Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been known throughout their prodigious careers for their sculpture, photography, and videos that present common objects and
quotidian scenes in inventive and surprising ways.
Not exact matches
After staging a whiz - bang OASIS chase
scene set
in New York, replete with King Kong and T. rexes slashing into the frame, who wants to be dropped back into
quotidian slumminess?
Selecting common hand saws, shovels, axes, baking pans, and cake servers,
quotidian objects that are assigned along gender lines of domestic work and construction work are painted with titillating
scenes of women frolicking about
in a lake, or simply posing
in nature.
Often categorized as a New York Pop artist, Thiebaud does not identify himself as such, having begun his paintings of
quotidian American
scenes in the mid 1950's well before the explosion of Pop art.
Through
scenes that are
quotidian and mundane
in nature, a non-linear story emerges.
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.
In his absorbing 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.
Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban
scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists
in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the
quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.
A set of monochromatic illustrations to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from the late 1930s incorporate a greater sense of narrative than many of Neel's other compositions and show the actors at various key stages of the existential drama; her own life is referenced
in often richly colored,
quotidian scenes depicting herself
in the company of her lovers.
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.
In their depictions of
quotidian scenes, Larsen's paintings emphasize the way visual and narrative hierarchies are conjoined or interrupted.
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.
Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop Art and the slick urban
scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists
in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the
quotidian, choosing often overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.