Sentences with phrase «many classical sculptures»

Classical sculpture's formal qualities, like their religious origins in Greek antiquity, are little understood today.

The host family introduces Oliver to the community, the young, dancing women, the orchard with its low - hanging fruit, the classical sculptures and stories — and to their son, Elio, a 17 - year - old musician, his hormones moaning.

Within two decades, she exchanged the language of classical sculpture with an idiosyncratic lexicon of new shapes, unusual materials, processes and themes that held a dialogue with the contemporary art scene and her own biography.

Her work addresses how the historical can be used as a material to address contemporary conditions such as loss, the swipe, the flatness and limitations of an image, emotions in classical sculpture, the use of models, muscle aches from using a computer, color as a language, and the democracy of materials such as clay.

Mapplethorpe's gelatin silver print — with its slick, luminous surface and intricate gradations of black and white — gives Lyon's form the appearance of a classical sculpture, frozen in mid-motion.

Bacchus (1988), on the other hand, dates from the latter years of Mapplethorpe's career when his focus shifted towards male and female nudes, classical sculpture and still - life compositions.

Working in Paris, Feitelson no doubt was aware that Picasso had already moved in this classical direction, creating beautifully outlined figures inspired by classical sculpture and Renaissance painting.

Getty curator Paul Martineau describes the divide as Apollonian and Dionysian — an apt assessment given Mapplethorpe's appreciation of classical sculpture and moments of so - called sexual deviance he captured in equal measure.

Accompanied by original photographs, Bove has interpreted the display and chosen the exhibition furniture, mirroring Scarpa's choosing of how to re-present so many classical sculptures in his own lifetime, when recreating galleries and exhibition spaces in Italian palaces and museums.

Dotted with mosaicked paths and Classical sculpture, it both showcased their art and inspired it.

For one recent series, Channer appropriated and digitally manipulated images of the carved drapery from a group of fourth - century - BCE Classical sculptures in the British Museum, which were then printed onto lengths of fabric and suspended from the ceiling, playing with the relationship between sculpture, architecture, clothing, and the body.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

Paolini often references classical sculpture with cutouts of Corinthian columns and classical busts — in doing so he raises questions of originality whilst analsying the relationship of past present and future.

Rather than being drawn to a specific style of the past (he has utilized reproductions of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, Nicolas Poussin as well as Classical sculpture), Paolini is «attracted to the myth of the why, why one makes art.»

His works take a variety of forms, from photographic reproductions (Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto, 1967) to casts of classical sculptures (Mimesi, 1975).

Italian cinema (especially Fellini) and classical sculpture were also dear to his heart.

Moyer fuses painted canvas and reclaimed fragments of granite, marble, and limestone — stones used in capacities ranging from classical sculpture to kitchen design — into color field abstractions that address ideas of labor, luxury, and beauty.

A plaster classical sculpture appears to hold a canvas, its verso exposed to the viewer.

With stocky bodies unfamiliar to classical sculpture, Zuniga expanded the intellectual reach of his work by mixing it with regional ethnographic studies of body type and lifestyle.

Quinn's series of new works make direct reference to classical sculpture and the disembodied body parts appear to be ambiguously loving, fighting, holding or supporting.

Classical sculptures on steroids emitting an angelic glow, Finland's bodies have the same sci - fi sexiness as H. R. Giger's aliens, complete with nuclear - missile dicks and flesh that looks like latex.

Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) loves deep blue and Lot 241, «Venus Bleue,» shows what happens when you take a Classical sculpture of a woman's torso and make a very fine plastic sculpture of such a form and cover it with dry blue pigment in synthetic resin instead of lustrous white marble.

Classical sculpture was a three - dimensional object on a pedestal.

Lick and Lather by Janine Antoni (1993) consists of 14 busts of the artist — seven made from chocolate and seven made from soap — and questions the idealising tradition of classical sculpture.

