Sentences with phrase «effigy on»

To raise money for the fireworks and treats connected to the annual burning of his effigy on Nov. 5, children pulled the straw man around the streets in a wagon or pram asking for «a penny for the guy.»

His face is the one that is burned in effigy on Guy Fawkes day.

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The float was a number of uncompromising satirical effigies offering a take on international affairs.

There were reports and pictures of widespread household altars to Chávez, with an effigy or image of him replacing Christ on the cross.

Ronaldo unveiled the 3.40 - metre - high bronze effigy of himself in December 2014 on the Funchal seafront, a few hundred metres from his own self - financed museum

GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the plight of the remaining ex-refugees in the sleepy Oru - Ijebu community in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State Like a decorated effigy, Teta Tokpa stared at nothing in particular as the sun cruelly beamed its ray on the wheelchair she was in.

A spokeswoman for the force added: «Officers spoke to the bonfire societies on the night to make them aware of the concerns being raised about the effigies of the Scottish first minister Alex Salmond.

UWMadison claims more distinct archaeological sites than on any other university campus.115 The campus contains four clusters of effigy.

Talking heads debate evolution and myth on television; the public turns on a dime, from venerating Superman as though he liberated a nation to burning him in effigy.

I happen to like the editors I've met, so I would rather not draw mustaches on them in effigy.

They were caught on the fifth of November, and ever since then, the British have celebrated the day by setting off fireworks and burning Fawkes in effigy (although they have also been known... [Read more...]

Beginning on Friday 16th March, you can join the nearby ogoh - ogoh parade — a fiesta of giant statues made of timber planks and bamboo to symbolise evil spirits, carried into the village and then burned in effigy to symbolise purification.

Most of Bali's considerable artistic prowess and energy is exercised on the sculpting of god effigies, palatial pavilions, pagodas and doors, and paintings of ceremonial paraphernalia.

Using the relatively rare item (Especially early on) Human Effigy will restore ones humanity and health bar but nonetheless this mechanic serves to make particularly difficult areas even more so upon subsequent attempts.

You see life taking place all around you, with people begging on the streets, wandering out of taverns, singing and chanting, burning effigies and fighting among themselves, but Arno is rarely involved enough to ever feel like he's truly a part of it.

It rose to notoriety in early 2013 after a picture of the effigy was shared on Konami's Facebook page, where it drew attention for its poor resemblance to the protagonist character.

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

And for other reasons, things just got turned over and the place became much more active and Abstract Expressionism caught on and Park was a little bit left out at that point, because these, the G.I. Bill people were rebellious and set to turn things over, and didn't paint where they were supposed to paint in the school, and, you know, they were painting out in the halls and somebody was making tar effigies out behind the school, and it was pretty chaotic.

Robert Gober prints a musical score on a wax effigy buttocks — complete with human hair.

A number of cast bronze sculptures that appropriate objects from outside of the Western canon will also be on view, including Gamelan Figures, Naga Effigy, and Little Dancer (all from 2017); as well as Monochromes after Van Gogh Sunflowers: 1 - 12 (2015) in which the artist makes use of pixelation to produce a series of monochromatic panels where the individual colors are derived from Van Gogh's iconic paintings.

This summer saw Michael Landy, the erstwhile Young British Artist, unveil a roomful of effigies of saints at the National Gallery in London, based on paintings by Cranach, Crivelli and other Renaissance masters.

«There were nuns and priests praying outside of the museum, there were people throwing dung at effigies of Giuliani,» Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director at the New Museum, recalled on a walkthrough of the Aspen Art Museum show last week.

Lying on the ground or hanging limply from a pole in the corner of a gallery space and speaking in anxious, angry or even hysterical tones, these disturbing little effigies with their lifelike faces often startled passersby.

As a material «insensibl [e] to contradiction», wax's ability to take imprints of the unique landmarks of the skin connects it to strategies of surveillance and data collection that measure visual, behavioural or chemical characteristics, connecting Hershman Leeson's hotel tableau to her later invented character.14 The artist described Roberta Breitmore as «my flippant effigy» and «a dark, shadowy, animus cadaver».15 Similarly, The Dante Hotel was for the artist simultaneously a scene of death and «a means of survival».16 As such Thek's and Hershman Leeson's volatile effigies connect two very different bodies of work and different political movements — the counterculture, gay rights, women's liberation — to make visible the restraints placed on the subject.

Featuring a bevy of life - size burlap puppets hung from the booth's walls, there is something scary and vaguely oppressive about these effigies in everyday clothes whose arrangements and shabby condition seems to suggest the plight of migrants on the move.

If anything at this Armory can do that, it's probably the duo of Bjarne Melgaard and Sverre Bjertnes's gleefully deranged, stalkerish shrine to Mary Boone at Rod Bianco, with an effigy of Ms. Boone surrounded by piles of crude drawings and her signature Chanel suits mounted on paintings.

Mark Handforth's iconic Honda (2002) is an effigy and an accident, as candles burn atop a downed motorbike on the cement floor.

Group show «Efígies» [«Effigies»], with Celina Portella, Marco Antonio Portela and Renan Cepeda Curated by Marco Antonio Portela On view through February 28th, 2015

In Michael Jones McKean's sculptures and installations, effigies and representations of natural objects and contemporary technology cohabitate in a narrative system of vignettes, that together function as a meditation on our relationship to objects.

Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment, and its symbolical representation.

Soon afterward, effigies of it began showing up on the grilles of logging trucks.

Everybody here over 45, with an OHLS LLB, or who has been out more that 10 years, or has a settled position doing something acceptably remunerative, regardless of how long it's been since you stopped regurgitating (sorry, graduated), put up your right hand if you can think of one valid reason to bother paying OHLS anything to issue you a piece of paper that has York U on it in bigger letters — oops, sorry, that says you can call yourself a Junior Dick (head)-- other than it's somehow more prestigious because it uses the same questionable Latin that would appear on what one gets from the School of Law and Bowling Alley Management in Effigy, S.D.