Sentences with phrase «unconventional materials including»
They also experimented with unconventional materials including found objects and images, blending high and low media in a postmodern approach typical of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Viruses and odd virus - like bits of genetic material that lurk within the chromosomes of most organisms, including ourselves, reproduce in a variety of unconventional ways.
By experimenting with nascent technology and unconventional materials that included their own bodies, they opened the door for much of the video, performance, and digital art we have today.
Pushing beyond the long standing tradition of representational art, the works in (Re) presentation bridge multiple disciplines and often include staged scenes or unconventional materials.
His images often make use of unconventional materials, including meteorite dust, uranium, graphite and soot from smoke affixed to glass.
Allen Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious, unconventional and irreverent work which was based in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new materials.
Throughout his career, Muniz has created multiple series of photographs, each prefaced with the phrase «Pictures of» and in which he has used of variety of unconventional materials, including dirt, sugar, chocolate, wire, and garbage.
Its tenets included the use of commonplace and non-traditional materials and unconventional methods as a stance against the commercialization of art.
Perhaps the most inventive work was produced by the so - called Light and Space group, whose members, including James Turrell, John McCracken, Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman and Robert Irwin, embraced unconventional materials such as plastic and fluorescent lights.
The artist's use of unconventional materials and his central position in early British Conceptual Art is further informed by displays of contemporary material from the Estate archive, including examples of the artist's concrete poetry, working drawings, logbooks and photographs.
Jones was one of a group of students which included Derek Boshier, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj and Peter Phillips, who radically changed the face of British art with their precocious, unconventional and irreverent work which was based in popular culture, embracing new subject - matter and new materials.
The unconventional materials used in her work include vinyl lanyard, monofilament, plastic mesh, rubber & vinyl tubing, plastic & Styrofoam balls, and upholstery needles.
Early tactile collages in unconventional materials such as pumice, black tar and burlap, including Nero Catrame (1951), Sacco e Rosso (1956) and Sacco Bianco e Nero (1956) transform the traditional definition of painting by employing a new language and giving life to hitherto unheard - of expressive results.
In the 1960s, while studying at Turin's Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, he fell under the influence of older contemporaries, including Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giovanni Anselmo — artists who used unconventional materials and forms to create works that replaced the artifice of academic art with simplicity, criticism of traditional social values and an interest in the potential of the everyday.
They are now extremely fragile due to Pollock's unconventional use of enamel paint — essentially an industrial or household material (used to coat gutters, not canvases)-- and techniques, which included thinning down the consistency so that he could use a basting syringe, drawing with it «like a giant fountain pen,» as described by Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner.
She uses both traditional and unconventional materials — including plastic chairs upholstered with beach towels or pineapple upside - down cake — to create sculptures, installations and architectural interventions that foster accessibility and encourage public participation.
Lebanese artist Dala Nasser employs unconventional materials such as liquid latex, brick pigment and dirt collected off the floor, on «grounds» including tarpaulin and trauma blankets to create a body of work that, possessing an intricate physicality, speaks to the contemporary moment.
More intriguing are Bianchi's mixed media works, created with unconventional materials, including EPS foam, spray paint, and aqua resin.
Artists including Analia Saban, Rosemarie Trockel, and Shinique Smith focus on unconventional materials or labor - intensive techniques.
His material list includes rather unconventional materials such as dust or air.
The unconventional materials in these works often include rubber, plastic, paper, tennis balls, and rope.
Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas, Now You See It — which includes work by Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Morris, William O'Brien, Mitzi Pederson, Dieter Roth, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Anna Sew Hoy, Gedi Sibony, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer West and Erwin Wurm — proffers the notion that visual recognition alone is insufficient to determine an object's materiality.
These works are characterized by striking — and, ultimately, enduringly influential — formal innovations, including the appropriation of unconventional industrial materials like latex and rope, organic and natural materials like saplings and earth, and ephemeral materials like wax and paper.
Minotaur features many characteristics of Martin's filmmaking in the past decade, including intertwining unconventional performance and music; cinematically self - reflexive techniques; and a rigorous emphasis on materials, surfaces, and sculptural stagecraft.
This includes material that, in some cases, would be considered unconventional, unpopular or unacceptable by society, according to the released statement.