Sentences with phrase «little dancer»

A little dancer needs a room that will inspire her and will help her grow.

One of Degas's best - known ballet works is Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a sculpture of a young ballerina lost in a moment of her own.

Recent exhibitions include Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks (The Morgan Library, 2010); Picasso Looks at Degas (Museu Picasso de Barcelona, 2010); Degas and the Nude (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2011); Degas» Method (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2013); Degas's Little Dancer (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2014) and Degas: A passion for perfection (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017 - 2018).

Little Dancer of Fourteen Years Cast posthumously in 1922 from a mixed - media sculpture modeled c. 1879 — 1880 Bronze Partly tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon, on a wooden base Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City

Yet Sarmento's protagonists and their performative gestures are also restrained by a kind of stylistic formalism that recalls late Nineteenth - century impressionist figuration — Edgar Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen c. 1880 comes to mind — which is present in his three - dimensional works, in particular, his sculptures of female body parts.

Statues of the Little Dancer — such as the one in the Tate Modern — were made after the death of the great French artist, based on a wax sculpture he worked and reworked over many years.

A bronze cast of the original Little Dancer comes to London, while two sombre masterpieces of English and Scottish art are shown together

,» Degas» «Little Dancer» and Turner's «Slave Ship,» as well as the largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet outside France.

In March, when the Little Dancer returns home, a second loan from the VMFA will arrive: Claude Monet's Irises by the Pond.

«Creating a focus gallery around the Little Dancer will allow us to show this work and others by Degas in depth,» NOMA's director Susan M.Taylor said.

In exchange for the loan of Estelle, they agreed to loan NOMAanother important work by Degas, one that had a parallel significance for the Virginia community, who rallied together to purchase it in the 1940s: his Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

«NOMA's works by Degas will complement the Little Dancer and invite a close examination of Degas and his work.»

But the more I am meant to pick up the references in Warren's art - Giacometti, Degas» Little Dancer Aged 14, Otto Dix - the less interested I become.

On View at NOMA October 10, 2014 - March 1, 2015 New Orleans, LA — Edgar Degas» Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, the only three - dimensional work exhibited during his lifetime, will be the highlight of a focus exhibition at NOMA opening October 10, 2014.

A selection of related works of art by Degas from NOMA's permanent collection will be displayed alongside the Little Dancer, including a pastel, a smaller bronze sculpture, and drawings and prints of one of Degas» favored subjects - the dancer.

The event is from 10 AM — 3 PM and the schedule for the day includes: All day Great Hall Music by guitarist Carl LeBlanc All day Galleries Scavenger hunt All day 1st Floor Elevator Lobby Art on the Spot activities 10:15 Great Hall Ballet performance inspired by Degas» Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen by Young Audiences» students 10:45 2nd Floor Galleries Readings inspired by Degas» Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen 11:30 2nd Floor Galleries StoryQuest with author Alex McConduit 11:45 Stern Auditorium Odyssey Art Contest award ceremony 12:00 Great Hall Ballet performance by Pembo Cieutat Academy of Dance 12:45 1st Floor Galleries Family tour of «Photorealism» 1:00 Great Hall Ballet performance by the Schramel Conservatory of Dance «Pro-Track» dancers.

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.

The bronze on view is one of 23 known bronze versions of the Little Dancer, and is in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA).

In Sarmento's Third Easy Piece and Big Easy, the figures are in the same iconic stance as Degas» Little Dancer, but as opposed to being cast in bronze, they are produced with contemporary 3 - D printing technology.

Degas modeled Little Dancer Aged Fourteen out of colored wax in 1880, but it wasn't until 1922 when the Little Dancer and the other sculptures found in the artist's studio were cast posthumously by the Hébrard foundry at the request of the artist's nieces and nephew.

Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea of taking something preexisting and elevating it into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.

One floor below, Degas's defiant «Little Dancer,» all beiges and bronze browns, but undoubtedly a white child, is mirrored in pose by Yinka Shonibare's life - size mannequin «Girl Ballerina,» in colorful tutu, bodice and tights.

