Sentences with phrase «as bronze sculptures»

Over the past 20 years Brun Fine Art has expanded their knowledge on specialist fields such as bronze sculptures, continental furniture, Asian art and contemporary art and therefore offers today an extensive collection of high - quality fine and decorative art.
I recently completed the vision of one of my 2012 works titled, Sunday Best as a bronze sculpture for my first solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg (22 February — 29 March 2014).
Two brass wire sculptures by Alexander Calder, French Poodle (c. 1952) and Vogelgesang [Birdsong](c. 1930), as well as a bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth were given to the Gallery by Elaine Kaufman as a gift of Richard and Elaine Kaufman.
Often making reference to Italy's history and culture in his works, he has employed traditional mediums such as bronze sculpture, mural painting, and mosaic, and often references Italian Futurism, aiming to connect the present and the past.

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Giacometti, a Swiss modern master known for his haunting sculptures of blank - face Everymen, cast the work 50 years ago as part of a commission to plant several of his bronze figures outside Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City's financial district.
The Lost Bird Project follows the road - trip that McGrain and his brother - in - law, Andy Stern, take as they search for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiate for permission to install McGrain's large bronze sculptures there.
About Blog Shannon Walk Haynes» bronze sculptures give a space dignity as well as personality.
The bronze sculpture is based on the legend of Rome's foundation, and features Romulus and Remus, and the she - wolf who cared for them as infants.
Many of Asawa's elegant bronze and steel sculptures began as folded paper or simple clay figures.
Labelled as «one of the most notable and artistically independent sculptors of the early 20th century,» Rembrandt created detailed animal sculptures, with his often bronze coloured masterpieces now being on show in museums across the world.
Here, in one of Greece's oldest villages, visit the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple of Apollo, and the Delphi Museum, which houses such masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture as the bronze Charioteer and the famous Athlete Aghias.
The Iberians produced sculpture in stone and bronze, most of which was much influenced by the Greeks and Phoenicians, and other cultures such as Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian influences.
About Blog Shannon Walk Haynes» bronze sculptures give a space dignity as well as personality.
Mark Grotjahn, whose riotous tunnels of color still dazzled at MoMA, was shown to be just as effective with sparser painting compositions and bronze sculpture in Variations.
Other big likes: Louise Bourgeois's cast bronzes and carved marbles; Franz West's lumpy, painted organic form - on - a stick; Antony Gormley's hanging metal sculpture, whose linear materials — and certainly its shadows — functioned as drawings in space.
Two untitled, bronze sculptures, one stack of three cubes and one black box with strange appendages seem only to further the architectural metaphor as maquettes.
Inscribed «Alberto Giacometti» on top of base, at back; «Susse Fondr Paris» on back of base;» 4» on r. side of base Bronze, 27 1/4 x 5 3/8 x 9 1/2 (69.5 x 13.7 x 24) Purchased from the artist (Grant - in - Aid) with the aid of the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1965 Exh: Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture Paintings Drawings 1913 - 65, Tate Gallery, July - August 1965 (78) as «Standing Woman» c.1958 - 9; Giacometti - Udstillingen, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, September - October 1965 (73)
Inselaffe, centres around Harvey's most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which forge motifs and emblems of Britishness, such as military memorabilia and joke shop knick - knacks into collaged portraits of historical figures - from Nelson to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
In more recent works such as Pile (2004), a painted bronze sculpture of a pile of garbage bags, Turk explores the way in which a work of art is conferred with iconic status and value.
[1] These models or «ghosts» (as the artist refers to them) are then cast, burning the wood away with molten bronze, creating one, unique sculpture to which she then methodically, expertly applies her patina.
Cowan describes her three bronze works on the grounds as a «gentle intrusion» into a space defined by monumental sculpture and a manmade landscape.
Rebecca Warren's composition of striding high - heeled legs without a torso is raised on plinths, commenting on the traditions of modernist bronze sculpture (as yet untitled (Croccioni bronze), 2009).
Featuring new sculptures in her trademark cedar and presenting work in bronze for the first time at Galerie Lelong, this body of work demonstrates von Rydingsvard as an artist at the height of her career and in full command of the artistic and physical demands of her technique.
The most celebrated British sculptor of the 20th century, Henry Moore was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures located all around the world as public works of art.
Famous for their shadow sculptures, the artists have taken the opportunity to return to their on - going fascination with dead animals and have created a woodland chess set complete with hand carved tree stump with bronze chess pieces inspired by the artists» collection of mummified animals — found on their farm in Gloucestershire — squirrels take the roles of King and Queen and frogs act as Pawns.
