Sentences with phrase «wooden figures in»

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

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

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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...

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.

As for the doll and farm play, in order of the most played with (for those curious about these things): the farmhouse is by Ostheimer (as are most of the wooden farmhouse figures, with a few Kathe Kruse thrown in too); the (made in Maine) dollhouse is Seri's Dollhouse; then there is the Wooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info owooden farmhouse figures, with a few Kathe Kruse thrown in too); the (made in Maine) dollhouse is Seri's Dollhouse; then there is the Wooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info oWooden Tree House Doll House; and the Wooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info oWooden Camper (which was from Magic Cabin 8 years or so ago, and I couldn't find any maker info on it).

The Old Testament figure crowded two of every animal onto an enormous wooden boat in order to ride out a catastrophic flood.

I decided to really add some «vintage» flair to this wooden sign... the creases were harder to get out than I had hoped and when I realized I had to work with them... I figured adding dark wax and embracing the wrinkles was going to work in my favor.

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.

Kenton Grua, Rudi Petschek, and Steve «Wren» Reynolds... embarked on [an adventure] in late June of 1983, when they defied common sense and the National Park Service and set off, at night, to attempt a record - breaking speed run down the Colorado River in a 17 - foot wooden dory called the Emerald Mile... To get from A to Z, they figured, would require roughly two nights and days of furious rowing.

Homey touches include corn husk dolls lined up high on kitchen cupboards, a wooden rocking horse in the 2 - bedroom suite, hat stands (complete with sun hats) and a resident cat who's figured out how to use the door stopper to knock on your door.

Our collection of rare stone or wooden carvings of characters and figures in Balinese and Hindu culture, numbers nearly a thousand.

It is also commonly known that Dr. Krankcase served as an evil inspiration to Kaos once upon a time, who had figured out how to make his own wooden creatures, the Wilikin, come to life after reading about the doctor's exploits in the Minion Monthly Catalog.

From there the wooden spike can be upgraded to a better wooden wall, until eventually the only way to advance is to find out how to gain access to stone, thus you set out to figure out the next step in building up the kingdom.

PAGES 28 - 29: From left, «Three Figures,» 1966 (oil on canvas) by Emma Amos and «It Takes Two to Integrate (Cha Cha Cha),» 1961 (painted dolls, dried fish, glass in wooden box) by Edward Kienholz.

Its shape originates from an African wooden sculpture of a figure preparing to bend in worship or prayer.

In another painting from the «Social Consequences» series, a figure adorned with polygons is poked with wooden sticks or metal spears, as if bodies were at once formed by and put at risk by inhuman elements.

Among the highlights of the show are The Sun (1990), a floor installation of 360 triangular elements of white marble forming a grand circle, and the witty Self - Portrait (c. 1959) in which the artist's head is but a small ball of paper resting on a larger - than - life wooden torso with incredibly elongated legs (both works at Perry Rubenstein); the ethereal The Angel (1989) made of 125 spheres of thin clear Venetian glass delicately resting on the floor at Michael Werner; and at Mary Boone the five Concave Figures (1994), one of Byars» final works.

Upritchard is drawn to a variety of arts, crafts, and design from around the world produced over the past several centuries, and an array of objects and techniques have informed her work: the fifteenth - century German sculptor Erasmus Grasser's wooden figures; the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the eleventh century, with its scenes of the Norman conquest of England; the use of canopic jars in Egyptian mummification; the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty in India; and the blank expressions of the masks used in Japanese Noh theater.

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

Similar mark - making partitions works on paper, exhibited for the first time as studies for sculptures likeUntitled Draped Figure, in which a mannequin head and torso are bound to wooden architecture with ropes of fiberglass and enamel paint.

He used wooden dowels shaped with a jigsaw and hand tools to make intricate stretchers, painting figures in patterns drawn from Aztec, Benin, and Egyptian cultures.

The installation features a wooden cabinet spanning 5» 4» x 2» 8 1/2» x 7» 7» high in which strings of white figures of men are illuminated behind glass.

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.

Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian painting, while delicate fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look at.

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.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Last Supper (after Leonardo), 2013, 13 life - size fibreglass mannequins including a hybrid figure with fur legs and hooves, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, reproduction wooden table and chairs, silver cutlery and vases, antique and reproduction glassware and tableware, fibreglass and resin, 158 x 742 x 260 cm, (62 1/4 x 292 1/8 x 102 1/2 in)

New Jersey artist Joe Iurato makes intricate wooden cutouts of miniature figures, which he then places in various urban scenes to create a unique kind of street art.

The enigmatic title refers to the painter's «crown,» a heroic accessory evoked in Aldrich's «Figure with Cape,» (2008) a shakily painted outline of a caped matador with three wooden sticks attached to the canvas surface.

Her latest show shies away from celebrities, and from figures in general, instead presenting utterly banal objects and interiors: a bathroom door, a wooden stool, a wall of subway tiles.

In a large painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster figures cast from elaborately folded wooden models as well as one large painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.

Many compositions place male figures foreshortened on wooden structures, albeit in the form of highly designed furniture.

Both influences run through the exhibition's «Figure in Six Sections» (1965) a rare «exquisite corpse» stacked sculpture in which a silver gelatin print of the back of a standing nude has been adhered to each of the four sides of an 8 1/2» tall wooden cube cut into six layers, similar in structure to a rubix cube.

The figure, based on the cast of the artist's body with spread wings resembling the wooden struts of an early biplane, last sold at Sotheby's New York in May 2014 for $ 1.6 million.

Apart from his paintings, an installation by both artists, «I Catch the Little White Man,» (2003), features a wooden cabinet filled with strings of white figures, and refers to a mental institution in Sweden that doubles as a center for creative research.

David Hockney (b. 1937) Figure in a Flat Style oil on two conjoined canvases with wooden batons 88 5/8 x 34 1/8 in.

In Without Words, an unfinished plaster figure of a child wears roller - skates while tethered to an empty wooden storage crate, complicating any possibility for skating.

Naming The Money consisted of 100 painted life - sized wooden cut out figures, originally shown at the Hatton Gallery Newcastle in 2004, which explored the multiple themes of naming, belonging, invisibility and survival.

It includes 30 paintings and 12 drawings, from «Sneeze» (2001), in which mucus spews from a woman's snoutlike nose, to «Carpenter» (2010), which shows a figure stripping a wooden deck with her teeth.

The most significant large - scale installations include Kagebangara, Of All people, And... and Some Place, are made from materials as diverse as threads coated in KumKum (a red organic pigment used on the forehead and in rituals), flattened tar barrels (from which road workers make temporary shelters), metal piping, woven hair ropes and small wooden figures with votive functions.

A wooden stool supporting a bubblegum - pink mound resembling a squashed female figure, it could read as a statement about how female artists get flattened in a male - dominated art world.

Lined up along a wall are seven «slut - sticks», wooden armatures bound with stretched fabric and leather, becoming abstract figures in stages between dress and undress.

As for more traditional art subjects — the human figure and the still life — she stacks them up in a big, faceted relief of a muscular man protruding above a mass of wooden volumes.

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.).

Slowly but surely, these wooden figures are going to end up becoming heirlooms in their own right.