Sentences with phrase «classical sculptures on»

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.

Classical sculptures on steroids emitting an angelic glow, Finland's bodies have the same sci - fi sexiness as H. R. Giger's aliens, complete with nuclear - missile dicks and flesh that looks like latex.

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Take a few moments as you walk to admire the myriad of superb Renaissance and Classical buildings, sculptures and artworks on your tour route.

Bacchus (1988), on the other hand, dates from the latter years of Mapplethorpe's career when his focus shifted towards male and female nudes, classical sculpture and still - life compositions.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

These sculptures build on my longstanding interest in refracting the language of classical art to make it relevant to contemporary culture.

The show comprised five sculptures each of which was made using a similar process to his earlier works: images of classical and Modernist art objects found on the Internet were rendered, via a computer, as basic three - dimensional models.

Classical sculpture was a three - dimensional object on a pedestal.

Visitors could curl up inside Jennifer Rubell's fibreglass sculpture Portrait of the Artist (2013; Stephen Friedman Gallery), modelled on the pregnant artist in a classical «odalisque» pose.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

At first glance the arrangement looks very classical, but upon closer inspection it seems to have a disruptive effect on the harmony of the sculpture park.

Several of Zefeldt's paintings incorporate «portraits» of classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately forming a face.

Already, many sixties artists have taken on, for me, this classical stature — Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Don Judd, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, among others — which feels more like past than present...» Nevertheless, many of the assumptions which were first propounded about the style — or what was commonly claimed, the non-style — of Minimalism (née Cool Art, The Third Stream, Post Geometric Structures, ABC Art, Object Sculpture, Specific Objects, Primary Structures, or Art of the Real) have remained unchallenged for over a decade.

Wanting to create works that could assume a direct material and physical presence without recourse to grand philosophical statements, Judd eschewed classical ideals of representational sculpture and created works that relied on clear, definite objects.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

They are the result of a meditation on the figures and the surfaces of classical sculpture and architecture.

Many of his works evoke art from classical societies, including the Moai sculptures on Easter Island and medieval Romanesque sculptures.

Shifting to the material softness of silk, this research questions the drapery of classical sculpture through a process based on folding, creating a complex arrangement of layers, and staining through surfaces.

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Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken statues from antiquity.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

These sculptures offer a gritty, modern and natural twist on Soane's collection of classical casts, and guests will draw inspiration from these by studying them in - situ.

On the occasion of her first solo show at T293 the Swiss - Tunisian artist Sonia Kacem presents a site - specific installation in several volumes, evoking the fundamental issues related to sculpture and more specifically those of the dematerialization and the decomposition of classical forms.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

Home - works 1 and Home - works 2 consist of reproductions of classical sculptures placed on brightly coloured painted brick plinths.

In his latest work, Shonibare removes the fabric altogether, employing instead the batik designs in new modes such as mural painting, bronze sculpture, screen prints on canvas and classical sculpture.

Inspired by the gems, sculptures, or jewelry at the Met, she often incorporates classical and ancient imagery in her works on paper, sculptures, and textiles.

Gathering his works from the 1970s to the present, the show features wry assemblages and wall sculptures that combine natural and discarded elements, riffing on classical architecture, the nature of portraiture and colonization.

Discover with educators Shelby Brown and William Zaluski the social and sexual contexts of posed and perfected classical nude sculptures, and explore their ultimate influence on the nude and portrait photography of Robert Mapplethorpe.

He went on to explain that «many of those in the know now give Frieze a miss and head straight for the neighbouring fair Frieze Masters [that] is a cornucopia of every kind of art that isn't strictly contemporary: illuminated manuscripts hang beside tribal masks, classical sculpture and an unbelievable array of 20th - century art.»

«Kongo: Power and Majesty» at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 3) turned a corner on traditional approaches to African material by explicitly presenting so - called classical African sculpture as a response to the traumas of colonialism.

Questions of classical sculpture like weight and equilibrium are rewritten in his work, summoning up material and technical associations while adding other more recent ideas on transparency, flexibility and spatial relations, together with a redefinition of the viewer, absorbed by the new situations in which space and time are coordinated and articulated.

The sculptures — curiously lightweight, layered human forms — might seem recognisable from last year's Summer Exhibition, where the artist's colourful, translucent take on classical statuary greeted visitors in the Academy's Central Hall.

Jed Morse, curator at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, will present a lecture entitled The Classical and the Primitive: Modern Sculptures of the Kimbell as part of the Museum's Art in Context series, on Wednesday, September 21, at 12:30 p.m., in the Kimbell Art Museum auditorium.

Busts of Eve are placed on tall pedestals of the sort typically used to support classical sculptures.

The majority of the works on display depict classical Greco - Roman sculpture.

Using clay and concrete, Adrián Villar Rojas's sculptures and installations draw on the history of Minimalist sculpture and Modernist architecture, creating works that refer back to classical antiquity and forward towards a future archaeology.

Together, the paintings, bronze sculptures, neons, embroideries, and works on paper in Stone Love frame Emin as a classical artist on a perennial journey into the self within the context of intimate and personal relationships.

He studied the classical antiquities, sketching from sculptures at the Hermitage on a visit to St Petersburg in 1911.

On «The Greek Miracle»: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Among the works on display are David Hockney's season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore, masterpieces of classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection's Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein the Younger's «The Madonna With the Family of Mayor Meyer».

John DeAndrea's hyper - realist sculpture Classical Allusion, 1987 (Bernarducci Meisel Gallery) is a simply astonishing, unthinkably perfect rendition of a female nude study that is leaning on the corner of a sculpture stand displaying a male torso.

His published Discourses, first delivered to the students, were regarded as the first major writing on art in English, and set out the aspiration for a style to match the classical grandeur of classical sculpture and High Renaissance painting.

«Monumental in scale and imposingly sited on axis with the entrance to Central Park, Yinka Shonibare's Wind Sculpture (SG) I assumes the aspect of a classical civic monument....

Greeting the viewer at the door, Jon Pylypchuk's sculpture «allright I guess I can't be sincere to you anymore» is simply the sum of its parts: a figure on a pedestal made with tennis rackets and lightbulbs for eyes; Keith Edmier's «Medea» is cast from pink dental stone and rises from the exploded kiln of the late artist Lowell Grant; Sean Landers» casts a beautifully menacing god Pan; Heimo Zobernig «s take on the classical contrapposto is a 3D composition of three sculptures; bulky, elegant and graceful, Georg Herold's «Brown Betelgeuze is a beautifully imagined bronze of the second - brightest star of Orion.

The Contemporary Art Day sale held in London on 30 June includes classical pieces from the notable movements of the Post War period, along with paintings and sculptures by the leading names of the contemporary art world.

That means that wild experimentation is not on offer, and even the more punk galleries, such as Berlin's Galerie Buchholz and New York's Maccarone, have organized more classical presentations of paintings, sculpture and a bit of photography, streamlined and saleable.

To create the photographs - cum - sculptures which line the side walls of the booth (priced at $ 6,800 apiece) Strömberg photographs classical stone sculptures and monuments throughout his native Berlin and processes them on the computer to create prints that the artist deems more object than image.

He is seated on a large, low pedestal at the site where Virgilio Sieni's Atlante del gesto (Atlas of Gesture), 2015, was recently performed, and where examples of classical sculpture and their copies stood in Anna Anguissola and Salvatore Settis's 2015 exhibition «Serial Classic.

These sculptures offer a gritty, modern and natural twist on Soane's collection of classical casts, and participants in the workshop will draw inspiration from these by studying them in - situ.