Sentences with phrase «like statuary»

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On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.

So while we heavily borrowed shapes from 1920's architecture and statuary, and while we borrowed names from 1920's songs and movies, we also sought out other sources of inspiration, including other indie titles with styles we admired like Guacamelee and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

Stanchions threaded the length of the East Statuary Hall during the show, but — like January 20, 2017 — the crowd on the National Mall was smaller than expected.

As it enters its third year, this historical counter-weight to the contemporary fair — covering anything and everything from Neolithic statuary to the heyday of conceptualism — feels less like a satellite than a vital adjunct.

His personal collection spans vastly different eras and cultures: alongside examples of Khmer statuary there are abstract modernist paintings, dream - like compositions from the Surrealists, striking African idols and artefacts from antiquity.

He shot male and female nudes that evoked the essence of classic statuary, his photographs of flowers perfectly captured their delicate nature, and his portraits of New York celebrities like Patti Smith and Deborah Harry had a haunting, soulful quality.

The face - like objects are cast from refuse (usually cardboard boxes and toilet paper tubes festooned with rips and flaps) yet become heroic statuary once translated into bronze and paint.

In more recent works, she explores diverse cultural heritages like Indian architecture, Greek statuary, and Chinese ceramics, translating ancient techniques and symbols for use in contemporary contexts.

For her rather stunning debut at Metro Pictures, VanDerBeek created a museum - like tableau with a colonnade of tall white plinths and glistening, reflective blue photographs that hide and reveal images of female statuary that might sit on them, depending on the viewpoint.

Lang's desire is not to create a statuary of sculptural pieces that resemble a lapidarium - like display, but rather to stage an experience similar to that of watching a performance or a dance sequence, where each movement has a temporary stage that smoothly fuses into another.

At art school in Madrid, he had become familiar with the touchstones of Greek statuary from plaster casts; now he was looking at contemporary masters like Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and even André Derain.

It was quite a scene: Standing in a dark basement filled with shattered religious statuary, I felt like I was on the set of a horror film.

I like Modern Masters ® Statuary Bronze metallic paint color.