Sentences with phrase «often figurative sculptures»

Houseago creates monumental, often figurative sculptures that have a striking ability to simultaneous convey states of power and vulnerability.

Not exact matches

Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his works, playfully disrupts the history of figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated with it.

In media, he was all over the map: painting (abstract and figurative), drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, installation, performance, sound art; he did them all, often messy, counterintuitive combinations.

The exhibition, which opens at Tate Modern in November and will run till spring 2016, will include a wide selection of Calder's motorised constructions and figurative wire portraits, often inspired by the circus or cabaret, alongside his suspended kinetic sculptures of vividly coloured shapes.

He draws inspiration from public fountains and the figurative sculpture that often accompanies them.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

Jana Euler often works in overlaid figurative paintings, presented at times amidst sculptures and architectural alterations.

One of the most original sculptors, Robert Arneson (1930 — 1992) reinvented American figurative ceramics through the integration of sculpture and painting in his large - scale, often satirical, and even iconoclastic pieces.

Altmejd's work often draws a corollary between the body and architecture with architectural landscape punctuated by figurative elements or figurative sculptures blown up to gigantic scale or infected with inorganic material.

In his previous work, the 29 - year - old artist created figurative and highly personal paintings and sculptures, often using tropes from the Spanish Baroque style.

The sculptures have often been constructed from readymades but sculpted out of their original forms and combined to resemble figurative sculpture.

For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection, pairing figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often found in modern and contemporary art.

The photographs exhibited by Daniel Gordon (b. 1980) represent the final stage of a process that starts with the construction of life - size figurative sculptures made from cut paper and other images, often culled from the internet.

Produced entirely within his Dumbo, Brooklyn studio, the crude figurative sculptures (often female) depict bizarre and sometimes unsettling situations; detached objects and anatomical parts mingle and merge with one other to form grotesquely appealing images, such as Red Headed Woman (2008).

But over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art's more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.

The backgrounds of his figurative paintings, such as Untitled (Sculpture) are often abstract, almost mystical atmospheres that highlight an omnipresent solitude.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

Artist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing returns.

In his sculptures, the artist's body is often substituted with figurative elements.