Sentences with phrase «precious objects»

Conceptual Art is all about «ideas and meanings» rather than «works of art» (paintings, sculptures, other precious objects).

They seem incapable of saying «no» to anything that is offered because they know how precious those objects are and how luxurious it is to have them.

With his glazed, golden rocks, Sodi enjoys taking the natural objects out of context and presenting them in a gallery as precious objects of desire.

«Jerusalem 1000 - 1400: Every People Under Heaven» * at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sept. 26) will be shipping in precious objects from hither and yon to project an image of a city that was global long before globalization.

Q&A with Nona Inescu Most precious object: A stone concretion..

Re-purposed by Parker, the damaged liners and edges are revealed as precious objects of beauty in their own right.

Encased in structures that protect and transport precious objects through generations, the ringboxes become symbolic of oral historical practices.

The art of Monte Albán had given us the freedom to see things detached from their use, as pure materials, worth being turned into precious objects.

The wealthier we are, the more precious the objects must be for which we deign to compete.

Then the same insurance agent visits a widow (Ellen Burstyn), who lost her house in a fire but managed to salvage a few precious objects, including a baseball signed by Ted Williams.

Removing precious objects that your dog might mistake for chew toys is an example of using management tools.

Many precious objects were found at the bottom of this beautiful cenote, which indicates the Mayas used it for sacred rituals instead of human sacrifices.

Mrs Eggleton's passion for Russia and Turkey, where she previously had homes, and her love of Italy inspired The Russian Amethyst Villa's stunningly beautiful interior, a selection of distinctive and precious objects d'art carefully chosen by June Goldfinger and Rebecca Eggleton.

From the gallery: The new series is also playing on confusion between precious objects and pedestrian material of choice, the backlit packing tape.

Dean's new sculpture, Dead Zone (2), encases a cotton branch inside a bell jar — a display typically used to house precious objects derived from the natural world.

They are much more interested in developing ideas and concepts - frequently employing mixed - media formats - than in handcrafting precious objects.

Sold earlier this year through Christies and significantly surpassing its estimated sale price of # 70,000 — # 100,000, ($ 112,980 — $ 161,400) selling at # 145,000 ($ 236,612), the Mincarlo: Three Curves with Strings, sculpture is of 18 carat gold (Apparently, the best gold you can get for making precious objects, 22 carat is too soft).

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.

The re-emergence of the book as precious object.

See 250 fine jewelry pieces, diadems and precious objects from Cartier's heyday come to life across the Atlantic at the Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century exhibition in Denver, until March 15.

The Karolik Collection of 18th - Century American Arts significantly boosted the Museum's holdings of colonial furniture, paintings, silver, and other precious objects.

«I became completely fascinated by how this industrially fabricated paper, that has no particular value, could be transformed into a beautifully charged, special and precious object through the touch of a button», he explains.

The precious Object can not be found by anybody, but only by the one person who possesses the right qualities of breeding or character.

We viewed all the treasures of the castle chapel, and saw the armoury, and just about every precious object with which his truly royal and extraordinary famous castle sparkles.»

We dreamed one day we'd be the name on the cover of just such a precious object.

«We can go in storage, we can go in the galleries and do the analysis without these precious objects ever having to leave their home,» Casadio said.

My husband and I spent our first few hours in Collata making formal presentations to the village officers, requesting permission to study two rare and precious objects that the community has guarded for centuries — bunches of twisted and colored cords known as khipus.

Sometimes that's exactly what many of us crave: Being a beautiful thing, being a precious object.

This precious object is a rare survivor from the jewellery collection of Queen Elizabeth I.

It can be erected quickly and is self - supporting so provides an easy way of eliminating all the distractions in the room at a stroke and make a clean and clear space in which to tell a story, meet a puppet or pass round a precious object.

It's less like a precious object and more like a utility tablet.

This is a loan backed by collateral the lender finds valuable, like your home, a precious object, equity in a company, etc..

More than 200 precious objects from the Ottoman Empire, all of which once graced the sultan's palace.

«Even though they are all displaced people, a family portrait is a precious object.

Tillmans photographs gold bars such that these precious objects are rendered thick heaping rectangles of vibrant yellow gold.

The cover text is embroidered to create a precious object, and all of the texts relating to the installation are beautifully embossed.

More importantly, Posenenske insisted on working in unlimited series, subverting the notion that a work of art is a singular, static, and precious object.

Organized by Evelyn Hankins, a curator at the Hirshhorn, this is also Mr. Irwin's first major American survey outside his native California in nearly 40 years and the first anywhere devoted entirely to his work from the 1960s, when, in full experimental mode, he was shifting the emphasis of his own art from psychic encounters to physical ones, from precious objects to environments, places of contemplation.

From 18 September, we will be showing an exhibition called «Baroque Pearl», exclusively on our website, comprising jewels and precious objects from the Renaissance to the art nouveau.

Her unruly sculptures are never pristine, precious objects, but instead wilfully rough - around - the - edges, slapped together out of lightweight, throwaway materials: plywood, polystyrene, foam, felt.

«Precious objects» includes highlights from the series «Animalvegetablemineral» (2013) and «Fleurs d'excès» (2011).

Victoire de Castellane, creative director of Dior Joaillerie and one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers worldwide, presents her very first exhibition in New York, titled «Precious objects», at Gagosian gallery.

It would be another precious object.

Video's impermanence and reproducibility were seen as a denial of art as precious object.

He has also affixed these stencils directly onto gallery walls and other surfaces, blurring the boundaries between art and the everyday, and the unique, precious object and mass production.

They emphasized ideas and concepts rather than precious objects and the skills needed to make them.

MIA holds one of the world's greatest collections of Islamic art, spanning over 1,400 years and representing Islamic art from three continents, with precious objects, paintings, textiles and jewels in its extensive permanent collection.