Sentences with phrase «bronze figurative sculpture»

Giacometti is best known for his bronze figurative sculptures, which attract some of the highest auction prices in the industry: a Walking Man broke records when it sold for # 65m in 2010.

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Ancient figurative sculpture and numerous bronzes by Auguste Rodin are highlighted during these 1 - to 1.5 - hour tours.

On view are figurative sculptures in wood, alabaster and bronze, graphite wall drawings, and several new works being shown for the first time.

Additionally, he is an acclaimed commercial photographer focused on product and architectural photography, and is also very passionate about his pursuits in figurative sculpture using bronze and wood.

Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N. creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive work that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.

In tribute to this history, the artist's 8 foot tall bronze sculpture Pouce (1993) will stand in front of the gallery's building, a literal and figurative fingerprint on the streetscape of New York City.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

The large, bronze, figurative sculptures by Matteo Pugliese emerge from the wall, both announcing and hiding themselves.

Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.

That puts Koons in good company, as other prized Minskoff holdings include Jackson Pollock's Wounded Animal (1943), a group of Willem de Kooning figurative and abstract works, and 19 pieces by Pablo Picasso, including his bronze sculpture La guenon et son petit (1951).

After gradually moving toward working with three - dimensional forms, in 1970 she made the artistic changes in scale and material and began creating figurative and non-figurative sculptures from burlap and resin, eventually moving to bronze, wood, stone, and steel.

D'Alvia's post-pop resin, bronze and marble sculptures range from the abstract and geometric to the figurative and anthropomorphic.

It was at once fun and awe - inspiring to see how Audrey Flack deploys nearly every trick in the sculpture book to claim (mainly) bronze figurative tradition for women.

During this exhibition, Doryphoros and Dyson took the place of traditional bronze and marble figurative sculpture on either side of the grand stone staircase, set against the backdrop of casts from the Parthenon frieze given by George IV to decorate Manchester's very own temple to culture.

Bronze sculptures by James Muir are typically realistic, figurative artworks with allegorical references.

His early works were sculptures made of dough, clay, and gypsum, while later he turned to large - scale works from aluminum, bronze, and steel — always theming the figurative.

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent.

On view is a large bronze sculpture of a standing female nude, one of only twenty - two sculptures produced by Fautirer, along with a group of over forty figurative ink and charcoal works on paper.

The exhibition also shows a selection of Lüpertz's earlier figurative bronze sculptures from 2001 to 2015 scattered throughout the galleries, though they are not representative of the artist's finest work and, with their blocky forms and sloppy neon coloring, look rather comical next to all these works from antiquity and the Middle Ages — all the better for the drawings, the real centerpiece.

Her early figurative sculptures in wood, terra - cotta, bronze, and plaster (e.g., Ancient Figure, 1932) show a preoccupation with blockish, interlocking masses that recall the sculpture of Central America (where she traveled in the 1940s) and anticipate her mature style.

With her classically formal clay and bronze sculptures, London - based Rebecca Warren positions herself within the predominantly male figurative tradition, which includes Degas and Rodin, while maintaining the contemporary stance of questioning her predecessors» authority.

His figurative work included sculptures in terracotta, bronze and even repoussé metal, as in the eerie Metallic Profile of 1993.

In Wicht, 2006, Thomas Schütte reassesses the figurative traditions of sculpture, presenting emotionally charged observations of the human condition in the form of a roughhewn bronze bust.

Ayelet Lalor Figurative ceramic sculptures in porcelain, earthenware, bronze.

Tall, thin and on substantial pedestals, the bronzes suggest both masks and figurative sculptures.

Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).

These works will be placed in context alongside numerous examples of Bradley's engaging and intimate works on paper and his recent experiments with sculpture, ranging from minimalistic floor - based works to figurative bronzes based on found amateur sculptures.

Ruby makes urethane and bronze sculptures, hallucinatory color - field canvases and handmade ceramics, addressing the conflict between individual desire and social structure, and the influence of institutional architecture, both literal and figurative, on human behavior and psychology.»

Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British - born sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling of a range of materials — marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass — first exploring figurative and then abstract sculpture.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

While the pedestal, figurative form, and rotation at first call reference to classical bronze sculpture, the momentum of the rotation suggests a deeper intent that challenges classical conventions.

Harlem - based artist Sanford Biggers takes African wooden figurative sculptures, dips them in wax to erase the facial features, shoots them repeatedly at close range, and then recasts them in bronze.

She has won numerous grants and awards for her portrait, figurative, and abstract works, including four consecutive Nessa Cohen Grants for Sculpture from the Art Students League; the Excalibur Bronze Award for Portraiture, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; Katherine Thayer Hobson Award for Portrait Sculpture, Pen & Brush Club; Gold Medal of Honor for Sculpture, National Arts Club; Youth Awards Commendation, National Sculpture Society; In Memorium Award for Sculpture, 73rd Annual Allied Artists of America Exhibition; and the Dessie Greer Prize for Portrait Sculpture at the National Academy of Design 161st Annual Exhibition.

Working with a huge variety of media, such as bronze, steel, and wood as well as «found» objects and cow hide, to create architectural or figurative compositions in the form of sculptures, assemblage, installations and video.

Sullivan Goss is pleased to bring Allen Linder to the west coast for an exhibition of figurative sculpture carved in marble, cast in bronze and inlaid with various metals and mother of pearl.

He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.

Following her marriage to a stone last summer, the honeymoon phase continues for Emin this spring in «Stone Love» (a title is inspired by the David Bowie song «Soul Love»), which spans neons, bronze sculptures, and embroidery, and a significant return to expressionist figurative paintings.

As well as a meditation on art history, these works explore both figurative and abstract approaches to sculpture, through materials including volcanic stone, marble, bronze and steel and through series such as The Protesters, of which the artist has stated:

Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta (particularly lifesize on sarcophagi or temples), wall - painting and metalworking (especially engraved bronze mirrors).