Sentences with phrase «landscapes on a monumental scale»

Depicting personally significant landscapes on a monumental scale, Douglas offers the viewer the opportunity to enter the works on their own terms and experience the highly charged potency that lies within the ordinary moment.

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When David Hockney exhibited his 12 - metre - wide landscape «Bigger Trees Near Warter» at the Royal Academy's 2007 Summer Exhibition, he gave the world a glimpse of a tiny corner of East Yorkshire, albeit on a monumental scale.

The 2004 painting, 4 Pattern Dub, on a monumental scale at nearly 9 feet square, isn't a cut - up at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape abstractions of Arthur Dove.

Frequently working on a monumental scale, with extreme horizontal paper or panel, Winn focuses attention to the breadth of the landscape.

Walking in the landscape is the basis of Long's practice but over the past 40 years he has extended his concerns to encompass photographic and text - based work, sculptures made in stone and wood, small - scale works using handprints and fingerprints on paper and driftwood, and monumental wall drawings made using mud and clay.

It was at this point that the figure fell away from McFadyen's work and the full - blown landscape, often a serious comment on life in the modern urban environment, and on a monumental scale, emerged and continues to preoccupy him to this day.

However, whereas Smithson's sculpture was made out of basalt rock and salt crystals on a monumental scale and was intended to become a permanent feature of the Great Salt Lake landscape in which it was made, Long's spiral made out of seaweed was more modest in scale and ephemeral in nature.