Sentences with phrase «portrait bust»

1931, he traveled to Paris, and later returned to Mallorca, where he completed a life - size portrait bust of Gertrude Lawrence in beaten lead (collection of The Museum of the City of New York) that was exhibited at the opening of Lawrence's play, Can a Leopard?

Two Roman marble sculptures by unidentified authors of unknown sitters - a male pair of legs and a female portrait bust from The British Museum are housed within a commissioned display structure by British artist Steven Claydon (b. 1969) and surrounded by Andy Warhol's «Silver Clouds» (1966).

A portrait bust of Louis XVI is toppled from its pedestal, whilst another, of Voltaire, is crowned with a circle of stars in front of the Pantheon.

The forthcoming exhibition Demarcate at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art will also be including her three dimensional, self - portrait bust.

In «A Swollen Light Behind the Eye» Megan Smythe's life - sized glazed sculptural forms take the tropes of the genre — the reclining nude, the portrait bust, entwined figures — and put them through the ringer.

The Frick Collection has one of the most important American collections of sculptures, which is presented in the exhibition with several other top pieces, including Francesco Laurana's moving portrait bust of Beatrice van Aragon, and the bronze Hercules of Antico, both from the fifteenth century.

For example, the ceramic sculpture Balderdash - dash (1978) by Robert Arneson depicts a self - portrait bust of the artist as a clown.

Another fantastic sculpture is the phenomenal portrait bust of Louis - Étienne Vincent - Marniola by Joseph Chinard from 1809.

Free docent guided tours at 1 pm and 2:30 pm Yale Center for British Art, New Haven * 1 pm: Tour of Frame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth - Century Britain

At the same time, these works can be placed in an ancient sculptural tradition because of the similarities with the classical portrait bust.

Barry X Ball Directly engaging the historic tradition of the portrait bust, Barry X Ball (b. 1955, Pasadena, California) utilizes digital technologies and unconventional types of stone in creating his body of work.

While other takes on advertising verge on the conventional, such as Timur Si Qun's monument to peace with the phases of the moon as its logo, Amanda Ross - Ho returns to a classical portrait bust, based on an early photography manual, with a vengeance.

Ranging in date from the late nineteenth century to the present, and representing some forty artists from Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 — 1937) to Njideka Akunyili Crosby (b. 1983), the works present diverse and at times unexpected methods of figuration, from the traditional (the portrait bust) to the experimental, and show subjects who come from the realms of both the celebrated and the anonymous.

There have been some major acquisitions in recent years (notably of sculpture, such as Thomas Banks's portrait bust of Anthony Addington), the Center still being able to acquire at the top end of the market (other than in the field of paintings).

A paint - smeared Adam and Eve titled «He» and «She»; a sensitive portrait bust of Ms. Saul's husband, the painter Peter Saul, with tender blue eyes and a stand of asparagus - like brushes jammed into his crown; and several other ceramic people all seem intended to highlight every squalid embarrassment of the flesh.

A portrait bust of Ms. Saul's husband (2007), the painter Peter Saul, has asparaguslike brushes jammed into his crown.

Next door was the Hendricks, along with Ann Hamilton photos, portrait busts by Janine Antoni, skin - tone monochromes by Byron Kim, not - mugshots by Glenn Ligon, and fright wig Warhols, which encircled the National Gallery's first Felix Gonzalez - Torres, a sublime silver piece from 1991 called «Untitled» (Ross in L.A.).

It places sculpture in almost every room, from portrait busts to duck decoys.

Angela Conner is one of Britain's most prolific sculptors who has created many of Europe's vast mobile sculptures as well as life - like statues and portrait busts.

The majority of her sculptures are small - scale portraits of family and friends and portrait busts of African American leaders

These could be recreations of Whitney Biennials of yesteryear, highlighting post-war and contemporary pieces by artists such as Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzales - Torres, Louise Bourgeois, Urs Fischer and Janine Antoni, represented by her iconic self - portrait busts in soap and chocolate, Lick and Lather (1993 - 1994).

Richmond Barthé, the artist, was known for sculpting African, Caribbean, and African American subjects, both free - standing full figures and portrait busts.

Although Barthé initially studied painting, favorable criticism for his early portrait busts shown at a Chicago Women's City Club exhibition encouraged the young artist to devote himself entirely to sculpture.

Rodin was intensely relaxed about making money, whether from portrait busts or tabletop erotica, and he sensibly left his museum the artistic property rights to his works, enabling it to finance itself by casting bronzes from his original plasters.

