Sentences with phrase «wall sculpture depicting»

There's no mistaking the symbolism in Sappho's Mirror, a wall sculpture depicting an ornate, hand - held mirror.

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Wall paintings, painted windows, sculptures depicted particular stories and drew morals.

The «four last things», death, judgement, heaven or hell, were commonly depicted on the frescoed walls, or sculptured stone in the church.

The village church where Strickland is buried has images of turkeys depicted in stained - glass windows, a carved lectern and even stone sculptures on the walls.

Whether literally depicted, or figuratively alluded to, animals will dominate this exhibition of approximately 25 freestanding and wall - mounted paintings and sculptures.

We encounter lovers lifted from an Indian temple sculpture; monkeys and lion dogs borrowed from Chinese art; a grape - eating goat surrounded by lovely leaves (some made of felt), suggestive of folk art; and seemingly abstract planes of color that turn out to depict gallery walls, urban skyscrapers or a sendup of a suave brown Hollywood interior.

The exhibition brings together two large works on leaded panels of glass — two naked female figures seated in profile, impassive, emitting shooting stars — a series of delicate aquatint etchings, large bronze wall reliefs and a suspended sculpture, the shadows of which transform the gallery into a barely perceptible dabbled glade, along with a stunning jacquard tapestry depicting two eagles in descent against a chalky sky.

Behind a sofa sculpture that you can climb into the back are mixed media wall pieces next to paintings depicting what looks like a tabloid cover.

Tyrome Tripoli's «Rubber Fan, Exhaust» (2007) seemed to recede into its own shadowiness, while close by Kevin Curran's «The Woods» (2011), a wall - mounted sculpture, depicted an exhausted figure sprawled over a boulder or mound against an arch of bas - relief trees.

Both artists make reference to the everyday world and socio - political realities: Edwards by using chain, bolts, and tools in his compressed wall sculptures, and Saul through the use of cartoon imagery depicting public figures, food, and language.

Other works include the cast silver wall sculpture Net II (1999) by Lynda Benglis that resembles a mass of tangled intestines; a new pen and ink drawing by Don Colley; Kiki Smith's Ginzer, an etching made from a post-mortem tracing of the artist's beloved cat; Mel Chin's seemingly innocuous sculpture The Elementary Object (1993) which is in fact a «pipe» bomb encased in steel (with padlock and key); and Joyce Treiman's small - scale watercolor depicting a decomposing skull adorned in Roman headgear.

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.

Displayed on their living room walls are exactly the sorts of contemporary art trophies ambitious collectors are competing for: a huge Warhol silkscreen of a.22 - caliber pistol; a sculpture of a dollar sign in shimmering lights by the British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster; and a John Currin painting, «The Clairvoyant,» depicting a beautiful young woman with cloudy blue eyes.

The accompanying photographs on the walls show the photographic images generated by these forms, literally depicting the very spaces from which the sculptures originate.

On a center table were seven new bronze sculptures with miniature hand molded human figures and animals while paintings on the walls depicted the passion and intimacy of a couple locked in mid to post coital embrace.