Sentences with phrase «vernacular art as»

Taking Bo Bardi's love of Brazilian vernacular art as her inspiration, and with a nod to the elegant furniture she created for the Casa de Vidro, Neuenschwander presents a set of found, handmade stools — one from a street seller in Bahia, north Brazil, where Lina spent some of the most fulfilling years of her professional life; one found in a carpark; another fished from a skip.

Not exact matches

The archetypal auteurs were not those filmmakers who controlled everything and produced works readily legible as Art but rather the unpretentious craftsmen working quickly within commercial constraints whose distinctive sensibilities nevertheless emerge against all odds as a kind of vernacular poetry.

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

As Edlin remarked, presuming that gallery and museum integration of vernacular artwork establishes parity is «a false construct, as it conflates the exhibition setting with the conditions in which the art was createAs Edlin remarked, presuming that gallery and museum integration of vernacular artwork establishes parity is «a false construct, as it conflates the exhibition setting with the conditions in which the art was createas it conflates the exhibition setting with the conditions in which the art was created.

John Ollman, owner of Philadelphia's Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, identifies Jasper Johns, Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Colen, and Ricky Swallow as influenced by, or collectors of, vernacular art.

In this month's issue, Brendan Greaves looks at the current trend for embracing such art as it begins to extend to the marketplace, with an auction at Christie's and representation of vernacular artists by mainstream galleries.

As Cooke's thesis makes evident, this isn't the first time the mainstream art world has performed a celebratory rediscovery dance with vernacular artists, so the current climate of tentative self - congratulation and hopefulness comes with some serious caveats.

5 Storr, whose essay is full of perceptive comments about Drexler's work (as when he notes how the «vernacular» quality of her colors evokes «sideshow signage») is certainly correct in making the connection between Drexler and her abstract contemporaries, but we shouldn't let the existence of such strong affinities (whether with Pop or with abstract styles) distract us from the distinctive qualities of Drexler's art, especially when it comes to materials and process.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuArt Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuart of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial cultuart of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

This reflects a growing interest over the past twenty years in vernacular photography and in its value both as social history and as art.

At a time when artists across the board were turning away from painting and towards photography and conceptual art, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica addresses the history and impact of artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, all executed in Hockney's signature vernacular.

As a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaAs a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaas a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaas a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular.

I am interested in closing as much of the distance as possible to the model that I am using to produce the images, as a way of intensifying its position within art and also as a way of bringing the kind of rarefied perception associated with an art work into alignment with a vernacular way of seeing.

A picture such as «Grind» playfully echoes the edge - conscious»60s abstractions of Frank Stella and Jo Baer while evoking the vernacular tradition of sign painting and the cross-fertilization of painting and graphic design that culminated in Pop art.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

, discussing directions in which photographic collections could or should develop, Discussing Provoke, a cross-analysis of the cult Japanese photo magazine, its historical context and its ties to the emergence of performance art in Japan in the 1960s, Photography Beyond the Image, on techniques used to produce photographic works that seek to go beyond the production of an image; Photography & Cinema in Practice, discussing vernacular photography in cinematic production and the role of still photography in the history of art; and The Artist As..., discussing the different roles that artists undertake.

Although his photographs are nowhere near as original as his art, they're solid examples of a midcentury American style that zeroed in on the vernacular, the ephemeral, and the everyday.

The diverse works on view include rare early pictures, major examples of the Pictorialist art movement by figures such as Peter Henry Emerson and George Seeley, and a broad range of twentieth - century art and vernacular photographs.

By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.

That groundbreaking moment has passed, as the aesthetics of minimalism have long since been integrated into the art - historical narrative of the 20th century and even into the cultural vernacular.

When Bates was a boy, his mother brought him to art classes at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the Southweart classes at the Dallas Museum of Art, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the SouthweArt, where he was exposed to work by the Dallas Nine and Texas Regionalist painters such as Jerry Bywaters and Otis Dozier, artists who shunned the European stronghold on American modernism in the 1930s for vernacular landscapes of the Southwest.

