Sentences with phrase «headless female»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

A resurrected Revolutionary War hero, a double - ax - wielding horseman (headless), ghost trees, Colonial witches, horned beasts, ancient priests, a sassy female cop and at least one Starbucks joke?

Deep Silver released the Dead Island: Riptide Zombie Bait Edition — featuring a headless, limbless female torso donning a bikini.

Throughout the exhibition, the viewer encounters many of Lucas's headless Bunnys, moves through a garish crimson room with male torsos on a massive scale, and ends their journey with the artist's most recent series «Penetralia», which combines female and male forms in characteristically phallic sculptures.

Arch of Hysteria, from 1993, refers to a supposedly female disease, but the bronze suspended from the ceiling depicts a flayed, headless man.

Another highlight is the room lined with Do Not Abandon Me, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin's collaborative works made between 2009 - 2010, which began as a series of headless male and female torsos, painted in limpid, vibrantly coloured gouache wash by Louise Bourgeois.

«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.

Fluid strips of bright colour blend into one being; it's a union between male and female and between figuration and abstraction since, being headless, the pair happily occupy the middle ground between portraiture and colour field painting.

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.

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.

More specifically: female longing in the digital age, which is a new, headless kind of beast.