Sentences with phrase «like ancient sculpture»

I like ancient sculpture from the Pre-Columbian era, sculpture from the Middle Eastern civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates, African art, American folk art, Japanese prints, and on and on.

Not exact matches

The Hui also runs classes on a range of topics like ancient Hawaiian art, sculpture, printmaking, clay - throwing, and jewelry - making; there are classes for children as well.

However, sculptures like military processions, hunting scenes, elephants uprooting trees, feeding young ones, men attempting to capture elephants, journeys, rows of athletes, lady cooking and more secular scenes of everyday life speak all about the rich and amazing architecture of ancient time.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

Highlights include small - scale sculptures by modern masters like Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henry Moore; ancient Chinese mingqi tomb figures and Buddhist devotional statues; European bronzes of princes, putti, and classical heroes; and boundary - breaking work by contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and H. C. Westermann.

«Younger Than Jesus» was well - stocked with crowd pleasers like Chu Yun's «living sculpture» of a woman sleeping in a bed in the middle of the gallery (This is XX, 2006) and AIDS - 3D's OMG Obelisk (2007) which humorously memorialized IM's condensed exclamation on the favoured totem of ancient worship.

In the 1990s, Whitten's experiments with paint as a medium moved further towards sculpture, as paint compounds were transformed into mosaic - like tiles and were applied to canvases, referencing ancient architecture and murals.

She is interested in the Valdivian Sculptures made from clay and stone between 3000 — 1500 BC, describing them as both ancient and futurist at the same time — much like clay itself.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Whittenʼs experiments with paint as a medium moved further towards sculpture, as paint compounds were transformed into mosaic - like tiles and were applied to canvases, referencing ancient architecture and murals.

The coveted «Head» sculptures bear Modigliani's signature look: elegant, often elongated figures that verge on abstraction and appear inspired by statues in far - flung locales like Africa and ancient Greece.

Like one of my favorite ancient sculptures, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus: