Sentences with phrase «with ancient sculptures»

In 1994 he conceived and curated the groundbreaking exhibition Time Machine which was involved juxtaposing works by contemporary artists with ancient sculpture in the British Museum's Egyptian Gallery.

Not exact matches

A few artifacts with features that are reminiscent of this sculpture have been found elsewhere in ancient Malta, such as the fragments of carved beds and the terra - cotta Sleeping Lady of the Hypogeum.

I just realized those of us with apple bodies have the Mother Goddess form, beautifully depicted in ancient Turkish sculptures of round women!

Inspired by sculpture, jewelry and, of course, ancient Greek Gods and myths, each pair of sandals is finished with a golden wing buckle, a nod to Hermes, the Greek messenger God.

With a humbling visual design bereft oflacking the usual superhero accoutrement in favor of a simple but iconic chromed exterior and his surfboard, visually the Silver Surfer has more in common with Greek gods as seen in ancient sculpture than the four - color superheroes that he shares the comics shelves wWith a humbling visual design bereft oflacking the usual superhero accoutrement in favor of a simple but iconic chromed exterior and his surfboard, visually the Silver Surfer has more in common with Greek gods as seen in ancient sculpture than the four - color superheroes that he shares the comics shelves wwith Greek gods as seen in ancient sculpture than the four - color superheroes that he shares the comics shelves withwith.

The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

Catch a glimpse of the architectural skills of the ancient Roman people with a visit to the Colosseum and Roman Forum or make the journey to nearby Vatican City to browse through famous paintings, sculptures and artwork from centuries ago.

Some particularly interesting attractions include the MUSA underwater museum, where visitors can dive or snorkel through more than 2,000 underwater sculptures; a day trip to the ancient city of Coba (a two - hour drive); a sailing excursion to Isla Mujeres for relaxation and snorkeling among the reefs; or a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to swim with 50 - foot whale sharks.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

With child - friendly interactive displays, ancient artefacts, skeletons, artwork, jewels and sculptures amongst the thousands of fascinating exhibitions, this museum offers something for visitors of all ages to enjoy.

In Still Life Studio, celebrated Australian artist Petrina Hicks continues to take inspiration from mythology and art history, this time featuring models with luminous skin posing with various props in a style inspired by ancient Roman sculptures.

If these ceramics provide us with a formal record of their history, a series of drawings and sculptures made by Porras - Kim creates indexes of re-occurring forms that cumulatively provide a brief glimpse of life in ancient Western Mexico.

It is, instead, a quiet show of representational drawings — 47 in total, with an additional triptych and book of prints made from the drawings via photogravure — all based on sculptures from an eponymous museum of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Munich.

Finlay's garden is both a political statement (it takes it name from an independent state in Ancient Greece) and an artistic endeavour, blending landscape design with sculpture and poetry.

Accompanied by Bove's own monumental sculpture, Cretaceous (2014), an ancient, four - metre chunk of petrified wood bolted directly to an I - beam, the works are seen against white walls, with sunlight flooding in through the skylights of the gallery — a fitting homage to Scarpa in more than one way.

It's a direct tie between Pondick's own sculptures, which meld together otherwise incongruous body parts, and an ancient fascination with the human figure.

The BMA is proud to honor Jack Whitten, one of the most important artists of his generation, with this exhibition of his carved and assembled sculptures inspired by the materials and traditions of Africa and ancient Greece.

Soaring high into the urban landscape, the multi-story mural from the Spanish duo features their signature remix of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures with their love for graffiti.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

The Tomassos and Schubert take over a large stand for a display that mixes Bridget Riley's abstract works on paper with ancient and Old Master portrait sculpture.

MATTHEW BARNEY: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT Fourteen large - scale sculptures made in conjunction with Matthew Barney's «River of Fundament» (2014), a film inspired by Norman Mailer's novel «Ancient Evenings,» and displaying similarly epic, megalomaniacal ambitions.

With a nod toward ancient artifacts of countless civilizations, my sculptures intentionally appear as relics, treasures to honor the profound age - old human relationship with these magnificent creatures.&raWith a nod toward ancient artifacts of countless civilizations, my sculptures intentionally appear as relics, treasures to honor the profound age - old human relationship with these magnificent creatures.&rawith these magnificent creatures.»

Maiolica, particularly unexpected here, will be on show at Bazaart; Daniel Blau idiosyncratically mixes 19th - century fish hooks with David Bailey's photographs; Galerie Chenel posit an alternative to our alabaster - dominated view of antiquities with a presentation of coloured marble Roman sculpture; and Sycomore Ancient Art bring Egyptian wooden sculpture.

Before Kali has a wide range of references, from Indus Valley figurines, to ancient Indian Rasa theory that deals with art and aesthetics, to premodern sculptures, current political events, references to Western art history and contemporary feminist artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Maria Lassnig.»

Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts.

