Sentences with phrase «classical columns»

Primary Structures, which takes its name from the 1966 seminal exhibition of Minimalist sculpture, is a theatrical tableau of classical columns which plays with and rejects Minimalist principles, including the Minimalists» rejection of pedestals.

Instead of serial units, Benglis gives us a pool of swaggering blue velvet and ersatz classical columns, which act as plinths for kitschy objects including a toy car.

Before barreling through the Bronx, Robert Moses commissioned its heavy stone walls, modernist lack of ornament, and spindly classical columns for the 1939 World's Fair.

The artist's deep interest in the structures which underline the natural and built environment is displayed thematically in groups of paintings depicting classical columns, city ports and specific close - ups of verdant foliage.

William Leavitt's Sidereal Time, 2014, featured a curtain rod held up by a birch tree, a pile of large stones, a classical column, and a light rod.

In contrast to the fixity of the classical column or Brancusi's Endless Column, which make a solid bridge between above and below, Chord evokes a dynamic relationship between matter and energy in connecting earth to sky.

Similarly, the artist includes other common mythological and nationalistic symbols such as classical columns and eagles, important to many different cultures.

Her works often refer to recognizable architectural components — towers, cathedral spires, labyrinths, and classical columns — while also incorporating elements of nature and the human form.

In the Bank, Bunga responds to the building's classical columns and its time - weathered interior aesthetic, the cardboard's impermanence and temporality contrasting the structure's solidity and grandiosity.

Sprinters appear and disappear mysteriously between the classical columns.

Rodin's «Madame Fenaille, buste drapé, la tête relevée, sur gaine à rinceaux» (1898 - 1900) boldly extends over the edge of one of these classical columns.

Fernand Léger explored a visual world in which the airplane propeller competed with the classical column as a structural emblem.

At once a poignant portrait of his hometown and an expression of Kelley's characteristic investigation of potential childhood trauma, the composition intriguingly juxtaposes the clean modern lines of the mobile house in the foreground with the classical columns, aging stonework, and broken windows of the abandoned buildings in the background.