Sentences with phrase «museum diorama»

Alex Kvares, 2009, Chasing Rainbows Museum Diorama, Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 11 x 15 inches

The developers of the $ 1 billion Montreign / Adelaar project in Sullivan County and the $ 1.5 billion Genting Sterling Forest Resort in Orange County even had men carry in large illuminated scale models of their projects, executed with the precision and detail of museum dioramas.

Museum dioramas often depict palaeolithic families as if they came out of a 1960s TV sitcom, with dad going off to hunt the mammoth while mom stays in the cave home with the kids.

Anderson's animal dolls could have stepped right out of museum dioramas and into their vintage - store wardrobes, and the mix of stillness and sudden action (from discreetly ruffled fur to a sudden acrobatic leap) is an animated analogue to the deadpan performances of his human casts.

Sugimoto's photographs of museum dioramas draws attention to the deceptive potential of photography and art

In the style of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid creatures from a confluence of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.

Hiroshi Sugimoto, for example, takes moody black - and - white photographs of museum dioramas, but eliminates any references to their cases, giving us groupings of condors, sea lions, or gorillas that at first seem plausible as nature photography but which, upon closer examination, feel somehow very wrong.

Their productions reveal a strong sense of carefully constructed mise - en - scène that owes as much to natural - history - museum dioramas as to cinematic directorial techniques.

Informed by aspects of Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Sugimoto's work extends across a diverse array of subject matter, including museum dioramas, wax portraits, architecture and light.

Aside from his photographic series, Sugimoto's work extends across a diverse array of subject matter, including museum dioramas, wax portraits, architecture and light.

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Including: Museum, Green House, Mash Warehouses, Blending and Production, Avery Island Conservation, Salt Mine diorama and TABASCO ® Country Store.

People attending the Saturday rally in Ellenville's Liberty Square rally were treated to lunch and were surrounded by museum - like dioramas of a coffee shop, featuring mannequins dressed as a waitress, a skier, a golfer and a singer; and artifacts from the Nevele's peak period, including a sign touting comedian Jan Murray.

The exhibit of which the museum is most proud is a simple, life - size diorama in which two khaki - clad paleontologists are squatting and peering down at the bones of a fossilized dinosaur.

Finally, to stave off future deterioration of the dioramas and to reduce energy use, the museum reimagined the lighting strategy for the hall.

Dioramas might seem old - fashioned, but they allow visitors «to walk right up to the glass to check out individual features in a way you would never be able to do in a TV documentary,» says Ross MacPhee, a mammalogy curator at the museum.

For these animals the museum built temporary wooden scaffolding into the dioramas to save fragile grasses and plants from being trampled, allowing conservators and taxidermists more freedom to work inside.

There are museum style items to collect, too, such as figurines, images, music, and dioramas.

by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.

Dioramas inside that museum play a key narrative role, as does the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted seqmuseum play a key narrative role, as does the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted seqMuseum's Panorama of the City of New York — a miniature model of the city built for the 1964 World's Fair that becomes the centerpiece of a stunning, handcrafted sequence.

Haynes composes shot after pondering shot of black people going about their day, as if they, too, are dioramas in a museum.

Across the park is the fabulous Natural History Museum (made famous by the Night at the Museum films), with its wonderful dioramas.

The five - floor venue includes a revamped cafeteria, a miniature chapel, a 40 - foot - tall fake redwood tree, a 19th - century gothic altar - turned - bar, a tiki bar with a full boat inside, and lots of taxidermy dioramas created in consultation with experts from the Natural History Museum.

Tucked into a quiet and scenic neighborhood, this museum is filled with exciting displays of nature, science and history with artifacts, dioramas and other cool displays.

As written in Ampersand Gallery's press release about their last exhibition with Hall, «[his] finely detailed assemblages bring to mind the dioramas & curiosity cabinets of natural history museums, yet on a deeper level they allude to the ritualistic strangeness of reliquaries, thereby serving as an intersection where notions of religion, science, folklore & quackery collide with the artist's imagination.»

Like the dioramas of the Museum of Natural History or the period rooms of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hello Meth Lab in the Sun creates theatrical depictions of three specific social / historical contexts: the utopian hippie commune, the clandestine meth lab, and the varied sites of modern industrial production.

The deathlike silence of the stuffed animals, encased in glass dioramas, is broken by a group of white pigeons or butterflies invading the museum.

When Hiroshi Sugimoto photographs dioramas from a natural - history museum or Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber build their own, one has trouble telling reality at a third remove from the real thing.

Diorama, museum exhibit which creates the illusion of a natural or historic scene.

In the museum, O scale model trains (1:48) will move through architectural dioramas created by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.

The photographic series has already spanned four decades, during which time he has travelled to natural history museums across the United States, documenting their dioramas with an 8 × 10 large - format camera.

The artist captures large - scale dioramas inside natural history museums, Sugimoto's photographs initially seem to be documents of the natural world, featuring far - flung landscapes and wildlife.

Sun Xun was struck by the idea that official Chinese accounts of the past have many parallels to the dioramas in the Natural History Museum.

Unlike the dioramas in the museum, The Time Vivarium will by definition be «a place of life».

From museum displays to zoological dioramas, their research depends upon a holistic, contextual treatment of the ways in which animals adapt and react to their surroundings.

2017 The Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, Inventing Downtown: Artist - Run Galleries in New York City, January 10 — April 1, traveling to NYU Abu Dhabi, September — January, 2018 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Matisse and American Art, February 5 to June 18 Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Dioramas, June 16 to September 10, traveling to Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, October 6 — January 21, 2018 Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy & His Circle, September 12 to October 28

These sculptures call to mind dioramas in natural history museums.

The artist, however, does not give us much of a hint of the museum setting — no visitors are standing about, no reflection of the diorama's glass front is visible — and so the viewer is lured into creating a narrative in a manner similar to the one induced by Crewdson though perhaps not quite as eerie.

Shikama photographed naturalized animals in the dioramas of New York's Natural History Museum, plant specimens in various greenhouses and, more recently, dried seeds.

These historically minded works are joined by a four - channel video installation by the young Chinese contemporary artist Sun Xun, who became known for mixing visualizations of his father's recollections of the Cultural Revolution with scenes from dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in his surreal 2015 animation The Time Vivarium.

In The Phoenix Greg Cook reports that Alexis Rockman, whose earlier work is often compared to the Museum of Natural History's diorama painting, has adopted an «expressionist action - painting style while holding to the disasters - of - global - climate - change theme.

Sonnier, a talented draftsman, immersed himself in studies of bone relics of Mastodons and other herd animals in the photographic archives and dioramas at the Museum of Natural History before embarking on the series.

The earlier pieces they selected range from 18th - century Catholic devotional waxworks to scientifically accurate 20th - century animal dioramas (pioneered by Carl Akeley at the Museum of Natural History in New York).

In 2014, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transformed the Victoria & Albert Museum's former Textile Galleries into a life - size diorama — suddenly, museum visitors would find themselves in the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... ReaMuseum's former Textile Galleries into a life - size diorama — suddenly, museum visitors would find themselves in the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... Reamuseum visitors would find themselves in the stately, quaint, neoclassical Old - World apartment of one Mr. Norman Swann, a «fictional, elderly,... Read More

The diorama is displayed behind glass, as if it were a habitat preserved in a natural - history museum.

It centres on the world - premiere of a new film by the artist made at the Biologiska Museet in Stockholm: the first natural history museum to use a large - scale diorama.

Encased in glass, it felt like a sort of diorama in a natural history museum.

James L. Clark Archives and the Construction of Habitat Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History

Among his most recent solo exhibitions are «Greetings From the Abandoned Land,» David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2017), «Reminiscent of Time Passed,» Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art (2016), «Diorama» at the Galeria Sagrado Corazon, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2015), «Landview» at the Walter Otero Contemporary Art, Miami (2014), and «Fallout» at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (2013).

Ybarra likes to play with the idea of the museum, using galleries as spaces in which to assemble personal collections that stand in some ironic relation to the sorts of dioramas and vitrines ordinarily found in ethnographic or natural history exhibits.

«Small World, Dioramas in Contemporary Art ``, Museum of Contemorary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.