Sentences with phrase «depicts human forms»

The Tree offers both whimsical as well as poetic perspectives by such artists as Francesco Clemente, whose extraordinary watercolor depicts human forms as boughs and branches within a tree that could, at any moment, become a cloud.

We'll take a swift tour of the exhibition with Wex educator Jean Pitman and explore how Picasso used distortion and exaggeration to expand the way we see and depict the human form.

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is proud to present Domestic Memory, an exhibition featuring four artists whose work depicts the human form through the use of household materials.

Employing a more gestural or expressionistic style, the artists depict the human form using diverse approaches that question embodiment in our current post-Internet age.

The New York — based photographer brought together an eclectic mix of artworks which all depict the human form in some way.

The two locations are showcasing thematically different works, North Orange Grove gallery consisting of hand - painted bronze sculptures depicting the human form, while the works at Santa Monica Boulevard are far more abstract and are composed of sheets of solid steel that Warren systematically welded together.

We are offering the first work that Francis Bacon ever sold, from his first show at a commercial gallery, in which for the first time he depicts the human form.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.

Employing a more gestural or expressionistic style, these artists depict the human form using diverse approaches that question embodiment in our current post-Internet age.

Not exact matches

To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form — and the local human passions and conditions and standards — are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes.

Descartes attempted to protect Catholic metaphysical methodology from the encroachment of science through his «innate ideas», which depicted the Greek static form as something known a priori to human experience of the physical.

In contrast to this vision of reality as television, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy depicted a dystopian world in which the hubris of the human race will engender nonprotein life - forms that will multiply and threaten the planet.

There are truths about human nature that only brutality in its rawest form can depict.

In its purest form, Upstream Color can be viewed as a balancing act of textures and surfaces — the crucial discourse between image and sound to depict a state of pureness within our complex and achingly human world.

This eight - foot sculpture depicts a series of human forms, with different animal heads, clinging to the branches of a giant bonsai and looking at the moon.

Instead, her strange forms, which depict things such as spiders, architectural forms such as houses and cages, and the human body, explored themes of loneliness, conflict, frustration, vulnerability, sexual desire, and love.

In her drawings and sculptures, Langdon Graves depicts disembodied parts of the human form, homing in on eyes, ears, and teeth, and manipulating them with meticulous technical skill.

The work ranges from that of Sophie Calle and Rineke Dijkstra to Marlene Dumas and Julian Opie, tracing the varying and sometimes radical strategies of artists working today to depict the human figure in its many forms.

As many of the pieces that she donated depict figures in various forms and poses, her collection also displays a diversity of representations of the human body.

Predominantly interested in themes of both religion and spirituality, Clemente's work for the most part depicts both the human form (in its entirety or metamorphosing between human and animal) or symbolic motifs...

Both Katherine Taylor and Shawne Major evoke human presence without depicting its form, albeit in very different ways.

Referencing both a human figure and «the spirit of a bird,» as the artist says, this dark, abstracted form depicts a bird in the corvid family, which includes grackles, crows, and ravens, common in large cities around the world.

The multicultural environment and various racial experiences of immigrants in the United States are depicted through her ceramic and gold luster works Intercontinental Migration and Entangle, which incorporate expressive yet atypical and sometimes distorted forms of human figures.

In Djurberg's hands, clay depicts but also distorts, representing the human form for a few seconds before slipping into a series of abject deformations.

Kitaj often depicts disorienting landscapes and impossible 3D constructions, with exaggerated and pliable human forms.

The 80s would see the Bacon simplifying his pictorial language; his figurative work would often allude to human form rather than always depicting it.

The Body Art and Performance Art movements revolved directly around the human form — for example, Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series consisted of images of landscapes into which Mendieta carved her own figure, referencing the female form and feminine power without explicitly depicting them.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

All of the drawings included in this exhibition depict the human figure, and while each artist has his or her own distinctive style, the works share a common sensibility: an intense interest in capturing the human form and spirit.

This Modernist ceramic sculptures depicts an abstracted and cubist human form sitting cross legged with his back bent forward and arms outstretched.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

Even after being able to depict human facial features or other subliminal forms beneath the surface, the work unfailingly stirred a bit of chaos in the viewer's emotions.

The artist's ceramic and craft works at times suggest the human form via abstract means; they seem to depict the kind of deranged medical torture environments made famous in horror films like the Saw franchise.

This handcrafted, rustic aesthetic continues to inform his drawing, prints and sculptures depicting natural and human forms.

Building an artistic language, which includes altered forms of familiar animated characters, such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man, and SpongeBob SquarePants, his cartoonlike hybrids are often depicted in various states of the human condition.

Rooted in a fascination with the human form, Wardell Milan's works on paper frequently depict boxers or bodybuilders, displaying figures in contorted states or pushed to the extreme.

Most notable are his sculptures Figure IV, the masks series, and his painting Cobalt Racer, which all take the human form as their subject matter and showcase Oliveira's celebrated predilection for depicting bodies in various states of movement.

Initially known for camp and colourful embroideries, he has since moved on to making sculptures, drawings and paintings, usually depicting mutated human forms.

On view will be a video from 1978, dozens of painted chairs, and a large series of recent works on mylar, including a 10 - foot tall image of a man proudly sporting an enormous penis and a triptych depicting three crouching, nude, spread - legged women, all painted in Applebroog's signature style of simplified human forms with bold outlines.

«I think most of the time I'm awful at depicting people because I want the summation of their personalities without necessarily including a human form,» says Hahn.

The most recognizable of the paintings depict the nude human form, an ongoing motif in the artist's greater body of work.

Rabbia's paintings operate on a macro and micro level, making reference to the touch and form of the human body, and depicting systems where everything is relational.

Throughout his career, he has developed a handcrafted, rustic aesthetic that has taken form in drawings, prints and sculptures depicting natural and human forms.

The artists depict domestic pets, livestock, wild birds and other forms of animal life, in order to examine the enigmatic distance between being human and being animal.

These works are based on schematics depicting motivational and inspirational systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, programing, networking to form a nexus of human desire, folly, and machine logic.

Adorned with fringes of hair as a way of invoking the human body and its physical presence, Geyer's constructions give three - dimensional contemporary form to the illustration on the cover of The Ladder's initial 1956 issue, which depicts two figures gazing up at a runged ladder reaching into the clouds.

The above illustration depicts, in a very abbreviated and sketchy form, that as the scientific evidence of the threat from human - induced climate change became stronger over a 40 - year period and as the US political opposition to climate change policies successfully fought to prevent the adoption of robust US climate policies, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 rose from below 320 ppm (parts per million) to current levels of over 400 ppm.