Sentences with phrase «human figures»

It is important to the artist that in the intentional ambiguity of his abstract forms lurk chance reminders of human figures, animals and landscapes.

By using this very specific technique, based on traditional secular weaving crafts common in Portugal, the overlapping human figures dissolve their forms and shapes of reality.

Despite differences in approach and style, all these artists strove to represent human figures and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways.

Opie has exhibited his paintings and sculptures internationally and reached beyond the traditional gallery audience with his animated LED outlines of human figures walking, sometimes presented on billboards on city streets, sometimes elsewhere — as with the huge, computer - generated animations that acted as a backdrop to Wayne McGregor's 2008 ballet Infra at London's Royal Opera House.

I did that through human figures.

While remaining fully in the realm of abstraction, each work points to one or several human figures, always in motion and never quite coherent.

Joining the big Lichtenstein in the opening space, for instance, are other modernists such as Robert Rauschenberg, sculptors Donald Judd (a sleek and lovely minimalist gesture) and Duane Hanson (the slumped and stolid «Dishwasher,» a fine example of his psychologically disorienting hyperrealistic human figures), but also some splendid Danish silver pieces from the Georg Jensen firm.

GIF artist Sam Cannon showed a set from her Mutation series, focused on uncomfortably digitally mutated human figures, from a woman with multiple sets of eyes to a tangle of torsoless legs, all twitching in an endless loop.

Cars and human figures merge to form his Carnivores species, with characters engaged in a variety of scenarios ranging from whimsical to grotesque.

Known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures, the Art School's 2018 Visiting Ceramic Artist, Beth Cavener, will discuss her inspirations, body of work, and unusual method of working «solid» on a monumental scale.

creates a link between the human figures and the dinosaurs.

Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.

His early bronze sculptures of anguished human figures incorporated impressions made by machines as well as found objects, synthesizing them to evoke new associations.

Finally, a series of mesmerizing video installations Order, More and Culture Plate # 7 (ALL 2003) featuring emblematic, anonymous figures in patterns, culminates in the monumental Time Left (2002), a grand opera of isolation and connection, in which row upon row of human figures forming a vast wall text in motion, endlessly march across the entire perimeter of a room to an unknowable destination.

Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food.

Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.

Filipe Rocha da Silva has long been fascinated with patterns, including imagery composed of small particles that when seen up close are comprised of human figures.

Human figures seen through an inhuman filter, they invite eye contact even as they deprive the viewer of empathetic traits.

His most well - known works are monumental, sculpture - based public art pieces as well as palm - sized sculptures, which often depict human figures, critique American society by addressing race, sex, class and money.

The canvases range from a few feet tall to roughly human height; in preliminary drawings for the paintings Richter sketched human figures alongside the layouts of some of the works, indicating the meticulousness with which the scale of the works was devised.

Both artists depict small human figures against large, and largely empty, cityscapes.

How does one learn to see space as a container that encloses figures and objects and that drawing is less about the documentary depictions of disparate objects or human figures?

Francis Upritchard's psychedelically coloured human figures «live» on islands of ornate furniture.

In a departure from previous works in this series featuring stuffed toys and anthropomorphic animals, Davis is also showing drawings with human figures as part of his pursuit to fully realize this...

Without applying the actual body, or making intentional markings with the ink, her large scale monoprints on paper appear to carry traces of human figures and faces — the weight of bodily flesh and quality of a spirit - like presence.

The drawings on view suggest human figures and loosely defined biomorphic shapes that, like watercolor, bleed into their surroundings, though his technique was highly varied.

In «Sublimation: Ancestral Patterns,» the painting with the clearest presence of human figures is Les Trois Danseuses — Homage to Berber.

Representing plants or human figures in organic forms, his sculptures were firmly rooted in nature.

Whether portraying modern couples sitting in a park (Gay Liberation, 1980), or a biblical family's unfolding drama (Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael, 1987), George Segal's life - size human figures express the fragility of the human condition.

She applied the angle of how these pieces of wood were cut, and created the two human figures leaning towards front, and back accordingly.

Many of her motifs are human figures and birds so figurative, yet their gender - neutral, profound expressions remind us religious sculptures with abstract and enigmatic quality.

They focused on human figures, including the Great American Nude, the anxious artist, and the still life to accompany both.

Human figures, in their simplest and most honest forms, are drawn onto a variety of different materials, such as cardboard, envelopes and paper, and viewers are invited to look into Nara's raw sketchbook.

His two recent paintings, Patches of Color, Three Hands, and a Partition Line (2015) and A Lot of Dark Blue Legs and Patch of Color (2015), are covered in multiple layers of pastel blues and purples that reveal only certain body parts of human figures.

Two colorful untitled models for large - scale sculptures (2009) are presented in vitrines, complete with scaled human figures.

The subtle interaction of human figures in her densely patterned tableaux reflects the work of Malick Sidibé, the great, late Malian photographer.

The human figures are this time assembled out of abstracted forms in order to avoid an interpretation that would rely too much on pyschology.

«Bauhaus, Dessau,» taken from a photograph taken by the artist of a stairway in the Weimar - era school with the human figures entirely removed, serves as a chilling reminder of the effects of authoritarianism, globalism, right - wing populism and what the gallery calls «the locusts of power.»

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

Thus People (2000), 91 by 54 inches, for instance, shifts from reading as a loose net of brushstrokes to a depiction of dozens of human figures linked by their outstretched arms and legs.

This site - specific sculptural show from Daniel Arsham adds walls with holes knocked through and human figures made from a range of mediums.

Thanks to the increased technological advances in video game capabilities, the legislators were especially concerned with the realistic replica of human figures in video games like Mortal Kombat, as opposed to the previously standard animation style characters in video games previously.

Dive into Europes first underwater museum world called Museo Atlantico which showcases a thought - provoking ocean installation of over 300 life - size human figures.

The church of San Andres Xecul has an unusual dome painted in colorful stripes, but the highlight is the bright yellow facade, on which some 200 painted sculptures of human figures, angels, monkeys, fruit, corn and quetzal birds.

My attention was drawn to the spiral staircase, above which dangled a number of blue glass ornaments (handblown by MIT graduate David Smith) representing human figures in assorted forms and positions.

Wander through Vigeland Park, filled with hundreds of life - size human figures by native artist Gustav Vigeland.

«We wanted to convey a sinister feel and a dangerous natural environment, while following the current trend to include human figures.

Sometimes, human figures / faces can do this very well.

Human figures floating in the mind, delineated with such clarity and likelihood alas, they do not exist in the objective world.

Many students — and myself — are intimidated about drawing human figures.