Sentences with phrase «readymade objects such»

(2009)(on view in Bushwick) are bricolages of found materials, enamel, oil paint, readymade objects such as stools and rulers, and images which memorialize the artist's own collaborative urban interventions.

Often working with readymade objects such as Barbie dolls, fishnet stockings, opera costumes, and wedding dresses, sculptor and installation artist E. V. Day delves into the cultural fetishism by manipulating women's fashion and undergarments.

In the 1950s Robert Rauschenberg used what he dubbed «combines», literally combining readymade objects such as tires or beds, painting, silk - screens, collage, and photography.

Not exact matches

But whereas Duchamp's readymades, such as his famous urinal, questioned the artwork's privileged status as a handmade object, the new generation places art within the context of capitalist economy.

Key to her photography is the drama and intimacy of the close - up that highlights emotional content in specific moments, as well as capturing readymade objects «made» by forces of nature such as wind, sun, or the trampling of feet.

My approach to composition is to photograph objects gathered in pre-existing display settings such as museums and shop windows, in other words «readymade» still life groupings, from which I can isolate an image which will often incorporate incidental reflections and chance juxtapositions of objects.

The use of found objects such as barbed wire, neon lights, or glass shards indicates the crucial role the readymade plays in his work.

The artists do not aim to create an original; rather they follow in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, who famously designated ordinary mass - produced objects as «Readymade» works of art, and Jasper Johns, who, in the late 1950s, chose to paint images «the mind already knows,» such as targets and the American flag.

He started making such readymades — found objects presented as art, a term coined by Duchamp himself — during his M.F.A. at Yale, with slicker objects like gold - plated basketball nets stacked vertically in reference to Donald Judd.

During this time Duchamp began exhibiting «readymades» (everyday objects found or purchased and declared art) such as a bottle rack, and was active in the Society of Independent Artists.

Duchamp, who became the darling of the radical Dada movement (founded by Tristan Tzara), created numerous challenging works such as his «readymades» series of found objects, of which the most celebrated was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin, which Duchamp submitted for inclusion in the annual, exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York.

Expanding on Marcel Duchamp's concept of the readymade, Rauschenberg imbued new significance to such ordinary objects as a patchwork quilt or an automobile tire by combining unrelated items and incorporating them into the context of art.

The items include quotidian objects such as pillows, furniture, and potted plants; the conversion of these items into art subjects is obvious, given the inclusion of Duchamp's infamous readymade urinal in the stack of items.

The latter included a number of subversive ideas which are now seen as relatively mainstream, such as the creation of junk art from «found objects» (Duchamp's «readymades»), and the introduction of 3 - D collage (Schwitters» Merzbau).

Associated with the New British Sculpture movement since the end of the 1970s, Richard Wentworth operates in what he has termed a «readymade landscape,» transforming everyday objects such as tables, light bulbs, ladders, and buckets into new assemblages.