

The verdant green and cerulean blue along the bottom are complemented by the earthly tones of ruby and peach that dominate the central composition and conjure a spring sunrise, altogether resulting in a poetic and dynamic exploration of how color and form can expose the unlimited space between imagination and memory.

Her solo performance project, yek koo, transverses the visual and poetic, through the exploration of space, body, amplified voice, breath, horn and rhythm, revealing the harmony and tension between sound, and physical space and matter.

Similarly, the luscious swaths of scarlet are juxtaposed against the radiating emerald form, altogether resulting in a poetic and dynamic exploration of how color and form can expose the unlimited space between imagination and memory.

For her first museum show in Paris, Charlotte Moth — a British artist living in France — continues her exploration of space as architecture and as potential, tendentially transforming history of art into poetic vision.