Sentences with phrase «made on mannequins»

Two Finnish researchers, Minna Rintala and Pertti Mustajoki, tested standard accepted body fat percentages for women against measurements they made on mannequins (of arm, thigh, waist, and hip circumference are all standard means by which to measure body fat percentage) they found in Finnish museums that were from the 20s, 30s, 50s, 60s, and 90s.

Not exact matches

Then there's the Chair, a seat made in 1969 out of a female mannequin in a compromising position, which was covered in paint stripper by a feminist protestor on International Women's Day in 1986.

To make sure every part of the tail fits perfectly, PearlieMae will provide you with detailed instructions on how to make and send a mannequin of your body from the waist down.

Even a mannequin imprinted with glowing As, Cs, Ts and Gs — representing the four nucleic acid bases that make up DNA — pales in comparison to a giant squid on another floor.

Agree — the pictures on the mannequins make it look much more structured and worth a try.

This minimal, white gown at Valentino was actually made from two pieces of super-soft, lightweight leather, which draped beautifully on both the runway and a mannequin in the brand's showroom.

Work perceived as trending that sold out the first day included pop comments on Pop (Sylvie Fleury's life - size crushed car that she painted with pink nail polish and posed against a wall caked with makeup; impeccable fabrication (Anish Kapoor's shiny discs that danced down every aisle); mannequin sculptures (Chicago imagist Karl Wirsum's robotic stick figures); body fetish (Guillaume Leblon's truncated ceramic legs and Jonathan Monk's kicking ones, Naotaka Hiro's body casts of himself made with his right hand).

Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel paint.

In terms of the wide range of media employed, the show looks like it could have been made by several different artists: sculptures similar to the ones shown a the Whitney occupy one gallery; another room boasts huge, scribbly pencil drawings on walls that surround a replica of a hearth («the traditional focal point of the American home»); in another, stacks of mannequins wearing identical outfits and wigs create a chute through which you can walk to view floor - facing monitors screening videos featuring the real - life character the mannequins seem to be modeled after (the artist's mother).

Read on to learn how she hopes to strip away the façade at Frieze, using mirrors, lights and custom - made mannequins.

Among these works: «Veloce galoppa verde cipolla», 1960/70, neon and tobacco leave by Pier Paolo Calzolari; a work from the «Disegni» series by Giulio Paolini and the admirable «Rosa dei venti», an installation from 1992, lyric homage to metaphysics and the enigmatic mannequins of Giorgio De Chirico; «Venere con la Pipa», silkscreen on stainless steel media, a Michelangelo Pistoletto's icon; «Mimetico», a shred of camouflage canvas (as a ready - made) dated 1968 by Alighiero Boetti; the work «Particolare», projector and slide from 1972/2016 by Giovanni Anselmo; «Baco da Setola» from 1968 by Pino Pascali; a big diptych made of steel sheet by Jannis Kounellis, rhythmed with shelfs with different elements of different materials from 1994; and lastly a spiral snail from 1982 by Mario Merz.

Artifacts range from a wooden fire pump to bamboo skis; paintings and prints show a cyclone and women making silk; and mannequins pose in reconstructed workshops and tiny houses — one contains a tasteful depiction of childbirth, with a midwife in attendance and the older children looking on.