Sentences with phrase «ancient sculptures on»

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The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

It was in Lorenzo's garden that Michelangelo made his first sculpture, a head of a faun based on an ancient model in Lorenzo's collection.

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 has been around for centuries, and, in fact, the ancient Egyptians created numerous motifs and sculptures focusing on the breed.

The Hui also runs classes on a range of topics like ancient Hawaiian art, sculpture, printmaking, clay - throwing, and jewelry - making; there are classes for children as well.

While the Musée des Beaux Arts hosts an impressive collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and European paintings and sculpture dating from the 14th Century, many of the galleries on Rue Burdeau showcase modern artists.

The ancient art form of sculpture is showcased both in Cannon Beach galleries and on its street corners.

The French pavilion inspired building houses a collection that spans 4,000 years, featuring European painting and sculptures, Mediterranean ancient art, and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

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.

On view are Carol Ross» large freestanding metal sculptures that resemble totemic monuments of the ancient world.

Its holdings span 4,000 years and include European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

The Tomassos and Schubert take over a large stand for a display that mixes Bridget Riley's abstract works on paper with ancient and Old Master portrait sculpture.

The gallery's most recent Barney show, «DJED» (2011), featured three large sculptures, part of the «Ancient Evenings» project the artist had worked on since 2007.

Maiolica, particularly unexpected here, will be on show at Bazaart; Daniel Blau idiosyncratically mixes 19th - century fish hooks with David Bailey's photographs; Galerie Chenel posit an alternative to our alabaster - dominated view of antiquities with a presentation of coloured marble Roman sculpture; and Sycomore Ancient Art bring Egyptian wooden sculpture.

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.

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).

In the spacious galleries on the ground floor the artist presents carefully staged settings of larger than life - sized sculptures, such as mock - ups of an ancient olive tree or of a fireplace with mantle, as well as large - scale paintings.

Christo sculpture set for installation in Hyde Park Westminster Council yesterday approved the scheme to install a floating ancient Egyptian Tomb structure, called a Mastaba, on top of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake.

«Younger Than Jesus» was well - stocked with crowd pleasers like Chu Yun's «living sculpture» of a woman sleeping in a bed in the middle of the gallery (This is XX, 2006) and AIDS - 3D's OMG Obelisk (2007) which humorously memorialized IM's condensed exclamation on the favoured totem of ancient worship.

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.

Now, in her new show at Metro Pictures (May 2 - June 8), the in - demand artist is revealing a new direction in her work: she's creating sculptures inspired by ancient representations of women that she discovered in a tour of Roman archeological sites — but this time, at least on occasion, she's keeping the sculptures.

The majority of the sculptures on show resemble ritualistic totems that reflect the seasons and echo the figures and clothing found in ancient Japanese theatre (that was also appropriated by David Byrne of Talking Heads for his famous «big suit» during the band's Stop Making Sense concert film made in 1984).

The sculpture embodies Newman's meditation on ancient Egypt, changing the Western association with death and instead of it producing the eternal image of transcendence.

In his three - dimensional sculpture Nivola drew on his childhood memories of Sardinia, his early years as a mason there, and the ancients.»

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

To celebrate the opening of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory at the National Gallery of Art on June 29, 1997, exhibition curator Helen I. Jessup provided an overview of the first comprehensive exhibition of Cambodian sculpture to be shown in the UniteSculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory at the National Gallery of Art on June 29, 1997, exhibition curator Helen I. Jessup provided an overview of the first comprehensive exhibition of Cambodian sculpture to be shown in the Unitesculpture to be shown in the United States.

These multi-colored beach tents resembled canvas sculptures and made quite an impression on Scully who assimilated this ancient visual element as his primary language.

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.

The fluffy beige canines miraculously avoid crashing into the ancient Chinese and African sculptures collected by Gund's second husband, lawyer Daniel Shapiro (from whom she is now separated), and clustered on pedestals.

Ancient African costumes and sculptures, especially masks, on display in museums, galleries and art institutions all over the world, were created for a performative purpose.

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).

Collections range from art historical treasures such as works on paper by Rembrandt van Rijn and David Hockney, paintings by Sir John Everett Millais and Hans Hofmann, sculpture by Hiram Powers and Louise Nevelson, as well as artifacts from the ancient world, ceramics, and textiles.

Object Matter celebrates the ancient art form of sculpture by showcasing three - dimensional objects in wood, steel and ceramics by contemporary artists who are mostly known for their works on paper and canvas.

Tomasso Brothers Fine Art and Karsten Schubert announce a shared presentation at Frieze Masters, London, 14 - 18 October 2015 which brings together works on paper by British artist Bridget Riley with ancient and Old Master portrait sculpture.

The sixteen small - scale, table - mounted sculptures in unfired clay clearly illustrate an inspiring reflection on the ancient city.

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.

The sculpture, slated for the outdoor terrace, will be based on an ancient terracotta Jalisco figure from the museum's collection.

Combining installation, video and sculpture, her work focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas about the quotidian sublime.

Ancient to Future have published a write - up of the Arts Foundations Awards on 23 January 2014, where Leah Capaldi was awarded the The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture 2014.

More than four metres tall, it draws on the ancient Greek sculpture Moscophoros and Domanović's recent research into evolutionary biology.

The coveted «Head» sculptures bear Modigliani's signature look: elegant, often elongated figures that verge on abstraction and appear inspired by statues in far - flung locales like Africa and ancient Greece.

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.

Although this show focuses on Bhabha's two - dimensional work, the artist is best known for her grotesque yet monumental sculptures born out of ancient tribal artifacts, German Expressionism, and popular science - fiction influences such as those in her recent exhibition at MoMA PS1 of otherworldly figures appearing in a state of decay.

Actually, its quite a range of sights: film, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and photographic works scaled from palm - size to monumental and realized in an almost dizzying array of media, from prints on the highest - tech aluminum to 50 - foot Shoji screens of translucent paper that might have been rescued from an ancient temple.

For Sightings, Mabry has created a new sculpture, Two Vessels (Unpacked), based on an ancient Jalisco figure in the Nasher Collection for the outdoor terrace, as well as install his group of six figures based on Rodin's Burghers of Calais, Process Art (B - E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E)-- never before shown in the United States — outside on the steps of the Terraced Garden.

Reyes's new series of sculptures, made from volcanic rock, marble, and concrete, reflect on traditions of stone sculpture from ancient times through modern art.

At the centre of the space, two semi-abstracted white polystyrene sculptures based on Ancient Egyptian gods, Wadjet (King Cobra) 2015 and Taweret 2015, merge the organic nature of the human body with biological engineering.

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.