Sentence examples for spectator art from inspiring English sources

Back in 1936 Walter Benjamin argued that when a singular spectator becomes a mass spectator art loses its aura.

Roleplaying may be seen as part of a movement in Western culture towards participatory arts, as opposed to traditional spectator arts.

Writing in The Spectator arts blog in 2012, Dave Rodigan described it as "quite simply, one of the greatest reggae albums ever made".

And yet there is no denying that for both the artist and the spectator Petit's art is conditioned by the knowledge that he is risking his life.

The film is lost, but his published notes stated: "I paint about communication", explaining that in making painting derived from everyday contemporary objects, he sought to establish common ground between the modern spectator and high art.

The labyrinthine mind of the last great surrealist envelops the spectator of her art in memories of an early 20th-century French childhood, intense secret worlds and the very interior of the body.

Granted, the naked art spectator is a less common sight, but as our tour guide for the evening, Stuart Ringholt, tells it (he too in the nude), the white cube of an art museum is already a "reductive space"– so it follows that clothes are a kind of visual noise disrupting our experience.

So I cheered a piece in the latest Spectator by Richard Dorment, art critic of the Daily Telegraph, denouncing the grim collection of sculptured tat dumped in recent years on Park Lane, a short stretch of dual carriageway bolted on to the eastern edge of Hyde Park by crazed 1960s urban planners.With respect though, I think Mr Dorment's howl of aesthetic dismay, though impressive, misses a trick.

The argument puts a finger on an experience shared by many spectators of conceptual art who feel conned or deceived by it.

I talk as much about us as spectators looking at art as I do the art.

With other works of art, a spectator may, by a kind of introjection, feel himself involved in what he observes or contemplates.