Sentences with phrase «figures on a pedestal»

His winning entry was a group of two figures on a pedestal.

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.

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And though there are obvious dangerous to the public shame machine, there are also important implications: We can no longer choose to be ignorant or oblivious to crimes and sins of the artists and cultural figures that we've also put on a pedestal.

Prominent, my gills, she was a nobody with no information for Atheism, so she figured a bunch of Christian radicals would put her on a pedestal, as their token Reformed - Atheist, and somebody would finally pay attention to her, so she went to the losing side.

Modeled to be approximately two - thirds life - size and then placed on individual pedestals, the figures confront the viewer at eye level.

In other words, viewers no longer focus on an object atop a pedestal placed within the open space of a room as they do in regarding conventional sculpture, but are directed to one wall and then across to the other, at first bemused by the illusion of the figures coming through the wall before realizing that they are seeing two halves of a whole.

Another group of works, Blackout (2007 - 2010), features five sculptures made of black - painted crowd barriers that appear to collapse languorously on white pedestals, as if mocking the modernist, semi-abstract figures of «reclining women» that populate sculpture gardens of museums of modern art around the world.

Isa Genzken, Empire / Vampire I, 2003, paint on mirror foil, fabric, plastic figures, and artificial plants on wood pedestal.

# 10, 1978 Unique bronze figure with steel landscape and high - polished nickel plating Stamped signature with date on base Sculpture: 20.5 x 35 x 7 inches; Pedestal: 36 x 24 x 10 inches Provenance: PACE Gallery, New York, NY, tag on base Estimate: $ 6,000 / $ 8,000

Each depicts a tiny figure - a fox, a swan or a naked woman - poised on a pedestal roughly lettered with slogans like «You have no idea how safe you make me feel.»