Over four metres tall, it draws on both Domanović's recent research into molecular biology and
the ancient Greek sculpture «Moscophoros» — a statue of a man carrying a sacrificial calf on his shoulders.
The National Archeological Museum (Athens) Has the world's richest collection of artifacts and antiquities from Ancient Greece, including prehistoric Cycladic, and Mycenaean items,
ancient Greek sculpture (statues and reliefs) and pottery, the Stathatos Collection, the Vlastos Collection, and an assembly of Egyptian artifacts.
More than four metres tall, it draws on
the ancient Greek sculpture Moscophoros and Domanović's recent research into evolutionary biology.
This gives them a calm dignity that can only be compared to
ancient Greek sculpture.
The British Museum's exhibition on
ancient Greek sculpture includes a bronze copy of the lost Greek original Doryphoros (spear - bearer) by Polykleitos, made in 1920 by the German sculptor Georg Römer, and long believed to be destroyed in WWII.
Whistler was inspired by and incorporated many sources in his art, including the work of Rembrandt, Velázquez, Japanese art, and
ancient Greek sculpture to develop his own highly influential and individual style.
Here, in one of Greece's oldest villages, visit the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple of Apollo, and the Delphi Museum, which houses such masterpieces of
ancient Greek sculpture as the bronze Charioteer and the famous Athlete Aghias.
The sphinx is part of a renowned international collection that also includes Egyptian mummies, Chinese Buddhist and
ancient Greek sculptures, monumental steles from the ancient Maya and evocative African masks.
This new exhibition explores how a modern master transformed his artistic vision after witnessing
the ancient Greek sculptures of the British Museum.
This exciting exhibition will see an unprecedented intervention of the Parthenon galleries, where a selection of Rodin's work - including his iconic sculptures The Thinker and The Kiss - will be shown alongside
the ancient Greek sculptures which inspired them.
Ancient Greek sculptures were also painted, and it was Plato and Aristotle who first argued over the relative merits of art as imitation.
In Faded Remains the viewer is presented with a series of images of
ancient greek sculptures that now is white, but originally was painted in a variety of colors.
Not exact matches
Inspired by
sculpture, jewelry and, of course,
ancient Greek Gods and myths, each pair of sandals is finished with a golden wing buckle, a nod to Hermes, the
Greek messenger God.
With a humbling visual design bereft oflacking the usual superhero accoutrement in favor of a simple but iconic chromed exterior and his surfboard, visually the Silver Surfer has more in common with
Greek gods as seen in
ancient sculpture than the four - color superheroes that he shares the comics shelves with.
There is an introduction to
ancient Greek religion; introduction to temples and pediment
sculpture; plenty of activities for the group work leading to a project.
The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In
ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his
sculptures, which then came to life.
It is, instead, a quiet show of representational drawings — 47 in total, with an additional triptych and book of prints made from the drawings via photogravure — all based on
sculptures from an eponymous museum of
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture in Munich.
Soaring high into the urban landscape, the multi-story mural from the Spanish duo features their signature remix of
ancient Greek and Roman
sculptures with their love for graffiti.
Listing the number of influences, Longo mentions the New York Post, the films of Sam Peckinpati, and artists such as Sol LeWitt, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson, Edward Hopper, and Egon Schiele, but also
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture.
Britain is home to some spectacular
ancient sculptures, from Roman bronzes that inspired Hollywood films to
ancient Greek statues.
Viewers visit quarries and the
ancient art of stone - carving, the economic center of London, and public art in airports; meet
Greek river gods and an abandoned abstract
sculpture in Cork; and discover drama at a traffic roundabout.
Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with
Greek and Roman pottery and glass,
Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance
sculpture and artifacts.
Wheat's energetic «tapestries» — made by pushing paint through the back of mesh window screens — collide allusions to Egyptian relief
sculptures and
ancient Greek mythology.
Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and
sculptures based on the
Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).
They recall the stone
sculptures of
ancient civilisations: the
Greek kouroi perhaps or the monumental representations of Egyptian pharaohs.
