Sentences with phrase «figurative sculptures such»

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.

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-.....]

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Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course.

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

The Nashville - born, New York - based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.

His use of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow sculptures, which transform seemingly abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into figurative shadow portraits.

Using figurative representation and playful geometric abstraction, Brooklyn - based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing — with traditional art methods to create organic fine art as well as large - scale sculptures that explore humanity.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

Absurd and elegant, figurative and abstract, Handforth's Dallas Snake animates the space, conversing with and taking on the large «formal» sculptures nearby, such as Tony Smith's Willy (destroyed in 1962; fabricated in 1978), which is comprised of black geometric forms.

Since the early 1990s Lappas has become recognizable with his monochromatic, figurative sculptures, in human scale, assembled with materials such as steel, aluminium, plastic, polyester, fabrics and neon.

Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).

Produced entirely within his Dumbo, Brooklyn studio, the crude figurative sculptures (often female) depict bizarre and sometimes unsettling situations; detached objects and anatomical parts mingle and merge with one other to form grotesquely appealing images, such as Red Headed Woman (2008).

Along with artists such as Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch, Charles Ray has salvaged the tradition of crafted, figurative sculpture by radically reconstituting the three - dimensional object as «image.»

The backgrounds of his figurative paintings, such as Untitled (Sculpture) are often abstract, almost mystical atmospheres that highlight an omnipresent solitude.

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.

Working with a huge variety of media, such as bronze, steel, and wood as well as «found» objects and cow hide, to create architectural or figurative compositions in the form of sculptures, assemblage, installations and video.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.

The artists created paintings, drawings and sculptures that intentionally belonged to figurative art and employed neglected imagery such as the mythical symbols, which marked the movement's highlight years.

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: