Sentences with phrase «pieces on a monumental scale»

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The exhibition features 31 works including monumental and small - scale pieces installed throughout the sculpture park and museum, and is focused on a new commission that resurrects Deacon's 1993 work Never Mind, which has been re-fabricated in stainless steel.

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.

Each artist has multiple, large - scale pieces on view; Kerstin Brätsch's monumental works on paper encased in glass lean against the gallery entryway like laid - back bouncers.

These pieces took on an increasingly abstract style and monumental scale.

In the main gallery, Price will show three large - scale sculptures that continue the expansion of his practice into more monumental sizes, which he began working on shortly after his last exhibition at the gallery in 2006, in which he debuted his first large - scale piece.

The Royal Academy exhibition will present a chronological examination of a body of work which includes pieces on an epic, monumental scale, and which ranges across a breadth of media from painting and sculpture to photography to installation.

Highlights include: Flags I Jasper Johns» richly layered 1973 screenprint, presenting an iconic image within the artist's oeuvre in its most striking graphic form; a monumental screenprint on linen, Océanie, la mer, Henri Matisse's largest scale editioned piece and a brilliant example of his use of «cut - outs»; Andy Warhol's beloved Flowers, a powerful wall of color that is his 1970 portfolio of 10; and Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother's Shoulder (No. 2), Mary Cassatt's unique pastel counterproof, portraying the artist's extraordinary ability to capture maternal love.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.