Sentences with phrase «wooden figures»

The tiger, lion and elephant wooden figures slot onto each train carriage and are ready to embark on a jungle adventure.

I'd like to start to create wooden sculptures somehow with blocks or doing wooden figures and painting them.

Influenced by pre-Columbian imagery and the Pre-Pop creations of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper John, she began making painted carved wooden figures incorporating found objects.

Her fellow South Africans presented with wooden figures in this exhibition are Marlene Dumas, Bessie Head, Anton Kannemeyer, Nelson Mandela and Brett Murray.

Geist was not just a prolific sculptor and a major Soho figure, but also a critic of note (his pen name was Otis Gage) and an expert on Brancusi, whose rippling silhouette is a decided influence on the blue painted wooden figure in the gallery.

The centerpiece was an elegantly carved realistic wooden figure of Wilde atop a pedestal displaying a plaque painted with the number C. 33.

Mr. Zwirner also bought «Buster Keaton,» Jeff Koons's 1988 life - size wooden figure of the actor straddling a miniature horse.

Featuring work from the 1980s to today, including wooden figures, pottery and newspapers that she has painted on, Himid's section of the Turner Prize exhibition at Hull's Ferens Gallery serves as an intimate window on to her intensely thoughtful practice.

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Here I have some more, also to point you to their little secret: One forebear of Brigitte loved to collect little wooden figures and loved to make showpieces of them, mostly with Nativity as subject.

It was a crudely carved wooden figure which immediately sparked controversy due to the similarity of its out - raised arm gesture to a Nazi salute.

The housekeeper is borderline hostile, the servants are frightened of strange things that happen in the nursery, and mysterious 17th - century wooden figures are found in a locked room.

The chunky wooden figures are easy for pre-schoolers to grasp and the sturdy construction will endure even the most vigorous and active play.

Baselitz is also known for his distinctive approach to sculpture: his roughly hewn and boldly painted wooden figures fuse traditional woodcarving techniques with primitivist and folk art impulses.

Nearby, in Paloma Varga Weisz's Still Life (2016)-- a sleeping, life - sized, carved wooden figure beneath vials containing powders and crystals — activates a narrative of alchemical transformation.

Once homely in their soft powder colours, they now form a wall of defence guarded by a battalion of small cutout wooden figures.

She creates precisely sculpted bronze and porcelain heads, as well as wooden figures, and individual parts of the body.

GALERIE MEYER OCEANIC ART This Parisian gallery's exhibition of 39 extraordinary Papuan «spirit boards,» ancestral wooden figures carved in low relief, stands out not just in contrast to a tent of mostly contemporary Western art but also for the works» effortless aesthetic achievements.

«Small Lie» by KAWS, is a 32ft wooden figure, a hybrid between a Disney character and a Paul McCarthy sculpture.

On view June 10 — December 6, ALONG THE WAY portrays two gigantic wooden figures standing with heads lowered and one arm around each other in a gentle embrace.

Camille Henrot's latest exhibition at kamel mennour presents seven imprisoned wooden figures.

The period is also noteworthy for its technical innovations, including joined woodblock construction, which allowed for the creation of larger sculptures, and rock crystal inserts for the eyes on wooden figures, which made the depicted deities more realistic and thereby more commanding.

Two identical bronze figures, one standing, the other lying across an altar or table, suggest a sacrificial tableau against which is set a large wooden figure and carved head.

Cakewalk, which dominates the gallery, is an over-sized, articulated female wooden figure that is strung up like a marionette to be controlled by the viewer / participant who is invited to literally «pull her strings».

Carved wooden figures from Nigeria.

• Jon Kessler's pair of as - usual crazy performative sculptures, «Exodus» (in which wooden figures spin around in flight from unstated terrors), and «Evolution» (in which post-apocalypse mannequins get acclimated to their water - logged world).

s display also will offer entertainment that includes Tropicana style dancers and conga players, tobacco rolling demonstrations and Celia Cruz giant life - size wooden figures.

Her section of the Turner Prize exhibition in Hull contains work from the 1980s to today, including wooden figures, pottery and newspapers that she has painted on.

I just love this little wooden figures.

This twin set features wooden figures of both WALL • E and EVE from the 2008 classic Pixar movie.

A highlight of the 2006 Whitney Biennial, that piece is accompanied in this exhibition ---- her first solo museum show in the United States ---- by Iannone's large - scale magic, mystical paintings, and People, 1966 — 67, her small wooden figures, as well as An Icelandic Saga, 1978 — 86, a series of drawings that limns her first encounter with Dieter Roth, her onetime lover and muse.

I walked downtown to Mercado de las Artesanias, an artisan market where you can find local crafts like textiles, tapetes (wool rugs), pottery, alebrijes (hand carved and painted wooden figures).

Little of it borrows from Africa's traditional visual tropes: 19th century carved wooden figures, raffia costumes and woven baskets once deemed «primitive» yet famously collected by modern artists like Picasso.

To escape his loneliness and the marital conflicts of his parents, he often played for hours alone in the attic with a wooden figure he had carved for himself.

The research shows without doubt that the wooden figures were used in ceremonies involving animal sacrifice, says electroanalytical chemist Christian Amatore of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, who calls the protocol «failure - free.»

The Havana Classic's display also will offer entertainment that includes Tropicana style dancers and conga players, tobacco rolling demonstrations and Celia Cruz giant life - size wooden figures.

You'll also find wonderful stalls with goods sold by the African traders, including carved wooden figures and colourful batiks.

In the game, players methodically wrap a wooden figure in a single unbroken strand of rope.

As each deity is unique, so too are the figurines that signify them; each wooden figure is made distinct with paint, feathers, beads, buttons, and other materials.

In SHHHHHH, a wooden figure in a beaded gown is being overtaken by a slithering half - man, half - creature that is wrapped around her.

Claudette Schreuders creates lithographs and carved and painted wooden figures.

Zanzibar - born, Preston - based Himid tackles attitudes to race, from slavery to the present day, through her tableaux of wooden figures and painted - over pottery.

Post War Years In 1949 Bourgeois held her first exhibition at the Peridot Gallery in New York, which mainly consisted of totem sculptures and wooden figures.

Contents are typical parental mode constellations, mode cycle flash cards, investigation of parental schemas and modes, and the practical implementation in mode work with parents (working with chairs, templates, wooden figures, drawings, etc.).

They also used twelve wooden figures (six representing females and six representing males) and six coloured wooden figures (orange, green, and pink), three for each sex.