Sentences with phrase «examples of abstract sculpture»

Inescapably modern, it is a pioneering example of abstract sculpture, and was Belling's first real success.

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«Song for Rythm 1», with its pole and baseplate, is for me an extreme example of the problem of literal structure in abstract sculpture, and as you say, its an old problem.

In addition, the exhibition includes several examples of his abstract ink drawings on paper, mostly from 2015, whose intimate and moody quality open the door to another dimension, that of Shapiro's solitary private realm, in turn they augment and complicate how we view his sculptures.

Highlights this year range from Barbara Hepworth's polished abstract sculpture Six Forms on a Circle (1967) at Osborne Samuel (the modernist sculptor is the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain this June) and On Kawara's I WENT at mfc - michèle didier — a great example of the obsessive conceptual cataloguing for which the artist is famous.

Anchored by fine examples of abstract painting and sculpture from Woodmere's collection, the exhibition also presents selections from the transformative promised gift of artist and Chestnut Hill resident Karen Segal, which will bring previously unimagined depth to the Museum's holdings of twentieth - and twenty - first century art.

In the latest example of the Nasher Sculpture Center's foray into contemporary art, Mark Grotjahn Sculpture is the first museum exhibition to focus on a body of work in this discipline from an artist primarily known as an abstract painter.

Newly - commissioned examples of Bove's abstract steel «collage sculptures» painted with cyan, yellow, and orange pigments complete the installation.

On the other hand, though he did cause a lot of young sculptors to make abstract sculpture in welded steel, his example led others to find their own methods and idioms, even to reject formal sculpture altogether — for example, the young Barry Flanagan, Bruce McLean and the Gilbert and George partnership.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

``... as strong an example of achieved abstraction in sculpture as one is likely to find» is as close as damn it to calling it a masterpiece, and certainly implies it's one of Caro's best, and better than most other peoples abstract sculpture.

An excellent example of abstract pop sculpture is the word art genre adopted by Robert Indiana (b. 1928) in his series of LOVE sculptures.

The earliest example of a series of abstract sculptures representing the tension of points almost touching.

A delightful example of 20th century abstract sculpture.

The fact is that despite a growing desire to engage with properly abstract work again, the brilliant complexities of Sculpture from the Body, and the reality that those complexities were grounded in physicality, put paid to any thoughts of a retreat to sculpture based on the modernist aesthetic decisions of Mr. C. or any otherSculpture from the Body, and the reality that those complexities were grounded in physicality, put paid to any thoughts of a retreat to sculpture based on the modernist aesthetic decisions of Mr. C. or any othersculpture based on the modernist aesthetic decisions of Mr. C. or any other example.

Stilleben 28 (2009/11) is an example of Scheibitz's playful ambiguity: the viewer is uncertain whether the central figure is an abstract shape or a mimetic painting of an abstract sculpture.