Sentences with phrase «grand scale of the work»

Impossible to take in with a passing glance, the grand scale of the work halts the viewer in their tracks, forcing them out of their complacent gaze, demanding they reconsider their relationship the city.

The grand scale of the work — 8ft by 20ft — daunted him at first, and he alleged that he painted the dynamic tangle of slashing lines in the hectic efforts of a single evening, a claim that has come under scrutiny.

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In fact, it only works provided the returns on the capital which is creating value and added value, the bases of distribution and transfer of wealth towards the creditors of production, has been achieved on a grand enough scale and without shocks or interruptions in the flow of wealth.

The problem that most often resulted was that people could understand the small parts just fine, but like western science, lost sight of the whole and couldn't understand how it all was supposed to work together on the grand scale.

On a grander scale, the millions and billions of dollars created by any given company is the result of a whole lot of people's work being kept by a very few people.

Corporate officials at Procter & Gamble attacked the problem on a grand scale, according to court documents, assigning the formidable task of designing the perfect diaper to Kenneth Barclay Buell, a mechanical engineer who had worked on the Gemini space program in the 1960s.

I was inspired to make my own mini wall terrariums when I saw the work of Kim Fisher, who creates vertical wall planters on a much grander scale.

Researchers with the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation are putting that concept to work on a grand scale, monitoring the surface vibrations of thousands of stars to learn their ages, sizes, and inner dynamics.

Some theories say that dark matter is only an illusion caused by a failure to understand the way gravity works on the grand scale of the universe.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

With his once counter-cultural, gothic aesthetic now firmly lodged in mainstream culture, Burton seems content to simply repeat himself on an increasingly grand scale, rather than think outside the box as in his best work — the elegant fairytale of Edward Scissorhands or the black and white oddness of Ed Wood.

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiences).

Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, Paul Thomas Anderson, all of whom debuted early works at Sundance, wanted to develop their auteurist sensibilities on a grand scale.

In conversation with Game Informer, Rockstar's director of design Imran Sarwar suggests the scale of the base game, the next - gen console and PC launches of 2014 and 2015, and work on the forthcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 has, in essence, made subsequent single player story modes unfeasible for Grand Theft Auto 5.

Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.

Situated just outside of new galleries devoted to the musical instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck and works by experimental musician and artist Laurie Anderson, Slip conflates visual art and musical performance — cornerstones of MASS MoCA's program — at a grand architectural scale.

This sculptural work is comprised of 43 pipes from a dismantled organ that range from 10 cm to 250 cm long, describing the musical scale of this grand instrument.

The range is fantastic, and I think indicative of contemporary trends within the medium: angular figures and aggressively colorful compositions in a New Objectivity vein from very young, non-German artists including Anna Navasardian (Armenian but New York - based, showing with Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich) and Pawel Sliwinski (Polish, showing with Beers Contemporary, London); representational works in thick, gestural impasto, both in Kim Dorland's grand, en plein air style (Angell Gallery, Toronto), and in Bobby Mathieson's intimately scaled portraiture (Lyons Wier Gallery, New York); and abstraction both super-reductive (like Clare Grill, showing with FRED.GIAMPIETRO, New Haven) and cosmically colorful (Jennifer Lefort, showing with Patrick Mikhail Contemporary, Ottawa); plus every conceivable style in between.

Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.

Paladino is working at the height of his powers, on a grand scale, and to great effect.

Though large in scale, her work is intimate in nature — and the grand gesture of this mural should touch pedestrians and those passing in cars in deeply personal ways, as the work points to the complex layers of all human experience.

An 18 - minute documentary about the creation of seven large - scale works for the Grand Hyatt in Union Square San Francisco.

Curated by Susan Nelly, The Rites of Spring, an invitational group show features works on a grand to small scale.

Comprising 10 large - scale environments from over the past decade, alongside two newly commissioned multicoloured polycarbonate sculptures in the grand entrance hall of the Manchester Art Gallery, the works in the exhibition show Darbyshire's dedication to the processes of making — and faking — it, with materials ranging from felt to wood to Perspex.

This will be only the second presentation of such scale, featuring the works of this grand master of figural painting, to be held in Europe (the first was held at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2010).

