Sentences with phrase «swooping black forms»

Alexander Calder's The Plow, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

, a six - foot - tall sculpture of swooping black forms commissioned by the Rockefellers in 1967 was estimated to sell for $ 2.5 million to $ 3.5 million but quickly passed that top figure as a handful of telephone bidders fought with a bidder in the room.

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Enchanted suits of armor marching to war, Voldemort's Death Eaters swooping about like puffs of black smoke, magical flames that take the form of gigantic dragons, wizards firing killing curses left and right — not to mention, multiple deaths, dark secrets revealed, and even some romance for those left standing.

It has become a commonplace that Stella peaked too early, and that the deep - thinking black paintings and other inexpressive canvases of the 1960s have more virtue than the hulking late works, whose swooping forms seem more pedestrian.

Their shapes — some swooping curves, others masses of black in various blocks of form — are so powerful in the room that the Nasher's own seminal sculpture by Serra almost recedes from our visual world.»