Sentences with phrase «depict headless»

At about five - and - a-half feet tall, the sculptures depict headless human figures as a crowd — a subject the 85 - year - old Polish sculptor and fiber artist has been perfecting since the 1970s.

Juan Sebastián Peláez's giant Rihanna cut - out, Ewaipanoma (Rihanna), greeted visitors at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's courtyard, referencing celebrity body modification and 16th - century drawings that depict headless local natives with faces on their chests.

The folds of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages of a multitude of images from a broad range of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram of the ideas of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen body of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display» of a mummy in the British Museum.

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However, the painting evolved to a complex assemblage depicting an almost headless man under an umbrella.

The late Italian artist's watercolor drawings from the late «30s and early «40s depict women masturbating with big black snakes or inspecting headless men with six penises in the place of one.

Arch of Hysteria, from 1993, refers to a supposedly female disease, but the bronze suspended from the ceiling depicts a flayed, headless man.

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.