The sculpture is considered to be the female version of Damien Hirst's Hymn sculpture, created between 1999 and 2005, and it references painter Edgar Degas and his 1881 painting Little Dancer of Fourteen Years celebrating mother's influence on the child.

Degas's bronze sculpture (with gauze tutu) «Little Dancer Aged Fourteen» has its own small gallery, which intensifies its physical and psychic realism.

Paul Mellon viewing «Little Dancer Aged Fourteen» in the Gallery's West Building, 1983 © Dennis Brack / Black Star

Paul Mellon viewing Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in the Gallery's West Building, 1983 © Dennis Brack / Black Star, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gallery Archives

Renowned for his technical experimentation, Degas (French, 1834 — 1917) exhibited just one sculpture during his lifetime, the controversial Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, which startled visitors to the 1881 Impressionist exhibition with its unidealized physiognomy and radical use of real materials such as silk slippers and a wig made from human hair.

Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, original wax 1878 - 1881, plaster cast possibly 1920/1921, plaster, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.62

These exceptional works, when viewed alongside the Simon's collection of modèles and related bronzes (including Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen), reveal the artist's fascination with form, balance and the evocation of movement.

The spirited, dramatic angles of Dancers in the Wings, the exhausted intensity of Women Ironing, the nearly desperate self - assurance of Little Dancer: Aged Fourteen — Degas was keenly attuned to the moments he decided to capture, adjusting his compositions, techniques and style to infuse his subjects with the esteem they deserved.

To complement the building's long ascending ramp that connects each gallery, Storr chose to place the Edgar Degas» sculpture «Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Years» at the bottom of the ramp.

In 1952 Marlborough presented a complete collection of bronzes by Edgar Degas: the famous Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen 1880 - 1, cast c. 1922 was sold from that exhibition to the Tate Gallery.

July 18, 2014 Degas's Famous Sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen Celebrated in Focus Exhibition at National Gallery of Art on Occasion of Kennedy Center's World - Premiere Musical Little Dancer in Fall 2014

It's there Lucky has a run - in with a beautiful little dancer by the name of Penny (Rogers).

Just like a little dancer, a sport athlete, or a bowling player.

Or maybe you have a train lover and a little dancer.

Don't forget to also check out Garth Evans» new exhibition in the Main Gallery, Little Dancers.

The exhibition, Little Dancers will be held at the New York Studio School, March 14 - April 13, 2013.

Not exact matches

I have always dreamed of being a professional backup dancer — ever since I was little and even to this day.

But, buying barre workout clothes taps into my inner little girl who always wanted to be a dancer.

Although he had won the Derby Trial five days before, the handsome brown runner attracted so little attention at the mutuel windows that, the enormous crowd, in its feverish rush to stamp Alfred Vanderbilt's unbeaten gray, Native Dancer, as the 7 - to - 10 favorite, established Dark Star's price at an inviting 25 to 1.

But she's not a dancer, and there was little in the way of standard halftime theatrics.

Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who has acquired fascinating and rewarding habit of winning big ones, tried his able hands for first time with Sword Dancer, plucky little 3 - year - old, in $ 81,250 Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

A little past 7 — roughly an hour and a half after Dancer's Image reached the detention barn — the specimen was obtained.

Another dancer who saw the England stars said: «They walked in with their mates and sat in a little booth drinking.

very cute and fun party happening at your place.Love the little laptop dancers Sorry about the server crash!

Jacob (9) is my friendly and smart little sports player and Lucas (8) is my sweet and creative dancer (who also happens to be on the Autism Spectrum).

I pushed - Elton John's «Tiny Dancer» was playing, my husband was holding my head, Terry was on the other side of my head, and 8 minutes later the OB pulled out our healthy little girl who cried — with her umbilical chord loosely around her neck and feet.

As befits the subject matter, sometimes the six dancers whirled alone, with little apparent rhyme or reason, at other times they would glide across the floor in graceful unison.

When I was a little girl, I dreamt of being a ballet dancer.