Sentences with phrase «made on a monumental scale»

Made on a monumental scale, the paintings envelop the viewer from both their sheer size and the extensive expressive markings that make up the art work.

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Even while the tremendous harvest which a century of historically oriented scholarship had made possible was being gathered, the crisis of historicism, which Troeltsch was the first to analyze on a monumental scale, became manifest.

I have made it three times last week alone — obviously I was craving carbs on a monumental scale.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

His method is often described as highly experimental: typically working on a large scale, Ruff has said that he likes the physical presence of a monumental work, making size just as much a part of the viewer's experience as what is depicted in the photograph itself.

As it turned out in the decades before and after World War II, Picasso, Matisse, Miró and the New York School continued to make monumental mural scale paintings on the level of the greatest art of the past.

The choice of scale is self - confident, as with the domestic size canvases by Varda Caivano that do not need to be monumental to make their powerful visual arguments, or the vast, unstretched linen that Jessica Warboys paints on the seashore.

Some fans of the artist Orly Genger may know her from the cult - favorite line of intimate sculptural bracelets she makes with the jeweler Jaclyn Meyer, but true core of her art will be revealed to a mass audience: she's actually a shaper of ambitious, monumental works, on the scale of an El Anatsui or Richard Serra.

Filled with light installations, monumental paintings, interactive graphic works and large scale public sculptures, Happy Station is designed to bring playfulness and delight to the day - to - day commute, making it the happiest train station on earth.

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).

Sean Kelly Gallery is showing large - scale drawings of monumental archeological structures alongside a playful interpretation of the iconic Russian Embassy in Havana in Lego bricks by the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros and photo - based works by Marina Abramović that document the famous walk she made on the Great Wall of China in 1988 with Ulay, her partner at the time.

Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape presents a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects created between 2005 - 2009, including three recent large - scale sculptures, a series of eight wall works and a monumental drawing made on site.

In 1963 he moved to New York and in 1965 began making his large outdoor sculpture featuring common household objects on a monumental scale.

The Austin presentation of the exhibition includes five recent large - scale sculptures, a series of six wall works, and a new, monumental drawing made on site.

Hense continues to expand an already wide range of techniques in mark making to a monumental scale, marks that might be a brushtroke on canvas are meters in length.

Walking in the landscape is the basis of Long's practice but over the past 40 years he has extended his concerns to encompass photographic and text - based work, sculptures made in stone and wood, small - scale works using handprints and fingerprints on paper and driftwood, and monumental wall drawings made using mud and clay.

Now this same penchant for working on a monumental scale has made Mr. Kiefer the ideal artist to inaugurate an annual solo show — called, appropriately, Monumenta — that opened on Wednesday in the cavernous space of the Grand Palais in Paris.

More recent Eliasson created four man - made waterfalls of monumental scale on the shores of the New York waterfront.

Like his masters, Thomas Struth shot one - point perspective of empty, unpopulated scenes, sometimes of the streets in Düsseldorf, and later in his career made pictures on a monumental scale: The photos in his museum series are as big as the paintings they depict.

However, whereas Smithson's sculpture was made out of basalt rock and salt crystals on a monumental scale and was intended to become a permanent feature of the Great Salt Lake landscape in which it was made, Long's spiral made out of seaweed was more modest in scale and ephemeral in nature.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.