Sentence examples for utilitarian forms from inspiring English sources

The suprematists worked at the Porcelain Factory in Saint Petersburg in 1923, making objects that played games with the utilitarian forms of cup and teapot and plate.

But now they populate the Internet in all manner of humorous, bizarre, and utilitarian forms.

Whether intended or not, the abstractions that characterized more utilitarian forms gradually became devalued by comparison.

The particular utilitarian form that Native American arts take often reflects the social organization of the cultures involved.

Eileen will share her body of work that utilizes the tradition of the majolica surface on the utilitarian form.

When you live on a dirt road 150 miles from the nearest city, he points out, improvisation becomes a necessity — and also, in some ways, a utilitarian form of art.

This passage, then, can naturally be interpreted as a statement of the classical utilitarian form of consequentialism.

While it's true that most garages don't feature an aesthetic any more interesting than a bare-faced, giant concrete block, there are designers who are rethinking this utilitarian form and turning these spaces into iconic architectural works that add a sleek, modern elegance to the cityscape while minimizing urban sprawl and environmental impact.

Modernity has weakened the traditional Islamic injunction against the depiction of images of humans and animals; thus, in addition to traditional architecture, decorative design, and various handicrafts, it is possible to find non-utilitarian forms of both representational and abstract painting and sculpture.

They look like industrially produced objects, but inasmuch as they are they are non-utilitarian forms, they divert the mode of production to art.

In many cases, however, utilitarian clay forms serve as supports for the painters' familiar motifs, as in the dishes by Marc Chagall, George Braque and Jean Cocteau, and Picasso's glazed tiles picturing scenes in the bullring.