Sentences with phrase «classical sculpture in»

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.

Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken statues from antiquity.

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.

Accompanied by original photographs, Bove has interpreted the display and chosen the exhibition furniture, mirroring Scarpa's choosing of how to re-present so many classical sculptures in his own lifetime, when recreating galleries and exhibition spaces in Italian palaces and museums.

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.

By stripping away any religious or mythical context, he reinterprets these classical sculptures in our modern time, using bold colours that are representative of the contemporary time.

Not exact matches

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

Moreover classical mythology inspired then his sculpture art, like in the famous Greece classical figure of Orpheus; he made several sculptures of Orpheus.

The arts need a voice in power, say people in the field, someone in the corridors of influence to argue the benefits of teaching the nation's students about classical and jazz music, ballet, and sculpture.

Each of the four Grand View Suites has a large classical statue from ceramicist, Ceccarelli — one for each of the four seasons, reflected in the Pitti sculptures downstairs.

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.

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.

Working in Paris, Feitelson no doubt was aware that Picasso had already moved in this classical direction, creating beautifully outlined figures inspired by classical sculpture and Renaissance painting.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

Getty curator Paul Martineau describes the divide as Apollonian and Dionysian — an apt assessment given Mapplethorpe's appreciation of classical sculpture and moments of so - called sexual deviance he captured in equal measure.

If you felt envious of the French for their big art controversy of the autumn over the Los Angeleno provocateur Paul McCarthy's «butt plug» sculpture in the classical heart of Paris, here's your chance to be appalled.

Sculpture student Anthony Limauro (B.F.A. Fine Arts» 15) referenced classical forms in the contemporary table that he created as part of his senior thesis project.

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.

From «Mother» (2017 — 2018), three new large - scale oil paintings, which borrow their imagery from Disney films, are shown in conjunction with a painted steel sculpture of a female nude in a classical twisted pose.

I'm devoted to creating sculpture that is spontaneous and contemporary in its sensibility, yet reflects a love for the past, in particular classical Greek art and the great masters of sculpture throughout history.

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.

From 1986 to 1998, Pavia spent the summers studying the classical techniques in stone carving and bronze casting in Pietrasanta, Italy, a center for sculpture in Europe.

The classical ideal was not only a poetic inspiration but also an ethical model and, in his creative quest, Mapplethorpe described photography as «the perfect way to make a sculpture.»

Working in ceramic, wood, and steel, Staros — who was born in Nashville and now lives in Los Angeles — updates classical Greco - Roman sculpture with a contemporary spin and precisely au courant humor.

His use of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.

He holds an honors BA in Visual Studies and Classical Civilizations (2003) from the University of Toronto, and a MFA in Sculpture (2007) from Yale University.

Both Ms. Cox and Ms. Peters exploit classical techniques, mastery of craft, and motifs from the canon to address contemporary concerns in painting and sculpture.

Moyer fuses painted canvas and reclaimed fragments of granite, marble, and limestone — stones used in capacities ranging from classical sculpture to kitchen design — into color field abstractions that address ideas of labor, luxury, and beauty.

Drawn primarily from the Smart Museum's collection, it includes classical and medieval sculpture; the traditional arts of Africa, Oceania, and Pre-Columbian Americas; and works of art in various media by the German Expressionists and the modern master Jean Dubuffet.

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body.

These sculptures build on my longstanding interest in refracting the language of classical art to make it relevant to contemporary culture.

Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collectiIn Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collectiin the museum's permanent collection

Other proponents of the movement as it took hold in the 1960s include Luciano Fabro (1936 - 2007), whose conceptual sculptures are highly sought after, and Giulio Paolini (b. 1940), acclaimed for his minimal and conceptual works subverting classical materials such as canvas and plaster.

Thanks to support from the Art Fund, three of the works are now making their UK debut at Sir John Soane's Museum, as part of the exhibition Power in Woman, which draws parallels between Sir John Soane's classical plaster casts and Lucas's sculptures.

Coinciding with the first ecological movements in the USA and Europe, Land Art was first created in the 1960s by artists working concurrently but sepa - rately from each other, as a critical reaction to the classical genre of sculpture and the commercial art market.

The Yale Center for British Art, meanwhile, is preparing for a major survey of Victorian sculpture — a genre drenched in classical (or pseudo-classical) ideals — which will arrive at Tate Britain in 2015.

Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) loves deep blue and Lot 241, «Venus Bleue,» shows what happens when you take a Classical sculpture of a woman's torso and make a very fine plastic sculpture of such a form and cover it with dry blue pigment in synthetic resin instead of lustrous white marble.

Visitors could curl up inside Jennifer Rubell's fibreglass sculpture Portrait of the Artist (2013; Stephen Friedman Gallery), modelled on the pregnant artist in a classical «odalisque» pose.

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.

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.

In form and material, Lucas» sculptures mirror classical plaster casts.

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.

Managing to eschew the classical ideals of representational sculpture, Judd succeeded in creating a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.

«Germaine Richier» will explore the daring ways in which Richier's art bridges the tradition of classical figurative sculpture with an idiosyncratic visual language born of an anguished, searching, and, ultimately, spiritual post-World War psyche.

MASTERY OF STONE Little Manhattan, 2007 - 2009 Marble is a medium of choice for the artist, and his virtuosity with the classical stone is evident in his meticulously rendered, impossibly elegant sculptures of cityscapes and highways.

In these decades the artist avidly explored the aesthetic and intellectual territory between classical and conceptual sculpture.

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.

From 1976, Twombly again produced sculptures, lightly painted in white, suggestive of Classical forms.

The first exhibition in the Gallery's history to be installed in both the East and West Buildings, it provided a unique opportunity to view Puryear's sculpture in modern and classical settings.