Sentences with phrase «sculptures as a symbol»

He began using light in his sculptures as a symbol of hope and truth.

University of Iowa professor, Garrett Stewart, sees these book sculptures as symbols of «renewable intellectual energy.»

Not exact matches

The symbol of the empty raincoat — a sculpture that Handy saw in Minneapolis — recurs repeatedly in the book as a metaphor for people in jobs that could be filled by anyone.

As you know, The Easter Egg is a symbol of new life and hope at this time of year, however — Jessica has decided to flip this fragile icon on its head by creating Bad Eggs, a collection of knitted egg sculptures that depicts leaders, both past and present, who have made «empty promises and given false hope to their nation's people».

The featured works in the exhibition — ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film and installation — examine the passage of time by alluding to nostalgia or sentiments about aging, often depicting specific places in states of decay; these works can act as documentation, memorial or symbol.

Archaelogists» grainy photographs of Palaeolithic stone carvings and low resolutions jpegs of Flemish Old Master paintings serve as motifs, and seem to refer back to a past in which painting and sculpture functioned as both parable and symbol.

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

Carl Andre's writing and its materiality — its stress on the visual and tactile qualities of language — takes its place beside his sculpture and its materiality, its revelation of «matter as matter rather than matter as symbol.»

Emin describes the sculpture, often mistaken as a real bird, as a symbol of «hope, faith and spirituality» that acts as a point of contemplation.

Longo's most recent confrontation with the contentious nature of the American flag as symbol of both nationalism and protest is a 17 - foot high black wax surfaced sculpture that appears to collapse into or fall through the gallery's floor.

Through her photographs and sculpture new universes are built, simultaneously urban - rural and high - low with their own language of symbols created from such seemingly disparate sites as HUD houses, rez cars, three legged dogs, powwow culture, proliferative indigenous commoditization, and Red Star's personal collection of memories growing up as a half - breed on the Crow Indian reservation.

The kinetic sculpture will slowly rotate, serving as a symbol of female empowerment.

In the mid -»70s, she made geometric wood sculptures layered with various shapes and symbols, some as high as 10 feet.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.

Inspired as much by poetry and philosophy as by the affecting material qualities of sculpture, Salcedo subtly and painstakingly transforms everyday household objects and garments - symbols of a vanished existence and of the human tragedies that are its cause.

Just as Whiteread's sculptures of beds inevitably prompt thoughts of birth, sex, and death, so the cast of the sink becomes a font, a testament to water as a symbol of life, as an element in human ritual.

Erizku's sculpture is consist of basketball hoops with 24 - karat gold - plated nets instead of Judd's minimalist objects, as a symbol of urban young people and his growing up on the courts of Bronx.

Each of those three will show different examples of Mr. Ai's recent sculpture, which include symbols of uprootedness and displacement, such as cast - iron tree trunks.

Holl also designed a new entry plaza which features a square water mirror — which reflects the old building's northern and the new expansion's western facades — as well a monumental sculpture from the series Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen (three others are installed in the museum's park) which has become a sort of unofficial symbol of the Nelson - Atkins.

A symbol of all that is new and modern in sculpture, Anthony Caro is present in all the most important international events: it is worth recalling his first personal show at André Emmerich in New York in 1964, his participation, as the only sculptor, at the British pavilion of the 1966 edition of the Venice Biennale, the retrospective at the MoMA in New York in 1975, the 1984 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and, finally, his work with Normal Foster for the Millennium Bridge.

His sculptures which investigate the value of ordinary objects as symbols and imagery of Southern Africa's recent tumultuous times, encourage the viewer to question how an individual piece relates to the whole.

According to Director / CEO and Chief Curator, Terry Graff: «The generous gift of this major public sculpture from Mr. Karpman at this pivotal time in the history of the Gallery is a statement - making expression of our exhilarating trajectory — a most fitting symbol of our expansion and revitalization as an important destination for national and international contemporary art.

Their monumental creations with or on houses have effectively changed the way in which we think about the home as a symbol and stretched our concepts of public art and sculpture.

Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger designed the 50m - high steel sculpture, which has been chosen as the new symbol of the northwest...

Einarsson's sculpture, whenever enacted, acts as a symbol of resistance, blocking entry, frustrating movement.

As is common in her work, White explores the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation, here employing nostalgic symbols in a way that lures the viewer into a pictorial haze to examine an unfolding story.

Exuberant in colour and paired with sculptures that bear titles such as My Adolescence in Bloom, they mark a striking progression in the use of Kusama's signature symbol of the polka dot.

Liao Yibai describes some of the symbols used in his sculptures as being, taken from the Chinese «Fake Makers», who just take an image from a magazine, copy the shape and logo, and fabricate it subsequently integrating a new fake into the Chinese market.

HK: The NY based artist Chloe Wise uses food and fashion as symbols in her paintings and sculpture works also as still - life where these works become a a cypher for the artist to map protean relations between self - care, consumption, gender negotiations, and alternative routes to pleasures.

Public sculpture, as a powerful symbol of the established regime, was caught up in the midst of this process.

His work often shows objects or symbols the viewer is already familiar with, but detaches these symbols and objects from their original meanings in order to instigate a narrative within the viewer's mind as to what the interpretation of a particular print, painting or sculpture should really be.

In its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literal.

In its deliberate physicality and human scale, the sculpture, titled Great Grandparent (all works 2010), seemed a compulsory symbol through which to understand this show in its entirety — that is, as suspended between presence and

Sculpture no longer needed to represent, but it was free to just BE and stand as a symbol of an original kind of art.

Ortman's paintings verge on becoming sculpture, delimiting representation in terms of abstract signs that are more within the realm of what Samuel Beckett once called «autosymbolism,» — or privately invented symbols that become repetitive signs — as frequently found in the writing of Marcel Proust.

In 2010, as part of a 3 - year project based around gender imbalance in India, drawing parallels between the cow — sacred animal and symbol of fertility — and her observance of the undervalued condition of India's women, Nourry created life - like figurative sculptures, the Holy Daughters, that were part sacred cow, part girl, in resin, placing them in the streets of New Delhi before stepping back to film the reactions of local men.

Sheppard's series of square Malebox sculptures uses the glory hole as an inverted Yoni, a Hindu symbol of the female sexual organ and origin of life.

Ojos de Dios (God's Eye) Sculpture Court, Level 2A Create a traditional Ojos de Dios or God's Eye which is an important spiritual symbol for the Wixáritari, an indigenous native population of Mexico, as well as Spanish Catholic colonists.

In contrast, a new commission by Sidsel Meineche Hansen entitled HIS HEAD (2013 --RRB- comprises a clay sculpture and symposium that together examine the male human head, separate from the body, as a symbol of patriarchy and power.

The artists created paintings, drawings and sculptures that intentionally belonged to figurative art and employed neglected imagery such as the mythical symbols, which marked the movement's highlight years.

Tracy Emin proposes to place a sculpture of a small group of meerkats on the empty plinth as a symbol of unity and safety.