Sentences with phrase «plaster casts»

The curators were inspired by the 18th and 19th century practice of institutions collecting plaster casts of classical sculptures.

She points out that plaster was widely used for the first time during the 19th century, when drawing from plaster casts became a basic part of academic training.

Then came the well - known work of the early 1960s, but after that he again broke the balance between plaster cast and object.

Each exhibition space represents overlapping sections of the home here represented by eighteen plaster casts of the gallery floor and traces of furniture.

Now, too, quoting art history goes hand in hand with plaster casts of body parts, as with Folkert de Jong, a Dutch artist.

The Independent reports that Doherty (who is currently fresh out of a Thai rehab facility) was put into a full - body plaster cast for the work, created by the artist Nick Reynolds and somewhat cheekily titled For Pete's Sake.

In fact, Rachel Whiteread's husband and two sons were mentioned only briefly in this excellent documentary that followed her career from 1988, when she began making plaster casts of furniture, through to the monumental public sculptures that have attracted so much controversy over the years.

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

Beecroft is famous for performances with large casts of nude women, and she stuck to her theme: In the main gallery, a long, hangar - like room, a mixture of black and white women, nude but heavily powdered, lay on the floor on their backs, interspersed with white plaster casts of women.

Also at Clockwise Savoy Tower, Material Objects is a collaborative exhibition of works by Ruth Switalski and Anthony Brotheridge, using plaster casts from the Glasgow School of Art collection.

(I am thinking, among others, of Jeff Koons, with his exhibition at David Zwirner last year of classical plaster casts adorned with blue baubles).

An antique console table holds her collection — 19th - century French stone finials; a 19th - century plaster cast from Bruges, Belgium; and other antique plaster fragments.

He started to create three - dimensional «tableaux», large - scale installations for which he used found objects and everyday things such as TV sets, car parts, furniture, loudspeakers, and also plaster casts of various family members and friends.

Using 500,000 pieces of reclaimed, old - growth cedar, John Grade builds an intricate structure based on plaster casts taken of a massive, old - growth hemlock tree in the Cascade Mountains.

[1] Dissatisfied with school's insisting on painting from plaster casts instead of the live model, Guston soon left, remaining a largely self - taught artist.

Mr. Segal incorporated his wife and friends into his work — warts and all — using full - body plaster casts.

This vaulted space is flanked by plaster casts of classical sculptures from the Academy's Collection, historically used as teaching resources.

Although first known as an Abstract Expressionist sculptor, in the 1960's he helped establish the Pop Art movement by creating plaster casts of beer cans, light bulbs, sausages, egg crates, pillows and balloons that were exhibited with similar works by Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Sorry about the delay folks but not only is my right hand still in a half plaster cast, yesterday afternoon just after returning from Keramas I fell into a fever and went down for the count, felling a bit better this morning.

The week's sculpture highlights include the display of a rediscovered dramatic marble sculpture of Lucretia (c. 1704) attributed to Philippe Bertrand at Galerie Sismann, and a wonderful original plaster cast model of Clytie of around 1868 by George Frederic Watts.

In 2013, Kiefer visited the Musée Rodin's expansive storerooms — home to the artist's many plaster casts and abattis (sculpture fragments of arms, legs, and heads)-- where he was struck by Rodin's erotically charged drawings and by Cathedrals of France (1914), the only book ever written by the artist.

«Steven Gerrard has now undergone treatment to clear out all infection from his right ankle, which has been placed in a protective plaster cast,» declared a club statement.

They then use a hand trowel to dig out the cast [2], which is more robust than traditional plaster casts, and carefully document the site.

Knapp used before and after plaster casts.

Makeup plaster casts had to be approved, slit throats deepened, cut hands bloodied, hairstyles and lipsticks chosen, gumbo faces boiled and nasty, sanguineous, human hearts poked, peered at, and decided upon.

His next major invention was the oscillating saw, which was used to quickly remove plaster casts without cutting the skin underneath.

Privacy screens, holographic car wrap, delicate plaster casts and image reliefs from the printed page all invoke «the power of the objects we own or wish we owned», and take various repositories like museums and data mines as a starting point.

Leg (1962), a gnomic plaster cast of her own limb, was something of a turning point.

Produced over a period of three years, the (Matthew Barney) sculpture began with the simple plaster cast of the artists head and neck.

The exploration of the overlooked aspects of negative space is an ever - present theme in many of her most notable works, such as House (1993), for which she created a large - scale, site - specific plaster cast of the interior of a condemned East London flat.

It depicts plaster casts of the wings of the Nike of Samothrace, c. 190 BCE, perhaps one of the most recognizable objects of Hellenic sculpture, in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

They appeal to Jasper Johns, the American artist, whose one real subject is his studio but who appears in his work only as plaster casts and shadows.

Here, surrounded by the eerie plaster casts, Art Macabre present Death Drawing — a fantastical life drawing salon complete with dark woodland creatures, fearsome faerie queens and transformed beings inspired by moments from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, original wax 1878 - 1881, plaster cast possibly 1920/1921, plaster, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.62

Bacon's notorious drinking and debauchery are evident in the chaos of paints and brushes; clothing that he used to transfer textures to his canvases; photographs of him and his acquaintances; destroyed, in - progress paintings; works on paper; the door and walls where he mixed paints in lieu of using a palette; loose book pages that served as source material; and a replica plaster cast of William Blake's head.

Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (paperbacks)(2000) is a delicate, intricate plaster cast of a bookshelf, made of plaster, polystyrene and steel.

The 19th - century trend for collecting plaster cast reproductions of famous art might seem old - fashioned today, but the court remains one of the most popular parts of the museum.

His sad - eyed musicians might stand for France in 1944, under Fascism, just as George Segal's plaster casts try to stand for everyman in the industrial age.

In LaKela Brown's relief plaster casts we see an archeology of adornment and cultural currency whose form insists upon not just a presence, but an irrefutable history.

The way light rakes across the monochrome folds of their shallow relief implies an illusory space, but also reads like an opaque plaster cast of a window.

The Warburg Institute, University of London: Publication of the international conference Plaster Casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present, Rune Frederiksen and Eckart Marchand - # 3,000

London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Aspects of British Art, 1950 - 51, no. 24, plaster cast exhibited, as «Standing Sculpture».

The Studio, CXLI, April 1951, p. 98, plaster cast illustrated.

In a sense Ms. Whiteread is up to her usual tricks in «Place (Village)» — reversing interior and exterior space through lighting instead of through plaster casting.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Collection Conservation: Assessment of a modern cleaning method used on traditionally coated plaster casts, 1 February 2015 - 1 February 2016 - # 8,000

It includes Robert Rauschenberg's famous «Automobile Tire Print» (1953) and «Untitled (Fiction)» (1997), British sculptor Rachel Whiteread's wall - mounted plaster casts of the space around three shelves full of books.

She was nominated for the 1997 Turner Prize for her installation The Dead Teach the Living - a collection of plaster cast heads that show different racial stereotypes.

As part of the gallery's major retrospective, this restored series of plaster casts enlightens viewers to a distinctive career and the vast textural explorations which it encompassed.