He has also used sculpture to question «things the mind already knows», as he has put it, casting torches, lightbulbs, ale cans and objects from his studio in bronze, wittily reformulating everyday objects as precious works of art.
Highlights were rareties such as an André Kertész at Howard Greenberg, one of the mirror - distorted nudes from his famed Distortion series; a stellar bronze Mel Kendrick sculpture at David Nolan; and the pristine solo presentation of Robert Mangold's serene geometrics at Elvira González.
It dwells on the technology behind Jonathan Yeo's bronze self - portrait, derived from Google's 3D Tilt Brush software, a sculpture almost as stilted and dead as his paintings.
This anti-establishment attitude towards bronze sculpture is evident in The Thin End of the Wedge, 2015 - 16, in which thin intertwining rods support a radiant golden wedge, obscuring its origins as a doorstop from the foundry.
Living and working at Trewyn Studio in Cornwall, she was at first largely preoccupied with stone and wood carving, but during the 1950s she increasingly made sculpture in bronze as well.
«The Art of Joe Beeler: A Western Original» includes more than 80 paintings and bronze sculptures by the artist, as well as a recreation of Beeler's Sedona, Arizona studio.
Also on view is a group of bronze sculptures from Nagle's Hands On series (1991), which use the cup as a formal vehicle rather than a utilitarian tool, employing slight variations in structure and texture to create abstract geometric and architectural forms.
Featured works — ranging from portraits of emperors and empresses, court paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D virtual technology and architectural features to offer visitors an immersive experience, as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
Copper has its place in art history as well, as an alloy with tin: sculpture in bronze all but invented the Renaissance with The Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Furthermore, the artist has created sculptures in limited editions such as the famous bronze sculpture Large Torso, 1974 which was released in an edition of 7.
Processing the themes of power, authority, and patriotism, he created series of darkened, monochromatic American flags, Black Flags (1989 - 91), as both works on paper and bronze sculptures, folded or unbend and series of oversized guns, Bodyhammers (1993 - 95).
A colossal steel figure outside the museum entrance, Vater Staat (2010), observes visitors as they arrive, while the key work in the exhibition — the monumental bronze sculptures United Enemies (2011)-- originate in his small, sketchy figures with heads of modelling clay made nearly twenty years earlier.
Paternoster, also known as Shepherd and Sheep, is a 1975 bronze sculpture by Elisabeth Frink and installed in Paternoster Square.
His early bronze sculptures of anguished human figures incorporated impressions made by machines as well as found objects, synthesizing them to evoke new associations.
Banner continues her Full Stop sculptures — a sequence of full stops from typefaces blown up to human scale, previously produced in polystyrene and bronze — reformed here as large inflatables.
The sculptures are casts of things Twombly found, such as the top of an olive barrel, given the grandeur of bronze and assembled to evoke the chariots and ships of the classical past.
«Paramyth» contains more than a dozen sculptures from 1934 to 1967, in such lasting materials as cast bronze and limestone.
The survey begins with small, smooth - finished bronze sculptures such as Oiseau Solaire (1946), through to the raw bronze constructions of found objects (including mannequins, dolls, rustic vessels, discarded cans) made consistently from the 1960s onwards and highly - coloured, painted bronzes of the 1960s and 70s.
Hirst's painted bronze sculpture «Sensation» is installed near Cody Dock as part of The Line, a new open - air sculpture walk in East London, between the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford and the O2 Arena in Greenwich.
Producing sculpture, books and film, she uses bronze, steel, aluminium, glass, mica, perspex, neon, water, fire and digital media such as video and the internet.
Rothko gets the central rotunda for six of his sonorous, saturated - colour field paintings, while Barnett Newman is perhaps even better served with his sculpture Here I (to Marcia), a towering strip of bronze, standing in front of three of his majestically sombre blue paintings, as though it's been torn out of the painting to become something tangible and actual.
Along the same lines, the Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti recreates fruits, vegetables, and other objects found in nature as sculptures made of more permanent stuff, like bronze, clay, and concrete.
Featured works — ranging from portraits of emperors and empresses, court paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D printing technology and architectural features to offer visitors an immersive experience, as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
This unique set of sculptures served as the matrix for the serial bronzes that followed, and in some cases they preserve objects or evidence of Degas's handwork that has been altered in the wax originals.
The 16 - foot - tall plaster sculpture was strongly influenced by James Weldon and Rosamond Johnson's 1900 song «Lift Every Voice and Sing» and it was demolished soon after it was exhibited, like all the other works on display, as there were no funds to cast it in bronze or conditions to keep it.
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