Sentences with phrase «on wooden figures»

The period is also noteworthy for its technical innovations, including joined woodblock construction, which allowed for the creation of larger sculptures, and rock crystal inserts for the eyes on wooden figures, which made the depicted deities more realistic and thereby more commanding.

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Constructed of a small pinewood box turned on its side, the diorama featured five faceless wooden figures, huddled together beneath a ring of barbed wire.

As for the doll and farm play, in order of the most played with (for those curious about these things): the farmhouse is by Ostheimer (as are most of the wooden farmhouse figures, with a few Kathe Kruse thrown in too); the (made in Maine) dollhouse is Seri's Dollhouse; then there is the Wooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info owooden farmhouse figures, with a few Kathe Kruse thrown in too); the (made in Maine) dollhouse is Seri's Dollhouse; then there is the Wooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info oWooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info oWooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info on it).

Thomas the Train Elements: * Thomas Wooden Railway Flynn & Water Tower Figure 8 Railroad Track Set 21 Piece * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Figure 8 Set Expansion Pack * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Early Engineers Busy Day on Sodor Set * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Early Engineers Round About Station * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Deluxe Over — The — Track Signal * Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway — Echo Tunnel * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Harold The Helicopter * Thomas Wooden Railway — Toby The Tram Engine * Thomas Wooden Railway — Skarloey * Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Wacky Track (2 pieces)

The tiger, lion and elephant wooden figures slot onto each train carriage and are ready to embark on a jungle adventure.

«I was trying to go figure out where the problem began,» says Hopkins, whose office has colorful magnet letters on a file cabinet, children's artwork, and a basket of wooden blocks.

Kenton Grua, Rudi Petschek, and Steve «Wren» Reynolds... embarked on [an adventure] in late June of 1983, when they defied common sense and the National Park Service and set off, at night, to attempt a record - breaking speed run down the Colorado River in a 17 - foot wooden dory called the Emerald Mile... To get from A to Z, they figured, would require roughly two nights and days of furious rowing.

Homey touches include corn husk dolls lined up high on kitchen cupboards, a wooden rocking horse in the 2 - bedroom suite, hat stands (complete with sun hats) and a resident cat who's figured out how to use the door stopper to knock on your door.

His constructions often rest on wooden legs and lean against the wall, asking us to consider them as painterly props that act like signs and surrogate figures.

PAGES 28 - 29: From left, «Three Figures,» 1966 (oil on canvas) by Emma Amos and «It Takes Two to Integrate (Cha Cha Cha),» 1961 (painted dolls, dried fish, glass in wooden box) by Edward Kienholz.

Also on display are powerful works by Sidney Geist, Studded Figure (1957), a painted wooden piece; Mary Frank's Reclining Figure (1960); and Alex Katz's Ada Ada (1959), a double image of his muse, his wife Ada.

Among the highlights of the show are The Sun (1990), a floor installation of 360 triangular elements of white marble forming a grand circle, and the witty Self - Portrait (c. 1959) in which the artist's head is but a small ball of paper resting on a larger - than - life wooden torso with incredibly elongated legs (both works at Perry Rubenstein); the ethereal The Angel (1989) made of 125 spheres of thin clear Venetian glass delicately resting on the floor at Michael Werner; and at Mary Boone the five Concave Figures (1994), one of Byars» final works.

The Cleveland Museum of Art's latest acquisitions include a Virgin and Child, a rare 13th - century wooden sculpture from the Mosan region of Europe; a Standing Female Figure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carFigure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carfigure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ cartoons.

Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel paint.

Displayed on a reclaimed wooden floor as a mass of modelled figures, the sculptural installation, inspired by a Dieter Roth work, The Floor (Studio - floor from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland), (1973 - 1992), is what Nelson describes as a «levelling of sorts, questioning how we look at objects.»

On view June 10 — December 6, ALONG THE WAY portrays two gigantic wooden figures standing with heads lowered and one arm around each other in a gentle embrace.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

Featuring work from the 1980s to today, including wooden figures, pottery and newspapers that she has painted on, Himid's section of the Turner Prize exhibition at Hull's Ferens Gallery serves as an intimate window on to her intensely thoughtful practice.

McCarthy's wooden sculptures based on the story of Snow White are given psychological depth through distortion of figures and monumentality.

Stringed Figure (Curlew), Version II Artist: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903 - 1975 Date: 1956, edition 1959 Classification: sculpture Medium: Brass and string on wooden base Dimensions: object: 514 x 768 x 432 mm Presented by the executors of the artist's estate 1980 © Bowness

I worked outside on an upturned water trough and carved the wooden horse bought later by the Museum of Modern Art, a cow, a giraffe, a camel, two elephants, another cat, several circus figures, a man with a hollow chest, and an ebony lady bending over dangerously, whom I daringly called Liquorice.

Drawing on sources such as Jacques - Louis David's 1793 masterpiece The Death of Marat, carved and inked black figures emerge from swarms of writhing, fish - like eyes, with decorative woodcut prints and drawings collaged onto incised wooden panels.

The 1987 work on display at Hull's Ferens Gallery, host to the Turner prize as part of its City of Culture celebrations, is a large and busy stage set of wooden and mixed - media cut - out figures inspired by Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode.

In a large painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster figures cast from elaborately folded wooden models as well as one large painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.

Many compositions place male figures foreshortened on wooden structures, albeit in the form of highly designed furniture.

The figure, based on the cast of the artist's body with spread wings resembling the wooden struts of an early biplane, last sold at Sotheby's New York in May 2014 for $ 1.6 million.

MacBeth (1989) is a somber figure cast from a weathered wooden log, bluntly carved into a sulking head and torso and placed on a planked platform.

Alterations consists of 120 female figures — each painted with individual features and expressions — placed on top of and around a long wooden table with a solitary lamp illuminating them.

David Hockney (b. 1937) Figure in a Flat Style oil on two conjoined canvases with wooden batons 88 5/8 x 34 1/8 in.

Next to two videos by Belgian artist Lili Dujourie, featuring a tense, clothed figure on a bare wooden floor rolling between waking and sleeping, Robert also integrated several works by Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn into the collage Untitled (Brouwn)(2015).

The most significant large - scale installations include Kagebangara, Of All people, And... and Some Place, are made from materials as diverse as threads coated in KumKum (a red organic pigment used on the forehead and in rituals), flattened tar barrels (from which road workers make temporary shelters), metal piping, woven hair ropes and small wooden figures with votive functions.