Sentences with phrase «figures of classical sculpture»

Based in Paris, Caillard is especially well known for staging witty and provocative dialogues between past and present: his Hipsters in Stone series (2012 — 2016) dressed the figures of classical sculpture in contemporary clothing, while also furnishing them with additional attributes like iPhones, sunglasses and jewellery.

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Moreover classical mythology inspired then his sculpture art, like in the famous Greece classical figure of Orpheus; he made several sculptures of Orpheus.

Highlights include small - scale sculptures by modern masters like Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henry Moore; ancient Chinese mingqi tomb figures and Buddhist devotional statues; European bronzes of princes, putti, and classical heroes; and boundary - breaking work by contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and H. C. Westermann.

Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collection

They are the result of a meditation on the figures and the surfaces of classical sculpture and architecture.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Gregory's classical understanding of the female figure shows quiet strength, thoughtful intelligence and inherent beauty in her sculptures and sketches.

Ordinary Things locates Lucas» works firmly in this history, with the works pointing to the canon of sculpture, ranging from third century Italian votives, Bernini's classical statuary, the figures of Henry Moore and the natural materials of Barbara Hepworth, to the Arte Povera strategies of Mario Merz and the found objects of Robert Filliou.

The part - figure throws a shadow behind itself that masquerades as a traditional sculptural form - perhaps a classical Greek sculpture with its arms and head lost over time, or the fragmented body of Auguste Rodin's headless and armless «Striding Man».

Bertrand Lavier's Fountain is a playful interpretation of this most traditional of garden features; instead of a classical sculpture of a figure or natural form, the jets of water emanate from an apparently unruly mass of garden hoses.

The Lavier's Fountain is a playful interpretation of this most traditional of garden features, instead of a classical sculpture of a figure or natural form, the jets of water emanate from an apparently unruly mass of coloured garden hoses.

She has cast forms in plaster and jesmonite and arranged them so that they unavoidably reference a sculptural tradition that takes you from the abstraction of Anthony Caro, back towards the figure through Henry Moore and beyond him to classical sculpture.

From the classical era until the 1950s and the advent of abstraction, the human figure was subject most frequently encountered in sculpture.

His sculptures use natural colored marble, paint and found materials to create figures reflective of animation, popular culture, and even classical heroic figurative sculpture.

The Reliquary Guardian Figure has a marvellous velvety dark patina, almost resembling a lacquer, and is an outstanding examples of Classical African sculpture.

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

Greeting the viewer at the door, Jon Pylypchuk's sculpture «allright I guess I can't be sincere to you anymore» is simply the sum of its parts: a figure on a pedestal made with tennis rackets and lightbulbs for eyes; Keith Edmier's «Medea» is cast from pink dental stone and rises from the exploded kiln of the late artist Lowell Grant; Sean Landers» casts a beautifully menacing god Pan; Heimo Zobernig «s take on the classical contrapposto is a 3D composition of three sculptures; bulky, elegant and graceful, Georg Herold's «Brown Betelgeuze is a beautifully imagined bronze of the second - brightest star of Orion.

She is known for photographing sculptures and three - dimensional still - life assemblages of her own making, [2] some of which she destroys after the photos have been taken, as well as for creating images of classical figures and architectural details and their relationship to space.