Sentences with phrase «takes everyday objects»

The idea for the Wheelie Bin Urinal, featured over at Design Boom, comes from Stephen Bischoff's Design Rat project, which takes everyday objects and explores how they might modify according to public behaviors.

His use of readymades is unparalleled, and his work is so thoughtful — I love how he takes everyday objects and recontextualizes them in fascinating ways.

The artist takes everyday objects as starting points (it is worth noting that objects and concepts in art history are also mundane to the artist's daily life), adopts news, music, cinema, language, vocabularies, definitions, products, images, artists and artworks, and re-incorporates these elements back into «life».

She takes everyday objects and combines them spontaneously.

The artist's own printmaking also takes everyday objects as subject matter and combines boldly defined outline with vivid colouring, an approach which the artist also applies to his own self - image: the defined, linear drawing style combined with complete freedom and openness in the choice of colours.

Amy, you never cease to amaze me with how you can take everyday objects and spice them up into something beautiful and eye catching!

Not exact matches

The enemy aliens can take the form of everyday objects, thus making your task all the more suspense - filled.

Everyday reality is also a safe, secure world in which we know our place and can largely take for granted the objects and persons in our immediate environment.

Poor people were not the only ones wearing their babies, rather the artists took an everyday, ubiquitous object (the infant carrier) and obligation (childcare) and used it allegorically: the subject is encumbered with the responsibility for their child (ren).

This thermometer takes you beyond everyday body temperatures with settings for taking the surface temperatures of objects.

The researchers have tested their method in two scenarios: in a workspace, the camera was mounted on the target object, and in an everyday situation, a user wore an on - body camera, so that it took on a first - person perspective.

A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that can not be taken with one or more conventional cameras.

Mundane objects and everyday people took the place of long - established «high art» themes such as classical history and mythology.

Whether it's about toys and gender stereotypes, a New Jersey girl who was tired of seeing books only about white boys and dogs, or discussing a new line of dolls with disabilities, you can provide openings for children to see how bias takes place in media and the everyday objects that they use.

Everyday objects from baseball bats to comic books to motherboards can be used as weapons, and players can take their enemies» unique clothing for their own personal use as well.

It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.

Racy imagery, tongue - in - cheek euphemisms, feminist interpretations and breath - taking sexualistion of everyday objects in Lucas» work, is all brought together in a stunning retrospective of her entire collection, enabling «Situation» to bring something to the table for every visitor.

Reproducing objects taken from everyday life and highlighting some of their formal aspects this way, Engh provokes a kind of transposition of the meaning of the chosen subject, and manages, with a simple gesture, to shift the attention from the historical detail to the formal detail, likening these objects to pure forms.

Claes Oldenburg is already beloved for his floppy fans and other surrealistic takes on everyday objects, but in recent years a steady drumbeat of shows has been framing him as more than just a family - friendly sculptor, and instead as a titan of American avant - garde art.

Featuring everyday objects placed in unusual contexts and juxtapositions, his art challenges the assumptions of human perception and force the viewer to reconsider things usually taken for granted.

She takes the vocabulary of everyday objects and the mass media to create vibrant, exciting, and sensual works.

Roused by the radical spirit of David Hammons and Shanique Smith, Spann takes objects of the everyday, readily found in hardware stores or at home, and transforms their meaning through context and the introduction of other materials.

But the same approach can be taken too with the objects of everyday life.

In these works, everyday objects take on uncanny properties, as in Two Holes of Water No. 3, 1966, where suburban station wagons wrapped in plastic become mobile TV and film projectors, or in Prune Flat, 1965, in which a single lightbulb descends from above, its brightness washing out the piece's projected 16 - mm footage and restoring three - dimensionality to the world onstage.

«You have the sense in Guston's work that once the self is imperilled, even everyday things become sinister and conspire against you,» says Anfam, «These familiar objects represent the hostile world taking revenge.

And with new takes on Minimalism, everyday objects, like soap for Karla Black, have merged with upscale design — and the raw materials that go into it.

January 12 — March 1, 2008 Jac Leirner creates installations, sculptures, and mixed media pieces using everyday objects like business cards, plastic bags, cigarette packs and banknotes, which are meant to live in transit; they circulate within our society with their final purpose to be destroyed and taken out of circulation.

Taking inspiration from subjects as varied as literature, mythology, cinema, anthropology, evolutionary biology, religion and the banality of everyday life, Henrot's work acutely reconsiders the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge.

In recent years, Demand has turned to taking saturated cellphone photographs of everyday objects (bathroom tiles, paper cups wedged in fence chains, a bar of soap), again estranging viewers from the familiar and mundane.

He took people and their actions with everyday objects in unusual positions, which they would only be able to hold for a short period of time, and locked them into position using photography.

