Sentences with phrase «as pieces of sculpture»

«The idea of a building as a piece of sculpture is 100 years old now,» Wines says.

«The Lofts at 688 13thStreet is designed as a piece of sculpture, a poised and urbane presence.

Not exact matches

Known as the «iron man,» a 24 - centimeter - high sculpture was likely created from a piece of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago

These «wearable sculptures», as the founder and designer Janice Perez describes them, have been created from reclaimed noble woods that were originally pieces of furniture.

As a tribute to these gorgeous pieces of rolling sculpture, Bremont created the Jaguar MKI, which features a minimal dial that replicates the E-Type's tachometer gauge.

His work here is one of two pieces of wit the movie has to offer; the other is courtesy of production designers Sebastian T. Krawinkel and Antonello Rubino, who place a replica of the sculpture in the Mosfilm logo title shot in the repository of Soviet kitsch that serves as Jones» character's panic room.

These qualities, given added weight by the shot's extended duration, encourage the viewer to regard the action as though it were a piece of sculpture, to contemplate the intermingling of glamour and sleaze.

«New Renault Clio was conceived as a piece of sensuous sculpture which stimulates desire.

The Clio IV represents a new shift in Renault's visual language as Laurens van den Acker, Senior Vice-President, Corporate Design explains: «New Renault Clio was conceived as a piece of sensuous sculpture which stimulates desire.

«The goal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) is to offer everyone unrestricted access to Germany's cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany» explained Hermann Parzinger.

If, on the one hand, the azulejos of Portinari fulfill a functional as well as an esthetic purpose and are an important part of the design of the building, on the other hand both pieces of sculpture, by Lipchitz and Giorgi, fail to make a notable contribution.

In his original request for artists proposals for inclusion in the Artists» Balls show, curator Hugh Margerum said, «as we all know, whether you are male or female, it takes balls to make art...» The resulting show encompasses that sentiment and extends in the case of the nine participating artists to a broad interpretation of the ball theme in paintings, drawings, sculpture, and wall pieces.

Get lost in the artistic spirit of St. Augustine as you browse original art pieces, sculptures, ceramics and storied décor in the Grand Bohemian Gallery.

One of the most intriguing techniques that Jojo incorporates into his work as an artist is a water - pressure - inflation technique, which he uses to shape metals into one - of - a-kind pieces of art, including wall sculptures, chairs, coffee tables, and other pieces of furniture.

Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

Color Field pioneer Sam Gilliam, for example, first applied acrylic paint to raw, unprimed canvas by staining it like a piece of fabric, as realized in the sculpture - painting hybrid Hedge Sky.

This he referred to as his «found drawing»; it created a fluidity between his painting, sculpture and printmaking: «I loved the idea that simply inking the surface of the plywood board would produce a web of white lines, if one only pressed a piece of paper against it.

He has been subject to numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country as well as abroad lending to most of his works becoming key pieces in many prominent private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.

In the garden, patrons can find Richard Serra's cylindrical sculpture, One, at the end of a long sloping staircase amidst trees, as well as Mark diSuervo's K Piece, a bright red steel sculpture with an rigid shape befitting its name.

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.

There was also an interesting mix of «in - your - face», what I would describe as adolescent rebellion statement art that included everything from your run - of - the - mill one word paintings and sculptures, to catchy art - fair - destined pieces like Juan Miguel Palacios» Damien Hirst - recalling scull painted on multiple clear panels.

Combine the piece's insensitive siting with the oddly quiet way in which the Menil acquired the work — without the fanfare that accompanied such accessions as its Maurizio Cattelan sculpture or the marketing blitz that led up to the «wedding» — as well as Kamps's professed surprise at a controversy he had cited in the No Zoning catalogue, then top all that off with the Menil's refusal to present a public discussion of an artwork whose meaning was supposed to be shaped «by the ensuing debate,» and you're looking at a colossal screw - up by a rightly revered institution.

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.

Andre's first major exhibition in Britain for over 10 years, it features eight sculptures made between 1967 and 1983, as well as some of his typed - out poems from the same period (their words are arranged to form bold patterns on the page, almost like little pieces of sculpture).

Tomaszewski begins with video of visitors walking in the sculpture garden and recontextualizes it as part of a projected generative drawing in the gallery, and Schlei creates an outdoor multi-channel sound piece in dialogue with Tony Smith's The Wandering Rocks (1967 - 1969).

The exhibition included both freestanding sculptures and wall works combining text and image; exhibited as well were examples of «interactive sculptures» (some produced in collaboration with Esther Shalev - Gerz), pieces either re-created, presented in the form of photographic documentation, or made accessible by computer.

As if painting is just another piece of material that is used in her sculpture; medium: wood, ceramics, painting.

Nicole Cherubini presentation on contemporary ceramics where paint acts as the union between disparate mediums presents painting as a verb, creating some of the most successful pieces in the exhibition, Cherubini follows suit with Apfelbaum, merging the disciplines of sculpture and painting.

