Not exact matches
Allen was very articulate and knowledgeable about a wide array of
subjects related to the operations of County Government and issues that affect the
everyday lives of Saugerties residents,
while his opponent was not.
It pointed to the
everyday subject matter (furniture, babies nappies, kitchen utensils, toilets) of the foursome, whose celebration of the banal in the lives of ordinary people was their attempt to make art more relevant and accessible,
while making a clear social comment.
While Khedoori's emphasis the quotidian as
subject matter serves as a sober update of Pop Art's embrace of common objects, her placement of these
everyday objects within undefined and thus mysterious surroundings invites an almost surreal unease.
Street scenes and images like Horloger dans son Atelier (1963/2008) and Le Technicien de Radio Mali (1966/2008) capture
everyday Malians at their jobs with the same intensity of the iconic studio work,
while featuring
subjects comfortably in their element.
While her early works focused on the human being in its corporeality and in relation to nature and the universe, in 2005 she shifted her
subject to the concrete
everyday life of woman, which for centuries took place above all in the realm of the home.
He possessed a sensibility that was rooted more firmly in fine art, and
while stylistically his work was closer to the «New York School» painters, his lyrical treatment of
subject matter had much in common with the gentler compositions of an earlier epoch: that of the Impressionists, and with the paintings of French symbolist artist Pierre Bonnard (1867 > 1947), who endeavoured to evoke mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind via the medium of scenes from
everyday life.