Sentences with phrase «thereby challenge the art»

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By using nothing but paint to build a believable space on a two - dimensional plane, thereby openly critiquing work widely regarded as upholding a narrative of progress that was implicitly patriarchal in its telling, she also challenged the received viewpoints and well worn tropes that dominate (and continue to dominate) art history.»

Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez - Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready - made motifs and objects to create his art, thereby challenging the idea of the unique art object that was so much a hallmark of Modernism.

Unlike those artists who fetishize effortlessness and randomness under the guise of a deskilled interest in process and materials, Lapin accepts the daunting challenge put forth from several centuries of art history, thereby joining several contemporaries who do the same: the expressive Angel Otero and Barnaby Furnas, the moody Kristine Moran, and the linear Tomma Abts and Tomory Dodge.