Sentences with phrase «on a monumental scale of»

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.

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).

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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.

The book is a probing into human evil on a vast scale, demonstrating the power of twisted ideas to wreak monumental horror when ruthlessness is deemed the supreme virtue.

He attacked party members who argued that Labour was «getting on with the job», saying «it fails to recognise the monumental scale of the electoral rejection that we had last Thursday».

Adopting renewable energy on a grand scale is a monumental task that requires next - generation technologies born out of breakthrough discoveries that push the boundaries in materials science, chemistry and engineering.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

Unless the current oil mega-corporations decide to leverage their monumental assets on wide - scale clean production of hydrogen, it's destined to remain a regional alternative fuel experiment.

«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.

Thus, an exhibition now on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York that showcases a number of Müller's mature, large - scale paintings is a welcome, if short lived, opportunity to see his monumental Abstract Expressionist allegories.

From 1950 to 1970, Calder's oeuvre took on a monumental dimension as his focus diverted to the creation of large - scale sculptures.

Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin's practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition — how knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience or how life is recognized only at the edge of death.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

«Appropriating the monumental scale, stark composition and dramatic light of the Abstract Expressionists, he would beat the heroic generation at their own game,» the critic Carter Ratcliff wrote in a 2005 monograph on Katz.

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.

Following her monumental installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery, Building 5, in 2007 — which marked her first indoor projection in the U.S. — Holzer returns with a campus - wide series of work that will include a large - scale outdoor projection on the River Street side of the factory's complex titled For North Adams, 21 of her celebrated carved stone benches located throughout MASS MoCA's sprawling campus, an installation of her Inflammatory Essays posters, and rotating exhibitions of her work spanning the breadth of her career.

Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, DeLucia's work centers on images of domestic objects rendered in monumental scale through sculpture and relief.

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

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.

The artwork of Edgar Heap of Birds includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large - scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Dramatically displayed in a 2nd century AD forum just steps from the Coliseum, the exhibition features a number of Atchugarry's sculptures on both a small and monumental scale.

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

Considered «maquettes» - some for realised commissions, and others propositions for works on a monumental scale - this body of...

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.

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.

The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery's booth at The Armory Show.

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.

Known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures, the Art School's 2018 Visiting Ceramic Artist, Beth Cavener, will discuss her inspirations, body of work, and unusual method of working «solid» on a monumental scale.

As it turned out in the decades before and after World War II, Picasso, Matisse, Miró and the New York School continued to make monumental mural scale paintings on the level of the greatest art of the past.

Though working on a diminutive scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele draws on rigorous observations of the real world to create fragmented images that waver between recognizable form and nonobjective abstraction.

As his large scale works on canvas and on paper suggest at once the monumental and the fundamental dynamism of nature, these new prints convey scale and movement beyond the possibilities their modest formats suggest.

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 current exhibition presents a selection of Riopelle's large - scale paintings from the early 1950s through the 1970s in addition to four monumental works on paper from the 1960s.

Often monumental in scale and interlaced with shells, beads, and feathers, her art took on a mystical quality — a «defiance of ordinary verbal communication,» she called it.

But the artist and critic Brian O'Doherty did something of the sort in the 1970s, when he wrote of how far both the creation and canonisation of modern art had been informed by the dominant «white cube» model of gallery space, which had conferred a monumental aura on much large - scale abstract painting.

Along with more than two decades of both intimately scaled and monumental ceramic sculptures, Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped includes Rosen's works on paper, «which in many ways are studies for the sculptures but in other ways are very autonomous bodies of work,» Cassel Oliver said.

The choice of scale is self - confident, as with the domestic size canvases by Varda Caivano that do not need to be monumental to make their powerful visual arguments, or the vast, unstretched linen that Jessica Warboys paints on the seashore.

They could be on the scale of Andreas Gursky's or Thomas Ruff's work, but these photographs show that images don't have to be blown up to huge dimensions to be monumental...»

The unique placement, dimensions and scale of the Atrium Gallery will challenge the artists, a call to reinvention and active collaboration with the architecture of the museum 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.

Often tropical in their subject matter, these are paintings of intense color on a monumental scale.

Poppy Fields features a series of vividly colored, oil on linen paintings that are uniquely intimate in scale and nature compared to the artist's iconic large - scale Ash paintings and monumental sculptures.

Sonic Acts: Vertical Cinema February 20 — 23, 2014 During four consecutive days, ten large - scale commissioned film works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be presented on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom - built projector in the monumental staircase of the Stedelijk.

And at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1940s he could be found painting a monumental series whose subject was Women, albeit women painted on a scale and with an intensity unlike anything else in the history of art.

[6] Ravenal noted that Weiner once described LeWitt as the last of the Abstract Expressionists, perhaps commenting on «his [LeWitt's] command of monumental scale, mastery of color, distinctiveness of voice, and overall expressive power that, nonetheless, was founded on a rejection of just these sorts of concerns in the Abstract Expressionist generation that proceeded him.»

Some fans of the artist Orly Genger may know her from the cult - favorite line of intimate sculptural bracelets she makes with the jeweler Jaclyn Meyer, but true core of her art will be revealed to a mass audience: she's actually a shaper of ambitious, monumental works, on the scale of an El Anatsui or Richard Serra.

In the early Sixties he began to address the problem of three - dimensionality and focused his research on the forms of solid geometry, then towards the monumental scale.

«Black Block» Is Newest Brooklyn Buy — So taken is the Brooklyn Museum with their current exhibition of large - scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, that the institution has decided to purchase «Black Block,» an unusually monochromatic wall hanging comprised of everyday materials, which is currently on display in the institutions's current show, «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» and will be traveling to museums in Des Moines, Miami Beach San Diego once the exhibition ends in August.

The trio represented the country at the 1997 Venice Biennale, a moment regarded as monumental in the industry, as the importance of aboriginal women's art was recognised on an international scale.