Sentences with phrase «polished bronze»

"Polished bronze" refers to a shiny and smooth metal surface made of bronze. Full definition
Nonetheless, with his preferred material of polished bronze, he is virtually the mirror opposite of that art - from - nothing crowd.
The pumpkin, another motif that she has returned to throughout her career, is also present in the form of new mirror polished bronze sculptures.
The show continues with high gloss sculptures and videos and concludes with hand - woven carpets with high polished bronze applications.
This Brancusi is a unique sculpture, cast in polished bronze in Paris in 1932.
Out of the blue 2014 cast and polished bronze from wooden burl, extruded aluminum, cast acqua resin, wood, wood putty, papier mâché, foam, Japanese paper, aluminum screening, acrylic paint, chalk 25 3/4 x 40 1/2 x 12 inches
A significant polished bronze work typical of Lucio Fontana's oeuvre, Concetto Spaziale «Natura, 1967, is offered at The Armory Show by Vivian Horan Fine Art.
The seasoning by time of more fragile materials has left the paint in most of the combines looking by comparison bright and durable as polished bronze.
Pair of elegant oxidized and polished bronze table lamps with faceted arms and fluted mounts.
Dim lighting is enhanced by single candles on each table, all of which are also adorned with fresh orchids, white table cloths, polished bronze cutlery (true to the Thai way it's spoon and fork only), and bronze dishes with signature Blue Elephant place mats.
Although the phrase «polishing a bronze trophy» springs to mind.
First, an amorphic polished bronze untitled work by Sarbari Roy Choudhury (1933 - 2012) that recalls Henry Moore «s curvilinear works, but on a much more manageable scale.
Her sculptures and paintings examine similar concerns, as in polished bronze replicas of Marcel Duchamp's urinal or watercolors of famous paintings copied precisely from books, preserving distorted colors or reproductions in black and white.
Gamelatron Cemerlang is made from 27 mirror polished bronze Javanese gongs on five free standing steel towers, Kuffner transforms The Chimney into a beautiful respite for the public.
A new mirror - polished bronze pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama was shown alongside examples of the artist's Infinity Nets, and a new self - portrait that linked the abstract and figurative elements of the presentation.
Also to be installed is a large - scale polished bronze sculpture, Dual Möbius Quad Corpus, 2010, which depicts contorted crucifixes in a Möbius band — a single closed continuous curve with a twist.
The Day Sale features the masters of the modern, with over 50 sculptures such as a stunning carved green marble work by Barbara Hepworth, a selection of undulating polished bronze forms by Jean (Hans) Arp, two whimsical sculptural figures by Joan Miró and an early, Cubist bronze by Alberto Giacometti.
This expressive melding of forms and materials is evident in the Museum's own Malcolm X # 3 (1969), which matches the golden hue of polished bronze with cascades of glossy silk thread — a combination that conveys a subtle tension and unity among opposites.
Out of the blue 2014 cast and polished bronze from wooden burl, extruded aluminum, cast acqua resin, wood, wood putty, papier - mâché, foam, Japanese paper, aluminum screening, acrylic paint, chalk 25 3/4 x 40 1/2 x 12 inches
Artist: Antoine Poncet, Swiss (1928 --RRB- Medium: Polished Bronze Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed with foundry stamp Edition: 6/6 Size: 7.5 x 3 x 3 in.
Barbara Chase - Riboud (b. 1939) Mao's Organ, 2007 polished bronze and silk with steel base 64 1/2» x 71» x 43 1/2» Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Cecilia Edefalk: Silver Roots, 2010; polished bronze; 21 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Installation view of BARBARA CHASE - RIBOUD, «Matisse's Back in Twins,» 1967/1994 (polished bronze and silk on painted steel base).
One of his more recent auction buys is Sherrie Levine's polished bronze, Fountain (Buddha), cast in 1996 from a different urinal to Duchamp's, for which he paid a double estimate $ 444,000 dollars in November 2008, just as the market was plunging into recession.
preconceived notions about women's art and / or textile as a medium, offering unexpected combinations like the polished bronze that rests on a base of raw silk in Barbara Chase - Riboud's Untitled: Pushkin (1985); turning the softness and lightness of fabric into weighty, spiky, almost menacing beings in Annette Messager's Replicant works; or appealing to senses other than sight by offering forms that have been stuffed, woven, knotted, painted, pierced, and sewn.
BARBARA CHASE - RIBOUD, «Mao's Organ,» 2007 (polished bronze and silk with steel base).
A polished bronze warrior figure with quilts wrapped around its base serves as a kind of shrine in the rear gallery, while the video installation «Infinite Tabernacle» captures a wax African - style figurine being blown apart (more precisely, by bullets).
This rousing show of monumental phalluses in polished bronze and crusty concrete connects the viscerally low - minded and the intellectually high with terrific economy and shameless panache.
Kendell Geers, Monument to the F - Word, 2010, polished bronze, 118.5 x 25 x 25 cm.
, 2010, polished bronze, 118.5 x 25 x 25 cm.
An edition of four polished bronzes was cast in the following year at the Susse Fréres foundry in Paris (BH 121.3, artist's estate, repr.
Her sculptures are either cast in polished bronze or in black or white frosted glass.
His polished bronze Sleeping Muse (1910), today in the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Centre Georges Pompidou, is startling because it is a head without a body, lying on its side.
Hitting something of a purple patch, pumpkins are also captured in mirror - polished bronzes, and in trademark yellow and black acrylic on canvas (Pumpkin Xaq).
Constantin Brancusi, Le Poisson, 1926, polished bronze 5 3/8 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches 13 1/2 x 42 x 3 cm, Disk Diameter: 45 cm, Disk Thickness: 1 cm, Edition 3 of 8 (from an edition of 8)
Constantin Brancusi Le Nouveau - Né, 1920 stamped «Brancusi 4/8 Susse Fondeur Paris» polished bronze.
Kasmin sold a newly commissioned work by Indonesia's best - selling contemporary artist, I Nyoman Masriadi, for $ 350,000 at the VIP opening and is selling a polished bronze modernist bust by Constantin Brancusi and photographs by David LaChapelle.
Pamela Anderson is depicted in polished bronze, doubled at the shoulder with an identical alter ego, as if part of a conjoined twin, her face staring at the ceiling in a state of ecstasy.
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