The Italian word contrapposto in art refers to an uneven pose used in Greek classical sculpture to make standing figures appear more dynamic.

At the Carnegie, there were paintings around a balcony and her sculptures were one top of a sort of balustrade where they blended in with other classical sculptures.

Shot at the Glasgow School of Art, it features a selection of classical sculptures, which Lloyd films statically.

Based in Paris, Caillard is especially well known for staging witty and provocative dialogues between past and present: his Hipsters in Stone series (2012 — 2016) dressed the figures of classical sculpture in contemporary clothing, while also furnishing them with additional attributes like iPhones, sunglasses and jewellery.

Several of Zefeldt's paintings incorporate «portraits» of classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately forming a face.

If that sounds horribly indigestible, the sheer poise, elegance and professional rigour of the dancers allows them to animate the space in a truly satisfying way, bringing new life to the hackneyed notion of «living sculpture» as they interweave echoes of classical dance, classical sculpture and 21st century high camp.

The intersection with classical sculpture — I don't know if that's problematic for me or not.

They are the result of a meditation on the figures and the surfaces of classical sculpture and architecture.

The amusing busts are «Self Portraits» created by defacing or deconstructing classical sculptures with the foundation's signature face of smeared blue eyes, bloody - looking lips and a splash of yellow hair.

Shifting to the material softness of silk, this research questions the drapery of classical sculpture through a process based on folding, creating a complex arrangement of layers, and staining through surfaces.

Like so many classical sculptures of hands however, there are some fingers missing.

There's also a Tony Matelli sculpture that pokes fun at Classical sculpture with the strategic placement of bronze watermelons, a large conceptual project by Kay Rosen, the first museum survey of the work of Suzanne McClelland, and the anxious futurism of Beth Campbell.

Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken statues from antiquity.

His fictional portraits amalgamate a range of sources, from classical sculpture to observed individuals in London's British Caribbean communities.

Moore was able to distance himself from classical sculpture through the influence of primitive art, and the work of Brancusi, Epstein, and other modernists.

The exhibition shares a naturalistic palette, and a repertoire of motifs is rotated against landscape backdrops like stage props: classical sculptures, nudes winding drapery around their stout buttocks, animal skulls and minotaurs.

In fact, Katz, whose parents were of Russian origin, and who grew up in Queen's, emerged in 1950 from art school where he had produced detailed drawings of classical sculpture and painted from life, into a hysterical New York where the new heroes of abstract expression, Jackson Pollock and Barnet Newman, were throwing everything up in the air and riding a wave of popularity.

There are parts that feel commonplace and uneasy — poses from classical sculpture and their patriarchal origins, or the hand wielding a knife that protrudes from a lumped object, who exists somewhere between abstraction and figuration.

This clean, well - installed exhibition included her wildly patinated bronzes, from small figures to giant heads, with references ranging from painted classical sculpture to Donatello (especially his Mary Magdalen), from the Art Deco designer Erté to Jean - Léon Gérôme.

The French artist applied lessons he'd learnt from classical sculpture to create radically modern forms

Bertrand Lavier's Fountain is a playful interpretation of this most traditional of garden features; instead of a classical sculpture of a figure or natural form, the jets of water emanate from an apparently unruly mass of garden hoses.

Art Radar has a look at the second solo exhibition of the Chinese artist in Singapore, which takes among its points of departure the classical sculptures of Michelangelo and Rodin.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

The Lavier's Fountain is a playful interpretation of this most traditional of garden features, instead of a classical sculpture of a figure or natural form, the jets of water emanate from an apparently unruly mass of coloured garden hoses.

She has cast forms in plaster and jesmonite and arranged them so that they unavoidably reference a sculptural tradition that takes you from the abstraction of Anthony Caro, back towards the figure through Henry Moore and beyond him to classical sculpture.

Yet they also serve to highlight the artist's commitment to language, with a somewhat shocking return to classical sculpture, plinth and figuration.