Sentences with phrase «pierced form»

In plastic art, the avant - garde was ably represented by the modernist Constantin Brancusi, the Futurist Umberto Boccioni, the Kinetic artist Alexander Calder, and Barbara Hepworth the Yorkshire sculptress who, in her celebrated 1931 work Pierced Form, introduced the «hole» to the art of sculpture.

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75) Key figure in the development of British abstract sculpture Pierced Form (1931)- destroyed during World War II

In her celebrated 1931 work Pierced Form, she introduced the «hole» to Modern British sculpture (1930 - 70).

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (bronze)(1913) by Umberto Boccioni • Fountain (urinal)(1917) by Marcel Duchamp • Bird in Space (bronze)(1923) by Constantin Brancusi • Merzbau (3 - D collage)(c.1930 - 43) by Kurt Schwitters • Pierced Form (1931) by Barbara Hepworth • Fur Cup (1936) by Meret Oppenheim • Presidential Portraits, Mount Rushmore (1941) Gutzon Borglum • Horse (bronze)(1950) by Marino Marini • Sky Cathedral (painted wood)(1958) by Louise Nevelson • Homage to New York (exploding construction)(1960) by Jean Tinguely • Untitled (Stack)(lacquered iron)(1967) by Donald Judd • A Thousand Years (installation)(1990) by Damien Hirst • Apple Core (1992) by Claes Oldenburg • Puppy (Plants, wood, earth)(1992) by Jeff Koons • My Bed (installation)(1999) by Tracey Emin • 227: The Lights Going On and Off (conceptual art)(2001) Martin Creed • Controller of the Universe (tools and wire)(2007) by Damian Ortega

Hepworth's most notable works include the following: - Torso (1928, Tate)- Figure of a Woman (1929, Tate)- Infant (1929, Tate)- Seated Figure (1932 - 3, Tate)- Sculpture with Profiles (1932, Tate)- Two Forms (1933, Tate)- Three Forms (1935, Tate)- Discs in Echelon (1935, cast 1959, Tate)- Wave (1943, National Gallery of Scotland)- Dyad (1949, National Gallery of Scotland)- Pierced Form (Epidauros, 1960, Tate)- Sphere with Inner Form (1963, Tate)- Hollow Form with White (1965, Tate)- Construction (Crucifixion) Homage to Mondrian (1966, Winchester Cathedral)- Conversation with Magic Stones (1973, National Gallery of Scotland)

• Organic Shapes A growing style of biomorphic abstraction, exemplified by Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) see his Torso (1932, Georges Pompidou Centre); Henry Moore (1898 - 1986); and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75), see her seminal Pierced Form (1931).

Barbara Hepworth's Pierced Form inspires Moore's use of the abstract hole as a formal device between the solid and void.

A member of the Parisian Abstraction - Creation group, and the London Circle group, her seminal 1931 work Pierced Form introduced the «hole» to Modern British sculpture (1930 - 70).

The carving of wooden sculptures with the intention of casting them almost immediately was a phenomenon of the 1960s and is also illustrated by Pierced Form (Epidauros), 1960 in guarea (Tate Gallery T03141) and the bronze Vertical Form (St Ives), 1965/1966 (Tate Gallery T03150).

Only with Hepworth's lost Pierced Form, 1931 (BH 35, destroyed, repr.

Pierced Form Artist: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975 Date: 1963 - 4 Classification: sculpture Medium: Pentelicon marble on wooden base Dimensions: object: 1264 x 972 x 229 mm Presented by the artist 1964 © Bowness

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) British abstract sculptress, of St Ives School: noted for Pierced Form (1931).

We'll probably never know, as the first British sculpture generally acknowledged to have a hole through it, Hepworth's Pierced Form of 1931, was destroyed during the war.

Violent, erotic, using synthesised music and shot in a piercing form of early Technicolor, it stars Jessica Harper as an American dancer going to study at a German ballet school in the Black Forest where horrific murders are being perpetrated.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), the great English artist who, along with his contemporary, Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), were the two most important British sculptors in modern art, both revolutionized sculpture by being the first to pierce the form of their biomorphic (bio = life, morphic = form) sculptures.

Not exact matches

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

God has hands, the hands that formed you in love, the hands that were pierced for our salvation.

