Sentences with phrase «totemic figures»

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Through his art he personified the historical imagery, mythical creatures and totemic figures of the past, depicting them with a true modernity of form.

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.

The mythic American landscape — long held to subtend the movement's biomorphic shapes and totemic figures floating or swirling in dense tonalities of iconic color fields — assumed an Alexandrian cast in the West.

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.»

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.

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.

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).

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?

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

Executed when the artist was living away from her native France in New York, the totemic figure deals with themes of life, love, loss and the maternal nature of femininity.

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.

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She mimes exotic figures with oversized, totemic heads.

Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.

A freestanding collage, Firecrotch depicts a larger - than - life, totemic female figure.

«The Figure of Question is in the Room» and «The Figure of the Question of Death», two totemic sculptures in gilded marble, embody Byars's philosophical ideal.

«The look of my figures is abstract, and to the spectator they may not appear to be figures at all,» Bourgeois said of her «Personages» series of stacked, totemic structures created between 1946 and 1955.

He pictured titanic figures with totemic power.

Its traces and impulses continue to extend well into the 21st Century, and many of its totemic artist figures remain some of the most revered and mythologized in contemporary art.

Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used to impose forms of power, authority and control.

Her driftwood assemblage sculptures, mostly small sized totemic abstract figures sometimes wall mounted, are probably better known than her paintings.

Jamie Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used within the work to impose forms of power and control.

In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.

The art work, along with two other golden totemic sculptures on view (The Figure of the Question of Death and The Figure of the Interrogative Philosophy), illuminate Byars» interest in the transient experience of beauty and evoke simplified versions of the human form and the physical manifestation of «question.»

It was Viola's totemic clay figures that inspired the scale of my work.

AR Penck (Ralf Winkler) is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor who received worldwide recognition for his paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.