Sentences with phrase «plaster classical sculpture»

A plaster classical sculpture appears to hold a canvas, its verso exposed to the viewer.

Not exact matches

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collection

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.

Thanks to support from the Art Fund, three of the works are now making their UK debut at Sir John Soane's Museum, as part of the exhibition Power in Woman, which draws parallels between Sir John Soane's classical plaster casts and Lucas's sculptures.

In form and material, Lucas» sculptures mirror classical plaster casts.

She has cast forms in plaster and jesmonite and arranged them so that they unavoidably reference a sculptural tradition that takes you from the abstraction of Anthony Caro, back towards the figure through Henry Moore and beyond him to classical sculpture.

Beginning with plaster casts that reference classical sculpture and traditional ideals of the body, Servanin inserts plastic bags filled with water into each work.

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

Singing from a large bed - like platform in the middle of the large hall, the nieces will be surrounded by marble, columns, skylight, and the plaster casts of classical sculptures that look down from the balcony.

In 1915, he eschewed the purely classical methods of sculpture which consisted of copying from plaster models and enlarging with a pointing machine.