Sentences with phrase «recognizable human form»

The selection of works on paper by local and international artists is filled with references to high and low art, the recognizable human form, and the psychological realm.

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There were a few billion years that went by before humanity even appeared in any form recognizable as a human being.

They're in their complete, non-denatured form, which is the form most beneficial (and recognizable) to the human body.

The works on view at the exhibition evokes conversations between abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.

Her works often refer to recognizable architectural components — towers, cathedral spires, labyrinths, and classical columns — while also incorporating elements of nature and the human form.

The aluminum sculpture Big Gulp Lying, 2010, is a writhing mass recognizable as a human form only by its feet, which protrude from the sleeves of the pullover in which it is hopelessly tangled.

His human forms and fragmented body parts tow the line that separates representation from abstraction and the recognizable from the surreal.

Yet, universally recognizable shapes emerge from the canvas, such as umbrellas, trees, swans, architectural constructions, and a few human forms.

At times these carvings are clearly recognizable as human figures, in others the form is cut into with holes, and parts of the figure are even removed completely, others again appear as groups of natural - looking stones or boulders which hardly seem touched by the sculptor's chisel.

The most recognizable of the paintings depict the nude human form, an ongoing motif in the artist's greater body of work.

An outspoken human rights activist, Ai Weiwei infuses his sculptures, photographs, and public artworks with political conviction and personal poetry, often making use of recognizable and historic Chinese art forms in critical examinations of a host of contemporary Chinese political and social issues.

His movie creates performance platforms for a cast of hyper intense characters that are simultaneously strange and recognizable, sometimes appearing as future hybrid - human forms, returned to a distorted and unreal present moment.

Louise Kruger relies on the human (and sometimes animal) form as the departure point for her extremely personal, instantly recognizable, representational work.