Sentences with phrase «abstract bronze works»

Modernist sculptor Meadows showed a series of abstract bronze works including Seated Arm Figure (1962).

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Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.
The gallery features the works of Ron Flemmings for oils especially of coastal Massachusetts, Gale Fitzwater McBrien for bronze sculptures, & Catherine Mein for multimedia abstracts.
The dark, murky canvases and expressive abstract bronzes are drawn partly from Mr. Kirkeby's studies in the 1960s, when he traveled in Greenland and the Arctic while working on a master's degree in geology.
The exhibition will present a number of large, heavily textured and abstract paintings, forming a contextual backdrop to the ceramic and bronze works which have played a crucial role in the artist's practice since the mid-1990s.
This revealing and complex exploration of Barbara Hepworth's work features her naturalistic carvings of the 1920s and increasingly abstract sculptures of the 1930s, the ambitious post-war works in wood, stone and bronze, her monumental public commissions and the strikingly diverse creations of her final years.
Shapiro is mostly known for his works in bronze of linked cuboidal shapes, which read as abstract forms that play off of a likeness to the human figure.
One of the few female sculptors of her generation to have created the kind of monumental steel, bronze, and stone works more often associated with men, Pepper has been making site - specific, freestanding abstract pieces around the world for more than five decades, including numerous public commissions.
Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N. creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive work that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.
Considerably more abstract than much of Warren's previous work in this medium — though perhaps even more overtly sensual — they recall a whole tradition of manually expressive sculpture, from the early ceramics of Lucio Fontana through Willem de Kooning's bronzes and those of William Tucker to Franz West's plaster «Passstucke.»
That puts Koons in good company, as other prized Minskoff holdings include Jackson Pollock's Wounded Animal (1943), a group of Willem de Kooning figurative and abstract works, and 19 pieces by Pablo Picasso, including his bronze sculpture La guenon et son petit (1951).
There is, though, one giveaway that these works are by the same artist — the abstract patterns appearing in vivid reds and blues on paper, and projecting along the surface of his dark bronzes.
We are very excited to display this work on loan from The Helis Foundation, as it is an exquisite example of Bultman's bronze abstract work.
Metals such as steel and bronze are wrought into astonishing forms, such as the confident and calculated lines drawn by French artist Bernar Venet's «collapsed» layers of steel arcs or American artist Jedd Novatt's abstracted cubic structures that slice through the air in suspended motion.
Photographs of people at work and play sit comfortably next to painterly, grey - green figurations and chunky abstract bronzes.
Denis Mitchell (1912 — 1993) was an English abstract sculptor who worked mainly in bronze and wood.
Like many of Moore's abstract works, this piece subtly refers to the subject indicated by the title, with large bronze forms managing to refer to lightness and flight.
While his early works in the 1970s were mostly created using recovered objects, in his later work Cragg has used more traditional materials, such as wood, bronze and marble, continually renewing his repertoire of forms, reaching towards an abstract appreciation of the human body.
Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).
«Cosmic Communism» will do justice to Freundlich's involvement in movements including Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Constructivism, and 1930s abstraction, exploring his work in diverse media — from massive figural bronzes and black - and - white prints to sumptuously luminous abstract painting, mosaic, and glass — and elucidating the relation between his art and utopian politics.
Constantin Brancusi, original name Romanian Constantin Brîncuși, (born February 19, 1876, Hobița, Romania — died March 16, 1957, Paris, France), pioneer of modern abstract sculpture whose works in bronze and marble are characterized by a restrained, elegant use of pure form and exquisite finishing.
Demester takes an experimental approach to his work, painting in oil, on bronze, in abstract and figurative styles, each potential tools to give form to light on a landscape,...
The two locations are showcasing thematically different works, North Orange Grove gallery consisting of hand - painted bronze sculptures depicting the human form, while the works at Santa Monica Boulevard are far more abstract and are composed of sheets of solid steel that Warren systematically welded together.
Closely associated with the post-war artists was the sculptor Lucien Wercollier whose impressive abstract works in bronze and marble can be found not just in public places in Luxembourg but in the surrounding countries too.
A solo show by Gianni Politi organised by Galleria Lorcan O'Neill (Rome), a re-presentation of the works the artist produced for his first solo show at the gallery, which included three types of work: abstract paintings made using scraps of canvas with acrylic, oil and household paint; small portraits on canvas; and bronze stretchers of varying sizes realized with multi-coloured patinas, marble and painted wood inserts.
Individual galleries also served up some stunning contemporary art fare: at Fabrik Projects, take in the gold and bronze sculptures of Stuart Kusher; at bG gallery the wide range of exciting, emerging LA - based artists included a richly dimensional silver work by Campbell Laird, evocative florals from Susan Lizotte, a small but dazzling lenticular piece by Heather Lowe, abstract work from Robyn Alatorre, and a smart diorama from Dwora Fried, as well as works by Johnny Naked, John Hundt, and quintessential LA scenes from Gay Summer Rick.
Works of the Early 1960s consists of a selection of gestural abstract oil paintings from Zajac's moving series depicting the deposition of Christ and two bronze sculptures from his equally touching and well known series of sacrificial goats.
She has won numerous grants and awards for her portrait, figurative, and abstract works, including four consecutive Nessa Cohen Grants for Sculpture from the Art Students League; the Excalibur Bronze Award for Portraiture, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; Katherine Thayer Hobson Award for Portrait Sculpture, Pen & Brush Club; Gold Medal of Honor for Sculpture, National Arts Club; Youth Awards Commendation, National Sculpture Society; In Memorium Award for Sculpture, 73rd Annual Allied Artists of America Exhibition; and the Dessie Greer Prize for Portrait Sculpture at the National Academy of Design 161st Annual Exhibition.
But as slapdash as his work may appear, Cruzvillegas» pieces make serious nods to art history — to the bronzes of Catalan sculptor Julio Gonzalez, who combined forms both organic and abstract, to the entropic cage forms of British artist Anthony Caro, and to the arrangements of wires, covered in hair, by U.S. artist David Hammons.
He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.
The exhibition marks an important departure for Khan, who will show works in bronze for the first time along with an entirely abstract painting.
Skaer will also show abstract bronze sculptures that represent natural elements like rain, snow and wind, as well as works from her ongoing project in which she uses materials from her childhood home, configures them into abstract shapes and embellishes them with fine materials, replacing glass window panes with lapis lazuli, for example.
As well as a meditation on art history, these works explore both figurative and abstract approaches to sculpture, through materials including volcanic stone, marble, bronze and steel and through series such as The Protesters, of which the artist has stated:
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