Sentences with phrase «which challenges the viewer»

Gibson's paintings are filled with subtle yet provocative disjunctions, which challenge the viewer's initial perceptions of the pieces.
Wynne's hallmark is a somewhat recursive use of text — demands, notes, suggestions, observations — most of which challenge the viewer to access the other senses and go beyond the purely visible.
«What makes Torey's work so appealing is his employment of purposely ambiguous imagery, which challenges viewers to approach his paintings from a very personal point of view,» explains Holly Hughes, Albright - Knox's curator for the collection.

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Challenging limits of the Speaker's unwillingness to impose standards on this place and the extent to which viewers are willing to have their intelligence insulted, Conservative MP Blaine Calkins and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson used a scripted exchange on the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act to criticize Mr. Trudeau's public speaking.
Paul manages to both remind modern viewers of the incredible safety in which most of them can practice their faith, and call them to respond to any challenge with love.
manages to both remind modern viewers of the incredible safety in which most of them can practice their faith, and call them to respond to any challenge with love.
I suggest that by refusing to demonise the incumbent, Syllenhaal isn't just challenging our beliefs around politics but also the traditional structure of a Hollywood screenplay, which usually coerces viewers into an emotional response by ramping up the evil of the villain.
Having been reminded in the course of its 95 minutes just how complicit ours was in so much of the suffering that befell Satrapi's, this is a challenge with which American viewers should be all too able to relate.
Arrival challenges viewers to a brainier sci - fi conundrum than they're used to, which makes for an intellectual breath of fresh air.
DiCaprio is good though never achieves the same greatness he displayed in The Departed, though one might blame the film itself, which sits so comfortably within the genre that the viewer is never really challenged.
However, I'll remove the credits from each movie and challenge viewers to identify which one is which.
After all, any film which spends its first ten minutes on saying goodbye to an old piano and hello to a new one can not be too concerned with challenging viewers or keeping them enthralled.
The performances are strong, especially that of star Claire Foy, but Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer's screenplay doesn't develop into much more than a fairly standard psychological horror in which the viewer's perception of reality is constantly being challenged.
The Prager University only runs videos that are five minutes long because they are challenging the beliefs that people are indoctrinated with in college, which typically means the viewer has a short attention span.
Codemasters has released a new «rally reality» trailer for their upcoming dust kicker Dirt 2, which apparently challenges viewers to spot the difference between real rally clips and in - game footage.
The new trailer, which can be watched below, focuses on the game's nightmare world, giving viewers a glimpse of the challenges they will have to face during the game.
The «wallpaper», which formulates a deceptively innocent pattern, is in fact created from endoscopic images of the artist's own internal organs - Rehberger often plays with the viewer's ideas and expectations in order to challenge preconceptions and routine «thinking habits».
His work challenged the notions of public and private space, originality, authorship and — most significantly — the authoritative structures in which he and his viewers functioned.
A staple in art historical discussions of institutional critique, Lawler's photographs challenge the viewer to think about the context in which works of art are displayed, and subsequently the overlooked aesthetic choices made by the places in which they are viewed, sold, and stored.
During the late 1970's, McCollum began to develop his central thesis; one which transforms the relationship between viewer and artwork, by challenging the producer / receiver dichotomy.
The works in this exhibition, spanning 1992 to the present, blur the divide between two and three - dimensional forms to challenge the viewer's understanding of the world in which they live.
Jenkins's work is generally performance - based, and he often challenges the viewer by questioning what it means to be an artist; indeed, he recently gave an artist's talk which included employing hecklers to shout him down.
Durgin's body of work creates a mutable and highly charged space in which the viewer is challenged to define what is real and what is beautiful.
With each acquisition Walker is attracted to the manners in which the artist challenges the viewer in a recontextualized society.
Confronting viewers with challenging subject matter of which is loaded with reflection and questions.
Through this process, the two - dimensionality of his paintings approach three - dimensional space; a space to which the viewer is challenged to adapt.
Over the years, Richard Serra has become one of the most acclaimed living artists for his challenging and innovative work, which emphasizes materiality and an engagement between the viewer, the site, and the work.
