Sentences with phrase «sized water lilies»

Although it doesn't make any historical sense (but it does look good) and in an Apollonian versus Dionysian sense perhaps it makes an esoteric point, the curators chose to place Barnett Newman's sculptureBroken Obelisk (1967), in juxtaposition with Claude Monet's mural - sized Water Lilies (ca.1921 - 25) across from paintings by Willem de Kooning, Brice Marden, and Jasper Johns.

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.

Not exact matches

He has no use for the glowing color, all - over compositions, or mural size of Pollock or of Water Lilies by Claude Monet.

To call these paintings decorative would be short - sighted, for in manipulating the size, shape, and colors of the traditional military fabric — a fabric designed not to be seen — he demonstrated an almost effortless ability to summon up an entire range of art historical references, from Chinese landscapes to Monet's Water Lilies....

Two of these luminous panels — «Reflections of Clouds on the Water - Lily Pond,» a mural - sized triptych, and «Water Lilies,» a single canvas — are among the most well - known and beloved works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.