Taken out of its original context, reimagined, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention — transforming an everyday, ordinary object by virtue of the artist selecting it.

Oldenburg dealt in everyday objects, blowing up hamburgers to abnormal size and showcasing sculptures of comfort foods, while Rosenquist took his background as a billboard painter to imagine glamorous, surrealistic mash - ups of candy - colored cars, smiling faces, or advertisements.

Coinciding with her solo exhibition at Delfina Foundation, Private Collection: Unperformed Objects (Delfina Foundation, 28 September — 11 November 2017), during Frieze Week Tate Modern will present 7ways, a solo performance by Geumhyung Jeong in the form of seven «duets» with everyday objects that take on an unsettling life of theObjects (Delfina Foundation, 28 September — 11 November 2017), during Frieze Week Tate Modern will present 7ways, a solo performance by Geumhyung Jeong in the form of seven «duets» with everyday objects that take on an unsettling life of theobjects that take on an unsettling life of their own.

His past works give some indication of just how far he is willing to stretch the definition of sculpture in order to reshape the contours of our world: he has grafted human obesity onto everyday objects to create a series of «fat» cars and houses; asked passerby to lift their skirts, take off their trousers, lie on beds of fruit or stick pencils in their noses and ears to make «one - minute sculptures»; carried the curator of a museum around in his arms in a piece entitled «Be Nice to Your Curator»; and created houses that are fat, narrow, upside - down, drunk or inclined to attack other buildings.

Reinventing objects taken from our everyday visual landscape, Donovan reveals a notion of the sublime where one would least expect it.

His sculptures — geometric wall objects, façade - like reliefs, objects and sculptures created from abstract stereometric bodies which take the form of cubes, angles, columns, pedestals, podiums, movable walls and shelving — are made of cheap no - frills materials such as particle board, cardboard, linen, molton, Styrofoam, synthetic resin, emulsion paint, fluorescent tubes and other everyday building materials.

Coinciding with her solo exhibition at Delfina Foundation, Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, during Frieze Week Tate Modern will present 7ways, a solo performance by Geumhyung Jeong in the form of seven «duets» with everyday objects that take on an unsettling life of theObjects, during Frieze Week Tate Modern will present 7ways, a solo performance by Geumhyung Jeong in the form of seven «duets» with everyday objects that take on an unsettling life of theobjects that take on an unsettling life of their own.

Some participating artists take fragments of the urban environment or familiar everyday objects and discover new ways of seeing them, both visually and intellectually.

Coinciding with her solo exhibition at Delfina Foundation, during Frieze Week Tate Modern will present 7ways, a solo performance by Jeong in the form of seven «duets» with everyday objects that take on an unsettling life of their own.

Investigating the relationship between high art and consumerism, Stoll abstracts his objects, taking them beyond their everyday domestic function.

Taking a cue from Marcel Duchamp's infamous «readymades,» as well as Kurt Schwitters's boxed Dada collage constructions, Cornell's valise dossiers, films, collages, and seminal glass - fronted shadow boxes fluidly mix references from highbrow and lowbrow sources to create potent, poetic vignettes with a motley assemblage of found and everyday objects.

I would like you to take me through each of the above - mentioned production steps — all involving singular technologies that in recent years have fully entered the landscape of industrial manufacturing, to the point of informing most of our everyday objects.

Ladder (Minus 2 - 8), 2010 takes another everyday household object as its starting point.

Images of everyday things like eyeglasses and cigarette packs appear larger - than - life, creating cinematic inversions of foreground and background in which otherwise unremarkable objects take on a looming (and often sharply comical) significance.Info: David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., Los Angeles, Duration: 9/9-21 / 10/17, Days & Hours: Tue - Sat 10:00 - 18:00, http://davidkordanskygallery.com

[citation needed] Pippin's early work was based on converting furniture and everyday objects into makeshift pinhole cameras which he then uses to take sympathetic photographs.

Observe and interact with the artworks that take on the appearance of everyday objects and at the same time behave as extraordinary things.

There is an aura that pervades these works of everyday objects that require the viewer to look closely, to take in the complex surface qualities and ambiguous abstractions, while simultaneously recognizing the underlying «real - life» image captured by the artist's lens.

Using several media, from collage to performance, she explores the sensual and formal properties of everyday objects and materials (venetian blinds, fans, infrared detection devices, etc.), taken out of their original context and rearranged into abstract compositions, investing them with a new, poetic meaning with political or emotional overtones.

Taking an improvisational, unapologetically upbeat approach to abstract painting, this L.A. artist builds up vibrant collagelike arrangements of pattern, often adorning them with everyday objects, from beaded necklaces to feathers to balloons.

This is illustrated through the mutation of everyday objects such as mirrors, chairs, benches and garments, instilling a sense of chaos in the certainty of reality we take for granted, triggering our five senses in the process.