Sentences with phrase «as grain elevators»

... the simple structures of industrial building such as grain elevators and big silos... These examples of modern engineering, designed for practical use only, and obviously without any decorative assistance from an architect, made a deep impression by their simple structure reduced to basic forms of geometry such as cubes and cylinders.

Not exact matches

Dusts can also act as explosives (some of you may have heard of grain elevators exploding).

As an art student in his mid-30s, Regier constructed a spaceship made from found objects, including a sea - mine casing from World War II and parts of a grain elevator.

Large oblong cutouts expose some of those stairs and elevators in a peekaboo effect, with each cutout the shape of a single grain of corn, enlarged as if a bean on a giant beanstalk (the visitors being Jack).

He travels across the Midwest as part of a Fischer crew, painting Phillips 66 signs, gasoline and storage tanks, refinery equipment, and grain elevators.

These landscapes, whether cityscape or the newly industrialised agricultural landscape — as with Ralston Crawford's featureless work of modern purity «Buffalo Grain Elevators», 1937 — are for the most part completely devoid of any human narrative, only later do we end with Edward Hopper's isolated figure, in his 1928 picture «From Williamsburg Bridge»; sitting in the window of an otherwise empty cityscape, framed by an expansive absence of humanity.

The gallery has also made it a mission to show work that directly shows Buffalo's fading industrial past, with exhibitions such as Jesse Webber's You Can't Smoke in Here, Mr. Corbusier, You'll Burn This Mother Down, featuring silkscreen prints of photographs of several grain elevators taken by Herd and Hilla Becher, who are husband and wife.

As an art student at the University of Minnesota, James Rosenquist found work painting grain elevators and storage tanks.