Sentences with phrase «challenging figurative sculptures»

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]

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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.

18: «Alexander Archipenko: The Berlin Drawings»: Drawings and sculpture by an influential 20th - century Modernist who challenged the traditional figurative form.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.