Pigment has been troweled onto the surface with a palette knife and built up into thick, sculptural masses, so that the paint literally projects from the canvas toward the viewer.

"To indicate the ideal proportion, and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit, is my goal."

With models, sketches, construction drawings and photographs, the show traced the evolution of small, tentative ideas into large, sculptural masses.

They fulfill Modigliani's enduring project of combining sculptural mass with dancing lines, presenting people who are both generalized and specific.

His beard was neatly pointed and his hair long, frozen into a solid sculptural mass.

In another group of works he called "light condensers," Oteiza thought to reveal the charged energy inside a sculptural mass by the use of light.

The heads thus evoke both the Rodinesque tradition of sculptural mass and the Cubist tradition of open, planar construction.

"You have bodies, space, sculptural mass, distance, relationships," says the choreographer portrayed by Ms. Keener, defining what she does for a living.

Her bent knee reaches beyond the pedestal as she runs, but the centaur's tail is like a hook that holds her within the sculptural mass.

In (A) the feathers have been treated as sculptural masses, which fold round the form.