Sentences with phrase «african wood carvings»

Is that a Brancusi sculpture, an African wood carving, or a Neolithic tool?

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Vibrant cotton fabric in a West African print is wrapped around a sese wood base that is carved by hand to create the eye - catching bangle.

Framed by Gill & Lagodich for the Metropolitan Museum; c. 1890s American painting frame, gilded hand - carved wood, molding width 4-7/8» MMA Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015 «The largely Connecticut - based, New York - and Paris - trained Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally.

Whitten began carving wood in the 1960s in order to understand African sculpture, both aesthetically and in terms of his own identity as an African American.

A painting of African American cotton - pickers by Clementine Hunter and a desk carved by emancipated slave William Howard illustrate an 18th - century fieldhands» song: «Caller: Old Joseph was a wood workin» man... When he got old he lost his way... Makes that boss man right mad... Needs a young man to learn his trade,» with a recurring chorus of «Hoe Emma Hoe, you turn around dig a hole in the ground, Hoe Emma Hoe.»

This ticketed exhibition features 40 sculptures carved from a diverse spectrum of materials — including wood, marble, copper, bone, and personal mementos — contextualized with African, Minoan, and Cycladic sculptures and other examples of objects that inspired Whitten across the years.

The formula was basic: to carve wood into small, semiabstract forms resembling spoons, chess pieces, African sculptures (and works by Brancusi and Giacometti), bones, bobbins, balls, melon slices, sand dollars and toy boats.

This exhibition brings together an array of African hair ornaments made with wood, beads, copper wire and ivory — some of them embellished with delicate bas relief carvings.

Artwork featured in gallery: 1920's carving of African figures carved in a wood door.

His sculptures often carry a cult - like feeling, an aspect that is stretched in The Philosophical Nail (1986) by installing the work in a glass and wood cabinet, as is the case with The Path of Luck (1992), a perfectly carved sphere in African blue granite.

Artwork featured in gallery: This image shows a carved wood very stylized African female figure seated with a large head..

In thinking about Contemporary African art, put aside pre-conceived ideas of wood carvings, masks and other traditional artifacts.

- The Hudson Bar, which features a glass floor lit from beneath, carved - wood African stools and Louis XV furniture.

Featuring tribal prints and natural materials such as terracotta, carved mango wood and brass, it's inspired by African and South American style.

Craftspeople in Jaipur, India, hand carved the delicate rosettes on this low - sitting solid mango wood table, which takes its original inspiration from a ceremonial stool used by Bamileke royalty in the African country of Cameroon.

Influenced by African designs, the delightful carved mango wood animals decorated with burnt - on patterns lend a playful air and you can enhance the mood further with scented pillar candles that boast spicy scents, such as leather and amber wood.