Sentences with phrase «elaborate tableaux»

Making use of conceptual constructs including the ancient, the everyday, and the sublime, Koons creates luxurious icons and elaborate tableaux, which, beneath their captivating exteriors, engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history.

Her narratives unfold throughout elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

Turbeville is known for her iconoclastic fashion photographs, elaborate tableaux that depict brooding, introspective models wearing haute - couture clothing and posed in barren, desolate settings.

Her narratives unfold in elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

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The ceramic work serves as a repository for an elaborate sculptural tableaux whose assembled detritus creates a string of hieroglyphs, a kind of archaeological anagram: encrypted sequences present short bursts of personality and internal logic.

The exhibition will include Yinka Shonibare MBE's «The Crowning» 2007, an elaborate sculptural tableaux of two lovers in a garden setting inspired by a suite of paintings by Jean - Honoré Fragonard.

He soon developed a distinct artistic language based on his ability to transform found materials — including the discarded furniture on the streets of Los Angeles — into elaborate assemblage and complex tableaux with an angry and inventive wit.

Also incorporating performance, «BLISS (REALITY CHECK)» (2017) by Donna Huanca (b. 1980) is an elaborate installation comprised of a tableaux vivant of props, painterly elements and actors, designed to suspend the viewer between the role of a passive onlooker and an active performer.