Sentences with phrase «of religious icons»

Consequently, nearly the entire space was filled with shattered stone statues of religious icons.

Usually memorials for large numbers of people avoid overt displays of religious icons if the people were of different beliefs.

Flavin was very aware of the traditional placement of religious icons in corners, like the Russian Constructivist Kasmir Malevich much admired for his black squares, but instead he made icons of light, with what he referred to as «blank magic».

Flavin was very aware of the traditional placement of religious icons in corners, like the Russian Constructivist Kazimir Malevich, known for his black squares, but instead he made icons of light, with what he referred to as «blank magic».

They opted to replace him with the study of religious icons, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.

Icon Rus is a based Gallery with an international clientele specialising in the sale and restoration of religious icons.

But instead of a religious icon, the tribe clearly just see the gorilla as a symbolic figure, taking a cue from the Christopher Priest - scripted Black Panther comic.

She has a talent for sharing what the surroundings look like, describing even the tiniest detail of the books on a shelf in a college office or the look and feel of a religious icon.

All is not quite as it seems in galleries over the festive season and beyond: fossils of mermaids are discovered, blood stains metamorphose into florid enchantments and pop celebrities assume the numinous aura of religious icons.

Also during this period, Bayrle began to directly address the seductive nature of technology by creating paintings, paper assemblages, and kinetic sculptures that adopt the language of religious icon and symbols.

As the exhibit progresses, animals become more prominent, finally exploding in the last gallery with dynamic paintings of birds, including a magnificent Raven with the brooding intensity of a religious icon on a monumental scale more usually associated with contemporary realism.

Often these works are beautiful: Friendship (1963), a large panel of gold leaf incised to produce a grid of tiny shimmering rectangles, is as sumptuous as a wall of religious icons.

It had the moral conviction of a religious icon and the persuasiveness of the advertising man's dream soap commercial - yet it was a present reality».

Video loops of enlarged permutated cancer cells are juxtaposed with grids of religious icons.

So there's a mass - reproduced poster of Little Richard — one that Leckey had in his kitchen, he says it is the equivalent of a religious icon — against that is propped a cut - out of the figure of Prince Albert from the Albert Memorial in Kensington — and against that is propped a printed photograph of a particular breed of pigeon with a very puffed - out chest, called a Pouter.

But his paintings have the luminous magnetism of religious icons and of the work made by Medieval and Early Renaissance manuscript illuminators who were the architects of Western painting.

The intimate setting heightens appreciation of his efforts both as carefully thought - out paintings — against the notion of speed, evoked by his signature vertical «zips» — and also as votive objects in the tradition of religious icons and sacred masks, shields and staffs.

Two Marilyns, 1962, and Twenty Jackies, 1964, exemplify Warhol's mixture of the techniques of mass reproduction with the older, established painting genres of religious icons or portraiture.

plus those old black and white photos of my grandparents and great - grandparents that mean so much to me... a couple of religious icons.

However to privelege one belief system above another is not; this would include the display of religious icons / symbols on public property maintained with taxpayer dollars.

you want to display the christian cross at a site where people of many faiths died, then be willing to display each of those religious icons as well.

The painting's golden background, bright yellow behind the chain - link fence on which the man rests, reminds me of a religious icon.