Sentences with phrase «than objects crafted»

In this setting, works by art stars like de Kooning (with whom Vicente shared a studio floor on East 10th Street in Manhattan in the early»50s), Lee Krasner, Motherwell and Pollock feel like part of a larger network of ideas and approaches rather than objects crafted by lone - wolf geniuses.

Not exact matches

It's worth mentioning that babies often find objects around the home to be more fascinating than store - bought, professionally crafted toys.

The prehistoric Maltese of the Tarxien period seem to have invested most of their artisanship and craft into cult objects that were more than mere grave gifts.

While some items are little more than cosmetic, other objects increase the speed of your craft or augment the capacity of your cannon.

«During the 1960s and 1970s, light became a primary medium for a loosely affiliated group of artists working in Greater Los Angeles who were more intrigued by questions of perception than by the notion of crafting discrete objects.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

During the 1960s and 1970s, a loosely affiliated group of Los Angeles artists — including Larry Bell, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler — more intrigued by questions of perception than by the crafting of discrete objects, embraced light as their primary medium.

Environments rather than objects, these sculptural pieces, which she called «Cells», are self - contained assemblages of personal artifacts, found furniture, and crafted objects, all housed within cage - like frames.

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

While the original pamphlet is cheap and made of glossy papers that are folded in half and stapled down the center, copies of Bad Flag are stylish art objects; in fact, the booklet is more polished and sleek than any flag that might be crafted with its guide.

These artists were each chosen by Clark for the fact that they each «embrace light as a premium medium in their art and demonstrate a keener interest in perception than in the process of crafting discrete objects.»

NADA is distinctive for being cutting edge yet surprisingly analog, with a real focus on craft and objects rather than the kinds of video - centric pieces one encounters at fairs like Frieze London.

The Ur object was the extraordinary wall - hanging «More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid» (1987), which smashed together scores of colorfully tacky, homemade plush toys and knitted afghan blankets into a weird and witty craft - class version of an Abstract Expressionist painting.