Sentences with phrase «whose figures marked»

Most likely, as noted by Maria Reiche, a German who devoted his life to studying the lines, it is a monumental astronomical calendar whose figures marked different solar periods or phases.

Not exact matches

Next there appeared in the same attitude a figure of great age and dignity, whose wonderful air of authority marked him as a man of the utmost distinction.

St John Paul - whose feast we mark in October - was a much - televised figure and drew vast crowds on world pilgrimages.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

Mark - Viverito was seen by some of her colleagues as a divisive figure, whose strong liberal positions rubbed council members the wrong way.

The brown figure striding through Google's logo today represents Lucy, a fossil whose discovery marked a turning point in the study of human evolution.

Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward play the «four horsemen,» as their tough, taciturn Sergeant (Lee Marvin) names them, the eternal figures in a rifle squad filled out by a couple of hundred replacements whose names they finally give up trying to learn over the four years of combat.

The activities of that era provided a path for the increasingly influential voices and innovative practices of new generations of contemporary artists working today, figures such as Nina Chanel Abney, Mark Bradford, and Adam Pendleton, whose recent publications are also among the best of 2017.

The Painted World includes paintings by important historical figures such as Paul Feeley (1910 - 1966), Yayoi Kusama, and Myron Stout (1908 - 1987); Moira Dryer (1957 - 1992) and Steven Parrino (1958 - 2005), two influential artists whose lives were cut short; and younger artists who are seriously pursuing abstraction, such as Mark Grotjahn and Ann Pibal.

Even now it could be too late for some of the artists on its wish list, such as contemporary figures like painter Mark Bradford and painter - sculptor Kerry James Marshall, whose prices are now topping seven figures, or Harlem Renaissance hero Aaron Douglas, whose works are both expensive and scarce.

«Mark Tobey was a vanguard figure whose «white writing» anticipated yet stood apart from the brash aesthetic of such New York School artists as Jackson Pollock.

On view through March 11, 2018, Mark Tobey: Threading Light reappraises a vanguard figure of mid-century American modernism, whose work was deeply influenced by his travels to Asia.

Nor are Antony Gormley, who made the giant Angel of the North, or Anish Kapoor, whose spiralling tower marks the London Olympics, towering figures for today's sculptors.

This is the intersection of traditional and «street» sensibilities, from Mexican - born artist Carlos Donjuán's paintings of masked figures to the atmospheric drawings of Bucharest - based artist Mark Francis Williams, whose work responds to the new shopping malls around his city.

These figures inhabit settings of densely patterned drapery and wallpaper whose clashing layers verge on non-objective fields of mark making.

Creative figures featured in the exhibition include Anish Kapoor, whose Orbit sculpture stands outside the Olympic Park, Martin Creed, who will mark the start of the Games with a bell - ringing project, and director Stephen Daldry, the executive producer of ceremonies at the Games.

Rubinstein notes that the only artist who figures in both the «Provisional Painting» essays and Reinventing Abstraction is Mary Heilmann, but another shared touchstone for the two groups is Philip Guston, whose life intersects with the lives of many of the artists in this show, 1 and whose death in 1980 marks the beginning of the decade in question (As Rubinstein quotes Terry Winters: «in a way, the»80s began with Guston.»)

an influential figure whose opinions are helping to shape government policy and make their mark on the future of renewable energy in the UK.