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With its jewel - like rings and golden hue, Saturn is the most beautiful of the planets — perhaps the most iconic object in all of science.

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Iconic 20th - century plastic objects are beginning to degrade, so London's Victoria and Albert Museum is working with researchers to find ways to conserve plastic items in its collection, including an inflatable chair and a 1960s PVC dress.

Earth - based and space telescopes, including NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, also will be in position to observe the unique celestial object.

In medieval times, however, there was a widespread knowledge of artists» materials that contributed deeper meaning to objects such as the Metz Pontifical (c. 1316) and the Macclesfield Psalter (c. 1330), both beautiful illuminated manuscripts now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiecIn medieval times, however, there was a widespread knowledge of artists» materials that contributed deeper meaning to objects such as the Metz Pontifical (c. 1316) and the Macclesfield Psalter (c. 1330), both beautiful illuminated manuscripts now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiecin the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiece.

However, scissors, lizard, and Spock call for imagining hand gestures that are more abstract and iconic than those needed to grasp the visual objects, and suggests, says Andersen, that this area of the brain may also be involved in more general hand gestures, such as ones we use when talking, or for sign language.

Once the object of your affections passes your tests, you're all in, shopping for housewares at Crate and Barrel, pinning iconic engagements rings, scouting out hillside mansions for your wedding ceremony, and figuring out which grandparent you'll name the first kid after.

In 1912, Titanic was the most innovative and awe - inspiring object ever created and this site offers a fantastic opportunity to step back in time and understand the sheer magnitude of the iconic vesseIn 1912, Titanic was the most innovative and awe - inspiring object ever created and this site offers a fantastic opportunity to step back in time and understand the sheer magnitude of the iconic vessein time and understand the sheer magnitude of the iconic vessel.

The environment design is faithful to the subject matter as it includes iconic environments from Star Wars films such as the remote desert planet of Jakku and the ice planet of Starkiller Base containing a deadly energy weapon within the core of the planet, while a new feature which generally sets environments apart from this game in comparison to other LEGO games is the introduction of multi-build paths that effectively allows players to build an object to complete a new objective or reach a new area, dismantle it, then re-build it as an alternative object in order to complete another new objective or reach another new area.

This work illuminates Thiebaud's life long practice of questioning what we see in art by infusing banal objects with an iconic status.

Johnson works predominantly in mixed media sculptures and paintings, combining bare materials such as mirror, wood, and shea butter with loaded iconic objects including record covers, CB radios, historical books, and common domestic objects.

His felt work «Back to Life» draws upon motifs found in Phoebe Phillo's collection for Chloé including objects from dancehall culture, Vogue branding and the iconic Eiffel Tower.

• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker» director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard of charcoal and graphite, disturber of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist

Sandra's presence vis - a-vis the objects is overwhelming; her most iconic articles of clothing hang, cast in bronze, on wood - paneled backgrounds.

With his iconic paintings serving as a trademark of American contemporary art, Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop art painter best known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects like pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries and hot dogs, although he has painted many landscapes and figures in his time as well.

William Cordova in METAMODERN September 26 — December 6, 2015 Orlando Museum of Art 20 contemporary artists pay homage to iconic design objects of the mid-20th century.

Hobbs creates installations in living spaces such «Alarmist (Motel 6)» that features a tent and objects hoarded by a survivalist; or, the room with walls clad in gold metallic sheets that features the iconic refreshment tables found at high school proms in «Prom Forever.»

The sculpture in this show furthers the artist's use of vernacular craft forms and materials in abstract yet iconic objects.

In her most iconic works, Nevelson utilized wooden objects she gathered from debris in urban environments to create her monumental installationIn her most iconic works, Nevelson utilized wooden objects she gathered from debris in urban environments to create her monumental installationin urban environments to create her monumental installations.

Though Durham is wary of iconic representation in his work, in the late 1980s and early 1990s he began experiments on the relationship between culture and man made objects through his extensive use of installations.

Ward's work, presented for deFINE ART 2015 in the SCAD Museum of Art's Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, features conceptual pieces that mix and meld found iconic objects with popular idioms and forms.

The students researched Noguchi's history, studied select objects included in the Museum's Highlights from the Collection: Iconic Display exhibition, and applied their knowledge to design a hypothetical annex for the Museum in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO.

Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in Nottingham Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.

Personally significant objects were Dine's primary motifs, as in his iconic series of hearts and robes.

Kawai isolates the objects and characters that are recurrent in her day - to - day life, as she animates iconic symbols such as cars and furry pets, and combines them with imaginary smiling beasts and cartoons.

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

In another gallery, American born artist Sarah Braman presents two works that exploit the potential of the found object; in this case, that of the iconic American vehicle, the camper vaIn another gallery, American born artist Sarah Braman presents two works that exploit the potential of the found object; in this case, that of the iconic American vehicle, the camper vain this case, that of the iconic American vehicle, the camper van.

The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20 years, this exhibition surveys the renowned American designer's wood and fiberglass objects, and presents related materials from his archives.

In its accumulative nature and its presentation of seemingly random objects, Shelf Lifedraws significant inspiration from a number of Oldenburg's most iconic exhibitions, particularly The Mouse Museumoriginally created for documenta 5 (1972) and the pioneering Pop art exhibition The Store (1961).

Bringing together still and moving images, objects and iconic works of art, The Western: An Epic in Art and Film will be the first exhibition to consider The Western and its attendant myths in the context of approximately 160 paintings, photography, prose and film from the mid-1800s to the present.

A number of cast bronze sculptures that appropriate objects from outside of the Western canon will also be on view, including Gamelan Figures, Naga Effigy, and Little Dancer (all from 2017); as well as Monochromes after Van Gogh Sunflowers: 1 - 12 (2015) in which the artist makes use of pixelation to produce a series of monochromatic panels where the individual colors are derived from Van Gogh's iconic paintings.

Featuring a number of iconic works as well as a range of pieces rarely seen, the exhibition explores the continuous terrain mapped by Wilke between language, image and object, incorporating performance, photography, drawings, collages and sculptures rendered in materials as diverse as ceramic, gum, latex, erasers and bronze.

Later, she began exhibiting her copies alongside the actual objects upon which they had been based, as in one of her most iconic three - dimensional works, To Fix the Image in Memory (1977 — 82), for which Celmins made bronze casts of eleven stones she found in New Mexico and painted them so as to be indistinguishable from the originals.

I feel that the time is ripe to mount an installation or cubby hole featuring small intimate portraits in my iconic make - up style of famous female courtesans and concubines from the Belle Epoch to Hollywood's Golden Era plus tiny sculptural art objects similar to my votive bread effigies of well endowed male hustlers, rent boys which of course will include some well known names of mainstream he - man box office stars and of the legendary art rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, «We all monkey down the street.»

Iconic images and forms such as light switches, tree - shaped air fresheners, and pyramids recur in many works, creating an archeology of objects and symbols that hover between the existential and the everyday.

The images themselves became a form of found object — Rauschenberg used pictures clipped from newspapers, showing scenes both iconic and quotidian, and transformed them in his prints, while Johns made everyday imagery, like the United States flag or a target, the focal point of his work.

Also in the front gallery, Geers shows several iconic objects and artefacts that he has sourced in curiosity shops.

From guided tours of the Museum's stunning poster collection and quirky object handling, to a talk from writer, broadcaster and cartography expert Mark Ovenden on 150 years of London Underground Design; transport enthusiasts, families, design fans, and people interested in London's history can enjoy a bustling weekend discovering the great design elements that make the Capital's transport network iconic.

Pop Art Design, an exhibition organized by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the preeminent furniture and design museums in the world, pairs iconic design objects with artworks from this celebrated era to show the cross-pollination between these creative worlds.

While historic pieces such as the iconic code - breaking Enigma machine from World War II are on display, SPYSCAPE isn't an ordinary museum with antiquated objects in vitrines and dry wall texts.

Marking a departure from iconic mid-century modernist architectural forebears (Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and the Minimalist sculptors who followed shortly thereafter (Donald Judd and Carl Andre), when Gillick works in three dimensions, his objects tend to be industrially fabricated in materials such as steel, aluminum, and Plexiglas and to take the shape of autonomous platforms, shelves, cubes, and architectural interventions on the wall, floor, or ceiling.

Some of Fabre's most iconic works are born in this context: the series Ilad of the Bic Art; Tivoli (the film is included in the show) from 1991; the Blaue Raum of 1988; the monumental The Hour Blue in the S.M.A.K. Ghent Collection and Das Medium from 1979, one of the earliest Bic - art works, where drawing becomes the object and the medium becomes the actual body of the work.

The works on exhibition appear to be a radical departure from Mathison's practice of casting iconic, utilitarian objects in concrete, ceramic and iron, then presenting them in a tableau that questions individual agency in basic acts of work.

The subjects in many of Young's paintings are iconic rooms and objects associated with bustling activity.

It included works by iconic international artists such as Andy Warhol as well as works by local artists including Carol Panaro - Smith and James Hajicek plus David Emitt Adams — whose photographs on objects found in the Sonoran desert were also part of the 2015 Arizona Biennial exhibition at Tucson Museum of Art.

In her most iconic works, she utilized wooden objects that she gathered from urban debris piles to create her monumental installations - a process clearly influenced by the precedent of Marcel Duchamp's found object sculptures and «readymades.»

In its accumulative nature and its presentation of seemingly random objects, Shelf Lifedraws significant inspiration from a number of Oldenburg's most iconic exhibitions, particularlyThe Mouse Museumoriginally created for documenta 5 (1972) and the pioneering Pop art exhibitionThe Store (1961).

The retrospective features Oldenburg's iconic early installations such as The Street and The Store, in addition to his original designs for colossal monuments for public spaces and the Mouse Museum — a miniature, walk - in museum in the form of a Geometric Mouse, filled with nearly 400 souvenirs, kitsch objects, and studio models.

Iconic works including The Menin Road (1919) are displayed alongside his later experiments in photography, collage and painting, which involved juxtapositions of found objects and landscapes.

But he consciously makes a distinction between his work and that of his close circle of peers on the West Coast: «Bruce [Nauman] was very much concerned with process, and Chris [Burden] was not so interested in video as he was in the single iconic moment, but I was immediately intrigued by how the videotape itself could be an art object, a form that when watched would not be a surrogate explanation for some previous event, but a narrative body itself.»

Revealing how he is particularly fascinated by scale, the works range from an object in the form of a small ring to an installation covering 225 square meters, while also bringing together several of Meireles» iconic, immersive installations.