Sentences with phrase «most monumental works»

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

El Anatsui's most monumental works in wood, tin, and other metals go on display at Jack Shainman Gallery's Upstate New York «School.»

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

Why, then, for all his history in and around New York, did he decide to install his most monumental work in a town to which he had no real connection?

In January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted to the Blanton Museum of Art the design concept for his most monumental work, a 2,715 - square - foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black and white marble panels.

It is now the setting for some of Judd's most monumental work, like15 Untitled Works in Concrete (1980 - 1984) and 100 untitled works in mill aluminium (1982 - 1986)

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Most noted for his work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted in 1978 with the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and as co-editor of the English version of Karl Barth's monumental Church Dogmatics, Thomas Forsyth Torrance was the greatest British....

The opening words of «Creation» get the title of Charles Darwin's monumental work slightly wrong, and most of what follows seems off, too.

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.

Some of the most effective charter schools thrive because the culture of the organization is nimble and informal, inspiring teachers to work as cohesive, trusting teams and put forth monumental effort on behalf of the neediest students.

Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson — the most admired and riveting political biography of our era — which began with the best - selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.

Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson — the most admired and riveting political biography of our era — which began with the best - selling and prizewinning The Path to Power.

What has never been sufficiently taken into account by «serious» criticism is the character of these works as monumental and ironic put - ons, blagues, a favorite form of destructive wit of the period, inflated to gigantic dimensions — pictorial versions of those endemic pranks which threatened to destroy all serious values, to profane and vulgarize the most sacred verities of the times.

The most monumental of Matta - Clark's work is saved for last, as the final room contains photos, diagrams and large - scale projections of both Conical Intersect and Day's End, presented back to back with emphasis on the connection between both projects.

One of Kelley's most ambitious works is his monumental theater - turned - vaudeville installation entitled Day is Done (2005).

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.

Chicago is most well - known for her role in creating a Feminist art and art education program in California during the early 1970s, and for her monumental work The Dinner Party, executed between 1974 — 1979.

The work on view at the Hammer Museum, The Catch, is one component of Bon's most monumental endeavor to date and an action connected both to the city and to water.

The most celebrated British sculptor of the 20th century, Henry Moore was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures located all around the world as public works of art.

Her works run from the modest to the monumental — most famously the interior of an entire house — cast in plaster, resin, concrete or rubber, occasionally in metal (mundane) and lately in papier - mache (actively hideous).

This is Rubell's most wide - ranging and significant gallery exhibition to date and follows the artist's presentation of the monumental work, «Portrait of the Artist» at Frieze in 2013 and her much celebrated solo exhibition, «Engagement» at Stephen Friedman Gallery in 2011.

His most well - known works are monumental, sculpture - based public art pieces as well as palm - sized sculptures, which often depict human figures, critique American society by addressing race, sex, class and money.

Skylar Fein, born and raised in New York, was planning to be a doctor before the experience of Katrina made him instead opt for being an artist, and in a relatively short time he has become one of the city's most prominent artistic voices, with works ranging from the monumental Remember the Upstairs Lounge to more recent projects focused on music, youth and political revolution.

In her most iconic works, Nevelson utilized wooden objects she gathered from debris in urban environments to create her monumental installations.

His work has been the subject of numerous monographic museum shows — most recently, Genus and Species at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and a monumental exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Britton, UK, currently on view through September 25.

Most of this work isn't overtly political on its surface — there is Henry Taylor's monumental 2012 portrait of a woman grilling chicken on a barbecue, or Celeste Dupuy - Spencer's 2016 painting of a man making a playlist on his laptop, a cigarette - filled ashtray in front of him.

This Gallery allowed for an expanded exhibition schedule and provided facilities for large - scale works and dramatic installations, such as Peter Halley's explosive hanging of paintings and wallpaper, Marc Quinn's complete series of carved marble statues of persons with missing limbs, monumental sculpture by James Lee Byars, and, most importantly, a four - channel DVD installation by Barbara Kruger.

Through more than 50 carefully selected works — most of which are large - format, monumental paintings — the exhibition explores the push and pull of these two remarkable figures.

The work, most of which is time - or sound - based, stand as metaphors for the regions themselves — monumental, breathtaking, fleeting — creating impressions of places that can only truly be experienced in person.

