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Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collection

Not exact matches

Still, we have two important examples, both by French sculptors, of statuary belonging to the same tradition.

On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.

Sheep are among the first animals to have been domesticated by humans, and there is evidence of sheep farming in Iranian statuary dating to that time.

The dramatic architecture is perfectly complemented by period oil paintings and classic statuary.

Imagine a relentless progression of slides, first juxtaposing ancient pyramids, modern cornices, and pointed thatched huts, followed by successions of fluted, rococo, or austere columns and spires, which segue into compare - and - contrast studies of statuary buttocks and behinds spanning sexes, continents, and centuries.

Histories and theories of Western sculpture have typically favored idealized representations, as exemplified by the austere, white marble statuary of the classical tradition.

He's created basketballs floating in vitrines of distilled water; encased new vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescence in Plexiglas towers; cast statuary and everyday objects in high chromium stainless steel; fashioned painted polychrome figurative wood sculptures; cast glass sculptures of sex.

A collaboration between the museum's assistant curator of Asian art, Melody N. Rod - ari, and its conservator, John Griswold, this small installation explores how the place of origin and date of an object can be determined by the rendering of drapery pleats, hairstyles and ornaments of iconic statuary from South and Southeast Asia dating from the 3rd through 13th centuries.

Similarly, Monk's imposing self - portrait busts inspired by idealised Greco - Roman statuary, has each had its nose smited by a famous Italian artist of the Arte Povera generation, such as Jannis Kounellis, Gilberto Zorio or Emilio Prini, as well as by Monk himself.

He demonstrated (using an assistant's body) the way he modeled Clasp, this cast - iron work, on the sensuous water carrier Ingres depicted in his iconic painting (itself inspired by classical statuary) The Source.

This may be the most «woke» room in any mainstream American museum today, with works by Native American, African - American and female artists far outnumbering the only work by a white man, a virtuosic sepia - toned «landscape» of broken and toppled ancient statuary.

Box of Angels, expands on the statuary artworks made by David Ireland from 1991 through 1997.

Houseago lived in the Netherlands and Belgium before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 and was heavily influenced by Hellenistic statuary, science fiction, and early Modernist sculpture.

Koons then moved to Statuary, the large stainless - steel blowups of toys, followed by the Banality series that culminated in 1988 with Michael Jackson and Bubbles, a life - sized gold - leaf plated statue of the singer cuddling Bubbles, his pet chimpanzee.

Kelley's «harem», as he called it, brought together mannequins, waxworks, automatons, medical dolls, sex dolls, movie stand - ins, religious and ancient statuary, along with recent sculpture and photography that evoked these various sources, by Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Charles Ray, Laurie Simmons and others.

During Art Basel she was selected to curate a major work at the prestigious Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark in Miami, and chose to bring to life the its imagery by having live mermaids swim around the barge, as women dressed as their statuary sang to them.

Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, with some of Britain's finest Robert Adam interiors, Newby Hall is home to a wonderful collection of Chippendale furniture, Gobelins tapestries and classical statuary.

Matsuyama is influenced by a variety of subjects, including Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, classical Greek and Roman statuary, French Renaissance painting, post-war contemporary art, and the visual language of global, popular culture as embodied by mass - produced commodities.

Historically, architects expressed judicial power by building massive neoclassical temples decorated with inspirational quotations and noble statuary.

Greeted by a grand foyer lined w / custom statuary marble tiles, opens onto a formal living space with 10ft + ceilings and exposed post and beam sep..

Get the look: The statuary marble tile design, framed mirrors and washstand are by Tamzin Greenhill Designs.