Sentences with word «woodcarver»

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This story of a Japanese woodcarver tells us, Christian artists and theologians in Asia, that we can not trifle with images and symbols of religions, be they of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or primal religions.

Among the craft shops you'll be introduced to expert woodcarvers who chisel ornate items from hardwood, including traditional Balinese masks used in ritual dance performances.

Some expectant parents at imgur commissioned this off - the - hook walnut tentacle crib from woodcarver Garrick Andrus last summer, but he only posted it to Google +.

For centuries woodcarvers created sculptures influenced by traditional beliefs and Hindu myths.

All I did was to suggest to an amateur woodcarver in the congregation that...

All I did was to suggest to an amateur woodcarver in the congregation that it would be nice if he turned his talents toward the carving of a processional cross for our church.

Here is a story told by a Dutch missionary about his encounter with a Japanese master woodcarver during his early years in Japan:

The German director's 1974 short The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner shows why sport is so compelling.

Villa Alamanda, situated 8 minutes south - east of the cultural town of Ubud, is approached through the traditional Balinese woodcarvers» village of Tengkulak.

Many fine Ainus and Japanese woodcarvers live and work in the small village of Akan bordering the lake.

The king Anak Agung Agung Anglruah Ketut Karangasem, a master of the Balinese dance and excellent woodcarver, made great efforts to build what was his passion, water palaces.

Materials were sourced locally and all furnishings created with traditional skills: huge marble baths carved from single blocks of Romblon marble and wooden baths crafted using traditional boat - building techniques; local wood and rattan sourced from sustainable supplies; cushions made from tribal fabrics, woven by craftspeople from Mindanao in the South; and intricate wooden chests carved by indigenous Palawan woodcarvers.

Most of the prominent woodcarvers of Bali dwell here, producing elaborate and fine woodcarvings and teaching the younger generation to carve.

The figure was fabricated by the Bregenz Forest woodcarver Wendelin Hammerer.

Albert Hoffman was an American self - taught painter and woodcarver born in 1915.

In 1983, Frankenthaler traveled to Japan and worked with the expert woodcarver Reizo Monjyu and the printer Tadashi Toda.

Frankenthaler first made six different paintings on wood, after which woodcarvers and papermakers interpreted them under her supervision.

She became fascinated with the 17th century Japanese Ukiyo - e woodcuts and in the 1970s studied with Japanese artisan woodcarver Yasuyuki shibata.

This beautiful work is the result of Walpoth's childhood, having grown up with a family of distinguished woodcarvers.

I had applied for a small grant to film the opening and interview a number of the living artists who were able to attend, e.g. Blues musician and sculptor James «Son Ford» Thomas, South Carolina artist Sam Doyle, Alabama's Mose Tolliver, and woodcarver Elijah Pierce, to name a few.

Charleston, SC About Blog I have been a professional woodcarver since 1988.

Are you a handyman or budding woodcarver?

He was a very accomplished woodcarver, and made us each an ornament or a figure for our crèche (nativity scene) every year.

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Villa Alamanda Bali, situated ten minutes east of the cultural town of Ubud, is approached through the traditional Balinese woodcarvers «village of Tengkulak.

Working with expert woodcarvers and printers, Frankenthaler developed a visual layering and color complexity that crackles and confounds, sometimes using over 50 colors and a large array of carved woodblocks that pile up in the final print.

I swept floors, carried boxes to the post office, and so forth in the shop of a Japanese woodcarver, a master craftsman, Mr Tadao Nishiyama.

A few of us missionaries went there in the summer of 1969, hoping to do some evangelism among the woodcarvers and their families.

About Site - I'm Randy George, a woodcarver.

Redford has a supporting role as a woodcarver who tells children stories of a mythical dragon in this remake of the 1977 Disney film.

Michael Park Woodcarver Memorial Urns In 1987 Master Woodcarver, Michael Park, opened his own studio in Pennsylvania — instilling his love of dogs in all of his work.

Proceed via the Ettal Monastery to Oberammergau, world - famous for its Passion Play, the woodcarvers and the richly painted houses (Lüftl - paintings).

Kemenuh village is your next stop to see the woodcarver and their art works.

Ubud is home to the Balinese Royal family and has captured the imaginations of local and foreign painters, dancers, woodcarvers and all manner of artists for generations.

By the 1930s, he had largely retired to Maine with his second wife, Ida, also a woodcarver.

As in the Tales of Genji series, she began by making a painting on wood that was translated over a period of two years into woodcut form, with the assistance of expert woodcarvers and papermakers.

The series of prints Tales of Genji I — VI (1998) was created in the nineteenth - century tradition of Japanese ukiyo - e (scenes of the floating world), in which the artist creates the initial painting, and woodcarvers and printers make the final print.

Aukusti Tuhka: The Woodcarver, 1940.

The exhibition explores the artist's collaborations with printers, publishers, woodcarvers, and papermakers that pushed the medium in new directions.

Japanese papermakers and a woodcarver created prints on paper from the originals, even carrying over the grain and color of the original wood base.

After training as a woodcarver and working in a religious sculpture workshop in Madrid during the 1990s, López de la Torre transited somehow accidentally towards conceptual art, seeking a happier marriage between art and political compromise.

In a later artist - in - residency at Cemeti — Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta, Van Braak expanded the scope of his project to include other personal stories and histories, drawing from an intensive collaboration with local contemporary artists, writers, woodcarvers and activists.

Francis Cape was trained as a woodcarver before receiving his MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Upstairs, Nicola Tyson's Self - Portrait: Early 80's (1995) imagines the artist's body in a transitional state — half - undressed, face averted, Paloma Varga Weisz's Lying Woman (2016) transforms the nude into a shelf - top figurine, whose bumped and chiselled topography evokes the artist's origins as a woodcarver.

Sonya Palencia is a painter, illustrator, sculptor and woodcarver, whose work celebrates nature and the mystical with the romantic aesthetics of the old world.

Bought at a public auction in 2013, it was relocated, restructured and put into the market by Zhu Caichang, a merchant of ancient buildings who comes from a woodcarver family.