Sentences with phrase «ancient classical sculpture»

The Gazing Ball series is grounded in distinctive narratives and art - historical precedents — from ancient classical sculpture to Rubens and Manet.

Not exact matches

Highlights include small - scale sculptures by modern masters like Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henry Moore; ancient Chinese mingqi tomb figures and Buddhist devotional statues; European bronzes of princes, putti, and classical heroes; and boundary - breaking work by contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and H. C. Westermann.

These sculptures function as psychological portraits of his imagined subjects — usually male, usually black — whose features are in fact an amalgamation of sources: observed individuals, «types» represented in the media, and ancient, classical and neo-classical sculptures.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

Inspired by the gems, sculptures, or jewelry at the Met, she often incorporates classical and ancient imagery in her works on paper, sculptures, and textiles.

Thus, we might discern, just below the surface, the faint echo of the classical sculptures that once inspired the pioneers of modernism, the fluid linearity of early Chinese art, or the angular forms of ancient Egyptian funerary sculptures.

In the drapery portrayed in Classical sculpture, the cloth is typically generic — we can't learn much about ancient weaving technology from it — and that allows the folds to read as purely expressive.

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.

• For information about classical sculpture from Ancient Rome, see: Roman Art.