Projecting the uncanny quality of fairy tales and horror movies, van Meene peoples her images with somnabulent girls,
headless bodies, faceless figures and solitary young women encapsulated in empty, luminous rooms.
In Twinned (2011), animals appear in the form of
headless bodies.
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A painted diptych presents
the headless bodies of the women which are featured throughout the show.
There are
headless bodies pretzeled around walking frames that evoke an endless Leviathan torment (Justin Matherly), and ancient Aztec figures kissing like modern teenagers at some music festival (bronze bodies the colour of mud).
«There are stories in the news about killings or
headless bodies found in Rosarito, but that's happening in Tijuana and they're dumping the bodies here,» he said.
They should have brought him back some some rednecks could drag
his headless body behind a pick up truck.
The headless body fell with a thud and a gush of blood, the head rolling down the slope.
The player spends a lot of their time navigating their rocket - powered flying head and suction cupping onto
a headless body, or if you fly in deftly enough you can actually vacuum an enemy's head right off their metal shoulders and puppeteer them.
Instead of
the headless body in front of the camera for Man Ray, Lee Miller appears with her own photography.
What we can see with our bare eyes is
a headless body, a restricted view of what is below the neck, with the extended difficulty of seeing our back.
BP: The perspective of the new male figure —
the headless body looking down at itself — has a sort of locked - in quality.
The exhibition includes a print of
the headless body of artist David Hammons; a wall hanging by Greek artist, Despina Isaia, which spells out the words from a song with strands of her own hair; and Marina Abramovich's video of a performance in which she washes a skeleton.
Several hundred years ago, a naturalist wrote that
the headless body of a knight in armor was found in a white shark's stomach.
Not exact matches
No
body wants Ozil to run like
headless chicken doing nothing.
To make the point, he uses Nicola Hicks's Maquette Head for Crouching Minotaur, a bust of the bull - human hybrid, and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture, Nature Study, which amalgamates human and animal
body parts into a confusing,
headless whole.
Moreover, when the researchers amputated both heads from the space - exposed worm, the
headless middle fragment regenerated into a double - headed worm, demonstrating that the
body plan modification that occurred in the worm was permanent.
While the (I would say
headless)
body of Rare went on to work for Microsoft, pieces of its staff, some of which had worked earlier on the highly acclaimed GoldenEye 64 and Perfect Dark, went on to found Free Radical and continue their vision with the TimeSplitters series.
Frog ended up remaining
headless, however we were able to see the honeycomb effect within the
body of the objects printed — which saves on filament and is fantastically strong.
I'd be so angry and annoyed if a cover artist gave me, against my wishes and tastes, yet ANOTHER
headless bare chest,
headless person or partial
body, or almost - kiss.
In figurative paintings brimming with crisp, flat forms and bold outlines (evoking sign painting as well as the works of John Wesley), Keogh portrays
headless female
bodies that have been bisected at the waist, an empty suit of armor, and flowery vines that weave in and out of swords.
Juan Sebastián Peláez's giant Rihanna cut - out, Ewaipanoma (Rihanna), greeted visitors at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's courtyard, referencing celebrity
body modification and 16th - century drawings that depict
headless local natives with faces on their chests.
In them, she lies nude in the surf on a beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, holding a large polished steel mirror that hides her torso but reflects her lower
body, leaving her figure truncated,
headless and composed of four splayed legs.
The part - figure throws a shadow behind itself that masquerades as a traditional sculptural form - perhaps a classical Greek sculpture with its arms and head lost over time, or the fragmented
body of Auguste Rodin's
headless and armless «Striding Man».
Whereas Hershman Leeson's figures might be read as self - portraits, Duchamp composed the
headless female figure from casts of
body parts of his Brazilian lover Maria Martins and wife Alexina «Teeny» Duchamp.
«The
Headless Woman or the Belly Dance» of 1974, regarded as the first video exhibited in Turkey by the Paris based artist Nil Yalter, highlights orientalist fantasies that have evolved around the female
body.
Two somber assistants using wire pulleys clipped mountaineering carabiners to his waist and feet, causing him to dangle horizontally, his hovering
body a metaphor for pre-Olympic China —
headless, suspended, and hurtling towards an unknown future.
The works show a
headless Jackson in an iridescent, shimmering suit dancing onstage, his figure mirrored such that only the contours of the
body as well as his lanky appendages remain.
Like
bodies made of glass, they appear
headless, armless, and footless, with lips and necks.
Centered on the
body, Mr. Cohen's pictures, which are printed full frame, often feature
headless people so that their skin color, style of dress and the objects they carry are the focus.
The folds of leathery skin are lifted and propped open by sculptures, casts and found objects to reveal collages of a multitude of images from a broad range of sources: André Masson's Acéphale illustration depicts a
headless monster, functioning as a parodic diagram of the ideas of the Surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille; Krang, the villain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is an anthropomorphic brain housed in the torso of a human - shaped exo - suit; the cryogenically - frozen
body of John Spartan from the film, Demolition Man; and a snapshot of the artist's mother, apparently perturbed by a «virtual autopsy display» of a mummy in the British Museum.
From the singular viewpoint of the crotch as a livid red wound, Louise Bourgeois's watercolour Birth (2007) renders the female
body headless and disfigured, as the sole origin of our formation and suffering.
These are human
bodies, tactile, alive yet
headless, somehow still filled with soul though wordless and blind.