Tess Jaray RA has chosen to hang the walls of the grand Gallery III with small - scale works to showcase emerging talent

Often executed on a grand scale her work reveals her fascination for epic narratives, comic book illustration and the performative quality of painting and drawing.

The work slyly suggests that a grand, large scale painting of, say, Jackson Pollock has fallen off the wall and lies flaccid and impotent on the floor.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

The gallerist, who El Anatsui himself entrusted to install the works, added, «It has been a lifelong dream to exhibit El's work on this sort of grand scale.»

But the grand scale of their endeavors shouldn't obscure the work of lesser - known artists with fewer resources — the folks I consider the backbone of the art world, the 99 % if you will — who make compelling art as they continue working underpaid day jobs and garnering less mainstream media attention.

Rauschenberg's style derived from his ability to marry Schwitters's magpie sensibility with a sense of scale, and of the grand gesture, that he'd learned from the Abstract Expressionist painters whose work he had gotten to know after arriving in New York in 1949: artists like Jack Tworkov (a fervent early supporter), Franz Kline, and, of course, Willem de Kooning, whose own art would become raw material for Rauschenberg's famous Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).

Although Teresita Fernández is widely recognized for her contemplative public art works, the Miami - born and New York - based artist delivers equally elegant and conceptually concise reflections of her grand scale public works in her gallery exhibitions — Fire (America) at Lehmann Maupin's Chrystie street location is no exception.

Recent exhibitions include: Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Cue Art Foundation, New York; LAXART, Culver City, CA; and large scale wall works for the Hagga Gallery in Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA, and collaborations with Kim Schoenstadt, for the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan and the Los Angeles International Airport.

In September this year, Galerie Rudolfinum opens its anniversary 100th exhibition of a grand - scale installation of the works of Krištof Kintera.

I was therefore surprised to find myself backing off from Shadow on Frankfort Barren, the largest of Welliver's paintings in the show — although by no means his grandest scale: he liked to work on canvases 10 feet wide.

Grand in scale, these labyrinthine yet surprisingly intimate works cover the entire wall space, rife with personal narrative, political metaphor, and a myth that emphasizes memory, loss, love, and exile in times of war and peace.

Triangle of Need, 2007, her multichannel video installation, formed the central core for practice - based activity on a grand scale; the work was informed by theories of Neanderthal man, the culture of African scam letters, gypsy folklore and the history of American industrialist James Deering.

By the 1950s, White depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures that made his subjects into heroic figures.»

Her personal interpretation of this method can be seen in Mountains and Sea (1952), which is considered her breakthrough work (see image to the right, and note the grand scale).

So I veered towards the Rothko and Newman side of the NY school, and with a touch of Mondrian thrown in, my work became much more about simplicity, solidity, scale and proportion than the grand gesture.

Judith did not shy from larger - than - life statements and loved working on a grand scale; her understanding and mastery of prismatic color is superb.

«One of the goals behind Vitality and Verve is to spotlight artists who are stepping out of their studios to paint on a grand scale using outdoor walls as their canvas as well as urban artists who are beginning to work in a traditional studio setting.»

But more objectively the big Ace of Diamonds III [1986 — 96] is a great work in its simplicity of form, grand scale, and elegant movement achieved by simple means.

Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time centers around the Frick's grand - scale Harbor of Dieppe and Cologne, both painted by the artist in the mid-1820s, and unites them for the first time publicly with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in Brittany.

Caulfield was a painter's painter, an artist whose work revealed great depths when contemplated, and to those with an understanding of art, its history and possibilities, his work could resonate on a grand scale.

James Rosenquist has continued to work on a grand scale and in 2006 exhibited his monumental work Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1998 in Art Basel's prestigious Unlimited sector in Switzerland.

The final gallery also features such works as «Holiday Ruse (Night Shade)» (1991) and «Mirthday Man (Anagram [A Pun]-RRB-» (1997), which show Rauschenberg developing new printing techniques to reproduce his own photographs at the grand scale of painting, refusing through his very last works to segregate artistic mediums from one another.

Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets — a series of seven grand - scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel — which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam and Tokamachi.

The artist is known for his highly original, large - scale sculptural installations, of which the significant examples My Brother / Brancuzi (1995), The Grand Machine / THEAREOLA (2002), and Untitled (from the body of work: My Madinah: In pursuit of my ermitage...)(2004) will feature in this exhibition.