Sentences with phrase «form ghostly figures»

The multitude of delicate lines form ghostly figures, dragons, phoenixes, and faces, sometimes interwoven, smiling and serene or terrifying and monstrous.

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Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

A survey of painter Agnes Martin's work from the 1950s into this century might not sound very goth — Martin is known for her ghostly canvases overlaid with barely perceptible grids — but open your mind to «white goth» and perhaps then, you will find a cosmic emptiness in her canvases which, without figures or forms, point to the disappearance of the self in art.

Her recent works picture ethereal, at times ghostly, female figures whose wispy forms float in saturated canvases, caught in moments of joy or fear — narratives that stem from a longtime passion for reading and writing.