Harvard Art Museum This encompasses three centres: the Fogg Art Museum, concentrating on Western Art of the Middle Ages to the present (notably early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, 19th - century Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, and an important collection of Picasso's works); the Busch - Reisinger Museum, specializing in fine art from Central and Northern Europe (notably 20th century German Expressionist painters); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which focuses on
ancient, Islamic and Asian art (notably archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as drawings, paintings and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, along with
Greek and Roman
sculpture).
Indeed the
ancient Greeks believed that relief
sculpture originated when a young Corinthian woman traced the silhouette of her lover — departing for battle the -LSB-...]
The polished and glitzy Untitled (2012) piece forged frommeat tenderisersis part
Greek sculpture, Medusa - myth and part punk - metal (pun not quite intended), exhibiting both the stateliness of
Ancient Greek busts and the flamboyance of pop culture.
Golub, who always painted in a figural style, drew upon diverse representations of the body from
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture, to photographs of athletic competitions, to gay pornography; often pulled directly from a huge database he assembled of journalistic images from the mass media.
Unknown
ancient Greek artist — Hypnos, God of Sleep, first to second century AD The winged face of Sleep invites you to dream of worlds of Aegean blue and legendary creatures in this captivating bronze
sculpture that is probably a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original.
Italian Renaissance artists were inspired by the naturalism of
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture; French Post-Impressionists incorporated the compositions and colors of Japanese woodblock prints.
But perhaps the roots for this format in all media lies in
ancient Greek pottery and relief
sculpture, Egyptian hieroglyphics or maybe cave drawings?
They remind me of the still unfathomable fact that most
ancient Greek and Roman marble
sculpture was painted loud and proud.
University of Bristol: Publication, The Modernity of
Ancient Sculpture:
Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso by Elizabeth Prettejohn, end 2012 - # 3,500
Dating from roughly 6500 BCE to 600 CE, it features
Greek art as well as and artifacts from Egypt, Nubia, the Middle East, Etruria,
Ancient Rome, Cyprus, and Turkey, including
sculpture, jewellery, sarcophagi, ornately wrapped mummies, weapons, coins, vases, carved gemstones, mosaic art, and musical instruments.
Koons's bravura handling of granite and bronze, the materials of the
ancient Egyptians and
Greeks, reflects the reactionary attitude toward materials that cost Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, her job at the Whitney in 1977 after she exhibited Richard Tuttle's
sculptures made out of wire and rags.
This volume reproduces Giacometti's Standing Woman (1948), an untitled box piece by Donald Judd, an
ancient Greek kouros (615 — 590 B.C.), a sculpted piece of island marble from the Attica region of Greece, Mark di Suvero's Hankchampion (1960), Jeff Wall's A ventriloquist at a birthday party in October 1947 (1990), and a series of
sculptures by the American folk artist Edgar Tolson titled The Fall of Man (1969).
Offering alternate histories through the juxtaposition of decidedly unlike elements — whether
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture, 19th - century French Decadent literature, post-structuralist theory, 1980s teen hearthhrobs, Native assimilation in the American Southeast, or the intricacies of Thai sex tourism — the work is, at its core, about the pleasure of intense looking.
Baziotes, who was of
Greek descent, often used the forms that appeared in the
ancient sculpture he owned, and during the 1950s he studied
Greek sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Greek Sculpture Made Simple History, Timeline, Characteristics of Statues, Reliefs From
Ancient Greece.
Many of Skaarup's bronzes are patinated in bright hues to appear more lifelike in the tradition of
ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture.
In Worship, Price continues his exploration of a new mythology in which the
ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian traditions of monumental
sculpture are deployed in the depiction of the twenty - first century social subject.
After primitive forms of cave painting, figurine
sculptures and other types of
ancient art, there occured the golden era of
Greek art and other schools of Classical Antiquity.
Paul Feeley (1910 — 1966), while often mistakenly associated with the Color Field painters of the 1940s and 1950s, in fact found the inspiration for his work primarily from
ancient art,
Greek architecture and Egyptian
sculpture.