The 31 works on view at Blaffer Art Museum include documentation of Chin's major science - based projects, most famously Revival Field (begun in 1990), in which he worked with agronomist Rufus Chaney on monumental «sculptures» that used phytoremediation — the use of metal - accumulating plants to absorb toxins from contaminated soil — as a reductive technique, similar to the way a sculptor carves away marble.

Most of his works are metal, and many are monumental in scale.

Epic Systems: Three Monumental Paintings by Jennifer Bartlett will bring together Bartlett's most ambitious works in an installation that spans the entirety of her significant career.

The first and most monumental of numerous black monochromes featured in this timely and well - edited survey of works by Wally Hedrick, who died in 2003 at the age of seventy - five, is War Room, 1967-68/2002, a massive volume enclosed on four sides by...

His monumental work, The Entry of Christ into New York II, was most recently acquired for the lobby of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), in Brussels, Belgium.

Monumental in scale, discipline, material and theme, some of the most renowned, international creatives exhibited their new and most famous works in New York this year.

My ambition for this work is that it should confront the monumental with the most personal, intimate experience.»

Organized in collaboration with London's Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the exhibition celebrates the artist's 80th birthday, retracing his entire career through more than 160 works (paintings, photographs, engravings, video installations, drawings and printed works), including his most iconic paintings — swimming pools, double portraits and monumental landscapes — and some of his most recent creations.

As well as his Elegy series, included are his famous summer collages as well as the black splatter lithograph Bathos, 1975 — a work on such a monumental scale, it has the impact of his most powerful canvases.

Works by Francesco Clemente, Jenny Holzer, Richard Long, and Sol LeWitt, among others, were made with Gehry's spaces in mind, and most recently Richard Serra has grouped eight monumental sculptures in a permanent installation in Bilbao's largest gallery.

Gormley's most famous works include Event Horizon (a project consisting of 31 life - size male bodies installed separately in Rio, Sao Paulo, NYC, and London), Another Place (100 cast iron sculptures of the artist's own body installed at Crosby Beach), and the monumental installation Angel of the North near Gateshead.

His most recent works have focused on monumental cast concrete

Leading the evening sale on 12 December 2017 are two large scale works: Günther Förg's (1952 — 2013) monumental 300 x 200 cm painting Untitled (1999, estimate $ 200,000 — 300,000) from the artist's most distinctive series of paintings on lead.

Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape presents a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects created between 2005 - 2009, including three recent large - scale sculptures, a series of eight wall works and a monumental drawing made on site.

This major retrospective, the most extensive survey to date of the artist's production, highlights his most influential artworks ranging from monumental letter forms, to lightboxes, to two - dimensional works that create the illusion of three dimensions.

At the heart of the exhibition is one of the most beloved works in the Stedelijk's collection: the monumental paper cut - out «The Parakeet and the Mermaid» (1952 - 53), presented with other Matisse cut - outs and rarely exhibited works in fabric and stained glass inspired by them.

Some of Fabre's most iconic works are born in this context: the series Ilad of the Bic Art; Tivoli (the film is included in the show) from 1991; the Blaue Raum of 1988; the monumental The Hour Blue in the S.M.A.K. Ghent Collection and Das Medium from 1979, one of the earliest Bic - art works, where drawing becomes the object and the medium becomes the actual body of the work.

The first internationally touring survey show dedicated to the work of one of Japan's leading and most innovative contemporary artists, this exhibition will present works from Ohtake's multifaceted practice which ranges from painting to assemblage, collage, drawing, monumental sculpture, architectural environment and sound — much of which has never been seen in the US.

In her most iconic works, she utilized wooden objects that she gathered from urban debris piles to create her monumental installations - a process clearly influenced by the precedent of Marcel Duchamp's found object sculptures and «readymades.»

And the work that Dwan championed has taken its place as some of the most influential and iconic artwork of the last century, made by individuals such as Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, John Chamberlain, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Marin, and Andy Warhol — and on to the monumental projects by Charles Ross, Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria, and Robert Smithson.

The artist will guide the audience through some of her most important works, starting with her earliest pieces and ending with her current monumental project, «Looking for Jesus».