Sentences with phrase «other classical sculptures»

At the Carnegie, there were paintings around a balcony and her sculptures were one top of a sort of balustrade where they blended in with other classical sculptures.

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Bacchus (1988), on the other hand, dates from the latter years of Mapplethorpe's career when his focus shifted towards male and female nudes, classical sculpture and still - life compositions.

Other proponents of the movement as it took hold in the 1960s include Luciano Fabro (1936 - 2007), whose conceptual sculptures are highly sought after, and Giulio Paolini (b. 1940), acclaimed for his minimal and conceptual works subverting classical materials such as canvas and plaster.

Coinciding with the first ecological movements in the USA and Europe, Land Art was first created in the 1960s by artists working concurrently but sepa - rately from each other, as a critical reaction to the classical genre of sculpture and the commercial art market.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

Already, many sixties artists have taken on, for me, this classical stature — Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Don Judd, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, among others — which feels more like past than present...» Nevertheless, many of the assumptions which were first propounded about the style — or what was commonly claimed, the non-style — of Minimalism (née Cool Art, The Third Stream, Post Geometric Structures, ABC Art, Object Sculpture, Specific Objects, Primary Structures, or Art of the Real) have remained unchallenged for over a decade.

Other highlights include the Farnese assembly of classical Roman, monumental sculpture, plus an outstanding collection of porcelain and majolica.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

Moore was able to distance himself from classical sculpture through the influence of primitive art, and the work of Brancusi, Epstein, and other modernists.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

Sharing the viewer's space more literally than any other medium, sculpture has given rise to some of the most iconic works in art history, including the classical Greek Venus de Milo (c. 130 - 100 B.C.), Michelangelo's High Renaissance David (1504), Rodin's The Thinker (1902), and Constantin Brancusi's The Kiss (1908).

In no other exhibition would you expect to see 19th century classical sculpture or 18th century drawings by Richard Harraden alongside the fruits of Jeremy Deller's Iggy Pop Life Class.

Paul Martineau curated the other half for the Getty, highlighting Mapplethorpe's connections to classical sculpture and art - historical themes.

Today Antinous has more sculptures to his name than almost any other figure from classical antiquity.

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.

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.

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

Developing a new civic dialogue, the show explores the reappropriation of iconography from classical sculpture; engagement with themes of the individual and society; incorporation of language, symbolism, and metaphor; and the use of non-traditional materials and performance, among other themes.

Prince plays out — even satirises — the way the female nude is mapped and multiplied in art, from classical sculpture to Renaissance Venuses to the distorted and reconfigured forms of Cubism and Expressionism, as well as in other sources such as pornography and medical text books.

Curated by art historian John Wilmerding, this outstanding - sounding group show, which examines how Pop artists broadened the scope of classical still life to include sculpture and other new media, includes over 75 artworks from an all - star list of artists from Jasper Johns and Jeff Koons to Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol.

After primitive forms of cave painting, figurine sculptures and other types of ancient art, there occured the golden era of Greek art and other schools of Classical Antiquity.