Sentences with phrase «on a monumental scale»

Many of these pieces have been executed on a monumental scale.

Presented at a larger - than - life size, the artwork takes on a monumental scale.

As with his earlier work, Held painted on a monumental scale; the majority of these canvases measure over nine feet tall.

This American author relied on great fields of color to evoke dramatic symbolic conflicts between man and nature, a confrontation designed to take place on a monumental scale of Still's large canvases.

During their 33 - year collaboration, the husband and wife team have garnered attention for their playful sculptures of ordinary objects on a monumental scale.

I have made it three times last week alone — obviously I was craving carbs on a monumental scale.

Some people get the winter blues on a monumental scale.

Their vision was to create an art project on a monumental scale.

This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in time, with contributions from Kitsch, from graffiti, with evocations from Pop and employing popular culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more austere aspect.

Employing cutting - edge technology, seemingly fragile, air - filled vinyl blow - ups and balloon animals are reproduced in stainless steel, sometimes rendered on the monumental scale of Balloon Monkey (Blue)(2006 — 2013).

Made on a monumental scale, the paintings envelop the viewer from both their sheer size and the extensive expressive markings that make up the art work.

The unique placement, dimensions, and scale of the Atrium Gallery provide a compelling challenge to the chosen artist - a call to reinvention and active collaboration with the architecture of the Museum on a monumental scale.

Designed specifically for Faena Art Center Catedral exhibition hall, the work consisted of hand - cut openwork textiles on a monumental scale.

When David Hockney exhibited his 12 - metre - wide landscape «Bigger Trees Near Warter» at the Royal Academy's 2007 Summer Exhibition, he gave the world a glimpse of a tiny corner of East Yorkshire, albeit on a monumental scale.

Ranging from Abstract Expressionist gestures in the 1950s to clean - edged discrete pools of chroma on white fields in the 1960s, Dzubas then amassed dynamic shapes of dramatic coloration that exploded on a monumental scale in canvases during the 1970s and 1980s.

The problems with Panglossian explanations go further than this: They display not only insensitivity but also intellectual pride on a monumental scale.

Even while the tremendous harvest which a century of historically oriented scholarship had made possible was being gathered, the crisis of historicism, which Troeltsch was the first to analyze on a monumental scale, became manifest.

As with all contemporary superhero films, it is laden with spectacular effects and action sequences on a monumental scale, but there is almost a full hour of narrative build - up before the muscle - bound mayhem first kicks in.

«With Helm's Deep, we're bringing the War of the Ring to players on a monumental scale,» said Kate Paiz, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online, Turbine.

The intricate flourishes of reflected black pools and bold silhouettes, painted and then printed on a monumental scale, confront each viewer individually.

By drawing the inspiration from the history of the local site, where train locomotives were built during the twentieth century, this work recreates the silhouette of a city train on a monumental scale.

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.

Designed by Malibu - based architect Lester Tobias, the new gallery building features an immense space with 22 - foot ceilings, allowing for stunning exhibitions on a monumental scale.

Depicting personally significant landscapes on a monumental scale, Douglas offers the viewer the opportunity to enter the works on their own terms and experience the highly charged potency that lies within the ordinary moment.

New York - based artist Frank Stella's Ohonoo (1994), part of his iconic Moby Dick series, evokes elements of graffiti such as distinct lines, sweeping gestures, and bright colors done on a monumental scale.

The 2004 painting, 4 Pattern Dub, on a monumental scale at nearly 9 feet square, isn't a cut - up at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape abstractions of Arthur Dove.

Mark di Suvero's signature steel beam constructions suggest strength, beauty and form on a monumental scale.

The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest.

Visitors to the exhibition can expect to see photographs on a monumental scale, such as Sarah Jones» The Spare Room, and others on an exceedingly intimate scale, like Ann Hamilton's Portal.

The most ubiquitous media used by Socialist Realist artists was the poster, although painting and sculpture was also produced, typically on a monumental scale, showing fearless individuals and groups in idealistic and heroic poses.

Like his masters, Thomas Struth shot one - point perspective of empty, unpopulated scenes, sometimes of the streets in Düsseldorf, and later in his career made pictures on a monumental scale: The photos in his museum series are as big as the paintings they depict.

They were exhibited last year at the Academy's galleries along with several wall paintings that share elements with the paintings but engaged with the architecture on a monumental scale.

The exhibition's largest work, overdose (1997), presents a conglomeration of brightly - colored graphics on a monumental scale, depicting laundry detergent packaging, an ice cream wrapper, a club flyer, and Woody from the animated film Toy Story, a recurring character in Majerus's work.

The lightboxes, usually constructed on a monumental scale, elevate the subject matter by making a high level of detail perceptible to the viewer.

Influential in minimalism, conceptual art, and land art, De Maria designed works in which simple shapes were repeated on a monumental scale.

Fishman has executed many of these pieces on a monumental scale.

Based on the implied relationship between size and scale, fit for Chamberlain is the sculptural equivalent of collage or assemblage on a monumental scale.

Weber uses cardboard as her medium (sometimes cast in bronze for public projects) and achieves beauty from the quotidian on a monumental scale that is both humble and spectacular at the same time.

Magdalena Abakanowicz also works on a monumental scale using rope and fiber in impressive geometric, circular shapes.

Combining the action of Abstract Expressionism with the raw, procedural grind of Process Art, his sculptures recast Minimalism on a monumental scale.

However, whereas Smithson's sculpture was made out of basalt rock and salt crystals on a monumental scale and was intended to become a permanent feature of the Great Salt Lake landscape in which it was made, Long's spiral made out of seaweed was more modest in scale and ephemeral in nature.

Throughout his career, the German artist Anselm Kiefer has confronted the weight of the past and the power of myth on a monumental scale.

This week the RA welcomes the works of German artist Anselm Kiefer: from intimate watercolours and artist's books, to vast paintings, complex sculpture, and installations on a monumental scale.