The viewer is told what the «real Life» image is in the title of the piece, but through abstraction and reconstruction of that image, the viewer is then asked and challenged to explore the shapes, colors, movements and forms, which the abstraction and reconstruction presents.
Aside from that, which I feel enriches the viewer's experience, their fearless mastery of their craft, their individual courage in piercing more traditional boundaries, and their enthusiastic drive through decades of challenging circumstances make Judith Godwin and all of the women plying their art in the field of abstract expressionism, women to admire.
This experience has influenced her practice in which she creates a new language, one where conventional symbolism is challenged and the viewer is left to create new associations to relate to the world.
The artist challenges the viewer to embrace the unexpected consequences found in her creations, which examine both physical and ethical responsibility while experimenting with the -LSB-.....]
The artists have examined the concept of the exhibition from diverse angles - the legacy of institutions which now sit uncomfortably with each other, the question of identity which oversteps fiercely guarded national borders with several challenges thrown to the viewer to ponder on what is deemed to be the «status quo».
Drawing on the language of social media, hyper - globalization and dissonant collage they will present work which will challenge viewers» expectations and offer a peak into what the next generation of young African and diaspora artists are up to.
White Hawk has a determination and motivation in which she challenges herself to inventively create and develop pioneering techniques and methods that transform the experience of abstract contemporary art for artists, collectors and viewers.
For the past 35 years, Presman has created conceptually based installations which move the viewer to re-examine contemporary notions of history and pre-history, as well as to challenge contemporary speculation of what our future holds.
Radically challenging the concept of art, West incorporated the response of the viewer as an integral part of the work of art, which sought dialogue and rejected the artist - as - hero preoccupations of modernism.
I am asking» challenges the function of the viewer and their relationship to the work; incorporating drawings, prints and objects to create a three - dimensional installation which is complemented and completed by the addition of the viewer.
These seven sculptures, many of which were first exhibited at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in May 2016, continue Shapiro's longstanding investigation of anthropomorphic and architectonic form while challenging the viewer's sense of balance and scale.
The book as a whole proves the range of his artistic curiosity, which challenges itself, the viewer and the medium of painting with its ever - evolving approach.
In the group exhibition «The Projective Drawing» at Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.
Rana works in photography but deconstructs typical photographic renderings and instead challenges the viewer to reconsider the world in which they live.
Sleepwalkers was both inspired by, and offered in opposition to, the densely built midtown environment; it integrated itself onto the surfaces on which it was projected, and it challenged viewers» perceptions of architecture and public space.
Presaging and foreshadowing the work of the Pop and Minimalist masters which would accompany his, and the New York School's ascendancy in twentieth and twenty - first century art history, Chamberlain time and time again challenged the notion of what sculpture could be and was capable of effecting in the minds and eyes of the viewer.
Situating the partially buried limousine in a vacant plot of prime real estate which will soon be transformed into a high rise hotel, the intervention contributes to expectations of success and failure and challenges viewers to consider their context and surroundings.
In The Projective Drawing, the curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.
The programme focuses on projects by both Italian and international artists, by way of proposals which challenge and at the same time question the viewer.
Since encountering Bridget Riley's work at Tate in the late 1960s, I have tried to understand it — as a way of helping me to construct something which seduces a viewer into a conversation, then challenges, questions and encourages action.
Her work — which uses bold colors, abstract shapes, and pieces of fabric scraps — creates a sense of disorientation for the viewer, meant to challenge the typical response of defining characters by gender, race, or sexuality.
«The Kandors project, which occupied over 10 years of Kelley's artistic production, is a profoundly imaginative body of work that transports and challenges viewers simultaneously,» said Mary Clare Stevens, Executive Director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the artist's longtime studio manager, who will deliver the symposium's welcome remarks.
The environment gets less attention, but of course it makes a big difference to the reception of the work — a difference which is in turn influenced by the work and the viewer: some paintings are less able than others to assert themselves within a challenging context, and some people are relatively immune to where a work is hung; provided they can see it, they are good at isolating the item of primary interest from its surroundings.
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