He previously depicted food items in pieces such as Pumpkin Sculpture (1998) and the large - scale, cartoonish sculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out hiSculpture (1998) and the large - scale, cartoonish sculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out hisculpture Hot Dog Man (2011), and his use of found objects (like the jars and bottles in the «Spill Paintings») started with My Empire (2011), a 6 - foot - tall assemblage of detritus that came from cleaning out his office.

Chareau and his wife were keenly interested in contemporary art, and the exhibition reunites several pieces from their collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by significant artists such as Piet Mondrian, Amedeo Modigliani, Max Ernst, Jacques Lipchitz, and Robert Motherwell.

Giese views his artistic project as one of repair and re-presentation of natural objects; he employs processes that echo nature's slow and repetitive rhythms as he reconstructs pieces of the physical world in his sculptures and installations.

Both the three - dimensional and four - dimensional pieces reference the structure and patterns inherent in their conception: taking the five separate pieces of Smith's sculpture as a starting point, Schlei has organized his sounds in five - note clusters and groups of five.

By sharing key stylistic elements in the artworks, such as their frontality, obsession with surface and static quality, the contemporary sculptures echo the mystery and scale of Nevelson's pieces, registering as somber black objects dissolving into complex surfaces.

Working in New York City during the «60s, Paul Thek became famous for his series Technological Reliquaries, also known as «Meat Pieces,» unsavory wax sculptures of meat and human limbs enclosed in Plexiglas display cases.

Her first major London retrospective for almost 50 years, «Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World» features over 100 works, including some of her best - known pieces such as Pelagos (1946; below), which can be seen alongside sculptures by her contemporary Henry Moore and predecessor Jacob Epstein.

Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, and the work was also featured as the center sculpture of the 2012 London Paralympics.

According to a recent piece in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the artist is experiencing a «London moment,» as she prepares for a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (featuring sculpture, photography, painting, and more) on the heels of debuting costumes and backdrops in a ballet at London's Royal Opera House.

The sculpture probably would have suited the artist, better known for his paintings («Coups de Pinceau» means «brushstrokes»)-- but it was the foundation's language - defying designation of this piece as a «posthumous artist's proof» that suggests someone felt a bit awkward when describing it.

Though that abstract sculpture, by a now - forgotten artist named Joe Messina, sold for $ 125 to the collector and heiress Rachel Lambert Mellon, known as Bunny, who told Mr. Sandler to deliver the piece directly to the Museum of Modern Art, to which she donated.

Group Show @ Herrick Gallery This four person show to inaugurate a new Mayfair space has Paul Hazelton as its star, with his delicate sculptures created from pieces of dust.

These include sculptures made of Sandback's trademark acrylic yarn as well as some of his earlier pieces created from metal rods and elastic cord, that speak to the idea of delineating space.

Select highlights include: Lehmann Maupin's sale of several McArthur Binion works ranging from $ 50,000 - 175,000 to trustees of two leading U.S. museums, as well as collectors new to the gallery; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's sale of two works by George Baselitz in a range of c. $ 599,000 - 838,000 each, a Robert Rauschenberg work for $ 725,000, a Tony Cragg sculpture for c. $ 210,000, and a metal and wood piece by Jack Pierson for $ 190,000; Royale Projects sold three Clinton Hill paintings at around $ 95,000 each to collectors from New York and California; David Kordansky sold out its booth of photography by Torbjørn Rødland in the range of $ 14,00028,000 each; Jack Shainman's sales of recent work by Hank Willis Thomas, including a major sculpture, a retroflective, and one of Thomas» iconic flags in the Live section, and works by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Becky Suss, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Geoffrey Chadsey; Gallery Hyundai's sale of a pair piece by Seung - taek Lee for $ 100,000 - 200,000 and two works by Minjung Kim for $ 40,000 - 100,000.

Masinaei's edition of sculpture with a sound piece will be sold as a digital download.

The mediums of the artworks include traditional art forms like drawing, painting and sculpture, but also time - based mediums like video and artist books as well as participatory pieces.

For her first solo show in the UK, Judas Companion — artist Jasmin Reif — will present a series of knitted mask pieces - a new body of work that explores the concept of a mask through sculpture, photography and film, and includes a first look at the bespoke piece created as part of the inaugural year of the Ketel One Artist Commission.

The artist, whose work is both in dialogue with and enigmatically outside of the Pop tradition, always starts with drawings and then builds them into sculptures, which carries over into the final piece a satisfying 2 - D quality — as if Simpson were drawing in space, like the disembodied cartoonist's hand in a Chuck Jones short.

Also clever: the curators decision to include Letha Wilson's floor sculpture, which is a flat piece of steel with a corner curled up, as if it were paper.

Sculptures such as Number 175T present a combination of the cut and tightly fitted wood pieces for which Drew is known with the sprawling lines of natural root forms, represented in flat areas painted in white.

Although Drew's work looks as though it were found in its present state, all of the sculptures reveal the artist's craftsmanship in shaping, cutting, building and weathering his pieces.