Sentences with phrase «iconic sculptures like»

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Roots painted to look like faces, driftwood, burned televisions, roller skates, porch furniture cut apart and refashioned into strange abstract sculpture, or iconic people and animals cut from bits of sheet metal.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

For a new sculpture project he recycles bundled stacks of flattened cardboard into anthropomorphic monsters with enormous googly eyed stares, and the artist's iconic panda returns in large - scale pattern paintings like enormous swatches of custom designed fabric.

Active for much of his career in Nigeria, he's known for his iconic «bottle - top installations»: large - scale assemblages of thousands of pieces of aluminium sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with wire and transformed into metallic cloth - like sculptures.

The former mayor of Jeddah, Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi, who initiated the public sculpture park including commissioned large - scale sculptures by the likes of Joan Miró, Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Aref Al Rayes and more, which have become iconic parts of the city, and are garnering attentiveness recently.

These include his 2001 «Shopkeeper Series,» simulacra of small business signs spelling out messages of quiet desperation in short word limits (like «SUE, I AM SORRY / PLEASE COME BACK» beneath a sign for «Jim & Susan's Motel»); several photographic portraits of real and fictional characters from the «Historical, Youth and Attribute Portraits» series from the early 1990s; as well as the now - iconic furniture sculpture Lum has been making since the late 1970s.

The show continues with instruments and works by composers like Alvin Lucier and John Cage; works by artists of the 1960s, such as the sound boxes of Robert Morris and Nam June Paik; kinetic sculptures, sound installations and examples of the iconic and formal appropriation of the musical instrument, such as the pianos created by Arman, Richard Artschwager and Joseph Beuys; and hybrid instruments like the guitars of Ken Butler and William T. Wiley, which are genuine sculptures that can be played.

BALTIMORE, MD — To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bruce Nauman's iconic Violins Violence Silence neon sculpture and the 100th anniversary of the Museum in 2014, the BMA's Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art (FoMaCA) have organized a series of events as part of their Illuminate campaign to raise the $ 120,000 needed to restore the beacon - like presence of this 20th - century masterpiece to the BMA and the city of Baltimore.

Recognizable for their patina — Serra's favorite material is rolled Cor - Ten steel with an evenly rusted surface — as much as for their size, sculptures like Torqued Ellipses (1996 - 1997) at the Dia: Beacon count among the previous century's most iconic artworks.

Much like the new Born to Bend sculpture (covered) that adorned the facade of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the black edition of the iconic 17 - foot tall PASSING THROUGH COMPANION has been newly installed on the Nerman Museum's front lawn.

Iconic metal floor - pieces and free - standing sculptures are paired with complementary works by peers like Agnes Martin — a woman!