Sentences with phrase «classical statues»

This new work, a female figure, cast in cement, recalls classical statues of the sensual female form and is vibrantly painted, then decorated with crochet and hand - made net.

You start in the relative sanity of the mirrored dining room and then squeeze through a series of chambers stuffed with prints and relics, before emerging into the domed, top - lit atrium with its gallery studded with classical statues looking down into the stone coffin of the pharaoh Seti I. Below are the monk's parlour and the crypt.

st Léo Caillard dresses classical statues as hipsters above the Aldwych entrance to Bush House in London.

French artist Léo Caillard has dressed classical statues as hipsters above the Aldwych entrance to Bush House in London.

Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000 - year - old ziggurat at Iraq's Nimrud.

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.

The selection of silver gelatin prints represents several areas of Mapplethorpe's aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, body fragments and classical statues which facilitate the unique opportunity to see Mapplethorpe's work through the matrix of Neoclassicism.

Paris - based artist Léo Caillard, known for dressing classical statues in contemporary attire, has been commissioned to produce a new site - specific installation for the exhibition.

Koons seems to have taken a palmful of blue gazing balls and blown them out into the gallery, landing on classical statues and Midwestern lawn ornaments, which have coalesced in pure white plaster.

the women's lack of vanity is revealed as they are shot at an uncomfortable proximity, blending their bodies with classical statues and standing before leonardo's mona lisa.

The grounds have been decorated with a variety of classical statues, archways, and budding flowers for every season.

The main work - related activity is when Perlman and Oliver go to inspect a sensational discovery: parts of a classical statue recovered from a lake.

Jeff Wall's curious light - box image The Giant (1992) depicts a modern library interior with the colossal figure of a naked older woman digitally inserted onto the landing of the staircase like a classical statue of a disrobed Athena.

The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers, body fragments and classical statues.

But more often, her work is deeply visually pleasurable, isolating images or objects — a dress, a classical statue, a bowl — against colorful monochrome backgrounds for analysis, like forensic evidence, or brain - food canapés on a tray.

The women's lack of vanity is revealed as they are shot at an uncomfortable proximity, blending their bodies with Classical statues and standing before Leonardo's Mona Lisa.

The bright painted colours of classical statues and temples has worn away over history.

But she often coupled her criticality with a sly humor and an exacting, alluring beauty, as in the 1983 — 88 series «Objects of Desire,» for which she cut out items from magazines, ranging from dresses and bowls to bondage gear and classical statues, which she then rephotographed and printed on solid fields of color that matched their frames.

A vast wasteland is filled with totemic stone formations and a small villa - museum, which holds such objects within as a Classical statue of a hero masturbating.

At the same time Houseago's monumental work looks like a scuffed version of the snowy marble of classical statues or Henry Moore's massive, polished smoothly curving forms.

My favorite moment with your sculpture was at the 2013 Carnegie International, where they were in a large atrium comingling with classical statues.