Sentences with phrase «naked figure»

There is something tragic yet naïve about his 1991 painting Study for the Illiad, populated by endearingly clumsy naked figures of men and women: standing, stumbling, falling, and laying down.

Sharkey's club gave Bellows the opportunity to study nearly naked figures in raw, bloody struggle, surrounded by the mounting chaos of the crowd around the ring.

Berlinde De Bruyckere's Quan (2009) features a frail, naked figure dissolving into a mattress.

Antony Gormley, best known for his work Angel of the North and recently One & Other is dotting thirty - one of his life - size cast iron and fiberglass naked figures around prominent New York landmarks as well as along rooftops and other high spots.

They have depicted themselves as naked figures in their pictures, recasting the male nude as something vulnerable and fragile rather than as a potent figure of strength.

In his last works, such as Falling Man (1950), which depicts a half naked figure gliding downward headfirst, and Self - Portrait in Blue Jacket, Beckmann grapples with mortality, and the metaphysical questions it engenders.

Their work was startling, in - your - face and upsetting — child mannequins with penile snouts, dismembered naked figures hung from fibreglass trees, a bonsai Armageddon involving thousands of tiny plastic Nazis — and its makers didn't seem like guys who'd worry about the reaction of sensitive aesthetes.

Still scoffing, I peered at the naked figures fleeing towards the pit of Hell, out of my usual faintly morbid interest in the alleged terrors of damnation.

After this, Freddie is visited in his room by Master's daughter Elizabeth (Ambyr Childers) who goes even further in her attempts to seduce him than in the film, planting a kiss on him and dropping her robe to reveal her naked figure.

A gang of thugs are burning down patches of forest and grabbing land from poor farmers: when they shoot one smallholder and kidnap his daughter, a mysterious, half - naked figure (Gael Garcia Bernal) emerges from the river to wreak vengeance on mother nature's behalf.

Similarly his naked figures offer no concession to the tradition of the nude but share the same uncompromising vision and intensity.

In contrast Transition shows a naked figure of a man walking into a pool of water.

The two naked figures — a black man and a white boy, almost - but - not - quite touching — were intended to be displayed in front of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The installation he created for the Turner Prize charted his conversion of the washing machines in a launderette into a bank of cameras that recorded clothed and naked figures (pictured above right) and a horse galloping past (pictured above left).

In Elliott Linwood's «Outbreak (Detail),» the naked figure is sprawled out against the vastness of a crater, an image of extreme fragility and haunting finality.

I do like the idea of «the model» however — the naked figure, posing to be drawn in the studio, or the human form hired to dress with ones hot designs for the new season.

The naked figures resemble Picasso's classical characters in their sensual roundedness, but the action and mood could derive from Maurice Sendak.

The artist James Barry complained of prejudice towards the representation of the naked figure by those who regarded it as «indecent and tending to lewdness».

One of the naked figure's legs resembles a wooden board.