Sentences with phrase «works on a colossal scale»

Characteristics of this movement include works on a colossal scale which are sometimes intense, spontaneous, and extraordinarily expressive, while other times they are more contemplative through the use of vast color fields.

Not exact matches

Still, Passengers is lucidly directed by Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian whose first English - language feature was The Imitation Game, and the production design by Guy Hendrix Dyas, who won a Bafta for his work on Inception, is strikingly good, particularly all the elements that are not space - rockety but cruise - linery, giant malls and lavish cabins, all on a colossal scale.

American artists who share his interest in space and time have famously recreated ancient art on a Stonehenge scale: James Turrell claims direct inspiration from the Stone Age for his natural observatory in a crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, and the colossal dimensions of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah make it one of the post-1960s works that will always capture imaginations.

Known for his colossal and provocative black - and - white portraits plastered in urban centers, JR will create a new, large - scale work towering 25 feet high on the exterior of Pier 94 at The Armory Show in New York City.

After all, it would be very surprising if Lucian Freud or Howard Hodgkin found a way to work on a truly colossal scale.