The phrase
"role of the artist" refers to the function, purpose or responsibility that an artist has within a particular context.
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The exhibition highlights the crucial
role of artists in representing contemporary conflict.
NOW will highlight the diversity of contemporary artistic practice, and the
unique role of artists, who, through their work can offer alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world around us.
In his new body of work, Carl enters the expanded field of painting utilizing a chemical process called anodizing, as yet a way to relinquish the traditional
role of artist as creator.
Chinatown Art Brigade delivers a statement
on role of artists and cultural workers in resisting the Trump regime, during #J20 Action (on the of the Inauguration of Donald Trump) on January 20th, 2017 at the Whitney Museum organized by Occupy Museums.
This October, the Walker Art Museum will investigate the politically engaged viewpoint that lies at the bottom of much of Gillick's work in «9 Artists,» a show considering «the
changing role of the artist in contemporary culture.»
And viewed from this perspective, the
social role of the artist, especially the writer of fiction, becomes far more important — and far more culturally potent — than most people ever appreciate.
The collective challenges notions of authorship, the
traditional role of the artist, and the value accorded to institutional structures by questioning the intersections of an artist - run space and the conventional white cube.
They were moving beyond the dictates of American Scene painting, Regionalism and Social Realism searching for a balance between form and subject as well as the changing
role of the artists from mimic to mythic.
As processes of visual and narrative reading coalesce, questions emerge about the
assumed role of the artist as singular author and how the migration of information across a range of forms multiplies, or dissolves, its meaning.
Through 50 works of art including film, sculpture, painting, installations, photography and prints, many of which will be exhibited publicly in the UK for the first time, this exhibition highlights the
crucial role of artists in representing contemporary conflict.
Contributors to this issue inhabit the sometimes
overlapping roles of artists, collectors, art historians, and conservators; each is a stakeholder with a deep interest in the history, research, display, and preservation of modern and contemporary media arts.
Working on Jessica Stockholder's shows at our Elizabeth Street space has been particularly exciting for us, as we've been able to watch her expertly play the
dual role of artist / curator.
Vox Populi teamed up with Brooklyn - based curatorial collective Cleopatra's to explore the
current role of artist - run spaces within the broader artistic community.
This flexibility, combined with the increasingly
blurred roles of artist and curator, has been central to the growing enthusiasm for revisiting whole exhibitions.
The Clark Art Institute and the Aspen Institute presented a panel discussion exploring the
emerging role of artist - endowed foundations as a force in cultural philanthropy and in the stewardship of America's artistic heritage.
Bickerton parodied do - gooding society types, contrived and idealized self and family portraiture, western fantasies of island expat life, and the
mythological role of the artist.
The impersonality that such artists aspired to was best expressed by Jan Schoonhoven (1914 - 94), the theorist of the Dutch Nul group of artists, to which Armando also belonged: «Zero is first and foremost a new conception of reality, in which the
individual role of the artist is kept to a minimum.
9 Artists is an international, multigenerational group exhibition that considers the mutable and
mutating role of the artist in contemporary culture.
Where the abstract expressionists sought harmony and purification of the pictorial space, his neo-avant-garde instead aimed to diminish the
authorial role of the artist and bridge the gap between art and life.
Although both works were made in different times, places and languages (both artistic and verbal), together they stood as an argument for the
lasting role of the artist as auditor and producer of testimony to violent events.
Anselm Kiefer with his panoramas of paint and straw, Georg Baselitz with his world turned upside - down, and Gerhard Richter with photorealism and a squeegee — each was out both to remake and to question German history, the
outsize role of the artist, and the claims of art itself.
This subversion of the
perceived role of the artist shows Graham undermining the popular mythology of the artist and highlighted the constructed nature of identity, while also being a warm tribute to «amateur» art.
«Working in Stereo»: Sean Ripple on Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective and the
Rising Role of the Artist - Curator Austin Chronicle
In that tenure many questions have been asked over such matters as the
cosy role of artist trustees — for instance the scandal over the purchase of Chris Ofili's The Upper Room, and the apparent revolving door relationship between artist trustees and Tate patronage (currently being enjoyed by Wolfgang Tillmans).
Using the Rocky Mountains as a stage set to perform the historically
romanticized role of the artist in the landscape, Kjartansson questions the cultural narratives that mediate our experiences of nature.
Melding roles of artist and cultural historian, Enrique Chagoya creates alternative interpretations of current events.
«Light Painting» is the artist's first solo exhibition in China and it solicits the audience to contemplate the
hybrid role of the artist as creator, consumer and animator in today's image - based economy — as well as the networked and mediated nature of images within contemporary art's ecosystem.
As the current nature of art and commerce has facilitated industry - wide conversations about the
evolving role of artists, galleries, museums, art fairs, and the Internet, Warhol's philosophies appear more topical and relevant than ever before.
The artist's wife, Danna Ruscha, posted the following comment on the Facebook page of L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight, beneath a piece he wrote on the
pivotal role of artists in shaping MOCA historically and the warning sent by the current exodus:» Christopher Knight, Ed has resigned.
Sabin Bors: If artistic practices will indeed turn to collaborative virtual environments, how will this change, affect, stimulate or refashion the
social role of the artist?
Citing the ever - expanding
role of artists in society, Lowe told MICA graduates: «This is a great moment.
Only in the past two decades have the
crucial roles of artists such as Norman Lewis, Joan Mitchell, and others been returned to their rightful place at the heart of the story.
Nicole Seisler is an interdisciplinary artist who creates sculpture, installation, and public art that investigate themes of time, ephemerality, and the
overlapping roles of artist / viewer / participant / collaborator.
Beuys's political activism, his broad concept of creativity, and his commitment to both art and education challenged the
traditional role of an artist.
The result is The Opinion Makers — an exhibition conceived as paired juxtapositions (one work by an artist - curator, together with one work by an artist of their choice) which aims to create an open discussion about the
dual role of the artist - curator; to tackle head on the issues that arise from it; and to use it as a unique window into the intricate subjectivity of the curating process.
NOW will celebrate the diversity of contemporary artistic practice, and the
unique role of artists in society, who, through their work, can offer alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world around us.
After completing only five drawings, Genevieve died of typhoid fever, and her grieving family determined to finish the book, with her mother taking
the role of artist.
As such, this movie makes an excellent case for
the role of the artist in society being a socially conscious one to which it provides a prime example.
Known for his contributions to the Fluxus movement and his work across diverse media — from happening and performance to sculpture, installation, and graphic art — Beuys» expanded concept of
the role of the artist places him in the middle of socially relevant discourses on media, community, and capitalism.
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