Sentence examples for plaster figures from inspiring English sources

Within and around the infrastructure of the piece was a set of exquisitely rendered plaster figures.

A cluster of life-size, 19th-century plaster figures of people from India.

On the ceiling, mythical plaster figures surround the otherwise utilitarian sprinkler heads.

The auditorium of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm is lavish to the point of fantasy, decorated with ornate plaster figures.

In each one are life-like plaster figures and trompe l'oeil furnishings, depicting an episode in the life of Jesus.

It's a sculptural tableau of three plaster figures, male, nude and life-size, seated side by side on a bench.

"Woman on White Wicker Rocker" is made from bronze with a white patina to replicate the characteristic features of a plaster figure with its very textural, expressionist surface.

This 88-inch plaster figure with a handprint in the center of its chest is one of seven to have survived the bombings of World War II.

High up on the ceiling in one of the state rooms you can just about make out a little white plaster figure of a thatcher up a ladder with a bale of straw on his back: the Iron Lady's memento.

Elsewhere in the galleries a 1965 Kay Sekimachi woven piece floats like a phantasmagoric undersea creature, while John McCracken's solitary green plank leans against a wall close to a spectral female plaster figure by Manuel Neri, a dirt-on-paper work by David Ireland and a bronze self-portrait, with tongue sticking out, by Robert Arneson.

Among the show's more vibrant works in 3-D are George Segal's life-size "Trapeze" (1971), a plaster figure of an acrobat on the bar soaring high over viewers' heads, and "Drown the Clown" (1990), by Polly Apfelbaum, three empty but well-worn clown costumes (including a child's) that hang on a wall, a haunting, nostalgic tribute to their former occupants and the uncertainties of their lives.