Sentences with phrase «quotidian objects from»

By decontextualizing these quotidian objects from their traditional function, Munson creates a new way of looking at them, infusing them with an air of mystery and unfamiliarity.

These are situated atop large, white - plaster sculptures that have been alternately modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, or after such quotidian objects from the contemporary residential landscape as a rustic mailbox, a birdbath, and an inflatable garden snowman.

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In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

Traversing a wide range of media, from collage to performance, Haegue Yang's body of work often features quotidian and domestic found objects...

The images themselves became a form of found object — Rauschenberg used pictures clipped from newspapers, showing scenes both iconic and quotidian, and transformed them in his prints, while Johns made everyday imagery, like the United States flag or a target, the focal point of his work.

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

In this body of work, large plaster sculptures modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era and quotidian objects such as garden ornaments are each anchored by a blue «gazing ball» of hand - blown glass.

Powerful, poetically charged images emerged from milling ideas and memories together with quotidian observation of objects that ceaselessly surrounded him: books, clocks, paint, canvases, boots, cigarettes.