Sentence examples for lay figure from inspiring English sources

Walter Sickert's wooden lay figure George continues to do sterling work at Bath Spa University, where he struts its stuff for each new generation of art students.

In his 1922 Self-Portrait at the Easel Oskar Kokoschka paints a pert, almost pornographic, lay figure into the picture and shows himself apparently in the act of fingering her.

One of her starriest finds is the mannequin belonging to Alan Beeton, who, in the late 1920s, produced a celebrated series of paintings that explored the sheer weirdness of the lay figure.

Mutely unresponsive to Kokoschka's attentions, she was soon demoted from sex toy to studio lay figure before being escorted into the garden where she had her head snapped off.

As an example of the classical renaissance at the Carolingian court and as the first medieval biography of a lay figure, the work was highly admired and copied in its own time.

The works convince as probably the best of what could be obtained in categories of statue, relief, tableau, funerary figure, reliquary, portrait, altered mannequin, lay figure (a jointed wooden model used by an artist), decorative element, doll, and the odd avant-gardist conceptual whatsit, deployed in combinations to substantiate themes and traditions.

Animated lay figures, as if out of a "how to draw" book, skip and jump and ingeniously draw themselves.

It's not Child No 98's creepiness that shocks, though, so much as the revelation that Millais habitually hired lay figures, or artists' dummies, in the first place.

And rather than working with full-sized, full-bodied lay figures, those windows worked with individual, self-contained women's stockinged legs, every one of which could drive the passer-by to a frenzy of emulation.

This seemed to set a pattern for the studio (or houseful of studios) in which she later lived and worked in north London, which was alive with objects, pictures, maquettes, masks, costumes, lay figures, coloured drawings – a "potting shed" full of work-in-progress and of memories of a life's work.

Perhaps because of a lingering suspicion about the mannequin's role in art-making, lay figures have generally not been granted the same degree of care as that routinely lavished on a great artist's easels, brushes and palette, all of which retain a certain romantic shimmer.