Sentences with phrase «most totemic»

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

If it seems an unlikely admission of weakness from this most totemic of modern painters, it's nonetheless telling.

Not exact matches

The veteran striker, who will turn 37 in January, has always been the most endearing of footballers, a totemic, endearingly self - deprecating being who has always exuded an air of contentment throughout his career.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

It is in their ability to navigate between the abstract and the figurative, the technical and the totemic, that these works take their place among the twenty - first century's most captivating painterly projects.

What most struck me about paintings such as Untitled (Red Butterfly)(2002) and others was how Grotjahn had commandeered Newman's totemic and cabbalistic «zips» - those declarative vertical stripes judiciously deployed to rend and reconcile oppositional forces on the picture plane Old Testament - style - and so handily retro - fitted them with the lollipop palette of Kenneth Noland, the geometrically compartmentalized painterliness of Alfred Jensen and the segmented cartwheeling compositions of early 1960s Frank Stella.

Its traces and impulses continue to extend well into the 21st Century, and many of its totemic artist figures remain some of the most revered and mythologized in contemporary art.

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.

The Krasner's woody gray and rose verticals almost cry out for the company of some of Louise Bourgeois's totemic sculptures from the early 1950s, which may be the most innovatively abstract and expressionist of postwar American sculptures.

One of the most arresting visual comparisons has American cartoonist R. Crumb's graphic novel of all fifty chapters of The Book of Genesis (2009) wrapped around a circular room containing a quasi-anthropological display of terracotta dragons, demons, and totemic figures by Shinichi Sawada, a self - taught Japanese sculptor, who suffers from severe autism.