Sentences with phrase «classical sculpture with»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

The classical style is reinforced by the high ceilings, oversized mirrors, and formal balconies with either sculptured railings or pillars, mixed with solid wooden furniture, and modern plasma audio - visual equipment.

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.

Dotted with mosaicked paths and Classical sculpture, it both showcased their art and inspired it.

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.

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.

VMFA consists of a 13 acre campus with two buildings (the main museum and the Pauley Center) and a Sculpture Garden which offer a wide range of settings, from formal and classical to dramatic and contemporary.

With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical «presence» without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.

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.

With stocky bodies unfamiliar to classical sculpture, Zuniga expanded the intellectual reach of his work by mixing it with regional ethnographic studies of body type and lifestWith stocky bodies unfamiliar to classical sculpture, Zuniga expanded the intellectual reach of his work by mixing it with regional ethnographic studies of body type and lifestwith regional ethnographic studies of body type and lifestyle.

Primary Structures, which takes its name from the 1966 seminal exhibition of Minimalist sculpture, is a theatrical tableau of classical columns which plays with and rejects Minimalist principles, including the Minimalists» rejection of pedestals.

With the aim of drawing attention to the lack of racial diversity through the history of painting, Awol Erizku creates photographs, paintings, sculpture, and video installations that evoke classical artworks whose subjects are replaced with models of coWith the aim of drawing attention to the lack of racial diversity through the history of painting, Awol Erizku creates photographs, paintings, sculpture, and video installations that evoke classical artworks whose subjects are replaced with models of cowith models of color.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Made of polycarbonate, the sculptures are coated with graphite, giving them the look of classical works — which makes them all the more disturbing, due to the contrast between the technical beauty of the pieces and the ugliness or weakness that they so often depict.

«Sculpture Victorious» promises to vanquish blanket notions of «the Victorians» and their art (sentimental, chintzy, imperial, imperious)-- veering from the high - camp designs of William Reynolds - Stephens to the brawny classical majesty of Lord Leighton's An Athlete Wrestling with a Python.

The intersection with classical sculpture — I don't know if that's problematic for me or not.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

Rooted in the craft of sculpture and paint, it rises from intertwining everyday objects in all possible and surprising ways, but still with a formal reference to the history and tradition of classical art.

His later work also draws from classical sources, as in his Venus de Milo sculptures, infusing his art with the influence of the past.

Since 1972, Neri has worked primarily with the same model, Mary Julia Klimenko, creating drawings and sculptures that merge contemporary sculptural concerns with classical forms.

Several galleries are offering two - and three - person booths, with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presenting expressive, figurative paintings and sculptures by Erik Olson and and process oriented abstractions by Andre Hemer; New York's Albertz Benda featuring dynamic abstract ceramics by Brie Ruais and John Mason; NYC's Magenta Plains displaying mythically minded canvases by Bill Saylor and Zach Bruder; and Nathalie Karg Gallery, another New York venue, presenting minimalist paintings by Nathlie Provosty and Nancy Haynes and classical realism with a twist by Jesse Mockrin.

Employing an experimental approach to ceramic sculpture, she tests the limits of gravity, color, and texture by pushing against the boundary of classical techniques, sometimes fusing her kiln - fired creations with complex plinths formed of wood, steel, and concrete.

At the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) the Tuileries Gardens were filled with site specific sculptures, creating compelling juxtapositions between the contemporary and the classical.

In the days when the notion of sculpture has been extended with ready - made objects, installations or virtual sculptures, Tony Cragg consistently promotes its classical understanding.

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

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.

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.

The part - figure throws a shadow behind itself that masquerades as a traditional sculptural form - perhaps a classical Greek sculpture with its arms and head lost over time, or the fragmented body of Auguste Rodin's headless and armless «Striding Man».

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

Yet they also serve to highlight the artist's commitment to language, with a somewhat shocking return to classical sculpture, plinth and figuration.

In recent years, Urs Fischer has been exploring the genres of classical art history (still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) at the intersection with everyday life in cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, mutating or kinetic objects, and texts.

Romany music sits alongside French horns with Ergin Çavuşoğlu's video installation Quintet Without Borders and: mentalKLINIK's sculpture FrenchKiss; and video art sees classical Turkish orchestra stand alongside popular music with Hussein Chalayan's I am Sad Leyla and Servet Koçyiğit's To Die For, which closes the exhibition with the well known song You'll Never Walk Alone.

In 1964 she claimed a special relationship with white marble, the quintessential medium of classical sculpture, which she associated with the Mediterranean sun (Hodin 1964, p. 59).

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, «The Mammal and the Sap», Portikus, Frankfurt am Main At the core of Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel's «The Mammal and the Sap», their first institutional exhibition in Germany, was a meshing of handcrafted furniture and cabinetry techniques with classical sculpture.

Discover with educators Shelby Brown and William Zaluski the social and sexual contexts of posed and perfected classical nude sculptures, and explore their ultimate influence on the nude and portrait photography of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) combined opulently coloured classical paintings with highly influential sculptures.

Besides regular exhibitions featuring photography, painting, sculpture and installations, Kronenboden also hosts readings, classical concerts with leading international musicians and similar events.

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otWith À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otwith braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otwith golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.