Sentences with phrase «plaster sculptures»

White plaster sculptures of the artist himself stood around the grounds like lawn ornaments.

Large plaster sculptures embedded within the gallery walls extend the scope of the exhibition to fill the entire space.

Paule Vézelay made a small number of white plaster sculptures in Paris in 1935.

Five Forms is one of a small group of white plaster sculptures made in 1935 and the use of simple, white, biomorphic forms suggests truth, beauty, harmony and clarity.

Pastry Case, I, 1961 - 62 Painted plaster sculptures on ceramic plates, metal platter and cups in glass and metal case 52.7 x 76.5 x 37.3 cm (20 3/4 x 30 1/8 x 14 3/4 ins) The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection © Claes Oldenburg, 1961 - 62 Photo MoMA Imaging Services

His life - size plaster sculptures of women, his plaster portrait busts and his more recent bronze and marble sculptures are on permanent view in many local museums, and commercial galleries frequently feature his work.

A painter and sculptor, George Segal (1924 — 2000) came to be recognized primarily for his life - size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from living models which he began making in 1961.

Gallery director Kristen Becker, who curated the show, includes enigmatic abstract white plaster sculptures by the UK - based Philip King.

His painted plaster sculptures depict everyday objects: Pastry Case 1 (1961 - 62) from the Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection is a prime example.

Two of the more obvious examples of resistance in Robson's exhibition are Virginia Maksymowicz's fulsome Panis Angelicus, a cast plaster sculpture of what appears to be an upper section of a Corinthian column overflowing with cast - plaster loaves of bread and broken plaster ornamentation, and Leslie Friedman's Tasty, an installation of wall - mounted screen prints and a large pile of shiny oversize soda cans.

Artist Daniel Arsham and hip - hop producer Pharrell Williams's new plaster sculptures at the Pharell Williams party

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is represented by plaster sculptures dating from 1958 to1961.

His choosing to display Canova's white plaster sculptures against white walls in his renovation of the Gipsoteca Canoviana in 1955 was controversial by every museum standard of its day.

They are abstract plaster sculptures that are also presented as artifacts of a contemporary archaeology that includes travel brochures, credit cards and the like.

That leaves their offense in the hands of Nathan Peterman — best known for his 5 - of - 14 performance in a midseason start against the Chargers (the five, in this case, stands for passes thrown to Los Angeles defenders)-- and AJ McCarron, so lightly regarded as a quarterback he got a two - year, $ 10 million deal with Buffalo one season after creaking plaster sculpture Mike Glennon signed a three - year, $ 48 million pact with the Bears.

Picasso worried that his fragile plaster sculptures could be easily destroyed and sought to have them cast in bronze.

Just as the Plexiglas works represent a material shift from the exterior surface to the interior structure, between the inside and the outside, the embedded plaster sculptures turn space itself into an analogue of Altmejd's investigation into notions of interiority and exteriority in his practice.

In high school I made some stone carvings and blobby plaster sculptures but hadn't painted that much or drawn at all.

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.

Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female body through raw, fragmented forms.

An important Alberto Giacometti plaster sculpture which is considered a pivotal link between British and European modernism has been prevented from leaving the UK.

Pieced Quilts is comprised of abstract photos that VanDerBeek creates by layering pictures of her own geometric plaster sculptures and their shadows.

Later, Schwitters would go on to make small plaster sculptures like 1945's Opening Blossom (pictured left), using paint to emphasise the form.

Instead, Zacarias» wall - hanging plaster sculptures, and Segovia's woven paper pieces reference the aesthetics of traditional textiles.

Geist's painted wood and plaster sculptures often utilize the totemic structure we associate with Brancusi, but they reject purity in favor of a more playful form of expression and lively sense of color.

The 16 - foot - tall plaster sculpture was strongly influenced by James Weldon and Rosamond Johnson's 1900 song «Lift Every Voice and Sing» and it was demolished soon after it was exhibited, like all the other works on display, as there were no funds to cast it in bronze or conditions to keep it.

The main gallery space introduces a selection of mid-century plaster sculptures in near - pristine condition — think Twombly, but less poetic, or Bourgeois, but less psychological.

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

While the content of the exhibition remains unclear, be prepared for some edibles integrated into plaster sculptures.

At the moment, the sculptor Joel Fisher has provided satisfaction with three white plaster sculptures whose shapes seem to have grown directly out of the wall.

These malleable pastel - coloured plaster sculptures contrast with Adriano Costa's dimly - lit and sober second room.

When Nicole Eisenman visited Münster last year to plan her contribution to the exhibition — she described it as «a big, elegant, flat, grassy lawn and a very kind of sharp, midcentury modern — style infinity pool carved into the middle of it, and then a bunch of sloppy - ass plaster sculptures in and around it, dripping and leaking» — she and König toured the city on bikes, which is the preferred method for viewing the show.

(In 1987, to name one, the hands of Katharina Fritsch's yellow plaster sculpture of the Lourdes Madonna were smashed.)

The series entitled Hanging & Weighting (2010) presents bulbous plaster sculptures that, although abstract, refer to organic forms or suggest a figure.

Wearing a fraying navy blazer and his signature sky - blue - tinted glasses, Schnabel, 66, stepped into the neoclassical colonnade for a side view of Rodin's «Thinker» in relation to his own 17 - foot - high plaster sculptures «Helen of Troy» and «Balzac,» which has a tough - to - position tree branch sprouting from its head.

State Silk Museum presents a solo exhibition of New York based Georgian artist Levan Mindiashvili entitled ``... inbetween» consisting of an installation created with pigmented plaster sculptures and jacquard vowed tapestries.

The early plaster sculptures are the hushed thrills of the show, but works from the»50s and»60s made of wood, which became his signature material, are also absorbing.

Vieria taught herself to work with plaster largely through viewings of the 2007 film Josephsohn Sculptor by Matthias Kälin and Laurin Merz, a documentary on the now - deceased sculptor Hans Josephsohn, swho was comfortable adding dried plaster pieces from other works to his wet plaster sculptures in process.

Flat plaster sculptures lean against the gallery walls shaped like huge pieces of torn paper.

• George Segal (1924 - 2000) A chicken - farmer and spare - time painter of expressionist nudes until his late 30s, Segal then found his metier - creating life - size unpainted plaster sculptures combined with real objects, and later, sound / lighting effects.

In 1961 Oldenburg organised The Store, in New York, a shop where plaster sculptures of everyday items were displayed.

The work exhibited by Sarah Lucas includes several plaster sculptures cast from the lower torso of the artist and her female friends

Lucio Fontana's ceramics, the early, faceted busts of Alberto Giacometti and Franz West's wonderfully laughable paint - smeared plaster sculptures are in there, too - though I might be imagining things.

She pairs these with actual plaster sculptures of the patterns and in doing so captures the whispers of women quilters, artisans and weavers long past.

Exploring the boundary between food and sculpture, Trayte has created for this show a dramatic installation in the double - height central gallery of The Tetley that includes several tall, thin sculptures resembling cucumbers and other more exotic Asian vegetables — one pink plaster sculpture and another yellow - veined mint green sculpture hark back to the blobby sculptures of the late Franz West and the eight - metre tall inflatable sculpture name - checks Anthea Hamilton.

The artist has for many years created plaster sculptures objects that seem to have escaped the paintings and been animated with great verisimilitude.