Sentences with phrase «monumental works like»

Laib: Yes, as you know I made very small pieces as well as monumental works like the ziggurat pieces made of beeswax.

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Considering the less than stellar track record of Stephen King adaptations (including the recently released monumental failure that is The Dark Tower), it's pleasant to report that director Andy Muschietti's (Mama) stab at one of the writer's most revered works of art doesn't float like a lifeless corpse down in Pennywise's sewer lair, but instead propels forward with frightful momentum and probably the best character work that could be done when bringing such a lengthy and detailed story to the silver screen.

It's like Gaben had an idea, did the minimum work to make the idea happen, struck gold with ignorant people looking for something different who then couldn't stop praising (and vociferously defending) it even with the monumental problems the service continues to have, and with each new «addition» to the service it's met with either intense hatred by the consumers (paid mods) or is abused by consumers and hated by the devs (refunds).

Bourgeois's diverse practice included drawings, paintings, textiles, embroidered works, sculpture, and installations ranging in scale from a few inches to monumental, fully immersive environments like Untitled (1991 - 2000), the 15 - ton marble sculpture that is the centerpiece of her exhibition at MASS MoCA.

Most of these are more intimately scaled than the early monumental «Fuck» paintings, 1969 — , for which the artist is perhaps best known, doing away with some of the optic strangeness of those works and replacing it with something similar to, but not quite like, eroticism.

Each artist has multiple, large - scale pieces on view; Kerstin Brätsch's monumental works on paper encased in glass lean against the gallery entryway like laid - back bouncers.

The monumental works of Danish artist Rasmus Danø orbit the dark side of modernity: The atom bomb, the polluted landscape, the decay of pop culture back yards like Disneyland and Graceland.

The monumental, festive canvases of Abstract Expressionism, like the christening of a ship including a titled reference to the god of wine, are exemplary inaugural works.

Titled Mana Monumental, the exhibition features projects that utilize colossal proportions as a means to connect with viewers in a personal, meaningful way — much like Jackson Pollock and Sol Lewitt, whose sizable work effectively enveloped viewers with the sheer experience of confronting them.

The bronze tabletop sculptural model references a monumental ship - like structure that would serve as a public work commemorating the slave passage from Africa.

Like most monumental works, The Feminine Mystique evokes an already remote past but refuses to go away.

Sculptor Forrest Myers moved to New York from the West Coast in 1961 and by the late sixties was becoming known for works both large and small: monumental sculptures like Four Corners and the diminutive Moon Museum that carried the work of Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol and Myers himself to the moon on a tiny ceramic wafer attached to the Apollo 12 lander.

Along with a surfeit of fruit and flower pictures, there are many terrific works by well - known artists, from the 19th century trompe l'oeil masters William Michael Harnett and John Frederick Peto to Modernists like Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gerald Murphy, whose monumental - scale «Watch» (1924 — 25) represents the inner works of a pocket watch in a flattened, proto - Pop style.

Taraval Beach (1977), another monumental floor - to - ceiling work, seems to the viewer less like a flat surface and more like an opening into a three - dimensional dark void.

In addition, Bradford has created two new works related to Mithra, his monumental, ark - like public art project installed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans for the Prospect.1 exhibition in 2008: a major new sculpture (titled Detail), which incorporates elements from Mithra, and a film titled Across Canal, which examines the conception, production, and reception of that work.

His method is often described as highly experimental: typically working on a large scale, Ruff has said that he likes the physical presence of a monumental work, making size just as much a part of the viewer's experience as what is depicted in the photograph itself.

Additionally, two new works related to Mithra, his monumental, ark - like public art project installed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans for the Prospect.1 exhibition in 2008, will be featured: a major new sculpture titled Detail, which incorporates elements from Mithra, and a film titled Across Canal, which examines the conception, production, and reception of that work.

Layered in image & texture, monumental in - scale, and featuring bold strokes, free gestures, and vibrant colors, works from 1985 to 2005 record in an abstract vein a period of intensified cultural and demographic transition even for an ever - changing city like New York.

Like the monumental backdrop paintings first shown in the exhibition «Left Behind» in 2010 at CAPC, Bordeaux, these new works are painted over used theatrical scenic backdrops bought by the artist.

Like her works involving baths, Untitled (Square Sink)-- a sculpture of the space found underneath a household sink — has an almost funereal, monumental solidity.

Ms. Holt, who lived and worked for many years in Galisteo, N.M., was one of the few women to pursue monumental sculpture in the American West, a place whose wide - open spaces drew a generation of restless artists like Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, James Turrell and Robert Smithson, whom Ms. Holt married in 1963.

