Sentences with phrase «white plaster casts»

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

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.

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.

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.

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Two of the best players — Bob Jeangerard and Eddie White — had plaster casts on their arms because of broken bones.

The excavations and body preservation techniques are explained in detail, with numerous black - and - white (and some color) photographs, many featuring the plaster casts and skeletons of people in their death throes.

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.

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.

From a white plastic electrical fan to a scattering of hand - cast plaster bowls in a rainbow of colours and from a roll of LED strip lights to wallpaper and swatches of silk printed with a photographic image of polystyrene, texture seems like a key driver in your practice.

Like his earlier works, these pieces are assembled from found materials such as pieces of wood or packaging, or cast in bronze and covered in white paint and plaster.

His tidy, well - organized space is punctuated by objects that offer clues to his mind at work: a bulletin board filled with a patchwork of pictures of the flags of Africa and a pair of plaster casts, one of a white classical Greek statue and the other of an ebony Egyptian mummy case, standing guard over his assistants» desks.

Technically this room contained various separate sculptures from Has Op de Beeck's recent switch from grey to white for his spookily smooth vanitas realisations, which start from casts and are rendered in gypsum plaster over a wooden armature.

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

Originally displayed at the 1997 Munster Sculpture Project in Germany, The Dead Teach the Living (1997) is a group of computer - reconstructed heads cast in white plaster that show different racial stereotypes, which raises questions on how science has been used to dehumanize racial groups.

Castelli: We [Castelli and his wife] went down to his studio and there I was confronted with an astonishing sight: paintings of flags, red, white and blue, plain, and a big all - white one; targets with plaster casts above them; alphabets; numbers; and all in a material I hardly knew — encaustic.