Sentences with phrase «radical gesture»

She made radical gestures in response to the history of dance, and practiced in unconventional spaces without any music.

His most radical gesture was the creation of the 90 cans of Artist's shit with the content of 30 grams that was sold for the current price of gold (30 gr of something in the can is equal to the 30 gr of gold, which was approximately 37 dollars).

Their performances have taken place as radical gesture calling to mind notorious artists of earlier radical art movements but the historical, linguistic and political context of their practice is often related specifically to their origins: China.

Rather than «challenging» the institution, this piece reaffirms the museum's self - image as courtesan and midwife to the supposedly radical gesture.

His short career was characterised by many radical gestures, often touched with his flair for spectacle.

The commonly developed method of dialogical painting is artistic practice and radical gesture at the same time.

Perhaps the artist's most radical gesture was to transport the image from a confined two - dimensional surface (the paper) onto an -LSB-...]

At once a political epic and a radical gesture in personal filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic is an unexpected, unlikely triumph.

A quote I keep coming back to and have used on many occasions as part of my artist talks: «People have found it necessary to define themselves in images, in photographs, in film and drawings, in order not to disappear — I am beginning to think that the last frontier for radical gesture is the imagination.»

It was a radical gesture for her to carve out this niche for herself at a time when many women artists in the United States were adopting strategies of appropriation, producing works that were critical yet often cool in tone and intellectually rigorous, and when popinfluenced painting rooted in graphic languages and bright colors was typically associated with male painters like Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat.

«The works in Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 are radical gestures.

Founded in 1977 as a radical gesture by art historian and curator Marcia Tucker, the New Museum began as an alternative model of museum practice.

Particularly at this moment in the United States, where the mere act of #walkingwhileBlack or being on one's own property can be perceived as a threat, punishable by harm or death, thinking of space — public or private — as safe and restorative, to be democratically occupied and moved through, created for and by black people, is a radical gesture.

For Delahunty, the black paintings are «a radical gesture as to the exclusive use of black» which ushered in and inspired a subsequent generation of artists like Robert Ryman and Ad Reinhardt.

In a New York art scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism, with its emphasis on ineffable, sublime themes and maximum emotion, to depict something as humdrum as a flag was a radical gesture.

«The museum was a radical gesture to address the exclusion of black artists from the canonical presentation of art history.»

A «Radical Gesture» The Studio Museum was founded in 1968 to provide a venue for artists of African descent to exhibit their work when opportunities to do so at mainstream institutions were few.

Read about Italian - born artist Monica Bonvicini who refuses to be confined by the architecture of her surroundings, but offers in her radical gestures, her own menu of obstacles.

Ajemian's idea of running other people» paintings through the washing machine is a radical gesture that questions authorship and originality.

Garnett comments: «I think that painting is a radical gesture.

How can the age - old medium of painting serve as a radical gesture?

That is really how much time a work takes, otherwise it is nothing more than a footnote to the radical gesture.

This is not so much a radical gesture as one of those artworks which institutions tend to love.

In this lecture, we will explore how artists made sense of painting in the wake of Jackson Pollock's radical gesture.

Considered against the backdrop of the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s and the rise of multiculturalism in the 1980s, the works in Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 are radical gestures.

At a time when people were talking about «planes» — the surface plane, the depth plane etc — making a hole was a radical gesture which broke the space on the canvas as if to say: after this we are free to do what we like.