Sentences with phrase «whole idea of the artist»

There have been precedents for this long ago and particularly if you step back behind modern art where that whole idea of the artist as somebody who starves and dies.

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It's about time someone took the whole «Bad Santa / Teacher» idea and pushed it into the hands of awards caliber artists who will bring something emotional to the table.

The whole idea of an advance (loan) and giving publishers a cut of an artist's creative revenues for what she or he can do solo just never made sense to me.

So you're right — there is prejudice in terms of the whole PR mechanism — but the question we're discussing is not recognition; the question is the idea of being an artist.

I think it's intriguing because it's a kind of conceptual art without the moral imperatives of the conceptual artists — the whole anti-commodity idea.

Yet the artists here seem out to dismantle the whole idea of a genre.

We want to do a long weekend — a citywide exhibition of sorts, bringing in as many artists as are able to come and doing a whole host of activities and events meant to recollect all of the ideas from this two year process.

Starting in the 1960s, artists exploded the whole idea of an art object and broke through the gallery walls.

Rail: So much about the reaction against Neo-Expressionism is there's a whole constellation of things that we're trying to sort through, one of those is «authorship,» and now everyone gets very uncomfortable at the idea of art expressing the feeling of an artist.

The whole idea of thirty - seven artists with just one work apiece, all easel scale, sounds like business as usual.

Glass is a recurrent material throughout as the artist examines ideas of surface and body and the ways in which an outer casing becomes the meaning and identity of the whole.

That is, literally, artists starting to work on similar things at the same time without knowing each other... Another thought: consider that East Coast minimalists were reacting to Abstract Expressionism, they hated colours and the whole idea of painting.

He adds, carefully: «Like most artists, for me the whole idea of competition is ugly.

In the theatrical production's U.S. premier, the performance artist becomes raw material for the impresario, who rethinks the whole idea of biography.

Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city of Chicago) and the incredible community of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.

Each of these artists, have uniquely embraced fabrication and the whole cloth creation of ideas, shaping reality by their own designs.

Some artists will never do that, because for them the idea of making a photograph is not necessarily representative of the whole time - based piece.

«The idea... was that standing behind any individual's identity or the way in which we position ourselves in the world, there is a whole set of pre-articulated possibilities of what is sexy or powerful,» she told the artist Sara VanDerBeek in 2007, describing that series.

The Conceptual Art book is also a comprehensive overview of the revolution that took place when a whole generation of artists experimented with the idea of art as an idea.

A quote on curating: «I've worked almost exclusively commissioning and curating artists» projects outside formal gallery contexts and I love the multitude of conversations that requires (from artist through to road sweeper), the way in which it allows you to continually renew your relationship to a city and its spaces, and the whole process of helping an idea take form and come to life.

I»VE WORKED almost my whole life as an artist to distance myself from the kind of role models traditionally associated with the idea of the photographer.

And the whole - not the whole - but one idea that many younger artists work with a sort of anti-romantic, anti-hero idea.

This exhibition will celebrate the material diversity, conceptual complexity, and visual beauty of Boetti's work, bringing together his ideas about order and disorder, non-invention, and the way in which the work addresses the whole world, travel, and time, proving him to be one of the most important and influential international artists of his generation.

After a tour of The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, artist and educator Shawn Hall will guide participants through self - exploration of ideas and approaches to abstract painting.

His main focus centres on the ideas of celebrity and the culture of fame, the myth of the artist and what that means within society as a whole.