Sentences with phrase «classical portrait busts»

Called «Lick and Lather» it featured 14 classical portrait busts of the artist — the kind of sculptures usually carved out of Grecian marble — cast in chocolate and soap.

While other takes on advertising verge on the conventional, such as Timur Si Qun's monument to peace with the phases of the moon as its logo, Amanda Ross - Ho returns to a classical portrait bust, based on an early photography manual, with a vengeance.

At the same time, these works can be placed in an ancient sculptural tradition because of the similarities with the classical portrait bust.

Not exact matches

A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired with unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap by contemporary artist Janine Antoni in an effort to explore classical concepts of beauty.

The temples are built in grand Hellenistic style — but the dress, the women's veils and the frontality of the portrait busts of the Palmyrenes and their families that lined their huge frescoed tombs reveal a striking mixture of classical and eastern influences.

The amusing busts are «Self Portraits» created by defacing or deconstructing classical sculptures with the foundation's signature face of smeared blue eyes, bloody - looking lips and a splash of yellow hair.

In an amusing twist, another art / sex mixing was on view, on the form of Jeff Koons's kitschy marble Bourgeois Bust - Jeff and Ilona (1991), the faux - classical portrait of the artist embracing his ex-porn star wife.

After all, it's difficult to imagine bologna portraits transcending millennia like a classical marble bust or centuries like a Rembrandt.