Sentences with phrase «on mythic proportions»

His deeds take on mythic proportions as he kills his prey with an assegai, a Xhosa sword of vengeance.

The story of the Paskowitz clan has taken on mythic proportions in the surfing community, and with reason.

Apparently, there's an old North Korean myth about Tongmyong, who founded the real - life Koguryo Kingdom and is something like the Western world's King Arthur: a real person whose feats have slowly taken on mythic proportions.

So Donald Miller and I had a short exchange on Twitter yesterday which has for some reason taken on mythic proportions among some of our followers, with folks labeling it a «throwdown,» a «smackdown,» and a «feud.»

Not exact matches

But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on human transformation but on the struggle of good and evil forces in the world, a struggle of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.

Using the mechanics of rehearsal and re-enactment in urban environments, Alÿs comments on the politics of public space with both solitary actions and large - scale collaborations, where the culmination of many small acts achieves mythic proportions.

2002 Illustraded Catalog, Big Girl Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2001 Included in exhibition, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami 2000 Included in exhibitions: The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture: Contemporary American Sculpture, Monaco; The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 1999 Included in exhibitions: The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Bad - Bad: That is a Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden - Baden, Germany 1997 Included in exhibitions: The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992 - 1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; La Biennale de Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice 1996 Release of film, Basquiat, directed and produced by Schnabel 1994 Julian Schnabel: Retrospective, at the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; included in exhibition, U.S. Painting of the 1980s, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Included in Drawing the Line Against AIDS, exhibition in conjunction with Art Against AIDS Venezia, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venice 1992 Included in exhibitions: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, at the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France; Manifeste, at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1991 Solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel, at the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; included in exhibitions: The 1980's: Selections from the Permanent Collection, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Toward a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, 1985 - 1991, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California 1989 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975 - 1988, originating at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1986 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1975 - 1986, originating at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1985 Completes four etching, lithographs published by Pace Editions, New York 1984 - 2001 Solo exhibitions at PaceWildenstein, New York 1984 First solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery, New York 1979 First solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York