The word
"quotidian" means something that occurs or happens every day or on a daily basis.
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The meticulous staging
of quotidian scenes of family and friends lent the images an unparalleled sense of heightened drama and ambiguity.
The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade
in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.
Swiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space, as well as for his unexpected transformations of
quotidian objects.
Overton has become known for her site - responsive installations and sculptures made
with quotidian materials.
«It Takes a Village,» Alejandro Diaz's latest solo exhibition, pulls together a seemingly disparate variety of references from Minimalism, Conceptualism, Abstract Expressionism, and even British Pop to unapologetically expose the reality of
quotidian life in the artist's own personal interest in South Texas, and specifically San Antonio.
Jaehyo Lee has been rethinking and re-envisioning use of
quotidian materials for several decades.
Her subject matter focuses
on quotidian aspects of domestic life, taking place in conventional, albeit subtly Nigerian, interiors.
Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel) is a Belgian artist who is internationally known for his paintings that engage equally with questions of history and its representation as with
quotidian subject matter cast in unfamiliar and eerie light.
Bradley and Soto take inspiration
from quotidian forms, but then affect those forms to create carefully fabricated works that challenge their original banality.
What he does less successfully is fit in
quotidian moments with Black Widow, Hulk and Hawkeye, the characters who haven't had movies named after them over the last three years.
I am dealing with a reverse form of voyeurism — that of being on the inside of my own home looking out at
quotidian experiences.
Using the machine to scan objects as
quotidian as a gum wrapper or as unexpected as a dead swan, Hill published many of the resulting images alongside her own texts.
It will become bearable when decidedly
more quotidian things become commonplace — like paid parental leave and affordable, quality day care (which Sandberg and Slaughter both advocate).
Robin Rhode, the South African - born, Berlin - based multidisciplinary artist, engages a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life
using quotidian materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint.
Her intimate and seemingly
quotidian scenes of domestic life in Nigeria and the U.S. are bold and colorful, literally layered with narratives that are personal and political, «like the layering of sediment,» she says.
With the objective of discovery and enlightenment directed toward the everyday, Schonzeit illuminates splendor in
quotidian reality in order to connect his audience to his work.
Sonsini, born in 1950 in Rome, New York, previously compared his painting practice to street photography, emphasizing its spontaneity and intense interest in
quotidian detail.
As completely unprecedented and literally out of this world as the experience was, when the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they still had to handle some of the more
quotidian aspects of business travel.
In his captivating short films, Los Angeles — based artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph (b. 1981, Seattle, WA) conjures the lush and impressionistic quality of dreams with particular reverence
for quotidian moments and intimate scenes.
But despite travel's often
quotidian nature, the former New Yorker staff writer believes that, for reasons rooted deeply in evolutionary science, it has the potential to create a unique state of awareness and reflection in the human mind.
An exhibition of selected works that was recently on view at Marlborough Gallery in New York highlighted the simultaneous effect and affect with which Bravo infused his art by means of masterly technical precision but perhaps more importantly through a singular use of color inspired
by quotidian life in his adopted home of Tangier, Morocco, and the depiction of the art that he collected and maintained while living there.
Even later in his long career, as other artists began to adopt Abstract Expressionism, he continued to work slowly and methodically in a realist mode, drawing inspiration from both the old Victorian houses of small New England towns and the mundane,
quotidian world of the city, featured in such famous paintings as the Art Institute's Nighthawks.
For the women in France who are killed at a rate of one every three days by their partners, banal
quotidian routines can coexist with paralysing fear and violence.
She is influenced by
quotidian items, places, and African, Moroccan, and Caribbean textiles, which are highly evident in her subjects, forms, and colors.
With subjects painted using vibrant hues and tactile surfaces, Fratino's portraiture depicts a relatable sentimentality by transforming
quotidian activities, like eating, lounging or loving, into opportunities to reflect on the complexities of life.
The world of Psalms is often pragmatic, anchored in the immediacy and the urgent concerns of
quotidian existence.
This group exhibition, organized by Walead Beshty, aims to uncover the fundamental systems that are invisible in everyday life, using works by artists like Franz West, Liam Gillick, Claire Fontaine, and Dan Flavin to question how one looks
at quotidian objects and images.
Senga Nengudi has two pantyhose and sand wall hangings whose bazaar voluptuousness
transform quotidian materials so completely that feminist interpretations are almost secondary to the sensory experience.
I certainly believe emotional diplomacy can take more
quotidian forms as well — in fact, I think this is something deserving greater research and say as much in the conclusion of the book.
With just a few hard - won marks, Mr. York could render uncanny impressions of the
most quotidian subjects: a brown cow in a field, pink flowers in a tin container, a potted plant, a cut lemon that may make your lips pucker.
Robert Frank is most well known for The Americans, a book of photographs published in 1958 that revealed
quotidian elements of American life through his objective perspective.
RR: Your paintings seem to transcend their
seemingly quotidian subject matter through your sophisticated formal devices.
Often incorporating
quotidian office supplies, her work evokes the banalities of the everyday that underpin creative work, from PowerPoint presentations narrating her typical studio routine to collaged works on paper that use materials such as carbon transfer paper, discarded printed matter, and tape.
And God is there, in the daily
quotidian rhythms of my day, without straining and earnest seeking, simply there, always there, always present, and when I go to bed at a decent time yet again, some part of me begins to find joy, contentment, peace, and I receive the gift of hope, all over again.
Looking to the way in
which quotidian space is naturally transformed through a condition of absence into a reflexive index in memory, Nick Ostoff further amplifies this quality of the imperfect echo with the mechanics of representation and the painterly process.
Broken vases, glass panels, and
other quotidian objects seep into abstraction, questioning how we perceive objects and place value, and disrupting existent systems of knowledge.
Pace's presentation at Art 021 will include a selection of artists whose work
employs quotidian materials and images.
It is a pity, because correspondence such as the one collected here can open a rare window to the day - to - day lives of the writers we admire, reminding us that they are human and subject to the same
quotidian concerns and larger fears that we all face.
Sección A R T E, Weist envisioned a conceptual and political insertion, an original video
featuring quotidian internet browsing that captures the aesthetic and habitual norms of contemporary internet culture.
Acheiving a surface that resembles flaking plaster walls, with rich pure pigment color, Gross crops and reverses
quotidian images to reveal abstract shapes and forms that are at once familiar and foreign.
Strongly coloured, the often
quotidian motifs of Tal R's work can seem undramatic.
In his own work Burckhardt
captured quotidian moments of the city, its people, the demolition & construction of its changing neighborhoods.
Perhaps the notion of The Undocument here comes in the form of the risks the members of the Lexington Camera Club took with analogue experimentation and their ability to create compositional tension in
quotidian domestic scenes and landscapes.
Cheng Ting Ting's latest solo exhibition at chi art space in Hong Kong
explores quotidian life in the city and the expectations placed on children in contemporary society.
Informed by a myriad of exchanges and experiences the artist had during his residency in the city, the show is structured as two installations that at first glance simply
depict quotidian scenes, albeit, in two very different worlds.
The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at
even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.