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...“The Age of Bronze”, Gormley says, “is an extraordinary moment in sculpture, where this 19th-century idea of the military hero with his spear is suddenly undercut: Rodin takes away the spear . . . it’s a...
...In “Diana Returning from the Hunt” the monumental muscular goddess wears the one-shouldered chiton of the Amazonian warrior, clasping a spear and the bounty of dead birds....
...among those showcased here is the monumental “The Eternal Present”, an imperious trio of monochromatic elongated figures referring to Santeria divinities and symbols — Chango, god of thunder, with his spear...
...Each is depicted with uncompromising naturalism and with the instrument of his martyrdom: unshaven “St Thomas” brandishes a spear; “St Bartholomew” holds his flayed skin; behind “St Paul” is the sword to...
...This month’s remaining three sales contain further mind-bogging treasures – rare Meissen dining services, porcelain tableware in the shape of asparagus spears and lettuce heads, Cartier jewels, Rolex watches...
...Nevinson, the now forgotten London social realist Ruskin Spear, and a young Leon Kossoff....
...In display cases, beautiful silver betel nut sets were jumbled with porcelain figurines of shepherdesses, spears, shields, kris daggers, coins....
...We’ve had the play translated into Arabic, and Omar will workshop it with the refugees so they can incorporate their own stories into the text: from Greek spears and the Towers of Ilium to air-raids, mortars...
...But even before Brown, there was Jackie “Mr Excitement” Wilson, teaching Elvis a thing or two about hip shaking and knee trembling....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual arts critic …………………………………………………………….....
...Maternité” – enormous womb, small breasts and arms, tiny tapering neck and head; a boldly reduced yet bulbous “Femme (Femme debout)”; the rough-edged “Tête”, with strongly incised marks and a nose resembling a spear...
...‘In Praise of Doubt’, Punta della Dogana, Venice, from April 10 Jackie Wullschlager reviews Manet in Paris ………………………………………….....
...Herwitz focuses on a few celebrities who’ve achieved “iconic” status: Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe....
...Pictured right are Lin Miaoke, a nine-year-old Chinese girl who performed “Hymn to the Motherland” at the opening of the Beijing Olympics, and Britney Spears, the wayward pop star making her comeback on...
...This in turn stares both at Ruskin Spear’s portrait of Sutherland’s disciple “Francis Bacon”, disconcertingly Bacon-like with its dead eye, and at the display’s most haunting picture, the newly acquired...
...Skulls litter the ground and tiny figures of soldiers ride away, except for one who, spear still raised, stops to glance back at the cross: “This is what I have done.”...
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