"Figurative sculpture" refers to a type of art that represents realistic or recognizable forms, like people or animals. It uses three-dimensional materials, like clay, stone, or metal, to create sculptures that resemble these familiar objects.
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Students learn from morning and afternoon demonstrations, hands - on work, one - on - one instruction, readings, discussions and image presentations related to
contemporary figurative sculpture.
Additionally, he is an acclaimed commercial photographer focused on product and architectural photography, and is also very passionate about his pursuits in
figurative sculpture using bronze and wood.
On exhibit will be approximately twelve recent oil paintings dating from 2004 to 2006 accompanied by thirty
small figurative sculptures dating from 1990 to the present.
His sculptures use natural colored marble, paint and found materials to create figures reflective of animation, popular culture, and even classical
heroic figurative sculpture.
Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his works, playfully disrupts the history of
figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated with it.
It is a philosophy evidenced in a long career that began with
figurative sculpture in clay and plaster when he was an assistant to Henry Moore, before moving to abstract sculpture in steel.
«Germaine Richier» will explore the daring ways in which Richier's art bridges the tradition of classical
figurative sculpture with an idiosyncratic visual language born of an anguished, searching, and, ultimately, spiritual post-World War psyche.
Althamer is predominantly known
for figurative sculptures of himself, his family, and various other individuals within his community.
Jerry Ross Barrish is a San Francisco artist who makes
figurative sculpture from found objects collected off local beaches, roadways and recycling centers.
Dramatically offsetting the small works on wooden panel (ranging from 10 x 7 1/2 inches to 18 x 24 inches) are two life -
size figurative sculptures by Hanson depicting opposite spectrums of life.
She will work with Middle School students in this Learning Lab to
create figurative sculptures in papier - mache supported by wire armatures that they will hand - paint.
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Body & Soul: Aspects of
Recent Figurative Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Swamp Creature Friends combines the artist's interest in networked systems with his exploration of the human figure, which stems in part from his history of self - portraiture dating back to the early 1990s, when he began making
abstract figurative sculptures of himself using various materials, including Styrofoam, wood, and even sugar cubes.
This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her work, (October 31st — December 5th) with a meticulously chosen group of
major figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized with drawings and works from the «Souvenir» series.
Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative -
based figurative sculptures that address power dynamics, war, dislocation and greed.
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.
This sculpture highlights Bhabha's long - term interest in revisiting the history of
figurative sculpture through the time machine of contemporary cinematic science fiction and horror.
Presenting paintings from the 1930s and»40s as well as
more figurative sculptures carved from wood and stone, «John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night» opens at Pérez Art Museum Miami May 26, 2017.
Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki is someone who chisels and forms life - sized
figurative sculptures out of giant pieces of camphor wood.
In addition, these works injected an unusual formal whimsy and subversive irreverence into the often staid convention of
bronze figurative sculpture.
Georg Herold Playful,
enigmatic figurative sculptures from the Cologne - based artist, a contemporary of Sigmar Polke and Franz Erhard Walther in the late 1970s.
Houseago creates monumental,
often figurative sculptures that have a striking ability to simultaneous convey states of power and vulnerability.
Exploring the aesthetics of self - destruction, Lionel Maunz uses cast iron, concrete, and steel to create
dystopian figurative sculptures — surprisingly organic forms that appear distorted by dismemberment and decay.
Sullivan Goss is pleased to bring Allen Linder to the west coast for an exhibition of
figurative sculpture carved in marble, cast in bronze and inlaid with various metals and mother of pearl.
Since 2005, he has been creating
figurative sculptures which function as psychological portraits of his imagined subjects — usually male, usually black — whose features are in fact an amalgamation of sources: observed individuals, «types» represented in the media, and ancient, classical and neo-classical sculptures.
Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his
challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]
Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging
figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.
Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his
first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.
For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection,
pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.