Sentences with phrase «ancient times artists»

Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Not exact matches

Since ancient times, many artists and poets admired the extraordinary beauty and intelligence of a Russian girl, and it's not just that she is very beautiful by nature.

Leon's «outrageous women of ancient times» were leaders and artists, writers and warriors, sports stars and scientists.

In ancient times purple was obtained by means of a complicated process from the gland of a sea snail, and was much sought - after as a particularly valuable dye for artists» colours.

Cats, of course, have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence and air of mystery (or indifference, depending on how you look at them).

In Still Life Studio, celebrated Australian artist Petrina Hicks continues to take inspiration from mythology and art history, this time featuring models with luminous skin posing with various props in a style inspired by ancient Roman sculptures.

I use rich colours and gold leaf - the kind of materials that have been used since ancient times to express the wonder, joy and magic of the inner world - the imagination - where the artist is boss and anything can happen!

The photographs, like much of the artist's work, capture images of ancient ruins, abandoned bunkers, and graffiti - covered urban structures - in short, disparate sites that are unified by their shared states of physical change, erosion, or decay over time.

Artists have created erotica from ancient times to the present day.

At the same time, Albers's long - term commitment to studying Mexican art and architecture also positions him as a prescient figure in the history of post — World War II American art, when artists such as Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Smithson looked toward ancient traditions with a new sensitivity and self - awareness.

American artists who share his interest in space and time have famously recreated ancient art on a Stonehenge scale: James Turrell claims direct inspiration from the Stone Age for his natural observatory in a crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, and the colossal dimensions of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah make it one of the post-1960s works that will always capture imaginations.

«The unstable identity of the present begs for the return of power of the mask from ancient times, when it was used as a form of protection, disguise, performance, or just plain entertainment», states curator and artist Bogomir Doringer in the catalogue for his newly opened exhibition Faceless II at the Freiraum Quartier21 International of MuseumsQuartier Wien.

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.

Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time centers around the Frick's grand - scale Harbor of Dieppe and Cologne, both painted by the artist in the mid-1820s, and unites them for the first time publicly with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in BrittTime centers around the Frick's grand - scale Harbor of Dieppe and Cologne, both painted by the artist in the mid-1820s, and unites them for the first time publicly with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in Britttime publicly with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in Brittany.

From ancient to the present times, artists have tirelessly sought to represent and invoke erotic impulses via their artworks and Phaidon will be attempting to put this fact into its true perspective.

Art in Canada has ancient origins, right from the time of the abstract artists to the more modern artists who started to develop their own individual tastes.

Often, artists, truly contemporary in spirit, manage to preserve their own visions and yet master so completely a medium that flourished in ancient times.

Since ancient times, music and visual art have been an important source of passing down stories through the generations, and musicians and artists have drawn upon each other for inspiration and stimulation.

If from ancient times to the modern era, artists had garnered renown for their technical mastery of one single material, the avant - garde's rejection of hierarchies opened the gates to the...

ARTIST TALK: EVA LEE IN SEARCH OF MANDALAS: AN ARTIST»S JOURNEY THROUGH THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS Date: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 Time: 6 pm Location Conference Room, 3rd Floor Artist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee will share experiences from her 2013 Fulbright research on 10th - 12th century Buddhist mandalas in ancient Tibetan monasteries of Spiti, Lahaul, and LARTIST TALK: EVA LEE IN SEARCH OF MANDALAS: AN ARTIST»S JOURNEY THROUGH THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS Date: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 Time: 6 pm Location Conference Room, 3rd Floor Artist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee will share experiences from her 2013 Fulbright research on 10th - 12th century Buddhist mandalas in ancient Tibetan monasteries of Spiti, Lahaul, and LARTIST»S JOURNEY THROUGH THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS Date: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 Time: 6 pm Location Conference Room, 3rd Floor Artist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee will share experiences from her 2013 Fulbright research on 10th - 12th century Buddhist mandalas in ancient Tibetan monasteries of Spiti, Lahaul, and LArtist and experimental filmmaker Eva Lee will share experiences from her 2013 Fulbright research on 10th - 12th century Buddhist mandalas in ancient Tibetan monasteries of Spiti, Lahaul, and Ladakh.

This work is a tribute to the beauty of this ancient tradition, and at the same time through it the artist raises valid questions.

Curator Paul Vandenbroeck (KMSKA) selected about 100 works of art from all over the world, from ancient times to the present, from famous and less well - known artists.

Hailing from Botswana and working in Johannesburg today, artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's drawings and video animations look back to the beginning of time and its various interpretations — incorporating the beliefs of ancient mythologies and the results of cutting edge science.

Starting at The Oratory, which hosts works by several Biennial artists as part of the Ancient Greece episode, the tour will continue onto Derby Square for Lawrence Abu Hamdan's new public time piece, Sahej Rahal's «fossilised» sculpture at Exchange Flags, and Betty Woodman's large - scale fountain at George's Dock Ventilation Tower plaza.

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.