In the spacious galleries on the ground floor the artist presents carefully staged settings of larger than life - sized sculptures, such as mock - ups of an ancient olive tree or of a fireplace with mantle, as well as large - scale paintings.

In a 1980 performance, Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934) juxtaposed images of her family members with Ancient Egyptian sculpture that created parallels between her personal and diasporic histories.

«Younger Than Jesus» was well - stocked with crowd pleasers like Chu Yun's «living sculpture» of a woman sleeping in a bed in the middle of the gallery (This is XX, 2006) and AIDS - 3D's OMG Obelisk (2007) which humorously memorialized IM's condensed exclamation on the favoured totem of ancient worship.

Matthew Craven creates mixed media collage that blurs the distinctions between archeology and the contemporary moment, specifically juxtaposing bright color patterns with imagery of ancient Greco - Roman sculpture.

The much - watched artist continues his hot streak with sculptures that bridge the ancient and the futuristic.

Sisters, by Lorraine O'Grady, is cut down, too — a selection of four diptychs from her 1994 Miscegenated Family Album, which pairs photos of ancient Egyptian sculpture with portrait photography.

But this sculpture's essence — its numen, as the ancients would say — is inseparable from the festivities that filled it with life.

The four smaller - scale sculptures, made of concrete and resin, see imagery of street crossings merged with speculative, occult or ancient religious symbols.

The sculpture embodies Newman's meditation on ancient Egypt, changing the Western association with death and instead of it producing the eternal image of transcendence.

Along with the subject's own work, Larsen and his team included a chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, a sculpture by Donald Judd, prints by Vasily Kandinsky and Roy Lichtenstein, ancient religious objects from India and Pakistan, and an array of other art and design pieces to contextualize Sottsass's wide - ranging influences.

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

The artist's humorous sculptures draw from a wide variety of source materials from both low and high cultural registers: popular imagery, toys, kitsch paraphernalia mixed with ancient cultural artefacts and modernist archetypes.

With his sonic kinetic sculpture Gamelatron Cemerlang (Indonesian: Bright, Slang: Bling), Kuffner turns an Indonesian folk object, the gong, into «bling», and re-contextualizes the ancient archaic ritual tradition to envelop the audience with his sculptuWith his sonic kinetic sculpture Gamelatron Cemerlang (Indonesian: Bright, Slang: Bling), Kuffner turns an Indonesian folk object, the gong, into «bling», and re-contextualizes the ancient archaic ritual tradition to envelop the audience with his sculptuwith his sculptures.

«Caro admired the sculpture of ancient cultures and Greece, and from the 80s onwards produced a series of large - scale abstract works that reflected a continuing interest in the human body, but also a growing fascination with architecture.

In the 1990s, Whitten's experiments with paint as a medium moved further towards sculpture, as paint compounds were transformed into mosaic - like tiles and were applied to canvases, referencing ancient architecture and murals.

Alison Saar's life - size dark - bronze sculpture with a glass - covered belly that lights up from the glow of fireflies at nighttime distantly resembles ancient monuments of fertility goddesses.

With wit and charm, he fuses his interests in Modern graphic design, art history, and ancient sculpture.»

Here, ancient columns are conflated with advertising gimmicks; pre-Hispanic ruins with teenage recreational spaces; and ancient sculptures with contemporary monuments.

Harvard Art Museum This encompasses three centres: the Fogg Art Museum, concentrating on Western Art of the Middle Ages to the present (notably early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, 19th - century Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, and an important collection of Picasso's works); the Busch - Reisinger Museum, specializing in fine art from Central and Northern Europe (notably 20th century German Expressionist painters); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which focuses on ancient, Islamic and Asian art (notably archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as drawings, paintings and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, along with Greek and Roman sculpture).

The iconic Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano's sci - fi fantasy, pop art works are juxtaposed with ancient Chinese Buddhist stone sculptures.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Whittenʼs experiments with paint as a medium moved further towards sculpture, as paint compounds were transformed into mosaic - like tiles and were applied to canvases, referencing ancient architecture and murals.

Bits of Fraser's vibrant mountain of feathers, lace, and sequins are reflected in the neighboring prismatic sculptures of Monir Farmanfarmaian, whose intricate mirrored mosaics interpret ancient Persian design with a modernist perspective.

The result is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to view Leonardo da Vinci juxtaposed with Barbara Hepworth and Alison Turnbull; William Blake with Wolfgang Tilmans and Carl Andre; ancient Egyptian sculpture with Anish Kapoor and Nancy Holt.

Ancient African sculptures collide with contemporary Western paintings at Peres Projects in Berlin.

Comprised itself of braided elements — metal chains, ropes and rubber tubes — the sculpture plays with porous meaning, and draws upon the misnomer of the «French braid», an ancient hairstyle originating from North Africa, which was later denominated in nineteenth century America as a signifier of elegance and sophistication.