Sentences with phrase «discarded scraps of fabric»

In his 1967 Muretto di straci (Rag Wall) Pistoletto makes an exotic and opulent tapestry wrapping common bricks in discarded scraps of fabric.

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Using materials that felt familiar from use - scraps of fabric, wood, string, wire, pieces from children's games, printed labels and other discarded items - artist and Holocaust survivor Hannelore Baron (1926 - 1987) constructed intimately scaled works that offer glimpses into history, the human condition and the artist's past.

Gupta dwells on the secret inner lives of worn - out vessels, discarded by their users for their state of disrepair, by physically compressing each found object into a sculptural grid interweaved with vibrant scraps of found fabric.

But using paint, shreds of discarded old work, and scraps of fabrics that once belonged to her mother, Self constructed women who exuded confidence and cool, and often in unapologetically sexual positions (one of these ended up in «Desire»).