Sentences with phrase «monumental wall reliefs»

Known for his monumental wall reliefs and sculptures of animals from the 1970s, American artist Bernard Langlais (1921 — 1977) created a diverse oeuvre of paintings, sculptures and environments that shifted regularly and freely between abstraction and figuration — a shift that reflects Langlais» constant effort to reconcile his rural roots (in Maine) and keen sense of place with postwar artistic movements and ideologies.

Known for his monumental wall reliefs and sculptures of animals from the 1970s, Maine - born artist Bernard Langlais (1921 — 1977) produced a rich and diverse oeuvre in his 56 years.

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Her monumental wall - relief, Acid Rain, 2001, is larger - than life (9 x 16 feet) yet incredibly intricate.

«Shadows Remain» consists of wall reliefs and monumental freestanding floor pieces that are at once abstract and referential, evoking forces of...

Known to many for his monumental bronze tree installed in the Karlsaue Park for dOCUMENTA (13), Germinazione (Germination), 2001 is a dramatically beautiful, all - white wall relief of a branch incased within resin and steel and suspended from wire.

The installation, Le Magasin Monumental, is composed of mixed - media pieces, «reliefs au mur» constructed out of discarded materials (wire, weathered wood and stories) and installed on the wall among circles painted in pale, pastel colours.

The museum purchased «Town of Hope,» a 1927 painting by Archibald Motley; a Two - Handled Jug, by enslaved South Carolina artisan David Drake, dated 1840; and two works by Sanford Biggers, «Khemestry» (2017), a wall relief with antique quilts, and «Overstood» (2017), which features a monumental wall silhouette of Black Panther figures casting a shadow over diminutive African statuettes.

In the 1980s and»90s, Stella turned away from Minimalism, adopting a more additive approach for a series of twisting, monumental, polychromatic metal wall reliefs and sculptures based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

In Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites (1991 — 99), an installation sculpture made from untidy clusters of toys suspended from the ceiling, a dozen monochrome plush - toy spheres, linked by a system of cables and pulleys across the ceiling, orbit around a central, rainbow - colored blob; ten large, geometrically faceted, brightly colored wall - reliefs are actually monumental dispensers of pine - scented air freshener, which automatically send their cleansing spray into the room at timed intervals.