Sentences with phrase «of classical sculpture»

The curators were inspired by the 18th and 19th century practice of institutions collecting plaster casts of classical sculptures.

Bringing together varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our stand will examine the legacy of classical sculpture in the work of these two artists.

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

The arrested movement — one of the central themes of classical sculpture — is transformed into a compulsive calming of the free - moving individual subjected by an abstract authority.

She is presented within reach of her pedestal but her actions set up a confrontation between herself and her position in art history: the pedestal representing the constraints of classical sculpture.

So photos of classical sculptures / statues should be fine.

Han began creating her female figures in 2005 by combining photographs of women's bodies with heads of classical sculptures.

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.

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.

He represents Smith with a box of letters of the alphabet, while other images include a little girl with an old - fashioned dress, fragments of classical sculpture, and a man attempting artificial wings.

Home - works 1 and Home - works 2 consist of reproductions of classical sculptures placed on brightly coloured painted brick plinths.

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.

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.

Though not as hilarious, the non-sausage works in «Synesthesa» are similarly adept at aping the forms and proportions of classical sculpture all the while subverting them to comic effect.

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.

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.

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.

Artists such as Davide Balliano and Claudia Wieser have created works on paper that manipulate imagery of classical sculpture and spaces through the insertion of contemporary gestures that force the viewer to move rapidly through the art historical timeline.

It will include about 90 miniature reproductions of classical sculptures made primarily from the 15th through the 17th centuries.)

Yinka Shonibare Surreal pastiches of classical sculpture and kaleidoscopic paintings in Shonibare's latest carnival of history.

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.

In these immense canvases, the artist depicts the body from the perspective of classical sculpture, recalling archetypes from religion and mythology, such as the pietà and the Fates.

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.

The intermingling of classical sculpture and female self - realization in the long literary tradition of the journey to Italy

If the drapes carved in the stone of classical sculptures were reverted back into the flowing fabric they represented and flattened out, they would display a map of the aggressions they suffered over time and the layers» resistance to wear and tear.

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.

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.

Works such as his figurative busts and sculptures made from wax push the tradition almost as far as possible from the idealized vision of Ancient Greece and the Renaissance to become deconstructed representations of classical sculpture.

Everywhere, there is a sense that the work — a jab in the eye of classical sculpture — is still in flux.

Thus, we might discern, just below the surface, the faint echo of the classical sculptures that once inspired the pioneers of modernism, the fluid linearity of early Chinese art, or the angular forms of ancient Egyptian funerary sculptures.

This vaulted space is flanked by plaster casts of classical sculptures from the Academy's Collection, historically used as teaching resources.

Using the white polystyrene familiar from the packaging of TVs, fridges and other gadgets, in a tongue - in - cheek approximation of the marble of classical sculpture, Darbyshire presents us with slender female nudes, cool cats and a Hercules hewn from the living polymer.

Weightless looking, but quite solid, the sculptures» illusion of buoyancy mimics the dynamism of classical sculpture that somehow makes marble look like striving human bodies, and perhaps deflates that idea.

Domanović's work is of both the past and the future, folding the aesthetic of classical sculpture into her investigation into how developing technology relates to the societies that create it.

Questions of classical sculpture like weight and equilibrium are rewritten in his work, summoning up material and technical associations while adding other more recent ideas on transparency, flexibility and spatial relations, together with a redefinition of the viewer, absorbed by the new situations in which space and time are coordinated and articulated.

In Ballerinas (2010 — 14) from the Antiquity series, Koons depicts figurines of dancers, derived from decorative porcelain, at the imposing scale of classical sculpture.

Flanagan fuses the everyday, the imaginary and fantastical to mould clay into animal forms, hares, elephants, dogs and horses - the horse is an archetype of classical sculpture.

Tom Price's bronze's mimic the postures and poses of classical sculpture.

Both works quickly became a clarion call for the «New Sculpture» in England, a stylistically diverse movement marked by innovative reconsiderations of classical sculpture.

He is seated on a large, low pedestal at the site where Virgilio Sieni's Atlante del gesto (Atlas of Gesture), 2015, was recently performed, and where examples of classical sculpture and their copies stood in Anna Anguissola and Salvatore Settis's 2015 exhibition «Serial Classic.

Rendered in a neo-Classical style that the artist adapted from his studies of classical sculpture, the suite explores themes of mythology, identity and sexuality.

In her photographic works, Han creates hybrid female figures by combining photographs of contemporary women's bodies with heads of classical sculptures — the surface of each figure transformed through painstaking digital rendering that creates a marble - like texture.

The venue, the Museo Carlo Bilotti, housed in the former Orangerie of the Villa Borghese, complemented Guston's imagery in the Roma pictures, in which his infamous Ku Klux Klansmen metamorphose into umbrella pines and fragments of classical sculptures.

Henry and Irina visit Greece where Moore is struck by the light and influenced by the drapery of Classical sculptures.

But her surrealistic works were far removed from the ideal proportions of classical sculpture.

Italian artist Giulio Paolini's (b. 1940) installations are deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today — with plaster casts of classical sculptures to reproductions of iconic paintings by Chardin, Lotto and Velázquez.

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