Sentences with phrase «headless figures»

In other works, the art objects themselves have been reproduced, recalling the likes of Josef Albers» square compositions, Yinka Shonibare's headless figures, Giovanni Anselmo's concrete and lettuce forms, Erwin Wurm's House Attack (2006) and Alexander Calder's suspended sculptures, among others.

As usual in the work of Yinka Shonibare MBE, the headless figures are dressed in Victorian clothes of so - called «African» textiles.

A sense of uncanniness is played out in our recognition of the scenes, taken from the eighteenth century Fragonard series, «Progress of Love,» and here given the Shonibare treatment — headless figures with skin colour of indeterminate origin are clad in the colonial Dutch wax fabrics.

Here, a headless figure — formed from a prosthetic used in a recent, high profile action film and stuffed with pages from Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927)-- is suspended from an electromagnet.

As an example of the duo's view of a divided Britain, Mr. Proesch pointed to «Astro Star,» an 8 - by -14-foot symmetrical work showing two veiled women circumventing a headless figure in skin - tight jeans.

Another headless figure is visible in the gut - wrenching work titled Passchendaele (2017), in which an heroic male figure derived from another Delacroix work strides resolutely forward against a background of greens and yellows, colors that subvert the ideals of French Romanticism.

Not exact matches

In the gruesome videos, a tall masked figure clad in black and speaking in a British accent typically began with a political rant taunting the West and a kneeling hostage clad in an orange prison - style jumpsuit before him, then ended it holding an oversize knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him in the sand.

One key take - off and landing control and headless capability make this model easy to figure out for younger kids, who will get a kick out of the miniature design.

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).

Although the figures are headless, they are anything but anonymous.

In this etching from 1998, Bourgeois renders a headless, armless figure in simple drawn lines and a smudge of color — the title a reference to topiary shrubbery.

In the turquoise - and - crimson «Joan / Joni,» we see a sturdy stance and a blurred head; in «twinKtwin,» the figure is headless and symmetrical, a vision in yellow and silver.

In these works, the artist dressed headless mannequins in «African» garb in place of Fragonard's courtly 18th - century European figures to suggest the ways in which Africa was implicitly present in a burgeoning leisure class's concepts of love.

The sole action figure, a toy robot or superhero, hangs headless and upside - down.

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.

In Venice, she presents the work «Crowd and Individual», which consists of 110 humanoid burlap figures, mostly headless, marching inexorably towards a single animal sculpture set opposite them (the so - called Mutant).

BP: The perspective of the new male figure — the headless body looking down at itself — has a sort of locked - in quality.

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.

Headless, rough - hewn and doused in bright pink, the figure transmutes into a cartoonish object sprawled across a chaise longue.

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.

Maquette for Head: Lines, 1955 original plaster H. 7.0 cm Gift of Henry Moore, 1974 # 74/55 (AGW117) Draped Seated Figure: Headless, 1961 original plaster H. 13.0 cm Gift of Henry Moore, 1974 # 74/62 (AGW154)

Wróblewski's figures are often left headless, or with their torsos inverted.

At about five - and - a-half feet tall, the sculptures depict headless human figures as a crowd — a subject the 85 - year - old Polish sculptor and fiber artist has been perfecting since the 1970s.

Wilson's installation features four headless black male figures dressed in the security guard uniforms of major museums including the Whitney.

Most of his figures are headless; their swollen frames ending in abrupt knots, lamp shades, or bright orange traffic cones.

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.

It was completely dark except for the beams of two flashlights, and all we could see was the dust from the dirt floor, statues of the Virgin Mary with the babe ripped from her arms, a headless Jesus, and similarly «massacred» Biblical figures.