Sentences with phrase «century classical sculpture»

In no other exhibition would you expect to see 19th century classical sculpture or 18th century drawings by Richard Harraden alongside the fruits of Jeremy Deller's Iggy Pop Life Class.

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For one recent series, Channer appropriated and digitally manipulated images of the carved drapery from a group of fourth - century - BCE Classical sculptures in the British Museum, which were then printed onto lengths of fabric and suspended from the ceiling, playing with the relationship between sculpture, architecture, clothing, and the body.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

If that sounds horribly indigestible, the sheer poise, elegance and professional rigour of the dancers allows them to animate the space in a truly satisfying way, bringing new life to the hackneyed notion of «living sculpture» as they interweave echoes of classical dance, classical sculpture and 21st century high camp.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

She began playing cultural catch - up, devouring not only modern and contemporary art (including Joseph Beuys and Frank Stella) but also centuries» worth of classical European paintings and sculptures that she'd missed at home.

These works will be juxtaposed by important European classical paintings, prints and sculptures dating from the 15th through the early 19th centuries, including works by Il Cerano, Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Jacques Louis David, Cornelis Dusart, Jean Frederic Schall, Hieronymus Bosch, and Pieter Brueghel, the Elder.

Ordinary Things locates Lucas» works firmly in this history, with the works pointing to the canon of sculpture, ranging from third century Italian votives, Bernini's classical statuary, the figures of Henry Moore and the natural materials of Barbara Hepworth, to the Arte Povera strategies of Mario Merz and the found objects of Robert Filliou.

Silver has reworked marble copies of classical Greek sculpture and the effect is as if the passage of centuries has physically eroded the forms, or as if the action of looking by so many thousands of eyes has abraded the surfaces and rounded and softened every contour.

Up until the late 19th century, most painting and sculpture followed the traditional principles of Classical Realism, as taught in the great Academies of Europe.

What we call «Modern Art» lasted for an entire century and involved dozens of different art movements, embracing almost everything from pure abstraction to hyperrealism; from anti-art schools like Dada and Fluxus to classical painting and sculpture; from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus and Pop Art.

He went on to explain that «many of those in the know now give Frieze a miss and head straight for the neighbouring fair Frieze Masters [that] is a cornucopia of every kind of art that isn't strictly contemporary: illuminated manuscripts hang beside tribal masks, classical sculpture and an unbelievable array of 20th - century art.»

The curators were inspired by the 18th and 19th century practice of institutions collecting plaster casts of classical sculptures.

In 1980, objects from the Warren Robbins collection became part of the museum, including works by 19th century artists Joshua Johnson, the earliest documented professional African - American painter; classical landscapes by Edward Mitchell Bannister and Robert Scott Duncanson; and neoclassical sculptures by Edmonia Lewis, the first professional African American sculptor.

Among the works on display are David Hockney's season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore, masterpieces of classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection's Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein the Younger's «The Madonna With the Family of Mayor Meyer».

Split - Rocker evokes a piece of classical topiary work, yet its technical construction is the result of a twentieth century invention, inspired by the small - scale floral sculptures found in certain vernacular festivals.

McKenna studied at the National College of Art in Dublin in the early 1950s where he specialised in sculpture, particularly in 19th - century classical figuration.