Sentences with phrase «kind of public sculpture»

Scott Burton was an American sculptor whose work balanced stubbornly and elegantly between art and furniture while evolving into a new kind of public sculpture.

Not exact matches

The art of Rodin is powerfully torn between tradition and modernity, responding to the flow and speed of a new kind of world while holding on to the gesture, portrayal and narrative that enable sculpture to make haunting public statements.

In Turbo Sculpture, Aleksandra Domanović questions the emergence of a new kind of public art in the ex-Yugoslavia republics, which she defines in reference to Turbofolk, a popular style of music in the region, suggesting that these sculptures remain neutral in the turmoil of political disputes.

Artists such as Nevelson and David Smith became known for large - scale outdoor sculptures and public art, while Aaron Siskind sought to capture the same kind of energy and movement in his photography that Pollock was attempting to evoke through action painting.

It is also the kind of ambitious fantasy that artists rarely get to execute, in the same category as Christo and Jean - Claude's 20 - year attempt to suspend six miles of fabric panels over the Arkansas River (a project he abandoned last year) or Michael Heizer's colossal «City,» a mile - and - a-half-long sculpture in the Nevada desert that the artist has been building since 1972 and which the public has never seen and perhaps never will.

The WSU campus is home to the Ulrich Museum's renowned 76 - piece Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, rated one of the top collections of its kind by Public Art Review.

The public art has been called «one of the best collections of its kind» in a guide to American sculpture parks and gardens.

Strolling through the city, you can discover all kinds of artworks installed in public space, for instance, the famous Fasnachtsbrunnen by Jean Tinguely or Richard Serra's sculpture Intersection on the square in front of Theater Basel.

For instance, the Bracknell Public Sculpture Commission Onyo is a statement about humanity's neglect of the most important issues facing our kind in this current day and age.

Public Sculptures 1997 - «The Wind» - Bronze Sculpture (1,75 m. - 69 inch) at the Emlak Bank Housing Estate, Atasehir, Istanbul 2000 - «Soaring Flame» - Bronze Sculpture (1,50 m. - 59 inch) at the Quincentennial Museum of Turkish Jews, Galata, Istanbul (In memory of Turkish Jews who lost their lives during the First World War and the War of Independence) 2003 - «Soaring Wings» - Bronze Sculpture (2,15 m. - 85 inch) The City University, Cass Business School, London This work is the first of its kind, made in Istanbul and erected in London.

This piece places one of Sahib's columnar Watch Queen sculptures — so named in reference to the gay slang term for fetishistic voyeurs — in the middle of a public park, evoking the same kind of nighttime escapades chronicled by the Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki.