Sentences with phrase «using evanescent»

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One of the reasons I use frames in the way that I do - and I think it goes back to Romantic artists like Turner, who deliberately chose very sturdy, thick frames for some of his smallest, most evanescent pictures - has to do with my instinct that the more tenuous or fleeting the emotion you want to present the more its got to be protected from the world» (H. Hodgkin, quoted in M. Price, Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, p. 227) «I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances.

But Hammons» use of the evanescent has a far broader agenda than similar attempts by earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Tuttle who utilised materials to challenge elitist conceptions of what constitutes a work of art.