Sentence examples for artistic statues from inspiring English sources

The many uses for manufactured iron products in the Song period included iron for weapons, implements, coins, architectural elements, musical bells, artistic statues, and components for machinery such as the hydraulic-powered trip hammer, which had been known since the 1st century BCE during the ancient Han dynasty, and used extensively during the Song.

After The Sun reported Kardashian had also commissioned an "artistic statue" of her bottom, I wondered how the art world might judge such an object: Art or artefact?

After a week in which the reality TV star's famous derriere has featured large in the media, which included a report in The Sun claiming she had commissioned an "artistic statue" of her bottom, the BBC's Will Gompertz asks how the art world might judge such an object: Art or artefact?

A religious group in Kansas is once again trying to get an artistic statue removed from a public park, arguing that the work of art violates the state's obscenity laws.

Since the idea for the statue was first conceived, its development has been dogged by arguments over where it should be placed, as well as its artistic merit: the statue, designed by the late Ian Walters, has been called "a mere husk" and "an empty shell" by fellow sculptor Glyn Williams.

It is possible that the knowledge is contained in art work – including paintings and other artistic objects such as statues and decorative paintings, murals, and jewelry.

In a letter to community services commissioner Donald M. Gordon, Drynan wrote: "I am sure that the statue has artistic merit and needs to be preserved.

Although the statues had little artistic merit, and were not antiques, the thieves were demanding high prices.

This problem is evident in the case of Venetian villas in northeastern Italy, which are generally surrounded by historical gardens and parks with outdoor stables, fountains, and statues of high artistic interest, strongly colonized by lichen communities.

The researchers also found "an astonishing degree of artistic skill" in fashioning the statues, which were carved from the rock but had garments made out of clay as smooth as porcelain, Emmerling says.

Unfortunately the statues lost much artistic value when they were repainted in the 1930s.