Not exact matches
Prior to 1950, monumentally
sized art was generally reserved for
mural paintings in the narrative tradition and abstraction was explored on an easel -
sized scale.
Adele Renault is a Belgium painter best known for her photo realistic portraits — creating it from small
scale canvases to wall
sized murals.
Known for his large
scale murals and wall work SatOne has emerged as one of todays top muralists, with «In Memoriam» the artist
scales down a bit in
size but not in detail.
Large
scale installation and
mural sized paintings were out, with pieces embracing a domestic
scale very much the flavour of the day.
Initially, these compositions were of modest
size but, over time, their
scale grew along with Matisse's ambitions for them, expanding into
mural or room -
size works.
Monet's
mural -
sized Water Lilies and the grand canvases of the Abstract Expressionists - designed to overwhelm in a conventionally
scaled, mid-century exhibition space - looked like postage stamps at the bottom of the multistoried atrium.
The
mural's monumental
scale anticipates the billboard -
size works of James Rosenquist, while the ragged, life -
size cardboard cut - outs also seem to foreshadow Claes Oldenburg's landmark installation of 1960, The Street.
Since the 1990s Stella has explored this concept in increasingly complex two - and three - dimensional works of various materials, such as the large -
scale aluminum and steel sculpture Raft of the Medusa (Part I) and the
mural -
size painting Earthquake in Chile.
Striking attention to detail, elaborate lines, mixture of techniques, all add to the emotional frenzy Schoultz's images cause, whether they are large -
scale murals or intimate small -
sized works.
With two additional stars of the show, both of them located outside the gallery: an eye - catching large
scale mural painted on the wall of the gallery space and a life -
size installation of an iconic American police cruiser crushed by the world famous D * Dog sculpture that landed on its windshield.
Struth uses the
mural -
scale prints that have become a trope in contemporary art, not least in Germany — he is a peer of Thomas Ruff and Andreas Gursky, having graduated from the same Kunstakademie Düsseldorf program taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher — and the
size and deep color of his images are crucial to their effect: In the museum work in particular (Struth also makes streetscapes and portraits),
After years of largely focusing on the all - over image, as Gottlieb progressed he embraced a focused composition and a larger
scale, as in the
mural -
sized painting Unstill Life III (1954 — 56).
Ranging in
scale from three inches to nearly 40 feet, the exhibit features mixed - media installations in a presentation of approximately 50 unique objects, dating from 1796 to the present, in particular with the inclusion of large works by four contemporary women artists: Kara Walker, with her panoramic wall
murals, Camille Utterback via an interactive digital installation that reacts to visitors» movements and shadows, Kristi Malakoff's life -
size cutouts of children dancing around a Maypole, and Kumi Yamashita's intricate, shadowy installations.
Barbara Takenaga's «Night Painting (JFM)» (2016), in a show of her celestial paintings that range from laptop -
size works to nearly
mural -
scale ones.
In paintings ranging fromthe
size of a laptop to nearly
mural -
scale, she represents visions of night skies in which meteor showers, gaseous explosions and other sorts of astronomical phenomena are happening.
Murals reflect a recent development in the artist's practice, and by translating her paintings into complex wall -
sized works, they stand as a new avenue for her to engage with
scale as well as the ongoing themes central to her overall oeuvre.
This exhibition spans the entirety of the artist's career and features more than fifty large -
scale paintings — many of them
mural size — in addition to architectural models, and video interviews.