Sentences with word «statuary»

Our island is a huge slab of statuary marble.

While it could easily pass for another piece of marble statuary in the library's reading room, closer inspection reveals that perhaps the entire library may be at risk of similar extinction.

An exhibition of painting and sculpture spans the range of the high - low, including forms of classical statuary studded with pieces of banal kitsch, and canvases that play with color field, still life and cartoons.

A memorial service took place in Statuary Hall on Wednesday, during which Slaughter was honored by her colleagues, many of whom were not able to make the trip to Rochester for services last month.

At art school in Madrid, he had become familiar with the touchstones of Greek statuary from plaster casts; now he was looking at contemporary masters like Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and even André Derain.

Comprising eleven paintings and three theatrical, flat - like sculptures, his recent exhibition «Cycladic Figures» proposed alternate realities in which the stuff of the past — for example, rotary phones, Polaroid cameras, and Greek statuary from 2500 BCE — collided with fantastic technologies, both real and imagined.

It seems fitting to begin with the fine Italian surround in rare Portoro marble with Statuary white carvings.

Hera is an extension of Matelli's Garden Sculptures series, initiated in 2015, in which he defaces garden statuary of classical or religious icons and subverts material expectation.

An exhibition at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery examines the history of yoga through photography, film, miniature painting, and ancient statuary Read More

I like Modern Masters ® Statuary Bronze metallic paint color.

Ann McCoy met with Krzysztof Wodiczko at De Robertis Pasticceria & Caffe in the East Village — which has functioned since the»80s as his studio and office — to discuss his video projections on statuary and some of the psychological aspects of the work.

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Newby Hall's Statue Gallery is home to one of the finest private collections of Roman statuary in Britain, consisting mainly of pieces from the first and second centuries.

For a potting shed with edge, add a designer bench, swap your classic statuary for 2 - D art and mix up your simple terracotta pots with modern geometric pieces.

Recommended reading A statue in Bloomsbury Square of the 18th - century British statesman Charles James Fox prompts Tom Crewe to think about the UK's public statuary in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

However, th main shrine or centerpiece has, of course, the cross as central, It is hoped that before too long this cross will give way to a statue of Christ seated in meditation, a statue which will include clear influence from Buddhist statuary in its simplicity and feeling.

THE IRRESISTIBLE PREMISE of «Artists Guarding Artists,» a summer group exhibition at Family Business, is that the folk who watch sternly from a corner as one edges closer to classical statuary at the Met — or contemporary installations at the Whitney — are most likely artists themselves, supplementing meager incomes by loitering on the cultural periphery.

Secondly, he presents the symbolic statuary figures as exemplifying the dual and simultaneous presence of permanence and fluency in a same moment of reality.

Last week: The National Statuary Hall located in the U.S. Capitol has two statues representing each state.

It was quite a scene: Standing in a dark basement filled with shattered religious statuary, I felt like I was on the set of a horror film.

Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collection

Archaeological evidence from statuary found at sites in Iran suggests that.

The tableau includes an antique stone statuary of a rabbit family from one of her favorite resources for French antiques in Charleston.

The title piece, «Selah,» from 2017, like all the other works, is a large human figure reminiscent of sub-Saharan African statuary though it is sculpted from antique quilts.

It reminds me of when my daughter purchased a bird statuary for me and broke it before she gave it to me.

Site of Adolph Sutro's former estate, this hidden park — reachable from the parking lot opposite of Louis» restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue — still features some of Sutro's fanciful concrete statuary.

The Barfields» eat - in kitchen features statuary marble countertops from Bottega Stone, a porcelain farmhouse sink and simple Roman shades that filter in soft light.

What would you do with a collection of antique surgical instruments or the equipment of a plaster statuary company?

The Romans secularized aesthetic experience, converting Greek statuary into a commodity, a status symbol.

Statuary lines the walls.

Learn More Egypt Egypt is a rich repository of legendary pyramids, monumental statuary and temple unearthed from desert sands.

Organized around nearly 30 major projects and installations, the volume ranges from Vo's early performative works such as Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2003), in which he married and divorced acquaintances in order to add their surnames to his own, to his recent sculptural hybrids of classical and Christian statuary.

One examines the legacy of Greek philosophy on Jeff Koons, Adrian Piper, and Huang Yong Ping; the other gathers some of the finest funerary statuary from the ancient city ISIS has ransacked.

The McKelveys were sitting like statuary in one corner of the room, looking very white in the ring of brown faces.

The face - like objects are cast from refuse (usually cardboard boxes and toilet paper tubes festooned with rips and flaps) yet become heroic statuary once translated into bronze and paint.

His personal collection spans vastly different eras and cultures: alongside examples of Khmer statuary there are abstract modernist paintings, dream - like compositions from the Surrealists, striking African idols and artefacts from antiquity.

The quest of Renaissance masters to perfect the idealised proportions and anatomy of antique statuary produced the first Italian academies that would diffuse the practice across France, Holland and Britain.

Since the asking price also includes everything inside the house, give your eyes a moment to take in all the furnishings and statuary included in the white - on - white living room, featuring a Kohler Campbell baby grand piano, fireplace, mirrored wall and, yes, plenty of statues.

Standing tall and center amongst these large paintings will be a monumental new sculpture depicting a massive skull enveloped in flames, whose antecedents can be found in Buddhist statuary located in temples throughout Japan.

«From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, artists working in the Western classical tradition favored idealized statuary.

After looking at the «fabulous» samples we decided on Beyond Licorice base paint, Metallic Statuary Bronze and your Black Glaze.

It's acceptable to dress up in women's clothes and have pornographic statuary around your house, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May are telling us; it's quite another thing to oppose abortion and think women should stay at home with their children.»

The Shakespeare Theatre's staging is lovely, all liturgical shadow and Gothic statuary watching anxiously from above.

Still, we have two important examples, both by French sculptors, of statuary belonging to the same tradition.

I remembered the blaring martial music, red flags, banners emblazoned with slogans, and heroic proletarian statuary that greeted me as I entered East Berlin.

... drooling over oversized mirrors and taupe color schemes and quirky statuary.

On the cindery plains, like the ruins of grotesque statuary done by some surrealistic madman, odd configurations of basalt cast shadows both beckoning and threatening.