Sentences with phrase «found scraps of wood»

This guy is good with right angles and mitered corners — chopping and aligning found scraps of wood to make simple variations on the circle, the square, and the X's that imply Jungian archetypes.

Not exact matches

She peeked in the bedroom and found it a mess, with bits of mattress stuffing spread across the floor along with wood scraps.

Collection (1954/1955) is the artist's first «Combine painting,» an early type of Combine that hangs on the wall like a traditional painting but reaches into three dimensions with various elements attached to the work's surface — such as the silk veil over the mirror attached just off - center and the found wood scraps along the top edge.

The sculptures were plaster accretions, built around found scrap metal and wood armatures, and reflected the informal Abstract - Expressionist - influenced Beat sculpture of the time.

Circles, squares, cones, and wedges are formed with found wood from ships, beach shacks, and barrels, sometimes with tar or rusted scraps of metaldotting the surfaces.

Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took scraps of wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted sculpture that she would paint a solid colour — most famously, black or white.

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

Peter Buggenhout, a Belgian artist showing at Gladstone Gallery, covered a junkyard's worth of scrap metal, wood and other found objects with vacuum cleaner dust to create what I described in the review as «massive stacks of debris [that] hang off the wall or sprawl across the floor in a state of dereliction and collapse, monumental castoffs from a world spinning out of control.»

Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson took scraps of wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted sculpture that she would paint a solid color — most famously, black or white.

They were made of news clippings, garbage, found objects, curiosities, scrap wood, and of course paint.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

From oil paintings and terra - cotta figures, she passed onto collages, made of scraps of wood and metal she would find on the streets.

In its general sense, «Arte Povera» (an Italian term meaning poor / impoverished art, allegedly derived from the «poor theatre» of the Polish film director Jerzy Grotowski) describes a type of avant - garde art made from «found objects» including worthless materials, like soil, bits of wood, rags, scraps of newspaper.

When she was six years old, she found great amusement in playing with wood scraps from her father's lumberyard; this early experimentation led her to announce, at the age of nine, her desire to become a sculptor.

Part treasure hunt, part real - life Pokémon Go, the hidden giants (which are made entirely of scrap wood) can be found by treasure map or riddle poems.

It was a quick and easy DIY, and it's caused me to want to grab all of the scrap wood I can find.

The best way to find out what it will look like is to experiment with some craft paints or sample pots of paint in the color you want on scrap wood to see the different effects you can achieve by using glazing liquid.