Sentences with phrase «animal head sculptures»

Twelve bronze animal head sculptures by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei are on display at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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Give your living room a really unique touch of design with this paper animal taxidermy head sculpture!

To make the point, he uses Nicola Hicks's Maquette Head for Crouching Minotaur, a bust of the bull - human hybrid, and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture, Nature Study, which amalgamates human and animal body parts into a confusing, headless whole.

This eight - foot sculpture depicts a series of human forms, with different animal heads, clinging to the branches of a giant bonsai and looking at the moon.

After having presented the acclaimed set of sculptures, Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads in 2016, the National Gallery in Prague is proud to host the Law of the Journey, the first exhibition in the Czech Republic (and in Central - Eastern Europe) of the distinguished Chinese contemporary artist, Ai Weiwei.

Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

The sixteen - foot tall sculpture, a human / animal / cartoon hybrid, is seen seated, head in hands.

Known for using books of every kind; phone books, catalogs, newspapers, and magazines, Long - Bin Chen creates complex, beautifully detailed sculptures of Buddha heads, Western icons such as Beethoven and Freud, human faces, warriors and animals.

«The sculptures are suggestive human torsos and animal heads.

The monumental installation comprises of 12 bronze animal heads, re-creations of the traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures, which once adorned the fountain of Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing.

On view in the main gallery is the recent work Ne Plus Ultra, an elaboration on Swenson's earlier sculpture of the same name; a depiction of a decomposing animal head with a scrimshaw - like engraving on the exposed parts of its scull.

Against the Infinite includes three - dimensional wall - mounted works and freestanding sculptures as well as a large installation which features 30 individual animal heads on diamond - shaped panels.

Mouth mask probably depicting the head of a rooster, Indonesia, Southeast Moluccas, Leti, Luhuleli (19th century): On the island of Leti, ritual dances featured a small sculpture representing the head of an animal.

In his first major public sculpture project, Ai Weiwei reinterpreted twelve zodiac animal heads designed in the 18th century by two European Jesuits in the court of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong.

As a backdrop, a colossal painting of an asbestos - suited figure fleeing a burning Manhattan while being pursued by a human - headed snake, making its way to a garbage strewn New Jersey where a skeleton lies in wait with a gun; in front, a life - size sculpture of a map - skinned boy with flames sprouting from his body races toward a tree hung with animal skulls and a severed head.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei's monumental sculpture series Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Bronze in the reflecting pool of Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.

Come face - to - face with his 12 enormous bronze cast animal heads at Somerset House (until 26 Jun), and visit the Lisson Gallery for a solo exhibition of more wide - ranging works, from marble sculptures to video pieces (until 16 Jul).

What the average person does not know is the heads of these animal sculptures move.