Sentences with phrase «plaster relief»

Solid wood, plaster relief and a bevelled glass mirror.

The antique plaster relief provides a dramatic feature against the white wall.

Again, I create allover pattern from the fabric's intrinsic grid structure but the result of embedding them in gesso makes them akin to a static plaster relief.

The fact that Thornycroft chose to exhibit this plaster relief in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition indicates that he was pleased with this part of the larger work.

Johns» treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings.

Branko Vlahović's plaster relief, from Zagreb, has the brutal look of Soviet - era architecture.

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

She shot at life - sized plaster reliefs of male bodies, of mothers giving birth, of brides, of altars, of hearts, and of cathedrals.

David Altmejd: Magic Loop @ Modern Art, Helmet Row Giant plaster reliefs have hands protruding from them like something we'd see at a palaeontology dig — I kept expecting to spot a T - Rex skull.

In works on paper made with layers of paint or gauze above ink - scratched, writing - like marks, or plaster reliefs inscribed with letter - like forms, Afnan created contemporary artworks with the appearance of ancient artifacts.

Significant sculptures by Segal include plaster reliefs, painted figures in environments, and multifigural installations.

In the 1990s, she began exploring the potential of plaster reliefs, carved with alpha - numeric or hieroglyphic - like marks and painted in earthy - tones to resemble something excavated from antiquity.

The exotic and wildly imaginative design for the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, created between 1917 and 1923 by artist Robert Chanler, features painted plaster reliefs of fantastical sea creatures on the ceiling and an extraordinary fireplace engulfed in three - dimensional plaster and bronze flames stretching twenty feet high.

Not exact matches

In Indian Ayurvedic medicine, a plaster of chile powder with garlic, black pepper, and an herb called silaras (Storax officinalis) is applied to the back for relief of crippling pain.

Capsaicin patches, like mustard plasters, have been around for a while, but now they are making a comeback as TheraPatch Penetrating Pain Relief Patches.

News that police had made arrests in the recent attacks on women in Wicker Park brought relief Tuesday to residents who have been passing out whistles, holding anti-crime marches and plastering store windows with fliers this summer to warn women about sexual attacks happening in the early morning hours.

In the days after Hurricane Sandy, Cuomo became a ubiquitous khaki - clad presence by touring the destruction and by plastering his name in large letters on banners at relief sites.

Working with a team of 50 over four seasons of furious digging, Mellaart also uncovered plaster wall reliefs of leopards butting heads and of splayed human figures he interpreted as women giving birth.

Their shortcomings are exacerbated — as opposed to plastered over, as they have been in the past — by the supporting cast of the UK's best and brightest, a harsh relief that probably explains why for long stretches it appears as though there are two films going on: one with actors and one with children pretending to be actors.

Experts at the University of Warwick invented the first ever ibuprofen patch which can be directly plastered on the skin to provide pain relief.

These imagined ruins, restored memory and archaeological (re) creation are made of various materials, from bas - reliefs, to monumental architectural sculptures evoking the doors and structures of the subterranean, here constructed in polystyrene, polished aluminium, plaster and cement.

As of June, the public can tour the studio space for the first time ever, seeing highlights such as Robert Winthrop Chanler's bronze - and - plaster fireplace bas - relief of flames embellished with animals, fantastical creatures, and celestial motifs extending overhead onto the ceiling.

Nearby styrene and plaster casts are reminiscent of a classically decorated carved reliefs, hand - crafted objects and industrial artifacts that reference a multitude of symbols, linguistic particles from antiquity to the present day — iconography that exists within the urban landscape but are repurposed here within the formal confines of the art viewing space.

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.

Harnischfeger's three small wall - mounted reliefs are multi-layered abstractions made of stacked pieces of hand - dyed paper and stones embedded in plaster and ceramic.

