Sentences with phrase «sculptured stelae»

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The sphinx is part of a renowned international collection that also includes Egyptian mummies, Chinese Buddhist and ancient Greek sculptures, monumental steles from the ancient Maya and evocative African masks.

Copan in Honduras is not as grand or imposing as Caracol, but it's beautiful decorated buildings and sculptures, especially the enormous carved stelae make it a must see Mayan site.

The American Tour of Roads of Arabia contains around 200 objects, but there is a vast difference between exhibitions of 200 photographs or small paintings and a show like «Roads» with 200 objects, many of which are large stone sculptures and stele.

Known collectively as the Malcolm X Steles, the first thirteen sculptures were exhibited in 2014 to acclaim at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Berkeley Art Museum (University of California Berkeley).

Whether investigating the phenomenon of what she dubs «Turbo Sculpture» — monumental statues of American celebrities and movie characters like Bruce Lee, Johnny Depp, and Rocky Balboa, that have been erected across the former Yugoslavia — or constructing modest steles out of printer paper emblazoned with digital distortions of images from pre - and postwar life, or making semi-autobiographical forays into a rave scene that united the youth of the balkanized Yugoslavian territory, Domanović addresses the ways in which we attempt to heal the wounds of history through conviviality and denial.

This applies more to his «torqued» sculptures than the stelae, where each step brings with it a new sensation of self, who you are, and where you are in relation to your surroundings, and the volume of space around you.

«Barbara Chase - Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles» documents the artist's most acclaimed series of sculptures.

Chase - Riboud's sculptures dedicated to Malcolm X have been likened to contemporary interpretations of the steles erected in various parts of the ancient world to commemorate important people and events.

Kelly's Stele II was one of the 17 major works to be included in the Gallery's Sculpture Garden when it first opened a month after this Elson Lecture program.

A sculpture by Barbara Chase - Riboud, whose bronze and fabric steles are on view at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York this fall, is divided horizontally, with a fabric skirt seeming to bear the enormous weight of a bronze torso.

Collapsing the deep past (the ancient stele) and the future (the Kubrickian monolith) into the personal and perceptual present, Ms. Truitt's apparently reductive sculptures exude a heady, soulful vibe.

No visitor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new Rooftop Sculpture Garden will overlook Ellsworth Kelly's «Stele I» (1973), a work in weathering steel that stands nearly 20 feet tall.

Resembling antique stelae, decorative reliefs or even geological sediments, these works can also be seen as minimalist sculptures akin to John McCracken's monolithic slabs.

The exceptionally diverse complete works include sculptures made of different materials: light - stelae, light - rotors, light - reliefs and light - cubes.

Her votive stelae are transformed depictions of the Greek «Moschophoros» (Calf - Bearer) of the 6th century BC, found on the Acropolis of Athens in the so - called Perserschutt (the rubble of the architecture and sculptures destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC).

The night's second - highest price was fetched by Alberto Giacometti's Stele III, a bronze sculpture with the bust of his brother Diego atop a column.

The block - like forms, looking as if carved in stone, correspond with the contemporaneous vertical, statuesque stelae of the Personnages group of sculptures, and can be seen as representations of people who were close to her but no longer by her side after she left her French homeland for America.