Sentences with phrase «early figurative sculptures»

Her early figurative sculptures in wood, terra - cotta, bronze, and plaster (e.g., Ancient Figure, 1932) show a preoccupation with blockish, interlocking masses that recall the sculpture of Central America (where she traveled in the 1940s) and anticipate her mature style.

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When I first experienced movies like Alien and Terminator, and early Cronenberg, it opened a door for me as to how I wanted to take my figurative sculpture.

Thomas Houseago, born in Leeds, England, gained early acclaim for his highly tactile figurative sculptures.

His early works — a sculpture of himself at his first communion, a tableau about bed - wetting, a cloaked shepherdess with a lamp — were directly figurative.

Her early works adopt a classical figurative style, but she later radically rethought her sculpture, which she perceived as a concrete extension of memory and body.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

Spanning the figurative to the fantastic, the «indigenous» to the «modern», Farmer's sculptures wear their influences without apology, and I very much appreciated being encouraged to recall the inspirational early work of Mike Kelley, as well as more obscure connections to aspects of the work of Wallace Berman.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.

Celebrating his life as an artist, this expansive exhibition (organized by Douglas Fogle, former chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles) presents a selection of Mr. Melotti's work, featuring his early, somewhat - surreal figurative ceramics and his later abstract, brass sculptures, which portray political and theatrical subjects.

Tucker's figurative sculptures, are both universal and archaic, but also decidedly contemporary, reflecting the tensions and energies of sculpture - making in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

His early works were sculptures made of dough, clay, and gypsum, while later he turned to large - scale works from aluminum, bronze, and steel — always theming the figurative.

The show should provide an opportunity for viewers to reflect on the stormy course of Ray's career, from his early engagement with a Conceptual but humorous performance art to uncanny, sexually desublimatory figurative sculpture.

The exhibition also shows a selection of Lüpertz's earlier figurative bronze sculptures from 2001 to 2015 scattered throughout the galleries, though they are not representative of the artist's finest work and, with their blocky forms and sloppy neon coloring, look rather comical next to all these works from antiquity and the Middle Ages — all the better for the drawings, the real centerpiece.

At a first gaze, the idea of reinterpretation of earlier movements within the genre of figurative sculpture seems to be the main thread of the exhibition; the «Human Statues» by Frank Benson re-visit the classic models of sculpture with a post-modern attitude, suggestions of an archaic past revive in Schütte's warriors, while a Minimalistic taste gives shape to Georg Herold's haggard creatures.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

Edward Kienholz's mixed media figurative sculpture, Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps, 1959 is one of the early works that can see seen.

Since the early 1990s Lappas has become recognizable with his monochromatic, figurative sculptures, in human scale, assembled with materials such as steel, aluminium, plastic, polyester, fabrics and neon.

Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).

Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British - born sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling of a range of materials — marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass — first exploring figurative and then abstract sculpture.

1985 Artschwager, Judd, Nauman: 1965 - 1985, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA Figurative Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, USA The Box Transformed, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philipp Morris, New York, USA The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, USA 60s Color, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA B.A.M. Benefit, Mary Boone Gallery / Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA Now and Then: A Selection of Recent and Earlier Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Paintings, Sculpture and Furnishings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA Actual Size, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, USA Drawing Acquisitions 1981 - 1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

The renowned artist has presented his figurative, narrative art internationally, receiving early critical praise for his dramatic steel sculptures, drawings and installations using video.

Artist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing returns.

He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.