Sentences with phrase «depict sea battles»

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The work incarnates a team of mythic personages, their heads rising above a stylized frieze of the sea, whose curling waves seemingly allude to Poseidon and riff on the Pergamon Altar, which depicts the battle of the giants against the Olympian deities.

Imagine a group exhibition in that space displaying works the depict similar imagery, like Manet's painting The Execution of Emperor Maximilian alongside Kandinsky's Sea Battle painting, or Goya's The Third of May 1808 alongside J. M W. Turner's Battle of Trafalgar.

For Kiefer, Khlebnikov's 317 - year cycle is useful in that it allows him to depict these broken 20th - century vessels in the light of naval engagements, long sea journeys, shipping losses and the battles of the past - in short, to acknowledge both the human and the historical scale of past events, and their place in our larger models of the world.