Sentences with phrase «slapdash works»

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.

On the surface, Lizzie Fitch's inkjet - printed two - dimensional constructions would seem to be about as far from Six's slapdash works as possible, but they both combine disparate elements in ways that reward extended viewing.

Not exact matches

«Slapdash, last - minute vanity plays masquerading as political campaigns rarely work.

The Green Hornet offers the perfect mix of comedy and superhero mythology for a slapdash tale that works well throughout, says Andrew Payne.

Directed by first - time filmmaker Stuart Blumberg — whose previous work includes scripting the slapdash romantic comedy, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR and Lisa Cholodenko's superb artificial insemination dramedy, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT — the film has a particularly adroit and wholly believable stance depicting a contemporary society governed by the taken mantra that sex sells, especially within the hub of cultural metropolis that is New York City.

When her daughter received an A on a slapdash essay, and defiantly conveyed a guidance counselor's comment that «not everyone is cut out for college,» Brooks — who worked in information technology then — came to the school to talk with the principal.

And yet, utilitarian as it is, and despite the slapdash build quality, it manages to be both aesthetically graceful and mechanically formidable — a fitting artifact of an era when working class didn't mean second class.

Talking of Kawamori's creative input, building an AC was no slapdash affair, creating an unbeatable AC was a work of heightened craftmanship.

Cohen writes that in Bradford's work «there is the peculiar poetic charm of provisional painting — a sense of blah, of nonchalance, of not quite caring about the slapdash, scruffy, Brooklyn-esque «work in progress» look.

In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation.

More directly expressive than the wall works, the plaster in these objects appears slapdash, cast into gawky, slumpy, engaging poses.

Well, I doubt Cordy thinks that much about his inheritance (Merrill Wagner and Robert Ryman are his parents) as he works; his spontaneous process and inexhaustible materiality manage to infuse his parents» elegant Minimalism with a giddy, slapdash nonchalance.

The construction of her work, loose and intentionally slapdash, calls attention to the support and the materials as much as to the image.

I trained to be an art teacher, so it wasn't all new to me, but I'm very shoddy, very slapdash, and it taught me that it is real work: each painting took nine months, and he was seeking perfection right up to the moment he finished.

In this exhibition, Wood and Harrison's video works feature brief, humorous conceptual pranks that hinge (pardon the pun) on slapdash props and sets constructed in their studio.

After looking at the subject's face for a few moments, the artist cranks out a slapdash depiction of their genitals, all in less than 30 seconds, a comic turn on the work's «intimate» billing.

Josh Smith (closes on Saturday) This installment of a two - gallery exhibition features the artist as sardonic conceptual - installation - painter with 19 slapdash paintings that upend both the modernist monochrome as devotedly hand - wrought fetish and its post-modern successor, usually made from found material.

But as slapdash as his work may appear, Cruzvillegas» pieces make serious nods to art history — to the bronzes of Catalan sculptor Julio Gonzalez, who combined forms both organic and abstract, to the entropic cage forms of British artist Anthony Caro, and to the arrangements of wires, covered in hair, by U.S. artist David Hammons.

The works themselves are not slapdash cracks but dutifully, even earnestly constructed objects, largely indistinguishable from the classes of works that they mock.

Intended to mirror a scene created by amateurs during the opening hours of some terrible cataclysm, the scene appears like the work of a group of crazed convenience store workers who, faced with impending catastrophe, have taken whatever materials were close at hand and erected a slapdash religious altar.

The work is realized in expressive, even slapdash brushstrokes and an enticing palette; what Bas might lack in mastery of his medium he makes up for in his heartfelt engagement with his subject matter, rethinking culture through a gay perspective.