In the moment of the piercing of his limitedness by the Limitless, in the shattering of his tight little shell, he was appalled to find himself in the absolute nakedness of being fully known by Another: «Before I formed you in the womb I knew you» (Jer.

It isn't surprising since both body piercings and tattoos have been performed, in one form or another, worldwide for over 5000 years (DeBoer, Seaver, Angel, & Armstrong, 2008).

Any form of piercing is a hole being placed in your body.

Similarly, rat motor axons pierced the human iPSC grafts to form their own synapses.

In the pleasant, sunny afternoon of July 1, 2015, local and state officials led by Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, joined by over 200 community leaders and stakeholders, witnessed the first of four thousand large concrete - filled steel piles to firmly pierce the ground, which will form the support foundation for the massive structures of the new Holtec Technology Campus.

The remaining salt is buried by sediments, but eventually pierces through the rock, forming a hill.

One form of chronic migraine relief that has gained a lot of attention recently is an inner ear piercing.

Heavy 14k gold quality construction with pierced star form design with natural, creamy half pearls set on v...

Into ALL forms of self expression with a distinct penchant for the dark, moody and occasionally jaded.i am a tattoist, painter, pencil artist, musician and part time kinda writer, about 5» 10», about 140 lbs, heavily tattooed and pierced, quiet.

When you learn to write about events with a «piercing objectivity,» Ravina told me, you can transfer that skill to numerous forms of communications.

The class - exclusive standard LED racetrack taillamp that pierces the dark of night with 192 individual LEDs that form one seamless ribbon of red light.

An advanced new form and pierce process improves fit and finish of the entire Focus front end by using cameras to measure the optimal location for the position of mounting holes, within tolerances of 0.1 millimeters.

Since this signal is only moderately strong, price often will retest the low formed by the bullish piercing pattern.

The case of SHI and Tom Smith is a compelling example of how the «corporate veil» can be pierced but it does not mean that corporate forms of organization are categorically useless for home inspectors.

A candlestick pattern that forms inside bars, and then pierces the high or low of the mother candle, only to close back inside the mother candle and continue the other way, is often called a «fakey» pattern — for obvious reasons.

They key here is the context in which this pattern is formed (uptrend or downtrend), and the direction of the pierce in relation to that context.

«Pets that are unwilling to consume the capsule may take it in liquid form if the capsule is pierced, squeezed, and mixed into the moist food or a soft treat,» Dr. Mahaney says.

Utilizing her entire kit to form a beam of pure dark and light, Coalescence is a straight beam that pierces and applies the satisfaction of healing to allies while damaging the enemy team.

Piercing and full of fascinating thoughts and strong emotion, they always form the core element of Meyer's work, and force you to stop what you're doing, drop everything and simply stare back at the imaginary person.

A ceramic pitcher pierces a stiffened upholstery that forms a bridge between the two arms of the chair.

Barbara Hepworth helped to reshape sculpture in post-war Britain, experimenting with abstract forms and piercing holes through her works to play with light and shade.

Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, pierced and jagged forms, and pulsating energy, these wax - resist paintings on paper, done at the height of abstract expressionism's ascendancy, captivated Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and inspired Jean Dubuffet to write his only monographic study on Ossorio.

Robert Smithson's Pierced Spiral (1971) for example, shares Bladen's interest in large, dramatic, abstract forms, and projected grand scale.

After piercing through the surface of the paper it barely holds its form.

His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces.

Taking readymade materials — a nod to Duchamp's Dadaist sensibilities — he pierces through the skin of these photographs with mirrors, arrows, and other objects, forming what he calls «photo - sculptures.»

Images of the Sacred Heart for example were dedicated to quantification of the body, and were often pierced or cut as a form of veneration.

A member of the Irascibles, Ferber rejected the notion of sculpture as merely a composition of solid volumes, instead making open - form works that he described as «piercing» space.

Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, their pierced or jagged forms, and their pulsating energy, these works were created using a wax resist technique — Ossorio would apply a light color wash to the paper, draw forms with wax, and then paint in watercolor, which would saturate all areas of the paper except those with wax - drawn shapes.

Among the forms on view were a possible drawbridge, two giant hairy mushrooms, a massive house of cards and a shield pierced by eagles» quills.

From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.

Her attempt to plant the flag into the glacier fails as she is unable to pierce the ice, and must seek a less stable form of support.