Sentences with phrase «subjects of art»

He also joined Baziotes, Rothko, Motherwell and the sculptor David Hare (1917 - 92) in founding the Subjects of the Art School, an educational project aimed at promoting modern art, which unfortunately collapsed within 12 months.

Anti-modernist 20th century artists remain fruitful subjects of art historical investigation.

They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.»

The human form, one of the most universal and profound subjects of art, is the vehicle for artist Robert Cremean's investigations into life and humanity, which address issues such as genocide, war, aging, identity, economic turmoil, life and death with equal parts honesty, directness, and elegance.

The gallery hopes to «show how the artist has filtered the canonical subjects of art — still life, the nude and the landscape — through a unique and personal lens.»

Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his death, is best known for appropriations of images from popular culture — advertisements, mass - media photographs and celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects of art.

Animals painted in prehistoric caves were the first subjects of art, reflecting our closeness to them.

«With this important exhibition, we hope to show how Wesselmann has filtered the canonical subjects of art — still life, the nude and the landscape — through a unique and personal lens using the media and technical innovation of the sixties, seventies and eighties, offering new possibilities for painting.»

The subjects of her art come from the natural world and reveal detailed evidence of change, decay, and processes that occur in nature.

Artist's Writings include entries from Ai's blog, seen by millions of visitors each year and celebrated for its thoughtful and candid remarks on the subjects of art, politics and culture.

He has published widely on the subjects of art and design with recent subjects including Frank Gehry, Robert Wilson, Gaetano Pesce, Tom Sachs, Carlos Cruz - Diez and Los Carpinteros.

Barbie, sometimes wearing outfits and hairdos that might send shudders up Mrs. Handler's spine, has been the subject of art exhibitions, an Andy Warhol painting, a television documentary, books and Web sites, including Barbie.com and AdiosBarbie.com, a site dedicated to improving women's body images.

It was the great subject of his art: «My only ambition is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.»

SUBJECT: The first thing to think about is the subject of the art in your gallery wall.

Appreciating Amrita's Art gives an insight into her artistic observations, subject of her art and what it tries to convey to the viewer.

In his quotes Munch described how these early life experiences from his youth has influenced his painting and print art very strongly; the became an enduring subject of his art.

The foundation awards eight Asturias prizes each year in subjects of arts, human rights, sciences, and sports.

They leave their mark or its illusion, like thumbprints and color fields for Carrie Moyer or the brush itself for David Reed as the subject of his art.

On a certain level, Song Dong's artistic creations were long ago completely internalized into everyday life, and the artist's personal life has become the primary subject of his art.

Both Still and O'Keeffe are also each the subject of art museums located in the West founded on the unique principle of disseminating a single artist's life and vision.

To make them the subject of art is to challenge the traditional separation between intellectual endeavors and the body, between the sacrosanct realm of art and culture and the ultimately equalizing domain of daily life.

Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of paintings that tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and diagrammatic lens.

Who should speak when the subject of art is racism?

He also wrote some of the most lucid, erudite, poetic, penetrating books, catalogues and essays on the subject of art and artists and curated several crucial international exhibitions.

Formalism, the belief that the ultimate subject of art is art itself, would seem to go against the very nature of photography.

Before I get too keen on social history, I better remember that Hassam's understanding of it arose less from political maturity or opportunism than from the subject of his art.

Selfies can and have been the subject of art, for example Petra Collins uses selfie culture as subject matter in her series Selfie.

Gormley explains, «The show begs the question as to where the subject of art can be found — I am proposing that it is rooted most powerfully in the imaginative engagement and ultimately the memory of the viewer.

Death is a subject of art for the ages, but this work brings with it such delicacy of feeling — as the viewer becomes seduced by the anthropomorphism — counterbalanced by the shocking ending, that one does not begrudge the return to such a theme.

The human figure has been the subject of art since the beginning of time.

The artist states the subject of his art stems from the social climate of his youth: «You can't be born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1955 and grow up in South Central Los Angeles near the Black Panthers headquarters and not feel like you've got some kind of social responsibility.»

This process is the subject of the art itself.

Today, when national politicians raise the subject of art, they usually do so with censorious or penny - pinching motives.

Featuring an installation, online platform, performances, talks, and workshops, The Third Idiom initiates an experimental dialogue between education as a form or subject of art production and systems of formal schooling.

Arguably the quintessential subject of art making since the beginning of art history, nature is at once the holiest and most humble of themes.

Jennifer Krasinski (moderator) has written on the subject of art, film, video and performance for numerous publications such as Artforum.com, The Village Voice, Modern Painters, Art In America, Spike Art Quarterly, Bidoun, N +1 Film Review, and The Paris Review Blog.

Its second half comes in the form of a glossary of more than 100 key concepts linked to the subject of art in public spaces; artists, art historians, philosophers, urbanists, architects, sociologists and other writers weighing in with definitions from their respective disciplinary perspectives.

Too often the subject of art and mental illness is diluted by displays foregrounding the romantic side of compulsion or the curiousness of so - called outsider artists.

When Larry Gagosian first approached Mr. Elderfield in 2012 about organizing exhibitions for his gallery, Mr. Elderfield proposed a show about artists using their own studios as a subject of their art — something he had wanted to do at MoMA — and was given carte blanche by Mr. Gagosian.

I don't believe in subjectivity and, as part of a radical approach, I've taken myself as the subject of my art «as mirror of the universe».

The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent in his work, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth - century French garden design.

White's commitment to an apparent tradition of representational painting imbues his work with a fundamental permanence, underscoring the continuity in moments of silence, doubt and repose that have been the subject of art for centuries, whilst profoundly updating its implications.

Following this logic, Bowers has made the investigation of «false divisions» the subject of her art, though she updates Judd's terms for the contemporary situation.

Shortly after graduating from Erasmus High School, he completed a mural for the school based on the subject of arts and sciences.

This cluster of exhibitions on both coasts represents a bit of a departure from how many major U.S. museums generally treat the subject of art and design by Latin American and U.S. Latino artists.

This really remarkable display, which will go down in N. Y.'s art history as one of the few events — for there is a wide distinction between incidents and events, in said history — and which has already excited, not only the galleries, studios and the art public, but even the larger public of the Metropolis which, although perhaps comparatively ignorant on the subject of art, is always athirst for a new sensation — is like a «bomb from the blue & quot; in the artistic camp of American painters and sculptors.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Opening: Loren Munk, «You Are Here» at Freight + Volume «The paintings in «You Are Here» are vibrant maps depicting a moment in history, and they tackle the subject of art itself through an historical and diagrammatic lens.

- QUOTE OF THE WEEK - «I was always asking myself, what is the actual goal of art, the actual subject of art?

In explaining the content and purpose of her work, Hartigan once said: «perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquility.»

From this vantage, the projects commissioned provoke intelligent debate on the subject of art in its most expansive poetic definition.