By the end, the offstage happenings become more frantic and absurd than the Pirandello play itself a Pirandellian exchange of art and life.
For Dr. Barnes was a collector like no other, a man whose contributions to the art life of this country were unprecedented in his time and have been unmatched since.
Filming footfalls and glances, fados and discos, and the transcendent absurdities that take place on movie sets, Green captures with passionate attention to light and shadow, to faces and voices, and to the electric thrill of the touch the mystic union of life and art, and honors the majesty of the actress, who breaks through boundaries in both realms.
Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.
Though she fulfills the rules of the genre, with a more or less chronological guided tour through the sites (in France and elsewhere) and the sights (her movies, photographs, and art projects) of her life, her main order of business is love.
For me this honour is a symbol of how art can change people's perception of life and view the world in a different way.
At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.
He was a devotee of beauty and had given over his life to art with the degree of throwaway fanaticism that entails a horror of self-importance.
It was only a grant at the end of his life from the Museum of Modern Art in New York that enabled him to work on (though not complete) the Merzbarn.
But on the whole, this is a most illuminating exhibition and one that highlights the spiritual dimension of work that has the quality of art but was actually very much a part of everyday life.
In pondering his most inscrutable work of art, his own life, we can find clues in things like the iPhone.
'Man is movement' is Jacques' slogan and his son seems to have turned it into both an art form and a way of life.
This ecstatic moment of art-made-life is an instant anthology piece.
The show contains only 16 works, yet each one stands out from the wall and absorbs the viewer, providing new insight into both the life and art of the baroque master.
Till then he combined Russian and French art in unique scenes of shtetl life at once realistic and magical, personal and archetypical, with floating brides, upside-down people, fiddlers on roofs and calves in cow's bellies.
In Japanese art and poetry, cherry blossoms have also served as metaphors for "the ephemerality of life", said James Ulak, the senior curator of Japanese art at Washington's Freer and Sackler art galleries, in an interview with NPR.
Pinault is finally getting some attention for what he says is the true love of his life, his vast collection of contemporary art, which until this year he has kept largely hidden from prying eyes.
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But there are no private jets, yachts, mansions or collections of cars or art in his life.
And Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists had elevated the banal objects of everyday life to art back in the 1920s.
The U.S. fans' reaction was part of a worldwide outpouring of grief over Jackson's death and celebration of his life and art.
He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
With her mix-and-match patterned skirt, top and tights and her hair in two tufts, the pint-size girl projected art and life to the far reaches of the theater.
It will be done on 20 dedicated state-of-the-art Illumina and Life Technologies instruments that CHOP and BGI have installed at the new Joint Genome Center there, and BGI bioinformaticians will log in to a CHOP server to analyze the data remotely from China.
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The boys who remained in his classes were often caught up in his love of art, music, and literature, and in his belief that every moment of life should be spent reaching for the transcendence of the Elgin Marbles, of a fresco by Fra Angelico, even of an ordinary sunset.
In a statement, the Arts Council of Wales told BBC Wales it had a legal agreement with the landowner to ensure that members of the public could visit the art installations on the site, and that this agreement existed beyond the life of the Cywain centre.
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He reveals, or even fortifies, the fact that self-parody has become the life-support system of international art infrastructures.
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