Sentences with phrase «white plaster»

A few meters away, a small, dirty cube of white plaster deliberately rests on the threshold between two spaces.

Not because it was trendy to have white plaster walls or subway tile, it's just always been a classic look for those homes.

White plaster sculptures of the artist himself stood around the grounds like lawn ornaments.

It's like subway tile or white plaster walls, the look never gets dated.

Beecroft is famous for performances with large casts of nude women, and she stuck to her theme: In the main gallery, a long, hangar - like room, a mixture of black and white women, nude but heavily powdered, lay on the floor on their backs, interspersed with white plaster casts of women.

A cardboard box, a bath, a sink — cast in white plaster or concrete, all lose their individuality to become universal forms, and perhaps even quasi-abstract.

At first glance, the amalgamation of objects, which range from white plaster casts of household items and neon tubes to raw fruits that have been left to naturally decompose, seem completely unrelated to one another.

He began placing white plaster casts of people in environments containing furniture, walls, doors, windows, and other situational props.

In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

Koons seems to have taken a palmful of blue gazing balls and blown them out into the gallery, landing on classical statues and Midwestern lawn ornaments, which have coalesced in pure white plaster.

The subtle pink colour is created with crushed children's chalk, which, when combined with crisp white plaster and billowing polythene sheets, creates a sense of both movement and tranquillity.

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Housed within white plaster and stone villas, each of the 40 rooms and suites is an individually decorated work of art.

The reconstruction included re-coating of the walls with white plaster leaving them stark and undecorated while the original stonework shows through in only a few places.

There we see a dozen white plaster casts of ancient Greco - Roman statues, an inflated snowman, and sundry vernacular objects, the best of which is a row of mailboxes.

A painter and sculptor, George Segal (1924 — 2000) came to be recognized primarily for his life - size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from living models which he began making in 1961.

And the towering white plaster Untitled (Stairs), from 2001, zooms up and down to nowhere, with overtones of Piranesi and Escher, like the flights of steps in trapped dreams.

Made of brick masonry and originally covered in gleaming white plaster, the purpose of this so - called «mirror wall» may have been to reflect the adjacent frescoes of sacred feminine figures.

The dead white plaster of Paris was a perfect inducer of eye - strain, and was called «The Antique.»

A haggard host welcoming us to the venue, its crude white plaster legs bleed rust from their internal armature.

As you turn the corner of David Chipperfield's elegant series of dove grey concrete cuboids, The Hepworth Wakefield, to climb the stairs to the gallery's entrance, an enormous white plaster nose stands ahead of you.

Do Warhol's car crashes and George Segal's humanity in white plaster worry reality to death?

Attributes such as a crown, white plaster trophy, and single flower raised like a staff suggest that this is a person of good fortune reflecting on life.

The twenty - seven works offer a fine midcareer retrospective, starting with a drooping white plaster skull on the main building's front wall.

The building's hand - charred timber exterior and white plaster interior celebrate traditional Japanese craft.

The next gallery is dominated by astonishing taut, white plaster heads of women on a gargantuan scale.

Last summer, Rachofsky and Faulconer purchased the largest sculpture from Koons's recent Gazing Ball series of white plaster figures with blue glass globes that, following its loan to the Koons retrospective opening this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, will take up residence in the Warehouse.

It's on this level that the White Cube effect grows strongest: the combination of polished concrete floors and white plaster partition walls — holding paintings by Christopher Wool, Wade Guyton and Takashi Murakami, among other artists — can easily lull you into an Art Basel trance.

Gallery director Kristen Becker, who curated the show, includes enigmatic abstract white plaster sculptures by the UK - based Philip King.

She works with a repertoire of sculptural techniques — structurally reinforced white plaster «drips,» exposed armatures of tarnished rebar, fancifully modeled representational objects, such as buildings and figures — that give the appearance of timeworn decomposition.

Isolated and cast in solid white plaster, the sculpture exudes heaviness through its opaque, tomb - like form.

This performance extended outside the confines of the structure into the wider gallery space, containing wall - based neon sculptures of a muscular faun, black and white photographs of a naked couple in choreographed poses, text - based brightly coloured paintings, and abstract sculptures reminiscent of limbs, rendered in concrete and highly polished white plaster.

The interior walls are treated in a roughly trowelled white plaster, and the exterior of the building is severe, even mausoleum - like.

At Gladstone Gallery three white plaster ones rest on

The original white plaster, which is visible in a photograph of the sculptor's upstairs studio in January 1959 (Pictorial Autobiography, 1970, p. 80), was painted with a broken green, presumably as a preliminary to the patination (Trustees of the artist's estate, on loan to Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives).

Flamboyant white plaster mouldings — ceiling rose, wall panels, dado rail, fireplace and overmantel mirror — combined with a lemon and gold scheme creates a luxurious, modern Georgian - inspired living room.

Colour palette Keep walls pale and neutral — ideally, finished in bare white plaster if your walls are in good enough condition.

I do like the look of exposed brick walls with bits of white plaster remnants so I was thinking that I could go for that kind of look by adding white paint here and there in sort of a mottled way.

The works are made from white plaster, which is chalky and dense.

The rough textures of antique wood and leathered stone are a pleasant foil to the crisp white plaster.

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A snug cottage with white plaster walls and wide wood - plank floors, a brisk walk from the cathedral, it fills with people, the windows fogging.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

The historic capsule, now covered with white plaster and having turned green, will first be X-rayed, before opening it.

The show of installation work and figurative sculptures — ethereal, white plaster casts made with the couple's shredded medical bills — is about pain, physical and emotional.

Five Forms is one of a small group of white plaster sculptures made in 1935 and the use of simple, white, biomorphic forms suggests truth, beauty, harmony and clarity.

Pick up a a yellow cord or string and a white plaster pendant at the craft store and loop and tie them together.