Sentences with phrase «form on a monumental scale»

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The gallery's website describes Chamberlain's process as «crumpling, crushing, bending, twisting and welding to form individual objects, which may be further painted and sprayed, [and combined] into aggregations, often on a monumental scale.

The artwork of Edgar Heap of Birds includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large - scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Though working on a diminutive scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele draws on rigorous observations of the real world to create fragmented images that waver between recognizable form and nonobjective abstraction.

In the early Sixties he began to address the problem of three - dimensionality and focused his research on the forms of solid geometry, then towards the monumental scale.

Several works of the latter sort will be on view in the current exhibition, including large - scale canvases that feature collaged photographs of other fans» paintings of Winehouse embedded in monumental geometric forms, or alongside magazine and picture book images of birds, planets, cannabis leaves, and architecture.

Highlights include: Flags I Jasper Johns» richly layered 1973 screenprint, presenting an iconic image within the artist's oeuvre in its most striking graphic form; a monumental screenprint on linen, Océanie, la mer, Henri Matisse's largest scale editioned piece and a brilliant example of his use of «cut - outs»; Andy Warhol's beloved Flowers, a powerful wall of color that is his 1970 portfolio of 10; and Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother's Shoulder (No. 2), Mary Cassatt's unique pastel counterproof, portraying the artist's extraordinary ability to capture maternal love.

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.