«Cosmic Communism» will do justice to Freundlich's involvement in movements including Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Constructivism, and 1930s abstraction, exploring his work in diverse media — from massive
figural bronzes and black - and - white prints to sumptuously luminous abstract painting, mosaic, and glass — and elucidating the relation between his art and utopian politics.
Three Small Classical
Figural Bronzes, one depicting Venus, one with amphoras, signed «W. Lange,» and one of a classical maiden, ht.
Better known today for tall, blocky,
figural bronzes, Shapiro was only doing what most sculptors do: exploring the effect of form on space.
Not exact matches
Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract
figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in
bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.
• A superb
bronze figural inkwell by the Nuremberg artist Peter Vischer the Younger, on loan from the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, whose decoration evokes the carpe diem theme with an inscription urging its viewers to «reflect on life, not death.»
Two terraced sculpture gardens comprising nearly three acres are home to 33 masterworks of modern and contemporary sculpture ranging from Auguste Rodin's striding
bronze Balzac (1892) to Ellsworth Kelly's stainless - steel arc Untitled (1986)-- providing a 100 - year survey of sculpture from the
figural to the abstract.
There is also a significant concentration of post-Civil War
figural painting and sculpture, including works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, J. Alden Weir, George de Forest Brush, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Elizabeth Nourse and nineteen plasters and
bronzes by Solon Borglum.
Monumental, abstract, and
figural, his cast
bronzes imply human and animal form through smoothly twisting organic curves and rectilinear joints.
A beautiful neoclassical style three - bulb lamp in urn form variegated marble with
figural and neoclassical
bronze mounts on footed square marble base.
Beautiful French Four Light Gilt
Bronze Figural table lamp having a hand painted porcelain flower pot base and hand painted porcelain floral accent.