Sentences with phrase «figurative sculpture through»

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.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

Not exact matches

Benning's at times geometric, at times figurative - leaning, work in painting and sculpture represents a parallel to visual and auditory storytelling through video and music.

(My hope would be that this is happening in abstract sculpture too — though with sculptural, rather than pictorial, spatiality — but there is not really any comparable or relevant activity in how one moves through a figurative sculpture, since it rarely has any spatiality.)

Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly figurative or representational.

One of the most original sculptors, Robert Arneson (1930 — 1992) reinvented American figurative ceramics through the integration of sculpture and painting in his large - scale, often satirical, and even iconoclastic pieces.

Figurative Futures aims to explore the mythology and evolution of figural art realized through a wide - ranging collection of inventive painting, sculpture, installation, jewelry, fiber arts, drawing and mixed media.

The figurative paintings and sculptures have fallen through the folds of reason, have been flattened out, liquified and parceled into various shapes.

Themes of color and transformation run deep through the Kaleidoscope of the Mind, an exhibition featuring a variety of techniques and styles, from abstract sculpture to realistic figurative paintings.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

Though these sculptures evoke the body through an elemental vocabulary, they also reveal the tremendous physical challenge of creation — most clearly evidenced when the work walks the tightrope between figurative complexity and palpable mastery.

As well as a meditation on art history, these works explore both figurative and abstract approaches to sculpture, through materials including volcanic stone, marble, bronze and steel and through series such as The Protesters, of which the artist has stated: