Sentences with phrase «utilitarian objects such»

Learn to crochet them into sculptural forms or utilitarian objects such as wall sculptures, rugs, or tote bags.

Her art often resembles utilitarian objects such as tools, which act as an anchor to another, more tactile and physical era.

Von Rydingsvard's organic, gesturally potent works allude to the landscape, body, and common utilitarian objects such as spoons, shovels, and bowls.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

Gallery On Collection Tiki (1-9-10 Ebisu - Minami, Shibuya - ku, 3711 - 8678) epitomizes contemporary Japanese design with stone floors, wood slab tables and a changing roster of shows that usually feature utilitarian objects such as carved bowls or handblown glassware.

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In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

Holdings include body adornment and utilitarian objects; religious items such as Coptic scrolls from Ethiopia and an Islamic prayer board from Uganda; and modern paintings, sculptures, and ceramics by artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Amir Nour, Ibrahim El - Salahi, and Magdalene Odundo.

That notion is here realized in a concatenation of such utilitarian objects as a shovel, a bicycle wheel, and a bottle rack.

While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.

He was not interested in fabricating utilitarian objects, such as the workers» uniforms designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko or the teacups and saucers made by second - rate Productivists.

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

I have had a longtime interest in seemingly ordinary everyday objects such as collectible and utilitarian items.

Functional objects, such as his infamous sculpture Fountain (1917), were divorced from their utilitarian purpose and designated — as opposed to made — by Duchamp as works of art.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

In the late 1960s, Guston's abstractions gradually evolved into stark, semi-figurative forms, beginning with heads and later simple, utilitarian objects, such as books, light bulbs, and shoes.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

Duchamp himself had contributed to the movement, largely by depicting what he called «ready - mades,» (utilitarian articles such as snow shovels and bottle racks) signing the resulting pictures, and presenting the result as objects of art rather than objects made for everyday use.

In this national juried exhibition, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve a utilitarian purpose — how the artist expresses him / herself in items such as clothing, textiles, jewelry, tableware, tools, fixtures and furniture.

More interesting are the objects that have been taken out of their utilitarian context, such as Floyer's Wish you were here (2008), which is an empty postcard stand (and bears a passing resemblance to Duchamp's Bottle Rack [1914]-RRB-.

Utilitarian objects, such as these mother - of - pearl - handle knives found on eBay, become prized collectibles in the homeowner's dreamy Swedish style.