Sentences with phrase «broken obelisk»

So imagine my surprise when looking for a different image of Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, I instead found this 1967 pic of it being installed by crane on Seagram Plaza, two years after the flying Olmec head made the cover of Artforum.

For her exhibition Whites at Kunsthalle Basel — her first solo presentation in Switzerland — the Romanian - born artist has developed a series of new sculptures that expand on a work she first made in 2013, titled Broken Obelisk.

Conversation about Barnett Newman September 24, 2011 at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas Lecture presented by Carol Mancusi - Ungaro related to the history, presence and preservation of Newman's sculpture Broken Obelisk, which stands in a reflecting pool south of the Rothko Chapel's main entrance

Each has eye sockets or nostrils cast from human skulls sunk into its smooth surface, simultaneously recalling Barnett Newman's eponymous monument (Broken Obelisk, 1963 — 67) and a decrepit, hooded figure.

For art lovers, many of whom drift down the street from the Menil Collection, the chapel is the place to see Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk - the big sculpture in the outdoor reflecting pond - and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that, depending on how you look at them: a) are hardly anything but big black rectangles; b) foretold the painter's suicide; c) were Rothko's crowning achievement; or d) any or all of the above.

Industrial Materials This category has been developed since the war by artists such as Tony Smith (1912 - 81), see his Die (1962, MoMA, New York); Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), see his Broken Obelisk (1963 - 9, MoMA, New York); Alexander Calder, see his Le Hallebardier (1971, Sprengel Museum, Hanover); and Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933), see his Storm Angel (1974, Chalon - sur - Saone).

Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) Abstract expressionist painter who also produced some exceptional abstract sculptures, such as Broken Obelisk (1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) Better known as a founder of Colour Field painting Broken Obelisk (1969) Cor - Ten steel abstract piece, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk sculpture at the Rothko Chapel, whichhas mixed art, activism and religion for 40 years.

His best known sculptural work is probably Broken Obelisk (1963 - 9, MoMA, NYC), an upside - down obelisk whose point balances on the apex of a pyramid.

Executive director Emilee Dawn Whitehurst poses in front of Barnett Newman's iconic Broken Obelisk sculpture outside the Rothko Chapel.

Eduardo Abaroa's Obelisco roto portatil para mercado ambulantes / Portable broken obelisk for street markets (1991 - 1993), in which he reimagined Barnett Newman's signature modernist sculpture, hacks a more iconic art historical artifact.

Broken Column takes the cliche of monumental Victorian cemetery masonry and turns it into something else (as Barnett Newman did with his Broken Obelisk in the 1960s).

Barnett Newman, best known as an abstract painter, conceived of Broken Obelisk years before King's death.

But it also radically feminizes a normally cold and masculine space (Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk first installed there alongside Monet's Water Lilies set the tone nicely), not only with its subject matter but with the gaudy drama of several stories of fuchsia colored drapes and a enormous circular couch that invites visitors to lounge, chat and even sleep.

The de Menils bought the Broken Obelisk for $ 90,000 and announced that they'd donate it, along with 14 Mark Rothko paintings, to the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center.

It didn't quite work with Barnett Newman's «Broken Obelisk» or Cy Twombly's large painting from the late «60s.

RM: There's a good 1975 interview with your father at the end of the book in which he talks about the difficulties of the material from which LOVE was made, Cor - Ten steel, which of course many artists were using at this time — from Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk to Richard Serra's Tilted Arc.

Such works included: Sculpture For a Large Wall (1956 - 7, MoMA, NY) by Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923); Midday (1960, MoMA, NY) by Sir Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013); Die (1962, MoMA, NY) by Tony Smith (1912 - 1980); Broken Obelisk (1963 - 9, MoMA, NY) by Barnett Newman (1905 - 70); Storm Angel (1973 - 4, Square Chabas, Chalon - sur - Saone) by Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933); and a number of works by Eduardo Chillida (1925 - 2002), culminating in his coastline sculpture Wind Comb (1977, Bay of San Sebastian, Spain).

Key work: Broken Obelisk (1969) Cor - Ten steel, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

At Rothko Chapel today, (another gift from the de Menils) visitors pass Barnett Newman's «Broken Obelisk,» which our former City Council spurned, noting, according to a 2006 Chronicle report, that a water fountain would be better than a famous piece of public art.

Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk sculpture at the Rothko Chapel, 1409 Sul Ross, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, in Houston.

Best known for incisive portraits, the images she exhibited at Poissant Gallery focused on Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk in the Rothko Chapel's reflection pool.

First, the city had to agree to purchase Newman's «Broken Obelisk.»

The atrium soars six stories, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk in the center, like an exclamation point, aimed at the skylight above.

The tree was planted in Menil Park - close to the Rothko Chapel and Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, which John and Dominique de Menil dedicated to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. - in March and accepted into the collection in June.

Also, the Broken Obelisk, a sculpture by Barnett Newman made of Cor - Ten steel was dedicated in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and it sits atop of the reflecting pool outside the chapel.

Also, Barnett Newman's steel sculpture Broken Obelisk, dedicated to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Through the nonprofit Menil Foundation they formed in 1954, they funded scholarly research, built the Rothko Chapel and acquired Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, which they dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr..

The height and openness of the atrium space, which the visitor reaches by a staircase from the lobby, permitted MOMA to make an indoor centerpiece of one of the largest works in its sculpture collection: Barnett Newman's abstract Cor - Ten steel «Broken Obelisk» (1963 - 69).

Barnett Newman's stately Broken Obelisk has kept company with the Rothko Chapel for more than three decades.

The organization is gearing up for some major renovation projects as it approaches its 45th anniversary, including improvements to its ceiling and a restoration of Barnett Newman's «Broken Obelisk» sculpture.

Eduardo Abaroa, Obelisco roto portátil para mercados ambulantes (A Portable Broken Obelisk for Street Markets), 1993.

Among his six sculptures, the Broken Obelisk also known as Black Needle is the most famous and the largest.

One can call Smith the archetypical, perhaps only true Abstract Expressionist sculptor, although Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman, grandly displayed not so long ago in the MoMA atrium, gives him a run for his money.

Where once Barnett Newman set out his Broken Obelisk, now one must settle for art on training wheels.

Of his sculptures, Broken Obelisk (1963) is the most monumental and best - known, depicting an inverted obelisk whose point balances on the apex of a pyramid.

Even Endless Column, by Constantin Brancusi, comes to an abrupt end, and Broken Obelisk is, after all, broken.

It sounds sexist and offensive, and it is, but the sculptor of Broken Obelisk literally had a point.

Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk takes one safely back forty years, and one realizes after all: in its heart, the Modern can never leave that moment.

Besides Broken Obelisk, Pipilotti Rist toys effortlessly on video with feminism and post-feminism, as she will later with Pipilotti Rist in retrospective.

There's Louise Bourgeois» Untitled (With Hand)(1989); Michelangelo's David (1504); Auguste Rodin's The Thinker (1880); Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913); Wladimir Tatlin's Monument to the third International (1919 - 20); Pablo Picasso's She Goat (1950); Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk (1963); Lygia Clark's Raw Cubismo (1969); Robert Smithson's Gyrostasis (1968); Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cube (1974); Niki de St. Phalle's Snake Tree (1984 - 1987); Nam June Paik's L'Olympe de Gouges in La fée électronique (1989); and a Moai Easter Island Head (circa 1250 - 1500).

A Batcolumn and Lipstick (Ascending), neither among the Whitney's sketches, play with noble columns as richly as Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk.

It is a massive sculpture called Broken Obelisk; the line that connects Earth and heaven has been cut.

If Barnett Newman had his broken obelisk, Durant has his demented ones.

In those first months of Yoshio Taniguchi's atrium, a woman reaches up along the base of Broken Obelisk, by Barnett Newman, as if in prayer.

The chapel has been the site of Barnett Newman's iconic sculpture Broken Obelisk after the city declined it as a gift from the de Menils, who made it a condition that it be dedicated to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr..

Newman himself offers up in cold steel the triumphal arch of zips, Broken Obelisk.

Approaching the chapel from the south, visitors first see a steel sculpture called Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman in the middle of a pool — it appears to be floating on the surface of the water.

Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman has moved indoors, leaving the garden as a respectful tribute to the past.