Sentences with phrase «turning banal»

Artists have been using everyday objects in their work for over 100 years, turning banal objects into works of art either in their original state or in adapted forms.

Koons, known for his love of appropriation, is most famous for turning banal objects into artworks (think balloon dogs or sculptures inspired by kitschy Hummel figures, to name a few).

The most striking installation in the Zeeburg gallery is a series of stripes, ranging from black to white, which turn the banal chromatic shift of the venue's floor that occurs over the course of the day into something visible and discrete.

Working with seductive commercial materials such as the high chromium stainless steel of his «Balloon Dog» sculptures or his vinyl «Inflatables», shifts of scale, and an elaborate studio system involving many technicians, Koons turns banal objects into high art icons.

Indicative of Hawkinson's technical ingenuity and interest in sensory experiences, his sound machines turn banal objects into unpredictable anthropomorphic arrangements.

For us, the photographer is a seeker of mystery and the act of photographing casts a spell that turns the banal into the supernatural.

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«The mind - numbing media avalanche threatens to make war, terrorism and catastrophe banal, to turn the maimed and the dead into mere meat.

This canard in turn limits his critical imagination to the rather banal contention that Moby - Dick «s primary focus should be understood as «good and evil interpenetrated.»

Turning to a somewhat lighter subject, Bridges incisively contrasted the banal details of working - class Houston life with the frontier fantasies driving the nocturnal honky - tonk scene in Urban Cowboy (1980).

And Rampling's banal Matron is a figure of evil professionalism, a competent, qualified, licensed sadist who views brainwashing her students as a routine obligation more than a turn - on.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers» wives.

The movies have turned increasingly impersonal or least increasingly banal, delighted by their emotional structure and back stories and family trees without equally imparting that delight.

They take clear pleasure in rendering banal spaces as canvasses, turning grain silos into giant eyes and shipping containers into towering portraits of the dock workers

Turns out to be nothing more than a series of sometimes visually impressive, but perpetually banal sequences... Full Review

The Tate Modern Turbine Hall's latest project was unveiled and turned out to be a garden deck with weeds growing in pots — a work whose ecological message is banal and visually null.

As a painter of political ideas — and, often, the grotesque and cruel — Luc Tuymans is a historian of images that appear banal but reveal sinister workings: colored blobs are actually disembodied eyeballs; a bare room with flattened perspective is the site of uncountable murders; a limp cloth turns out to be the emblem of a growing nationalist movement.

She turned, purposefully, from the bold to the seemingly banal, from a costly medium to one she could work with anytime and anywhere.

It is here that the artist's tender prose and deft editing turns the potentially banal interactions of anonymous sexual encounters into compelling narratives that are both humorous and heartbreaking.

The reputation is ruined or the exciting story turns into a banal insight, the wildfire goes out, what remains, at most, is smoke.

This leaves the rest of Respighi's music to be haunted by our memory of Conner's indelible imagery — by turns pathetic, exotic, ridiculous, comical, catastrophic, grotesque, banal, glorious.»

Johns and Rauschenberg, and soon Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others, complicated modernism's claims of artistic authorship and authenticity by turning to popular and often banal subjects drawn from mass culture and producing works that mimicked — and often exploited — commercial modes of production.

«Extraordinary: Everyday objects and actions in contemporary art» brings together artists from the UK and Europe who use banal objects or deceptively simple actions to turn the everyday into art.

Susie MacMurray turns everyday banal items like hairnets, balloons, wires and fish hooks into beautiful but creepy works of art.

Rarely do buildings serving such utilitarian functions get much architecture, usually they are banal boxes turned out by engineering firms.