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Image theatre is a performance technique in which one person, acting as a sculptor, moulds one or more people acting as statues, using only touch and resisting the use of words or mirror-image modelling. The images presented in this form of theatre are a series of still-images or tableauxs that are dynamised (brought to life) via a variety of ways.
A living statue attraction, as a performance, is the artist's ability to stand motionless and occasionally come to life to comic or startling effect. [citation needed] These performers, also known as human statues, [2] are often completely covered in paint, often gold or silver in colour. [3]
Statue of Sir John Cass on the façade of 31 Jewry Street in the City of London, the headquarters of Sir John Cass's Foundation. This statue is a fiberglass replica of the original. [423] [428] [429] Statue and bust of Sir John Cass: London: Jun 16, 2020: Removed by owner Statue and bust of Sir John Cass at Sir John Cass Redcoat School, Stepney ...
One month later, an equestrian statue of King George III was erected. It was executed by the British sculptor Joseph Wilton. [3] Commissioned in 1764 and cast in lead covered with gold leaf, the Neoclassical statue showed King George dressed in Roman garb astride a horse, the whole effect being reminiscent of the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome.
At the top of the column is a square capital carrying a corniced tholobate atop which a statue of William Wilberforce, carved out of gritstone, [2] stands. [1] The total height of the monument is approximately 110 feet (34 m). [note 1] Historian Marcus Wood notes that the monument as a whole "mimics Nelson's column". [9]
"Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff. Part of the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, c. 645–635 BC. Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the city of Assur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) which at its height, ruled over all of Mesopotamia, the Levant ...
Rumors of War is a series of artworks by Kehinde Wiley examining equestrian portraiture in the canon of Western art history [1] culminating in a bronze monumental equestrian statue by the artist of an African-American young man (with dreadlocks in a ponytail, jeans ripped at the knees and Nike high-top sneakers), as the statue was being initially unveiled the drape was caught up in the dreadlocks.
George Washington was a life-size marble statue of George Washington, done in the style of a Roman general, by the Venetian-Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova. Commissioned by the State of North Carolina in 1815, it was completed in 1820 and installed in the rotunda of the North Carolina State House on December 24, 1821.