Sentences with phrase «fine needlework»
Lilicoptère (2012), originally conceived for the artist's major solo presentation at the Château de Versailles in 2012, is a Bell 47 helicopter adorned with pink ostrich feathers and Swarovski Crystals and crafted with gold leaf, fine needlework rugs, walnut wood, and wood grain painting.
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The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as «Anatomy of a Kimono» (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and «Wonderland» (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.
Geraldine Javier's show Museum of Many Things at the Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery presents an amalgamation of vintage mementos, framed animal skeletons, stuffed birds and elaborate needlework in a contemporary take of a Victorian - styled cabinet of curiosities.
Cornelia Parker's Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is now on display in Manchester at the Whitworth after being on display earlier on at the British Library that initially commissioned the work in partnership with the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and in association with the Embroiderers» Guild, Fine Cell Work, Hand & Lock and the Royal School of Needlework.
Although its historical feminist message is important, in its showcasing of textiles, metalwork, embroidery, needlework and ceramic art, the work also celebrates the value of crafts and decorative art, as opposed to male - dominated fine art.
Fine Cell Work, a charity working with prisoners to teach them needlework, has some very special Easter decorations that are guaranteed to be handed down the generations.
Do you know that on Antiques Roadshow I have seen 250 year old cross-stich samplers that school girls used to do to learn the fine art of needlework back in Colonial Times and they go for thousands of dollars if they are in good condition!