In the 1970s, though, Bates hadn't found his own style, and Dallas art was more interested in so - called Texas Funk, which blended vernacular Texas idioms with psychedelic and pop art (and included artists such as Bob «Daddy - O» Wade and the Oak Cliff 4).

Whether rough - hewn beauties in earth tones or frenetic explosions of bright color, they reveal influences from southern vernacular art traditions and muralists such as Keith Haring.

As Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center, she organized many exhibitions, including The Spectacular of Vernacular (2011), Event Horizon (2009), 50/50 and Benches & Binoculars (2009).

He has turned up at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, as a «vernacular artist,» and in a Whitney Biennial heavy on political art, where I never so much as took note of it.

But, in an ironic twist, Marshall's huge paintings depict vernacular African American settings such as public housing projects, thereby slyly placing those subjects within the canon of Western art history where they were previously ignored.

Pangburn's pursuit of independence within the legacy of the New York School has resulted in a show of genuine vitality, whose stylistic vernacular reminds us of a time when New York was the center of the art universe, with such major participants as de Kooning, Gorky, and Pollock.

The Easyfun - Ethereal series infuses art history with the vernacular charge of American life, drawing the viewer into awe - inspiring panoramas that are as edgy as they are sublime.

A pioneer of the 1960s Los Angeles art scene as part of the famed Ferus Gallery — alongside artists like Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston — Ruscha's embrace of Hollywood vernacular and the open Western road have tied him as closely to the identity of L.A. art as Jackson Pollock is with that of New York.

Pasadena Lifesavers Yellow # 5 (1969 - 1970) came out of a liminal point in Chicago's career as she was shifting away from minimalism into a more explicit vernacular of feminist art.

His art began in despair and ended in tragedy, yet in the meantime it explored areas that neither vernacular nor mainstream contemporary arts proper have, as a rule, been able to reach on their own.

«Rossi's fastidious approaches to composition and technique emerged from her practice of intense visual observation, her interest in vernacular devotional images, and her appreciation of art as a conduit of complex mental states.»

Originally employed as a linguistics term, vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for «regional,» «folkloric,» or «homemade» — concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between art and everyday life.

Arcangel's work has long dealt with the status conferred upon differing cultural ephemera: the privilege endowed so - called Fine Art as compared to the visual vernacular of «lowbrow» pop culture.

As an art form, painting was no longer an exercise in the tasteful sublime; the new painting approached vernacular idioms with an avant - garde thoughtfulness.

As the catalogue explains, Diebenkorn forged strong allegiances to sources in American art and popular culture before fully responding to Matisse's influence; the teacher who introduced him to Sarah Stein was in fact a disciple of Edward Hopper, and it was the example of Hopper's hard - won, vernacular images that guided Diebenkorn's early engagement with the harsh literalism of the American scene, which was often hostile to modernism.

The description is apt, given that he often grafts a specifically urban vernacular onto a unique brand of formalism, not only to summon such art - historical precedents as Mark di Suvero's and Anthony Caro's metallic structures but also to make clear turns on the project of Minimalism — on Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in particular.

The phrase, found in a book of nineteenth - century penmanship exercises and recently tattooed across the artist's back, signals a commitment to text and image, as well as the visual influence of vernacular tattoo art.

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly awarAs much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly awaras your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

Also involved in postal art, as well as collections of folk and vernacular art such as The Uses of Literacy: «Manic Street Preachers» (1999).

Originally employed as a linguistics term, vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for «regional,» «folkloric,» or «homemade» - concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between art and everyday life.

Writer and critic Brian Droitcour presents «Vernacular Criticism,» a talk that looks to writing about art outside the established channels of professional media as a potential source of ideas...

Norton's project in PAFA's Historic Landmark Building uses paintings in the collection as sounding boards for a group of new works that reflect variously on issues like the historic portrayal of women in art, paternalism and colonialism, and the vernacular forms of folk culture.