Sentences with phrase «molten lead»

Assisted by museum staff and volunteers, Serra made the piece by hurling molten lead into the corner of a room, letting it harden and then prying it loose and upending it on the floor.

For the show, Richard Serra flung 460 pounds of molten lead against the walls, while Lawrence Weiner removed a section of the wall, and Michael Heizer smashed the street in front of the museum with a wrecking ball.

Like Robert Morris, on the other hand, Richard Serra made his work by experimenting with materials; for example, he threw molten lead into the corners of a room, or he cut, propped or stacked lead sheets, rough timber, etc. in order to create large, strangely balanced structures.

Those familiar with Serra's entire oeuvre will also make connections between prints with a splattered affect and his early installations in which he hurled molten lead at the wall, creating sculptures from the accumulation of the substance.

The watercolors and books are complemented by romantic landscape paintings, in which lakes can be glimpsed through screens of trees or where surfaces of splashed molten lead peel back to reveal the sea or landscape depicted beneath.

In 1968 Richard Serra made his piece titled «Splashing» by throwing molten lead in the corner where the floor meets the wall in the warehouse of the art dealer Leo Castelli.

The curtain in question shimmers from reflected light, but it also drapes with such weight as to appear poured from molten lead.

At the centre will be a sphere, three metres in diameter, inside which molten lead swirls at high speed creating a vacuum, or vortex, in the middle.

General Fusion's system uses a sphere, filled with molten lead - lithium that is pumped to form a vortex.

Then they poured molten lead across slab and tray, forming a large metal sheet.

Unlike metallic versions with areas like a jar lid's tamper evident depression that pop up usually plastic capacitors just look obviously fried with what looks like molten lead bubbles protruding through melted spots, but automotive parts might include some more tidy precaution.

Minimalism came to New York with the sudden impact of flung molten lead.

Serra reinforced this categorization by creating highly physical and performative artworks that entailed splashing molten lead onto floors and walls in the 1960s.

He took molten lead, and hurled it in large splashes again the wall of a studio or exhibition space.

If you're German, you might join your family at midnight to drop molten lead into cold water and make predictions about the year ahead based on the shape it takes.

Throwing Lead (1968) was derived from that list and involved Serra throwing molten lead in the warehouse of his New York dealer, Leo Castelli.

Produced from molten lead, the works known as «splashings» or «castings» (or sometimes both) are chief examples of this category of work.

At his studio outside Paris, we watch Kiefer laboring on some of his latest projects — working with molten lead.

From hurling molten lead to constructing spires from found objects in a junkyard, these artists experiment with unconventional materials and methods, provoking us to reconsider what an «art material» is, and how it's used.

Period auto body repair, by an auto body mechanic used to be achieved through a combination of re-shaping sheet metal using specialist hand tools and the application of molten lead to damaged body panels, fulfilling the role of more modern polyester fillers / bondo.

Rather than molten lead or bricks or polished steel, Gonzalez - Torres used candy, beads, and posters to create certain of his sculptures, and he invited his audience to take part by taking them.

Paper and transparent sheets stand in for Serra's molten lead and shredded rubber.

He did so by scooping up ladles full of molten lead and splashing it against the bottom of a wall in the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Before turning to steel, Serra produced abstract sculptures from nontraditional materials — fiberglass, rubber or molten lead — which he splashed or threw in their liquid states against the walls of studios or exhibition spaces, recording their shapes and angles.

As with much of the artist's work, dating back to the floor of molten lead she created for the legendary «Freeze» show, the tree provokes an onrush of associations.