Sentences with phrase «painted wooden figure»

Baselitz is also known for his distinctive approach to sculpture: his roughly hewn and boldly painted wooden figures fuse traditional woodcarving techniques with primitivist and folk art impulses.

Claudette Schreuders creates lithographs and carved and painted wooden figures.

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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.

The centerpiece was an elegantly carved realistic wooden figure of Wilde atop a pedestal displaying a plaque painted with the number C. 33.

In another painting from the «Social Consequences» series, a figure adorned with polygons is poked with wooden sticks or metal spears, as if bodies were at once formed by and put at risk by inhuman elements.

«Out of Sight» then proceeds chronically to present art from 1962 to 1978 and concludes by exhibiting four wooden sculptures and a series of seven vivid painting from her Days of the Week series by way of revealing Herrera's continued experimentation with figure / ground relationships and the architectural underpinnings of many of her compositions.

Across from Bill King's Man, past Mary Frank's dense wooden Reclining Figure (1960) is Alex Katz's painting, Ada Ada, of his wife, times two, from 1959.

Around the corner, King's wooden painted elongated figure, Man with a Checkered Jacket (1955), looks like a Giacometti sculpture for a Fourth of July party.

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.

He used wooden dowels shaped with a jigsaw and hand tools to make intricate stretchers, painting figures in patterns drawn from Aztec, Benin, and Egyptian cultures.

Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian painting, while delicate fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look at.

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.

«SPIRIT AND IDENTITY: MELANESIA WORKS FROM THE HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM COLLECTION» continues through Aug. 29 at the David Filderman Gallery The exhibition showcases ancestral figures, ceremonial masks, warrior shields, ritualized practical objects sourced from sacred sites, and carved and painted wooden sculptures.

Influenced by pre-Columbian imagery and the Pre-Pop creations of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper John, she began making painted carved wooden figures incorporating found objects.

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.

Terence Koh one person at a time, 2012 wax, foam, paint, plaster, wooden bench, light bulb reclining figure: 19 x 66 x 21 3/4 inches (48.3 x 167.6 x 55.2 cm) standing figure: 63 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 16 inches (161.9 x 37.5 x 40.6 cm) bench: 26 x 79 3/8 x 20 3/4 inches (66 x 201.6 x 52.7 cm) TK - 16

As each deity is unique, so too are the figurines that signify them; each wooden figure is made distinct with paint, feathers, beads, buttons, and other materials.

The thread that connects all this disparate material, from Uncle Claudio's «Black Widow Killer» (a wooden paint paddle) to the artist's collection of toy figures, is the bittersweet quality of family memories.

The enigmatic title refers to the painter's «crown,» a heroic accessory evoked in Aldrich's «Figure with Cape,» (2008) a shakily painted outline of a caped matador with three wooden sticks attached to the canvas surface.

I'd like to start to create wooden sculptures somehow with blocks or doing wooden figures and painting them.

Zanzibar - born, Preston - based Himid tackles attitudes to race, from slavery to the present day, through her tableaux of wooden figures and painted - over pottery.

continues through Aug. 29 at the David Filderman Gallery The exhibition showcases ancestral figures, ceremonial masks, warrior shields, ritualized practical objects sourced from sacred sites, and carved and painted wooden sculptures.

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.

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.

Apart from his paintings, an installation by both artists, «I Catch the Little White Man,» (2003), features a wooden cabinet filled with strings of white figures, and refers to a mental institution in Sweden that doubles as a center for creative research.

Naming The Money consisted of 100 painted life - sized wooden cut out figures, originally shown at the Hatton Gallery Newcastle in 2004, which explored the multiple themes of naming, belonging, invisibility and survival.

It includes 30 paintings and 12 drawings, from «Sneeze» (2001), in which mucus spews from a woman's snoutlike nose, to «Carpenter» (2010), which shows a figure stripping a wooden deck with her teeth.