Sentence examples for artistic acts from inspiring English sources

Can those kinds of artistic acts bring about the possibility of change?" The very long title of Mr. Alÿs's exhibition boils down to a short, provisional reply: Sometimes, maybe, yes.

Dewey believed that art unifies the necessary and the free aspects of nature, and thus that artistic acts are both inevitable and spontaneous.

By blurring boundaries between art and information, data art dispels the myth of the romantic artist while offering a fundamental artistic act in a critical commentary of the digital age in which we live.

That idea that just saying the thing that holding up your pain and demanding an audience identify with it counted as not only an artistic act, but a moral one was integral to my self-conception as an artist and as a person.

The Live 8 concerts were intended as a political, not artistic, act, a spokesman said.

"Making a portrait is a fundamental artistic act, and the process is a very direct human exchange," he said.

Still, it took the group's members time to get their artistic act together, and if you connect the dates, you understand something of their path to maturity.

He later claimed it was an artistic act, comparing himself to Marcel Duchamp, whose appropriation of a urinal in 1917 led to him being regarded as the father of conceptual art.

How this book fares with its readers will ultimately depend on whether they leave its pages feeling that it came into existence out of a desire to be written or whether it was, truly, a necessary artistic act.

Almost everyone I talk to mentions Happy Valley, the brilliant Sally Wainwright BBC drama set in the Calder valley, as the counter-example to Downton and The Night Manager, but it's perhaps pretty damning that portraying ordinary working people with warmth and humanity is, in 2016, seen as a revolutionary artistic act.

But he was tempted out of retirement by the composer and librettist Arrigo Boito, who came to Verdi with the idea of turning "Othello" into an opera, for which he, in a generous artistic act, would write a libretto for the old master to set.