Sentences with phrase «plaster over a wire»

With his earliest abstractions, he worked directly with plaster over a wire armature.

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Over the years, Samaras has created drawings, furniture, jewelry, paintings, photographs, sculpture and room - sized installation using a variety of material including beads, chicken wire, clay, Cor - Ten steel, fabric, mirrors, pastel, pencil, pins, plaster and oil.

These photographs capture the frenetic assemblage of readymade stuff (including toy guns, baby dolls, shoes, crockery, cans, bottles, chicken wire, detritus, bits of ephemera, etc.), the filling of bags of paint and their attachment to the wooden supports, the white - washing of paint over the entire surface, and the ultimate dunk into milky - white plaster.

Capturing the condition of the figurines when they were discovered in the artist's studio, the modèles vividly convey the instinctive way in which Degas pressed and smeared pliable wax and plaster over handmade wire armatures, and bulked the core with cork and other easily accessible materials.