Gratifying, yes, but being in the hardware business means dealing with real materials and finite supplies.
For one thing — and this is basic — drawing doesn't afford Mr. Serra the same leeway in terms of real space, real materials and audience participation that sculpture does.
Dr Zettl was impressed by his partner's abilities: "Marvin could predict the properties of real materials, things that could actually be made in the lab".
In my hazy memories of previous MOMA retrospectives on Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto, what stands out are chunks of architecture, made of real materials, in the galleries.
He is considered one of the fathers of Conceptual art, a term he has made fun of, describing himself instead as a realist artist because his work deals with real materials and real relationships of people to those materials.
You seem to prefer doing special effects the old-fashioned way, with real materials – like the ad for Bravia TVs, in which you used 70,000 litres of paint.
Simon Ofield-Kerr, vice-chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), might view Oskar's window question as a perfect example of the importance of realising designs in real materials, for real use.
"The McVeigh Tapes" is instructive, but it is a history lesson that blends real materials and fake ones to illustrate the danger posed by fringe lunatics who cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality.
In a long, crowded gallery where many similar portraits are displayed, two far more ambitious works appear: elaborate tableaus over seven feet wide mixing real materials and painted and sculptured trompe l'oeil.
I was then 26 and he was 30, but he had already made his name at the Royal Court, taking from it and from its presiding designer, Jocelyn Herbert, a design philosophy that embraced white light, a simple stage, real objects, use of real materials in the costumes, exposed lighting bars and a permanent surround.
The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle, into a ballroom of the Overland Park Marriott.