Similarly, Monk's imposing self - portrait busts inspired by idealised Greco - Roman statuary, has each had its nose smited by a famous Italian artist of the Arte Povera generation, such as Jannis Kounellis, Gilberto Zorio or Emilio Prini, as well as by Monk himself.

In doing so, the stories I am telling have become more personal and often are informed by the inner landscape of self: notions of shelter that explore what we protect and keep private vs. that which we choose to reveal, escape through dreams, and contemporary takes on ancient Greek and Roman portrait busts and the architectural load bearing caryatid and atlas.

At the launch, a performance by Tania Bruguera saw an artist sculpt portrait busts of sitters in Leninist style, against a backdrop of 1920s propaganda images.

A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired with unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap by contemporary artist Janine Antoni in an effort to explore classical concepts of beauty.

The temples are built in grand Hellenistic style — but the dress, the women's veils and the frontality of the portrait busts of the Palmyrenes and their families that lined their huge frescoed tombs reveal a striking mixture of classical and eastern influences.

The linear arrangement at the Parrish was chosen as a nod to the portrait busts on pedestals that line the other side of the museum running parallel to jacks, Kendrick said.

For example, Senegalese sculptor Moustaphe Dimé, for whom the French term recuperátion would be a more familiar word for describing what he does, has made sculptures out of pieces of driftwood and other cast - off or discarded materials; the Republic of Benin's Romuald Hazoumè creates portrait busts from jerry cans.

A few original artworks were exhibited here (e.g., one of John Ahearn's realistic portrait busts), but the installation was oriented toward a more discursive space made of textual and visual material on the ongoing transformation and renewal projects for the neighborhood.

Her artistic practice included a wide range of media, as well as pottery, and she created notable portrait busts of several Louisiana state governors.

Mr. Wiley has also ventured into sculpture, and his coming show at the Brooklyn Museum will include six stained - glass windows as well as a few bronze heads that can put you in mind of the portrait busts of Jean - Antoine Houdon, who flourished during the French Enlightenment.

The exhibition will also debut the work of three new artists: Michael Ferris's three - dimensional portrait busts in wood marquetry; Amer Kobaslija's paintings of his studio; and Gabriela Trzebinski's oils depicting aspects of life in East Africa.

The exhibition also includes a selection from his ongoing World Stage project, which he initiated in 2006 by establishing a satellite studio in Beijing; the Down series (2008); several bronze portrait busts, including the Brooklyn Museum's Houdon Paul - Louis (2011); and new stained glass «paintings.»

He produced portrait busts of such figures as John La Rose and C.L.R. James.

Janine Antoni crossed durational performance and portraiture in Lick and Lather (1993), taking 14 neoclassical portrait busts of herself, each made of chocolate or soap, and then eating and washing them.

His first works in 1982 were a series of Pollock portrait busts on paper and in ceramic.

They found work by Richard Deacon jostling on shelves with Mary Martin and Gertrude Hermes, Jean Arp with Neville Boden, and 19th - century portrait busts, all of which shed an intriguing light on the history of sculpture in Britain, and therefore on their own artistic past.

A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired with a landmark work of contemporary art, Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather, which features unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap.

It also provides a vivid sense of how sculptures were made, from small virtuosic clay studies to larger finished works in bronze, marble and sometimes tinted plaster, the medium used most often in the exhibition's many, astounding portrait busts.

Also included is a generous selection from Wiley's ongoing World Stage project; several of his enormous Down paintings; striking male portrait busts in bronze; and examples from the artist's new series of stained glass windows.

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

Giacometti's and Mayo's relationship and their ensuing portrait busts reflect the creative energy generated by their collaborative artistic activity and also shed light on Alberto Giacometti's early life.

Since 1998, however, the New York — based artist has taken a different tack, fashioning her own body parts in stainless steel and bronze and mating the results with a variety of flora and fauna, from muskrats to monkeys; for Pyracantha, 2005 — 2006, for example, she cast an exotic evergreen bush in stainless steel, replacing its pomes with minuscule self - portrait busts.

Called «Lick and Lather» it featured 14 classical portrait busts of the artist — the kind of sculptures usually carved out of Grecian marble — cast in chocolate and soap.

[Kruger's work] supplies another chunk in the history of postwar American art... Her life - size figures, portrait busts and political asides are in step with other artists of her generation, including Bill King and Marisol.

Simon Wilson investigates the six degrees of separation between Phyllida Barlow RA and Roubiliac's portrait busts.

Not exact matches

Among them was Benjamin Franklin, who commissioned a portrait of himself in which a bust of the great man appears to glower at him.