For those who like larger Stellas, Lot 189 is a 109 1/2 - by - 110 3/4 - by -23-inch wall relief that is colorful and organic and was executed in 1982 and has an estimate of $ 180,000 to $ 220,000 and Lot 180, «Vemish,» is a 71 5/8 - by - 120 1/8 - inch acrylic, paper collage, plaster and color pencils on canvas that was executed by Stella in1985 and has an estimate of $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 and may tempt some viewers to don sunglasses and / or helmets.

He rediscovered sculpture and developed a new technique for creating relief sculptures, through pouring plaster into lines etched in a metal etching plate.

Using paint and plaster, she repeated the motif of a white bird throughout the space, beginning with a flat illustrated wallpaper that morphs into a subtle, low - relief projection, at once grounding and disorienting the viewer.

Video (Lines in the Sand 2002/2005, colour, sound, 47:45 min), projection, blackboard, wooden structure, paint, video (Pillow Talk, 2002, colour, sound), monitor with performance video, green wooden couch, sand and relief box, plaster, photographs, paintings).

The Whitney Studio was remodeled between 1918 and 1923 by the decorative artist Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872 — 1930), who used molded plaster to transform the fireplace and ceiling into an exuberant composition of sculpted flames and low relief figures of mythical and real creatures.

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.

Following his studies, Mack applied himself intensively to informal painting, developing by the mid-1950s his first «Dynamic Structures» in painting, drawing and plaster and metal reliefs.

BH 118 and 119 [the present work] are thus companion pieces in that both are the culmination of a sequence of plasters (akin to Ben Nicholson's practice of multiple variants of a painting or a relief), both are carvings in coloured wood and both date from 1943, the year Hepworth was able to return to carving.

All of the artworks that populate The Conjured Life bear close scrutiny, both in observing and exploring the subject matter and noting the various visual strategies and formal means, from the straightforward representation of Magritte to the low - relief plaster technique of Max Ernst; from the shamanistic deer skin, wood, and felt used by Jimmie Durham to the full - size rubber life raft cast in bronze by Jeff Koons.

After a summer in Provincetown spent constructing «flags» from driftwood and other flotsam, Oldenburg returned to New York City, where he made U.S.A. Flag, his first painted plaster - soaked - canvas relief.

Similar photographs also survive of a number of other lost constructions, including one relief and a more three - dimensional piece, either of which could be the work described in Wells's letter to Nicholson of 14 June 1944 as including, «paint and lines on a board - carved chalk or plaster - perspex, string and surgical sutures!»

For this exhibition at Modern Art, Altmejd is presenting a dozen haut - reliefs in which casts of hands seem to be moving plaster around to form figures.

Works on view include the artist's plaster bas - reliefs, terracotta «Teatrini» (Little Theaters), and signature brass sculptures.

This presentation includes plaster and mirror reliefs, large - scale mirror sculptures the artist refers to as «geometric families,» and works on paper, revealing the central role drawing has played in Monir's practice and focusing on a sculptural and graphic oeuvre developed over more than 40 years.

A plaster version was first shown in the third «Les Mains ébouies» exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, in October 1949 (no. 31 or 32), along with an unidentified sculpture (probably Table Sculpture, (Growth)-RRB- and two bas - reliefs.

After this he applied himself intensively to Informal painting, developing, by the middle of the 50s, his first dynamic structures, which he transcribed into painting and drawing as well as plaster and metal reliefs.

Many of his plaster works combine reactive textures and delicate reliefs to reflect the light surrounding them, aided by Pearson's use of Hydrocal, a high - strength gypsum cement, which produces gradations and subtle sheens.

Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high - relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.

In the tradition of Art Brut and Arte Povera, Ybáñez creates its reliefs and sculptures from cardboard, metal and plaster and various found materials.

Colour, sound, 47:45 min), projection, blackboard, wooden structure, paint, video (Pillow Talk, 2002, colour, sound), monitor with performance video, green wooden couch, sand and relief box, plaster, photographs, paintings), dimensions variable.