Sentences with phrase «classical sculpture»

Bringing together varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our stand will examine the legacy of classical sculpture in the work of these two artists.

Like so many classical sculptures of hands however, there are some fingers missing.

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

Moore was able to distance himself from classical sculpture through the influence of primitive art, and the work of Brancusi, Epstein, and other modernists.

Within two decades, she exchanged the language of classical sculpture with an idiosyncratic lexicon of new shapes, unusual materials, processes and themes that held a dialogue with the contemporary art scene and her own biography.

Based in Paris, Caillard is especially well known for staging witty and provocative dialogues between past and present: his Hipsters in Stone series (2012 — 2016) dressed the figures of classical sculpture in contemporary clothing, while also furnishing them with additional attributes like iPhones, sunglasses and jewellery.

Classical sculptures on steroids emitting an angelic glow, Finland's bodies have the same sci - fi sexiness as H. R. Giger's aliens, complete with nuclear - missile dicks and flesh that looks like latex.

Occupying much of the pictorial space and printed in pale magenta, it is a permeable form - the marbling effect suggests a distant landscape or map, tightly connecting tissues of a brain, as well as classical sculpture.

It will include about 90 miniature reproductions of classical sculptures made primarily from the 15th through the 17th centuries.)

Paolini often references classical sculpture with cutouts of Corinthian columns and classical busts — in doing so he raises questions of originality whilst analsying the relationship of past present and future.

Several of Zefeldt's paintings incorporate «portraits» of classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately forming a face.

There's also a Tony Matelli sculpture that pokes fun at Classical sculpture with the strategic placement of bronze watermelons, a large conceptual project by Kay Rosen, the first museum survey of the work of Suzanne McClelland, and the anxious futurism of Beth Campbell.

Shifting to the material softness of silk, this research questions the drapery of classical sculpture through a process based on folding, creating a complex arrangement of layers, and staining through surfaces.

After school, he found his way to Rome where classical sculpture inspired his pursuit of a career in fine art.

The Gazing Ball series is grounded in distinctive narratives and art - historical precedents — from ancient classical sculpture to Rubens and Manet.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture will showcase rarely seen works from private collections, examining the remarkable variety of her work — from her earliest classical sculptures to her more symbolic public monuments, from her bleakly Realist depiction of the tragedy of World War I to her late Art Deco work.

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.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

A plaster classical sculpture appears to hold a canvas, its verso exposed to the viewer.

The Italian word contrapposto in art refers to an uneven pose used in Greek classical sculpture to make standing figures appear more dynamic.

At the Carnegie, there were paintings around a balcony and her sculptures were one top of a sort of balustrade where they blended in with other classical sculptures.

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.

This clean, well - installed exhibition included her wildly patinated bronzes, from small figures to giant heads, with references ranging from painted classical sculpture to Donatello (especially his Mary Magdalen), from the Art Deco designer Erté to Jean - Léon Gérôme.

Home - works 1 and Home - works 2 consist of reproductions of classical sculptures placed on brightly coloured painted brick plinths.

(An echo of Brown's idea of art gone - to - seed could be found in Urs Fischer's cracked and ruinous homages to classical sculpture exhibited concurrently at Gagosian's uptown space and in an old bank on the Lower East Side.)

Rothenberg is a painter whose allegiance to the medium has never shaken, while Muñoz's objects and installations evoke classical sculpture in their loving use of bronze, wood, iron, terracotta.

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.

Taking Homer's epic saga The Iliad as its point of departure, this body of work updates and explores Greco - Roman classical sculpture using materials such as mylar balloons, resin, fiberglass and EVA foam.

Weddell made the Grand Tour in 1765 - 66, returning to England with many artistic treasures, including superb classical sculptures and tapestries, which remain in the house today along with furniture by Chippendale and fine paintings and porcelain.

Domanović's work is of both the past and the future, folding the aesthetic of classical sculpture into her investigation into how developing technology relates to the societies that create it.

Meantime, at the Fondazione Bevilacqua is an exhibition of 15 new paintings by Peter Doig, while the Fondazione Prada presents a show called Portable Classic, a look at the culture of copying and reproducing classical sculpture.

Busts of Eve are placed on tall pedestals of the sort typically used to support classical sculptures.

Though not as hilarious, the non-sausage works in «Synesthesa» are similarly adept at aping the forms and proportions of classical sculpture all the while subverting them to comic effect.

Formally, the pieces recall classical sculpture and modernist and Pop Art painting, referencing works by the likes of Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

Appearing also within this hybrid model, Wim Botha's striking Prism 10 (Dead Laocoön)(2013) replaces the marble of the original classical sculpture with dynamic, slightly abstracted bronze work.

• For information about classical sculpture from Ancient Rome, see: Roman Art.

«Howard Bust» by Christopher Simon Sykes One of the many classical sculptures at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, c 1990 captured in the late afternoon with deep contrasting shadows lend...

Rather than being drawn to a specific style of the past (he has utilized reproductions of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, Nicolas Poussin as well as Classical sculpture), Paolini is «attracted to the myth of the why, why one makes art.»

Beginning with plaster casts that reference classical sculpture and traditional ideals of the body, Servanin inserts plastic bags filled with water into each work.

Questions of classical sculpture like weight and equilibrium are rewritten in his work, summoning up material and technical associations while adding other more recent ideas on transparency, flexibility and spatial relations, together with a redefinition of the viewer, absorbed by the new situations in which space and time are coordinated and articulated.

The first step is to understand that classical sculpture is an ineluctably retrospective art whose norms were established in antiquity; evolutionary notions of progress simply do not apply.

Classical sculpture's formal qualities, like their religious origins in Greek antiquity, are little understood today.

The host family introduces Oliver to the community, the young, dancing women, the orchard with its low - hanging fruit, the classical sculptures and stories — and to their son, Elio, a 17 - year - old musician, his hormones moaning.

Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.

Bacchus (1988), on the other hand, dates from the latter years of Mapplethorpe's career when his focus shifted towards male and female nudes, classical sculpture and still - life compositions.

Mapplethorpe's gelatin silver print — with its slick, luminous surface and intricate gradations of black and white — gives Lyon's form the appearance of a classical sculpture, frozen in mid-motion.