Sentences with phrase «stone as artwork»

Modern style celebrates natural materials such as wood and stone as artwork in their own right.

Not exact matches

The Stone Age San, whose culture exists today largely as spirits in the form of rock artwork, archaeological relics and storytelling.

This approach is accomplished through the high - vaulted ceilings made of grass - thatched roofs, the rattan furniture, the natural stone and the bamboo veneers as well as Indonesian artworks and ornate Balinese fabrics.

Visitors can further explore Bali's rich history within the hotel itself as it is filled with local artwork, antiques, and fixtures made of natural stone or teakwood.

This one - year program acts as a stepping - stone into the professional art world and enables Kingston to fulfill its commitment to present a diverse range of artwork.

This facile tactic — one artwork loosely related to the convolute, plus one text, then repeat — persists throughout the show: four photos of mannequins in shop windows by Lee Friedlander, each titled New York City and taken in the late aughts, illustrate «The Flaneur»; Mike Kelley's aluminum light fixture, modeled on his childhood home in Detroit and casting an ominous, unfriendly glow, serves as an inconsequential helpmeet to «Dream City and Dream House, Dreams of the Future, Anthropological Nihilism, Jung»; Good Hand Bad Hand (2010), Rodney Graham's photographic diptych mounted on lightboxes of a stone - faced man playing poker is used in concert with «Prostitution, Gambling.»

The artworks were printed on aluminum and bronze plaques and their short messages were accompanied by paintings of Peter Nadin, whose portraits of people attached to Holzer's messages emphasized the emptiness of both life and communication in the digital age.The multimedia extravaganzas of Holzer's later installations, such as the 1989 Guggenheim exhibition, are exemplified by a 535 - foot running electronic signboard spiraled around the core of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, flashing garish lights on the monumental stone benches arranged in a large circle on the floor below.

Perhaps most important, the appearances and visual effects of artworks themselves can be loosely categorized as either drunk (delirious, openly emotional, robustly physical) or stoned (mesmerizing, becalmed, obsessively repetitious).

Unlike purely conceptual artworks which may exist as ideas or proposals, Long's texts remain focused on the artist's physical passage through the landscape — in the artist's words, on «real stones, real time, real actions.»

Between 1948 and 1950, however, he was to develop a radical approach to image - making grounded in a poetic exploration of matter that challenged the two - dimensional nature of the wall - mounted artwork — an interest that he continued to expand and refine over the course of a long career, working with a wide range of materials such as rubber, pumice stone, plastic and sacking.

While every artwork is, in a sense, precarious — from a fragile Kazimir Malevich painting to the ancient stone monuments that today suffer purposeful annihilation in parts of the Middle East — collage acknowledges precariousness as a foundational principle.