Sentences with phrase «ancient sculptures»

Is this just a slideshow of photos of ancient sculptures?

You knew the hills just beyond the city, tucked in their shady folds secluded estates with ancient sculptures, even the occasional ruin.

Intuition at Palazzo Fortuny looks at its titular theme through works ranging from ancient sculptures to modern movements (some great Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Fluxus) to contemporary art by figures such as Anish Kapoor RA.

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.

I like ancient sculpture from the Pre-Columbian era, sculpture from the Middle Eastern civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates, African art, American folk art, Japanese prints, and on and on.

The great variety of effigies reminds of ancient sculptures on museum displays, ranging from crafts to monumental.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

Britain is home to some spectacular ancient sculptures, from Roman bronzes that inspired Hollywood films to ancient Greek statues.

He began by spray painting canvases, found objects, and casts of ancient sculptures entirely in the ultramarine shade.

By using studio photography — conventions used in both contemporary advertising and ancient sculpture documentation — and by employing museum display tactics, Krakow's work reveals the posturing, transformation, and loss that armatures and display methods represent today.

After winning another prestigious award, the artist explains her debt to pop music, why getting the Turner prize last year made her superstitious — and why ancient sculptures are inspiring her next project

Jeff Koons layers ancient sculptures and popular images, Charles Atlas collaborates with sound artists, Ai Wei Wei explores medical disaster in Hong Kong, and more.

Stampd produced a series of long - sleeve T - shirts, featuring a design that blends ancient sculptures with geometric forms oddly coming out of their eyes in Arsham's typical gray scale color palette.

Like one of my favorite ancient sculptures, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus:

Michelangelo kickstarted his career as an artist by forging ancient sculptures — thankfully, however, when his forgery was uncovered by the recipient, Cardinal Riario, he was so impressed by Michelangelo's skill that he became his first patron in Rome.

Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 June — 26 September 2015 The practice of artists drawing from ancient sculptures and plaster casts has played an important educational and inspirational role in Western art for more than 400 years.

Inscriptions in Kediri script above the hermitage cells are still legible; inside are a few pieces of ancient sculpture and pedestals.

In 1994 he conceived and curated the groundbreaking exhibition Time Machine which was involved juxtaposing works by contemporary artists with ancient sculpture in the British Museum's Egyptian Gallery.

It was like an ancient sculpture.

The artist has acquired a range of interesting pieces as a collector, from Japanese prints and landscapes to 17th - and 18th - century paintings, as well as an Egyptian funerary mask and other pieces of ancient sculpture.

Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient objects.

From ancient sculpture to modern - day masterpieces, we are the original home of the blockbuster exhibition.

The fragmentary forms in the collection, some from ancient sculpture, are integrally ambiguous, demonstrating both destruction and the passage of time, whilst showing the potential for completeness.

Photos taken in the MET, for example, place onlookers in the company of ancient sculptures, proposing a cultural shift within the visual time lapse.

The RA's temporary exhibition subjects are very diverse and range from ancient sculpture to contemporary art; some of the most successful exhibitions in Britain in the last years have been held here.

In a photo recalling an ancient sculpture, he transformed a female nude into a timeless fertility goddess.

With wit and charm, he fuses his interests in Modern graphic design, art history, and ancient sculpture.»

Here, ancient columns are conflated with advertising gimmicks; pre-Hispanic ruins with teenage recreational spaces; and ancient sculptures with contemporary monuments.

Ray took as his starting point an old, green plastic children's toy of a man driving a tractor, with an unusual stylization, akin to ancient sculpture: the figure's legs face forward in the seat, while his torso and head turn 90 degrees outward.

Kounellis has used old shoes and coats but also fragments of replicas of ancient sculptures to refer to the complicated and conflicted layers of identity.

Elements from ancient sculptures are piled up with images from b - movies and vintage toys resulting in the unexpected imagery that characterises HOPE's works.

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

Foster Gwin Gallery «Under the Influence of Nature: Bay Area Abstraction: 1948 - 1964 and Ancient Sculpture, Contemporary Excavations 500 BC - 1975 AD.»

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.

Executed on a variety of media, including paper, canvas, felt, and porcelain, the drawings depicted recurring themes in Dine «s work such as tools, owls, the puppet Pinocchio, and studies of ancient sculpture.

1: Documentation photographs of ancient sculptures were transferred to blocks of Carrara marble, which were then carved traditionally with a hammer and chisel according to the information provided by the photograph.

The British Museum finally enters the 21st century — by taking a clean, modern approach to a show of ancient sculpture

In the 1970s, draftsmanship became central to his practice, and in the 1980s he began a sustained series of drawings based on ancient sculpture.

Quayola, originally from Rome, explores the «grandeur and decay of ancient sculptures and Renaissance masterpieces that he encountered at an early age,» and the fluidity of temporal narratives.

He visited Greece for the first time only in 1985, and was profoundly impressed by the appearance of ancient sculpture and architecture in the Mediterranean light.