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

Because as a collector, every dealer in town is happy to present to me their ambitious and exciting works and I was well known to have been involved in Jeff Koons celebration pieces, and Urs Fisher monumental bronze sculptures, and pieces by many different artists, like Murakami and Damien Hirst.

Upstairs, Israel's monumental painting Sky Backdrop will be installed among 18th - century Beauvais tapestries; and the permanent installation of Renaissance bronze sculptures will make room for Israel's Maltese Falcon (cast bronze with black patina), while a room hung with works of art related to the Grand Tour will include Desperado — an acrylic - on - bronze, souvenir - like sculpture depicting a vintage convertible in a desert setting.

Groff introduces Tompkins work noting: «What is remarkable about these paintings isn't just the amazing technical skills in achieving these monumental structures but in how he makes it seem like it's all such great fun.

The atelier also developed projects like Gerhard Richter's monumental work STRONTIUM for the De Young Museum in San Francisco and his window at the COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.

First of all is the «subversive design» of Ettore Sottsass for the Studio Memphis followed by the graphic design of Peter Saville and Neville Brody; architectural models and rendering, together with preparatory drawings by Philip Johnson for the AT&T skyscraper (1978); works by Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman and Ai Weiwei; the 1986 stainless steel bust of Louis XIV by Jeff Koons; the reconstruction of the monumental work by Jenny Holzer «Protect Me From What I Want» (1983 - 85); performances and costumes, including the «Big Suit» worn by David Byrne for the documentary «Stop Making Sense» of 1984; extracts from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isozaki.

Like his contemporary Andreas Gursky, Struth's work is often printed to a monumental scale, encouraging comparisons to history painting and other grand forms.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Like the monumental «180 Farben», a work provided by the Gerhard Richter Archive in Dresden.

They pack the same visual punch as the monumental plank and column works downstairs yet possess a greater sense of preciousness... like Fabergé eggs of our time.

Whilst Black denies the gendered nature of her sculptures, it is difficult not to interpret her work as overtly «feminine» in a traditional sense — materials associated with house - keeping, beauty and nursing recur within her work, along with formal motifs like bows, canopies and nests, in pretty fondant colours — suggesting an oppositional stance to the traditionally masculine, monumental and heroic idea of the history of sculpture.

But if Brazil sounds a tad more manageable, it's still quite a lot to fit into one exhibition: four centuries of art and culture represented by 350 items ranging from Dutch depictions of the Brazilian landscape, Amazonian feather capes, and a monumental Baroque altarpiece to Neo-Concrete objects by Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark and works by contemporary artists like Ernesto Neto.

Later commissions, including works for Barcelona including the totem - like structure in Plaza del General Moragues (1987), were even more monumental in scale and significance.

Like even the most monumental works that use theme and variations (think Bach, Goldberg), the show begins with an elementary melody.

This format, in turn, is reminiscent of other of his works, such as Já estava assim quando cheguei -LCB- It was already like this when I arrived -RCB-(2006), a monumental sculpture in plaster that mirrors the curves of Pão de Açúcar.

Oldenburg's monumental objects become gum blobs, in PK1 and PK2 (1998), that are elevated near the ceiling with a Turk twist, While the direct references to art history are nothing new, like the historically referenced photographs of Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura, Turk's work doesn't appear to raise friction between gender or culture.

Comprising of two facing thirty metre - long walls, the work's monumental scale places the viewer as a stroller in an arcade - like passageway.

In addition, Bradford is creating two new works related to Mithra, his monumental, ark - like public art project installed in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans for the Prospect.1 exhibition in 2008: a major new sculpture (titled Detail), which incorporates elements from Mithra, and a film titled Across Canal, which examines the conception, production, and reception of that work.

We pass from room to room: first, Me, Jesus and the Children, a monumental trompe l'oeil spray painting of Dan's chest, a Jesus piece, and cartoon cherub psychopomps who crash the viewer into its solid plastic face; then, Whatever, a 5» x 6» scene extracted from Pinocchio, where an extinguished candle lights a room; two walls of Confetti, the Moments Like These Never Last series, as varied in aura as they are in approach and technique; four walls of indomitable Trash paintings; four more of his Miracle works, oil medium and raw pigment powder conjurations so boundless they literally escape their backings.

In other works, however, the themes feel like an abstract frame forced upon individual positions, for instance, in Monika Sosnowska's Façade (2013), a hanging steel sculpture of a crumpled architectural grid, or Oscar Murillo's unnecessary monumental installation Condiciones aún por titular (Conditions yet not known), 2014 — 17, taking over the courtyard of Bait Al Serkal with excavations, sawn canvases, paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables, picturing the process of a personal archaeology.