It overlays physical space, making
symbolic use of its objects» (2).
Not exact matches
Represents natural numbers in different ways or associates a number with a set
of objects or drawings: emphasis on place value in non-apparent, non-accessible groupings,
using materials for which groupings are
symbolic (e.g. abacus, money)
Her
use of minimal shapes, like the sphere, is often tampered with by a playful take, replacing soul-less,
symbolic objects with pop - infused, less alien ones.
In this context, the artist
uses the pencil as
object and also as
symbolic container; both as an immediate extension tool
of the brain and as a device for creating a dynamic pattern or language.
There is an interest in defining a period
of our collective history and cultural understanding through
objects of symbolic meaning
used for ritual and cultural identity.
Using the language
of pop art, one
of the most relevant comparisons is how both artists have made work to reach a wide and popular audience, creating
symbolic visual languages through the
use of everyday
objects.
Her figurative paintings
use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions
of classical statuary) to explore people and
objects that no longer have the fixed representational or
symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.
Other artists seminal in
using the body as a metaphor for psychological conditions are Bruce Nauman, whose severed heads are forever frustrated in their inability to communicate with the rest
of the body, and Louise Bourgeois, whose assemblages
of cast body fragments and
objects inside cubelike interiors, or «cells,» as she calls them, are the
symbolic plasma
of an individual.
Not just a formal comparison
of objects and ideas, this exhibition investigates the
symbolic, metaphoric and practical
use of color and dynamic composition to convey meaning.
Through the
use of symbolic figures,
objects, miniatures, and sand, children, adolescents, and even adults are able to recreate their inner world.