Sentences with phrase «bronze figure of»

City Hall announced Sunday that Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed to allow the bronze figure of a sassy pre-teen to remain on its spot until February 2018.

Upritchard is drawn to a variety of arts, crafts, and design from around the world produced over the past several centuries, and an array of objects and techniques have informed her work: the fifteenth - century German sculptor Erasmus Grasser's wooden figures; the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the eleventh century, with its scenes of the Norman conquest of England; the use of canopic jars in Egyptian mummification; the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty in India; and the blank expressions of the masks used in Japanese Noh theater.

Giacometti is a new favorite of Russian collectors like billionaire business magnate Roman Abramovich, but a person familiar with the matter said that Mr. Abramovich wasn't the buyer of «Walking Man I.» Mr. Abramovich caused a stir at the Swiss art fair Art Basel two summers ago when he bought one of the artist's 1956 bronze figures of a woman from New York gallery Jan Krugier.

Also in 2007, Emin had a solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, which showcased new sculptures in wood and jesmonite, cast bronze figures of animals, and objects combining cement and glass.

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Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

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.

Listen: there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

There is no reason to believe that the ignorant sheep herders of the Bronze Age had figured out much of anything, let alone how the universe works.

there may or may not be some force that created the universe... we haven't figured that out yet... but it is not this god of bronze age foolishness that is so concerned with what people do while na.ked and so concerned that we praise him all day long and tell him how wonderful he is and so concerned with suppressing science and so concerned with meting out punishment and so concerned with inanities like what you can eat and what days you can work on and what cloth you wear and who you can marry.

RUDY GALINDO SAN JOSE Rudy, 17, won the World Junior Men's figure skating title in Kitchener, Ont., and a bronze in the pairs with his partner, Kristi Yamaguchi of Fremont, Calif..

21 Kristi Yamaguchi of the U.S. wins Olympic gold in figure skating, with Midori Ito of Japan getting the silver and Nancy Kerrigan, another American, the bronze.

An Emmy Award - winning writer and producer who covers figure skating for ABC Sports, Goodwin takes the reader deep into the backgrounds of each of the top three pairs at the Salt Lake Games: the Russians, the Canadians and the bronze medalists from China, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo.

A novelty toy company has created an action figure modeled on the deeply bronzed New Jersey mother charged with child endangerment and accused of taking her then 5 - year - old daughter into a tanning booth.

His bronze statue at the top of Queen Street in Cardiff has him leaning forward with his right index figure pointing down, as if making a point in a debate.

At the NBC upfronts in N.Y.C., proves she's cornered the market on geek chic in a figure - flattering striped wrap - style dress and a pair of metallic bronze stilettos.

But when they're suddenly invaded by some well - armed Bronze Age types and thrown out of their valley, it's up to Dug to journey to the Roman - style city of their enemy and figure out a solution.

Sure, there may not any formal connection between Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, Bad Grandpa, Bad Words, Bad Gymnast (sorry, The Bronze), and the new Bad Moms apart from the universal desire to attract audiences with the promise of zanily inappropriate behavior from people who are supposed to be role models and / or authority figures.

«U.S. national champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist and one of the favorites to win the gold medal at next month's Winter Olympics, was attacked by a man wielding a blunt object after practice yesterday at the U.S. Olympic trials,» the story read.

Adam won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics as part of the figure skating team event and became the the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics.

Many of Asawa's elegant bronze and steel sculptures began as folded paper or simple clay figures.

Maureen Quinn is an artist of sculpture with bronze figures.

There was once a commanding figure of Lenin but that, too, has been replaced by a 24m (79ft) bronze statue of the pagan goddess and protectress of the city, Sophia holding the symbols of wisdom and fame.

Gold is pretty simple to figure out but I'm unclear as to what distinguishes someone earning a Silver instead of a Bronze medal.

The Mete of the Muse (2006) juxtaposes differing representations of race in two bronzes: one a black patinated Egyptian figure and the other a white painted classical European nude.

In the 1960s, in response to his move to the countryside in East Hampton, he painted a series of paintings based on the North Atlantic light, and also began sculpting figures modelled in clay that he cast in bronze.

Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life painting of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's abstraction made by embedding gold chains in a field of black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture of animals in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries in New York and Hong Kong.

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.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

Here, oil paintings, works on paper, and bronze sculpture are each characterized by the presence of distorted, haunting figures.

There are headless bodies pretzeled around walking frames that evoke an endless Leviathan torment (Justin Matherly), and ancient Aztec figures kissing like modern teenagers at some music festival (bronze bodies the colour of mud).

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

Except for a small mask in the office, all were located in the main gallery — chunky, disjointed, gouged figures in a variety of mediums (plaster, hemp, iron rebar, redwood, bronze), some standing fully upright but most lying about on plinths.

Hand - modelled and cast in bronze they resonate with Henry Moore's delicate «Working Model for Reclining Figure» which elegantly recalls the British master's key principle of «truth to materials».

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Walking Figures (group of 10), 2009; Bronze, each approximately 106 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 55 1/8 in.; All images © Magdalena Abakanowicz, Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, New York

HENRY MOORE (1898 - 1986) Draped Seated Woman: Figure on Steps 1956 Bronze 25 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches Edition of 9 Private Collection

Bronze age figures of animals sculpted by our earliest ancestors look oddly anthropomorphic.

Fragile plasters as well as patinated bronzes, marble figures, astonishing ceramics and never - before - exhibited photographs all attest to this creative intensity, with much of the work presented in North America for the first time.

Alberto Giacometti's most well - known series, his 1960s «Walking Man» sculptures, consist of roughly hewn, unnervingly thin and elongated bronze figures in motion, which evoke an aura of alienation even when grouped.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

It's just too obvious to think that this figure, enormous as Bourgeois has rendered it in bronze over and over again, is a metaphorical means to reweave the fabric of her life story.

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.

His early bronze sculptures of anguished human figures incorporated impressions made by machines as well as found objects, synthesizing them to evoke new associations.

Back in 1993, on Park Avenue, there was a public exhibition of Fernando Botero's big, curvy bronze sculptures, monumental human and animal figures that sat fat and happy on the green median of one of the world's priciest streets.

The figures in the new series have got down from their pedestals and turned into grotesque giants cast in one of the most tradition - laden materials in art history — bronze.

The lean, angular frame of Bourgeois's longtime assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, provided the form for Arch of Hysteria, the exquisitely graceful (or painful, depending on how you look at it) bronze sculpture of a naked male figure bent backward and hanging by a thread.

In this bronze sculpture the artist (unknown) has welded together a group of figures into a unified piece.

Shapiro is mostly known for his works in bronze of linked cuboidal shapes, which read as abstract forms that play off of a likeness to the human figure.

The result is a compact yet liberated primer of Bourgeois's implicitly feminist art, its fecund repeating forms, alternately architectonic and fleshy figures, intimations of pregnancy and birth and, most famously, giant spider sculptures in bronze or steel.

In 1997, the artist Bjarne Melgaard — who is both famous as the most renowned Norwegian artist since Munch, and infamous for his hungry embrace of drugs, transgressive fashion, and dangerous sex — made a bronze spiritual self - portrait that he called Lightbulb Man, presenting a hollow figure riddled with holes, or perhaps orifices.

1981 Bronze, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY Figuratively Sculpting, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY The Figure: A Celebration, University of North Dakota Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND New Dimensions in Drawing 1950 - 1980, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Drawing Acquisitions 1978 - 1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY