Sentences with phrase «from plaster»

She points out that plaster was widely used for the first time during the 19th century, when drawing from plaster casts became a basic part of academic training.

There are so many details from this room that I adore, from the plaster shelves to the light wood floors.

For Liz Glynn: The Myth of Singularity, the artist produced sculptures from plaster props generated during the After Rodin performance.

This is one of Gormley's earliest works, made from a plaster mold of the artist's body, strengthened with fibreglass and encased in a skin of lead.

In the early 1960s, Latham began working with books as a medium, creating relief structures emerging from plaster on canvas.

This bronze sculpture was cast in 1961 from a plaster model made in 1939, a time when she was incorporating voids into her work and spanning them with strings.

Vestiges of their head veils are seen from the front, while their bodies seemingly emerge from the plaster on the opposite side of the wall.

This is one of the earliest works made from a plaster mould of the artist's body, strengthened with fiberglass and encased in a skin of lead.

At the Otis Art Institute, Guston felt unfulfilled by the academic approach which limited him to drawing from plaster casts instead of the live model.

The sculptures, some cast in bronze from plaster models, have been constructed largely from found objects, are so elemental in form and substance they appear almost geologic.

Often crafted from plaster or papier mâché and used to lend architectural interest to a room, the intricate adornments became more prevalent during the Victorian era, when status reigned supreme.

From plaster effects to stone look finishes, from matt chalk to subtle mica and metallic sheens, all of our plain and textured wallpapers are designed to provide depth and interest and create the perfect backdrop for any scheme in any room.

One notable change of late is moving away from plastering the company's logo on every item of clothing, tainted as it is now by the stench of bad teen cologne and desperation.

Using a cake spatula, make the icing as even and smooth as possible (it's not that different from plastering).

Following the Manchester method of facial reconstruction, which extrapolates soft tissue from bone structure, the team used a computer to combine information from a plaster cast of Dante's skull and from pictures and precise measurements made by a University of Bologna professor who was given permission to examine the poet's remains in 1921, the only time his crypt has ever been opened.

Remember that LUXE showcase home where we constructed a 18ft island top from plaster?

The same group of students is now conducting the painstaking work of removing the bones from the plaster and rock.

Throughout the volume, Donovan writes about the master artists of the past, their working methods and materials from plaster to ink to paint comparing their crafts to his own.

[1] Dissatisfied with school's insisting on painting from plaster casts instead of the live model, Guston soon left, remaining a largely self - taught artist.

Alan Wallach traces the modern museum to a shift from plaster casts, while «The Philippe de Montebello Years» gives acquisitions the look of gift - shop reproductions.

He created lifelike dolls from plaster and photographed them.

Substantial materials such as concrete and chains are intertwined with figurative portraits craved from plaster.

Bronze edition of 6 cast directly from the plaster taken from th...

Founded in 1837, the Government School of Design (later the Royal College of Art) originally aimed to offer designers and craftsmen a thorough grounding in drawing and, as a result, promoted study from plaster casts of natural forms, ornamental designs and fragments of architecture and sculpture above life drawing.

From plaster bandage to welded rebar and from cast wax to silk and tulle, these are a few of the materials that Ackroyd employs in her artistic practice that has an underlying feminine elegance delivered with a prickly, tough attitude.

At art school in Madrid, he had become familiar with the touchstones of Greek statuary from plaster casts; now he was looking at contemporary masters like Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and even André Derain.

More recently he has also been making carved wood sculptures, cast bronzes and most recently, vessels from plaster and wood.

Her early works were created from plaster, clay and tattistone.

This great artist, who's now 69, will show work begun in the eighties and finished this year: monochrome paintinglike surrogates, rectangles cast from a plaster composite — each in a color selected by another excellent artist, Andrea Zittel.

the first part of the work is a table setting for eight (including plates, cups, saucers and tea service) sewn together from plaster -LSB-...]

This statuette is a reduced scale cast from a plaster presented to the Royal Academy by Leighton's sisters, Mrs Orr and Mrs Matthews in 1896.

Within simple white wooden boxes await arrangements that range from a plaster heart on Victorian - type wallpaper; three small robin - egg blue eggs on a diaper framed by silkscreened paper of cherries and hydrangeas; the force cup of a plunger on cherry print; a stick of butter on a rolling landscape; or a sculptured ear with a dried leaf on flowery background.

Critics picked up on shared concerns with soft sculpture, and Paul Overy pointed out that Flanagan's work was intriguing in that it looked soft, but in fact, was hard.1 The exhibition included anthropomorphically shaped sculpture made from plaster filled fabric bags, pieces hanging from the ceiling, and a pile of sand poured directly onto the carpeted floor.

In 1915, he eschewed the purely classical methods of sculpture which consisted of copying from plaster models and enlarging with a pointing machine.

Shifting focus the following year, Oldenburg began creating The Store, an environment first presented in a group show at New York's Martha Jackson Gallery, and afterwards in a real rented storefront on East Second Street, which was filled with sculptures — objects made from plaster soaked canvas painted in layers of enamel paint — representing the products on sale in shops throughout the neighborhood.

Riffing on the motto, «blood, money, and oil,» 9.11.01 utilizes the pyramid from the U.S. dollar bill as its primary compositional element and incorporates a wide range of found symbolic imagery made from plaster molds and cast in acrylic paint to construct a collage.

He pioneered a new technique, creating life - sized sculptures from plaster — using his family and friends as living molds — often setting figures in tableaux with found objects.

the show opens with «bridge» — one of the earliest works made from a plaster mould of the artist's own body.

Unfortunately, the style of academic art practised at Otis (drawing from plaster sculptures) was not to Guston's taste and in 1932 he quit.

Several years later Giacometti agreed to cast three bronzes from the plaster, of which the other two were acquired by the artist's dealer Aimé Maeght and dealer Heinz Berggruen — who donated the plaster original to the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1983.

The original curved niches that flank the fireplace, two of six in the house, are crafted from plaster.

From plaster effects to stone look finishes, from matt chalk to subtle mica and metallic sheens, all our plain and textured wallpapers and wallcoverings are designed to provide depth and interest and create the perfect backdrop for any scheme in any room.

This is one of the artist's earliest works, made from a plaster mold of his body, strengthened with fibreglass and encased in a skin of lead.

He entered the Chase Art School at the age of 14, following this early training with stints at the National Academy of Design, where he labored over «dull and tedious» drawings from plaster casts, and the Art Students League in New York where he finally studied with respected teachers, studying anatomy, with a dedication which earned him the sobriquet of «The Deacon.»