Sentences with phrase «use banal»

«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.

«Leaf Observer» badge, Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson's films often use banal items to unexpected ends — like the Adidas tracksuits that serve as Chas Tenenbaum's family uniform in The Royal Tenenbaums — but in many cases, the ephemera of the real world aren't distinctive enough for the director.

Using banal materials, he focuses the viewer's attention on impressions of physicality rather than distinct forms.

The Austrian sculptor would likely approve of such unexpected usage of his work, invested as he is in using the banal forms of everyday life to ask comical yet probing philosophical questions.

Using banal objects as subjects for his paintings and prints, Dine displayed a growing sense of self - awareness.

Not exact matches

Using these badges, organizations can not only tell who's working together, where, and for how long, but also how seemingly banal measures like face - to - face conversations correlate to performance and creativity.

It is possible to use management of known principles in the creation of a church without rendering it banal or ugly.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

«The song and performance are banal, obvious and, to use a transport analogy, utterly pedestrian,» said the Daily Telegraph's pop critic of their jaunty sub-Kinks single Piccadilly Circus.

Most laughter was in fact either triggered by a banal comment or used to punctuate everyday speech.

Still, getting to those moments means enduring a silly meltdown in a supermarket, the ironic use of Train's banal «Drops of Jupiter» (a repeated joke that never gels) and plenty of imprecise, caricatured supporting work.

Such a banal cue isn't inherently problematic, but Schirman's deployment of it, as well as the use of a slew of static - y, white - noise cuts, intimates a filmmaker content to employ post-production effects without locating them within the diegesis itself.

At least back in the olden days Media Ventures action scores used Backdraft as their template and so you ended up with things like The Rock which may be pretty banal but at least provided great fun, but now it's Spy Game - not an impressive musical work to begin with - that seems to be the model they all want to follow.

The Night Before (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, drug use, nudity, sexual content The lowdown: This feature opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious sex, drug and dick jokes.

Believe me, its time you rather be a blatherskite than be a proprietor of a banal and sophomoric talk about the various uses of «phenolphthalein» (What??).

The Rogue uses a cool - looking slithering fog light design, while the Qashqai gets a banal circular treatment.

Despite many outlets dismissing the experience as banal and simplistic, we enjoyed the fact that it delivered on its premise of using Kinect to superimpose players into scenes from classic films; putting us directly into the movies in the most literal sense possible.

McBride's White Elephant sculpture suggests HVAC ductwork from an imaginary building, but is crafted in copper, a material too precious to be used for such a banal industrial application.

One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

By not censoring, rarely editing and photographing the seemingly banal, Eggleston reminds us of the inherently democratic uses of and wide - spread access to photography.

He has used live animals, sacred forms and banal objects within a controversial artistic process that aims at forcing the viewer to reconsider what is aesthetically pleasing and what is morally aceptable.

Although the use of banal objects draws inspiration from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, the improvisatory gestures employed in applying both paint and object to Collection owe much to the generation of «action» painters to which Still and de Kooning belonged.

Bochner captures the darker side of language using sources as disparate as websites inciting hate - speech, books such as The Joys of Yiddish, or banal shop window signage, resulting in a rhythmic flow of speech not unlike hip - hop.

Photographer Richard Barnes» work looks at historical and contemporary artifacts (in this case the cabin and its site), and using the imagery and methods of architecture / archaeology it attempts to bridge the gap between the banal and the extraordinary, the cult of celebrity and the seductiveness of the infamous.

Tuymans combines a muted palette with deteriorated surface effect and a singular use of cropping, close - up and sequencing — perfect devices with which to undertake his investigation of the pathological, the banal and the conspiratorial.

Using fabric from clothing provided by her friends, as well as fragments of her own drawings and letters, Emin's meticulously hand - stitched phrases and declarations implore and regale: from the poignant to the anecdotal, the brazen to the banal, the enigmatic to the idiosyncratically mis - spelt («back to your week world»).

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

The intricate, labour - intensive installations of Sarah Sze frequently use the most banal and insignificant everyday objects to express the biggest and grandest ideas.

Exploring the vitality and power of primitive tribal art and the banal objects of pop culture are used to compress these apparently opposing elements into objects of meaning and humor.

Jack Strange (b. 1984, Brighton, UK) Jack Strange uses the common and the banal as strategies to convey and disrupt meanings.

This series staged these now iconic miniature spaces, using dollhouse furniture and other seemingly banal props, to conjure a pseudo reality.

The work's mass - reproduced aesthetic recalls minimalism's mode of industrial production, whilst Pop art's seriality, festishization of the banal, and elevation of low consumer culture are evinced through the use of the humble woolen thread.

Both works are inspired by observed events; for the latter, the artist witnessed a plasterer having a cigarette break while standing on metal stilts, used to reach the higher part of walls, in a scene that was simultaneously striking and banal.

For his exhibition at the Schindler House, Wurm sourced props ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set of instructions for visitors to perform the various sculptures for sixty seconds at a time, consisting of balancing acts, mild contortions, and altered uses of everyday physical objects.

A ring of photographs of female hands holding, lifting, using an assortment of banal objects — a phone, an iPad, a notebook — seeks to provide some statistical insight into the gestures favoured by commercial advertising.

Andrew Fish's paintings use gesture and color to embellish snapshots of often banal in - between spaces — a bridge or a crosswalk — with an atmospheric sense of light and space.

She told us how people visiting her rarely notice them, but these are among her most treasured works: Woodman used her own body as subject, often blurred, awkward and contorted in banal domestic interiors.

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast once created a cartoon retelling Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain using Bic ballpoint pens as stand - in for the characters: this, I think, was a comment on the cartoonists» and writers» obsession with the banal writing implement.

Our interest in Letha Wilson — on show thanks to San Francisco's Romer Young Gallery — has grown over the past several years from watching her skillfully cut, fold and paint otherwise banal photographs of nature, to her current use of concrete which heavily transforms her photos into three - dimensional objects.

Hailed as a representative of a new generation of Japanese artists, Kaneuji uses laborious craftsmanship to dissociate banal products from their habitual contexts.

Aside from the banal symbolism, the infelicitous use of Avery - like foreshortening and nervous, dissonant colours betray an artist far from finding a voice of his own.

The banal things around him gave him inspiration, things he found during his long walks, things that were no longer of use, things that were dear to him.

Junk Art A sub-genre of «found art», pioneered by Duchamp, Picasso, Schwitters and Rauschenberg, and characterized by the use of banal, everyday materials.

But what gained him international acclaim are McEwen's paintings created using wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the carpet bombing of German cities and towns in the WWII, as well as his graphite sculptures of banal, everyday objects such as ATM machines, water coolers and air conditioners which recall the funeral solemnity of memorials.

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.

This together with his conspicious modernity, his use of the banal vocabulary of everyday urban life, was a decisive influence on artists of the 1940s and 1950s and then on Pop Art.

Sometimes i feel like i'm the only person on the left who hasn't elevated the most banal concerns about where my food comes from or how i get to work in the morning or what kind of shopping bags i use, above poverty and welfare and equality.

Judge Walters used to love these hearings, especially whenever the better criminal defense attorneys — like this one — argued, though now he found them banal, as he generally entered with a fixed idea of the sentence.

It is best to avoid using common or banal expressions such as «responsible for» or «duties included» on your resume.

Other words used to define minutia are: insignificant, inane, trifling, banal and unimportant.