Sentences with phrase «totemic figure»

Populated with totemic figures made of intricate, delicately inked patterns varying in density, active scenarios with mysterious goings on afoot, they have a unique place in the history of Chicago art.

Likewise, in her Marginalia paintings of the»90s, Applebroog depicts human and animal figures on freestanding panels, often in blood - red or brown paint, creating totemic figures representing contemporary stock types.

As a result, his interest moved from making recognizable images to presenting archetypes of the subconscious — highly stylized and at times totemic figures or markings.

Assembled negatively - like a print or photographic film - Otero's recent text - based invocations of twentieth - century philosophy (which include quotes from Sartre, among other totemic figures) also serve as visual essays in metaphysical instability for our own stunningly unreflective, culturally dumbfounded time.

Other scholars claim totemic figures march across the surface.

Ancient art and contemporary culture merge in her expansive imagination to create strange totemic figures with a visceral, expressive power.

One of the most arresting visual comparisons has American cartoonist R. Crumb's graphic novel of all fifty chapters of The Book of Genesis (2009) wrapped around a circular room containing a quasi-anthropological display of terracotta dragons, demons, and totemic figures by Shinichi Sawada, a self - taught Japanese sculptor, who suffers from severe autism.

Untitled, c. 1954 - 59, contains all the requisite elements of what had become by 1948 a set form: isolated sections delineated like irregular puzzle pieces, in this instance offset by an abstracted totemic figure.

This strategy was aided, in highly personal terms, by the outgoing Democratic Governor, Barbara Roberts (whose husband died during her term of office) and by the widow of former Republican Governor Tom McCall (a totemic figure for many Oregonians).

For many, Heseltine is a totemic figure, whose government - backed public - private partnership schemes jump - started the regeneration of many of our city centres in the 1980s.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

The totemic figure Trefoil is made out of pinecones and jacaranda logs, joined together by a tongue and groove construction that echoes the surface of the pinecones, breaking the branch down to its elemental particles.

Is the totemic figure seeking an offering?

Perfectly poised between our world and another, these totemic figures have arrived to help us confront ourselves and the junk of our past and present.»

Standing just over four feet tall, this totemic figure is comprised of a vertical arrangement of protruding, semi-biological forms.

Both are almost primordial in appearance, referring to the totemic figures from Easter Island that Chadwick was interested in, acquiring a timeless quality when cast in bronze.

In the flanking verticals stand a number of totemic figures, reminiscent, in their frontal poses and schematic anatomy, of tribal carvings.

MG I always liked the way your work connects to a long history of figurative sculpture, which to me is strongly interwoven to the basic ideas of art making: funerary sculptures, totemic figures, magical or cultural objects.

In addition to the fabric heads, it also included a series of cell - like vitrines housing curious scenes of ecstasy and torture; a group of totemic figures, reinterpreting in fabric her early sculptures from the 1940s and»50s, and a selection of graphic works.

With the growing prominence of American painting, Bacon's disjunctive figures may have seemed comparable to the totemic figures of Jackson Pollock.

The totemic figures in The King and Queen and the mystical space of Magic Garden, two etchings completed in 1950 and 1951, respectively, were combined by Nevelson in her major sculptural environments of the 1950s.