Sentences with phrase «with ordinary objects»

In a way, this isn't new, because this was once common practice with artists who worked with ordinary objects — they defamiliarised the ordinary object by putting it in an art context so that you'd rethink your relationship to it as art.

Not exact matches

Ordinary indeterminacy is compatible with time, for this indeterminacy can only be a characteristic of some enduring object which is otherwise fully actual.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

Conceivably, «electronics» can be brought into worship along with any other ordinary object from our daily lives.

My point is that one can begin with the event and then be led by ordinary English language to posit a substantial subject and a substantial object outside the experiential event.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

Ordinary objects of our experience, such as rocks and tables, are composed of many strands of enduring objects; and the story of planetary evolution focuses on the careers of incredibly complex organisms which may be analyzed into societies with sub-societies of many kinds.

Firstly, he has to come up with an initiative which will be seen as fair to the ordinary person trying to get on in life or the «striver» (a word that I object to — when was the last time you heard someone in the pub use it?).

Engineers have found ways to endow ordinary materials with intricate microstructures, creating «metamaterials» that can curve light around very small objects and make them invisible.

Although it can transmit ordinary data with quantum security, it can't transfer quantum information, which encodes the states of objects that obey quantum rules.

He shares with Jacques Tati and with few contemporaries I can think of the desire to build everything, even the most ordinary objects, afresh.

Despite the scary monster, this has children's tale written all over it, and unless you're ready to succumb to a temporary state of ignorance, you'll find it's very hard to enjoy the flick without constantly inquiring how objects from the extraordinary can interact with those from the ordinary.

Responses to sensory play Even experienced practitioners can be surprised by children's responses to sensory play, with children engaged for almost two hours with seemingly ordinary objects.

To be prudent, you can wash everything that was in contact with an infected cat and then dip the cleaned objects into ordinary household bleach diluted one part bleach in twenty parts water.

Notions of negation — which he alternately refers to as «dematerialization,» «anti-concept,» and «non-sculpture» — structure his approach, by which he transforms ordinary objects, imbuing them with multiple meanings and affects.

He often cuts his images out of linoleum tile, filling the incisions with tar or plaster to create his decorative, monochromatic silhouettes of ordinary objects like buttons, dominoes, and lemons.

By continually returning to these motifs, DeFeo imbues seemingly ordinary objects with a heightened sense of ritualized creative process.

Notions of negation — which the artist calls dematerialization, non-sculpture, and anti-concept — are central to Seung - taek Lee's approach, and indicate the process by which ordinary or mundane objects are transformed to be imbued with metaphysical meaning.

But with Berlin - based media artist Nils Völker's latest exhibition, Bits and Pieces, the gallery becomes a space of «poetic performance» through a choreographed dance of what the artist calls «ordinary objects.»

The artist dedicated his later studio practice to the consideration of simple and ordinary objects, often in sparsely composed table studies, imbuing his subjects with symbolic content and an unexpected complexity.

McGill's paintings draw on the recognizable to add mystery to everyday objects and animals inhabiting a wash of abstraction that helps to alter the ordinary into something new and fraught with mystery.

The German artist is well known for her cast sculptures of ordinary objects, figures and animals, with their light - absorbing, matte finishes in unnatural hues.

Barriball often coats ordinary objects such as bags and lamps in pen and ink or makes impressions of windows and doors by meticulously tracing their surfaces with pencil on paper and magnifying the incidental details and textures created by every day wear and tear.

Nashashibi pairs the ocean's painterly landscape with drawn - out pans of ordinary objects to fill the dynamic 31 minute film.

With poker - faced humor, he subverts assumptions of innocence in his arrangements of childhood toys, kitsch, and ordinary objects.

For Cynthia Greig «s project, «Representations,» the artist whitewashes objects with ordinary white house paint before using charcoal to outline the items, then photographing the transformed objects against a white background.

The paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos focus on ordinary objects, such as a brown paper lunch bag, a pink eraser or a 2 - ply, white garbage bag, which are transformed by the artists, who employ unexpected materials or play with scale.

Working primarily with the recycled children's toys and found materials, Stephen Ives creates intricate scenes and narratives rich in details, breathing a breath of fantastic and surreal into the ordinary objects.

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Sometimes the most extraordinary inspiration comes from the most ordinary objects and the routines associated with them.

Celebrated for her multimedia collages, box assemblages, altars, and installations consisting of found materials, Saar has explained, «I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology.

She states, «I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology.

In Gober's hands, ordinary objects become imbued with poetic qualities like love, loss and redemption, and Untitled, like the sinks before it, is a signifier of these and the many compelling themes that underpin his work.

Indeed, Gober's rich visual lexicon is peppered with seemingly ordinary objects — lightbulbs, sinks, limbs, a stack of newspapers, or a giant box of cereal or stick of butter — that emanate a mysterious and unworldly beauty.

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

The work combines both image and spoken narrative with the intent of changing how these ordinary objects might be perceived and imbue them a sense of the «abnormal».

Emerging with the abstract expressionist movement, Jay DeFeo worked for four decades as a sculptor, photographer, and painter, producing a broad and personal vocabulary of heroic imagery that was inspired by ordinary objects and influenced by prehistoric art, astronomy, and architecture.

The last artist is Donzeaud himself with a large - scale silksreen print and aerosol paint on tarp and wood work titled «Ordinary Objects for Common Use (Couch)».

While historic pieces such as the iconic code - breaking Enigma machine from World War II are on display, SPYSCAPE isn't an ordinary museum with antiquated objects in vitrines and dry wall texts.

Best known for his works with hand - painted cloth, Lee's works often focus on quotidian and ready - made objects that address ordinary daily rituals.

The exhibition, which will now travel to Aspen, was restrained and ebullient, with selections from a few salient series tracing an evolution in his use of specific materials as hand - and - machine - tools, wood, bone, fabric, and hair in witty, emotional objects recalling old - timey toys, ritual charms and artifacts, totems of social experience, and items of ordinary household magic.

Ordinary Things locates Lucas» works firmly in this history, with the works pointing to the canon of sculpture, ranging from third century Italian votives, Bernini's classical statuary, the figures of Henry Moore and the natural materials of Barbara Hepworth, to the Arte Povera strategies of Mario Merz and the found objects of Robert Filliou.

Arte povera links nature with culture, and the functional with the dysfunctional, with a respect for art, nature and these ordinary objects.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

His art includes sculpture, installation, performance and Land art and is guided by the notion of «negation» where ordinary objects are imbued with metaphysical meanings, according to Lévy Gorvy.

Vaguely resembling ordinary and ubiquitous products like cars, vacuum cleaners, and shampoo bottles, Baskin begins with the objects themselves, making molds and casts directly from their forms, or disassembling and reconfiguring them to highlight their not so subtle appeals to our unconscious desires.

Through a meticulous mise - en - sce ̀ne, the artist critically unfolds the perception of a series of ordinary objects found in his urban drifts, articulating with them minimal installations in which the elements that configure them are deprived from their conventional meaning.

The monumentality of his work was meant to reflect the object fetishism of a captalist society, a society obsessed with colourful consumer goods, although making art out of ordinary objects was still a novelty during the 1960s.

For more than 50 years Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) has surprised, humored, and disoriented audiences with his unconventional use of media and scale to depict ordinary objects.

With their contrasting white pitched roofs and black bases, the toilets, especially in the bright primary colors chosen by Slominski, transform from ordinary utilitarian objects into playful sites of refuge.