Sentences with phrase «gargantuan scale»

The colossal scale of the place does not have to be a problem - many artists find gargantuan scale interesting, from Michelangelo who dreamt of carving a colossus out of a mountain, to Richard Serra who creates outsized homages to the steel mill.

It is with a view to show the Gargantuan scale on which these remarkable festivities are carried out that we have chosen the pictures which illustrate this article.

Traditionally the English, even more than the Irish and Scots, have a well earned reputation for boozing on a gargantuan scale.

Looking at the gargantuan scale of public corruption recorded thus far in the contemporary political inventories of both the NPP and the NDC Ghanaians will be best advised to look elsewhere for salvation.

Perhaps the best - loved artist of the Pop Art movement, Claes Oldenburg is known for his playfully surreal sculptures that find new meaning in the everyday objects by expanding them to a gargantuan scale or deflating them into floppy, funny shells.

The next gallery is dominated by astonishing taut, white plaster heads of women on a gargantuan scale.

Betcher's photographs capture the gargantuan scale of these sentinels in stark contrast to the inky Los Angeles evening with an ironic and philosophical sensitivity that makes the effect possible...

Regarding Bilbao, Gehry went on record stating that he did not want this key gallery to be realized in such a gargantuan scale, and it was Thomas Krens, the Guggenheim's director at that time, who had the last word on the non-human scale of the space.

One of the best - loved artists associated with the Pop Art movement, Claes Oldenburg is known for playfully surreal sculptures that find new meaning in everyday objects by expanding them to a gargantuan scale or deflating them into floppy, whimsical simulacra.

but I still think we need more gifted communicators and educators to get the message across and demonstrate that we are all being ripped off on a gargantuan scale.

Since the financials of CCS, when deployed at the gargantuan scale required to capture all of coal's emissions, are sketchy at best, you could easily have new coal power plants capturing only a third of their emissions (which is better than none of them, but still a blow to slowing climate change in many ways) and throwing in the proverbial towel on trying to capture more.

Between 2003 and 2009, glaciers melted on a gargantuan scale, with an estimated 1,350 cubic kilometres of meltwater streamed from what had once been vast streams of slowly flowing ice.

Each of us is capable of publishing information «on a gargantuan scale» and this is often done without a lot of thought.

Seemingly in a bid to smash tired stereotypes about in - laws, an English artist has used some 9,852 slices of toast to recreate the smiling visage of her mother - in - law on a gargantuan scale.