Sentences with phrase «of classical sculptures made»

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Moreover classical mythology inspired then his sculpture art, like in the famous Greece classical figure of Orpheus; he made several sculptures of Orpheus.

The Sculpture program at PAFA embraces contemporary and classical approaches across a broad range of art making — from traditional figurative sculpture to video and installaSculpture program at PAFA embraces contemporary and classical approaches across a broad range of art making — from traditional figurative sculpture to video and installasculpture to video and installation art.

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 use of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.

These sculptures build on my longstanding interest in refracting the language of classical art to make it relevant to contemporary culture.

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.

The show comprised five sculptures each of which was made using a similar process to his earlier works: images of classical and Modernist art objects found on the Internet were rendered, via a computer, as basic three - dimensional models.

Thanks to support from the Art Fund, three of the works are now making their UK debut at Sir John Soane's Museum, as part of the exhibition Power in Woman, which draws parallels between Sir John Soane's classical plaster casts and Lucas's sculptures.

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.

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.

Made of polycarbonate, the sculptures are coated with graphite, giving them the look of classical works — which makes them all the more disturbing, due to the contrast between the technical beauty of the pieces and the ugliness or weakness that they so often depict.

In the days when the notion of sculpture has been extended with ready - made objects, installations or virtual sculptures, Tony Cragg consistently promotes its classical understanding.

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.

David Choi's Jumbo, a giant flowered piranha is a tour de force of epoxy and man - made materials, the classical sculptures carved out of Polystyrene insulation by Morgan Herrin put sensation sculptor Marc Quinn's 2005 exhibition The complete Marbles at Mary Boone to shame, (not that this is overly difficult, but Quinn did receive a baffling number of positive reviews for a very easy show) and Brian Basnett's tiny soft sculptures made from found plastics are whimsical, but not at the expense of being personal and warm.

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.

Best known for his monumental black - painted steel sculptures composed of complex arrangements and combinations of classical geometric forms, Tony Smith would often make smaller bronze versions of his large - scale outdoor sculptures.

Greeting the viewer at the door, Jon Pylypchuk's sculpture «allright I guess I can't be sincere to you anymore» is simply the sum of its parts: a figure on a pedestal made with tennis rackets and lightbulbs for eyes; Keith Edmier's «Medea» is cast from pink dental stone and rises from the exploded kiln of the late artist Lowell Grant; Sean Landers» casts a beautifully menacing god Pan; Heimo Zobernig «s take on the classical contrapposto is a 3D composition of three sculptures; bulky, elegant and graceful, Georg Herold's «Brown Betelgeuze is a beautifully imagined bronze of the second - brightest star of Orion.

She is known for photographing sculptures and three - dimensional still - life assemblages of her own making, [2] some of which she destroys after the photos have been taken, as well as for creating images of classical figures and architectural details and their relationship to space.