Sentences with phrase «works on the grand scale»

Researchers with the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation are putting that concept to work on a grand scale, monitoring the surface vibrations of thousands of stars to learn their ages, sizes, and inner dynamics.

Some theories say that dark matter is only an illusion caused by a failure to understand the way gravity works on the grand scale of the universe.

He may not be working on a grand scale, but his behavior is so shocking that you can't imagine any cop being worse that this.

Director Paul Feig worked wonders in «Bridesmaids» and «The Heat», while the enjoyable «Spy» proved he's comfortable working on a grander scale.

Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.

More seriously still, despite progressive Alzheimer's disease, Willem de Kooning continued to work on a grand scale.

On the Seashore is only 19 × 27 cm while Frankenthaler tended to work on a grand scale, usually measuring in metres.

Judith did not shy from larger - than - life statements and loved working on a grand scale; her understanding and mastery of prismatic color is superb.

Frieze London is now a serious contender to Art Basel in Switzerland / Miami and TEFAF Maastricht, competing as an event, featuring cutting - edge and 20th century works on a grand scale.

Anselm Kiefer works on a grand scale.

James Rosenquist has continued to work on a grand scale and in 2006 exhibited his monumental work Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1998 in Art Basel's prestigious Unlimited sector in Switzerland.

They were very open to experiment, especially with new materials, and they worked on a grand scale, buying canvas by the roll, which I had never seen before.

It works on a grand scale in his installations and sculptures.

Working on a grand scale — the house is spread over six floors — there's a strong design ethos evident in this thoroughly modern townhouse.

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In fact, it only works provided the returns on the capital which is creating value and added value, the bases of distribution and transfer of wealth towards the creditors of production, has been achieved on a grand enough scale and without shocks or interruptions in the flow of wealth.

The problem that most often resulted was that people could understand the small parts just fine, but like western science, lost sight of the whole and couldn't understand how it all was supposed to work together on the grand scale.

On a grander scale, the millions and billions of dollars created by any given company is the result of a whole lot of people's work being kept by a very few people.

Corporate officials at Procter & Gamble attacked the problem on a grand scale, according to court documents, assigning the formidable task of designing the perfect diaper to Kenneth Barclay Buell, a mechanical engineer who had worked on the Gemini space program in the 1960s.

I was inspired to make my own mini wall terrariums when I saw the work of Kim Fisher, who creates vertical wall planters on a much grander scale.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

With his once counter-cultural, gothic aesthetic now firmly lodged in mainstream culture, Burton seems content to simply repeat himself on an increasingly grand scale, rather than think outside the box as in his best work — the elegant fairytale of Edward Scissorhands or the black and white oddness of Ed Wood.

Cooperate with friends to enjoy action on a grand scale, working together to overcome enemies, casting magic spells, and attacking castles.

Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, Paul Thomas Anderson, all of whom debuted early works at Sundance, wanted to develop their auteurist sensibilities on a grand scale.

The schools were intended to model innovations that might be replicated on a grand scale and to eliminate cumbersome labor contracts that work against better education.

In conversation with Game Informer, Rockstar's director of design Imran Sarwar suggests the scale of the base game, the next - gen console and PC launches of 2014 and 2015, and work on the forthcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 has, in essence, made subsequent single player story modes unfeasible for Grand Theft Auto 5.

Paladino is working at the height of his powers, on a grand scale, and to great effect.

I was working in this abandoned building mode and it gave me an opportunity to present these things on a grand scale.

Curated by Susan Nelly, The Rites of Spring, an invitational group show features works on a grand to small scale.

Often executed on a grand scale her work reveals her fascination for epic narratives, comic book illustration and the performative quality of painting and drawing.

Since the early sixties Schumann and his puppeteers have been pouring out work after work on every scale: political works, mysterious works, grand works, modest works, works on the street and works in fields, works to be played in every size theater on four continents, books, prints, posters, and banners which live as show - and - tell in so many homes.

The work slyly suggests that a grand, large scale painting of, say, Jackson Pollock has fallen off the wall and lies flaccid and impotent on the floor.

But where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism on a grand scale.

ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES PRESENTS GRANDS FORMATS WORKS BY POSTWAR CANADIAN MASTER Riopelle: Grands Formats on view September 17 — October 23, 2009 New York, NY - September 1, 2009 - From September 17th through October 23rd, Acquavella Galleries will exhibit Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — GRANDS FORMATS WORKS BY POSTWAR CANADIAN MASTER Riopelle: Grands Formats on view September 17 — October 23, 2009 New York, NY - September 1, 2009 - From September 17th through October 23rd, Acquavella Galleries will exhibit Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — 2WORKS BY POSTWAR CANADIAN MASTER Riopelle: Grands Formats on view September 17 — October 23, 2009 New York, NY - September 1, 2009 - From September 17th through October 23rd, Acquavella Galleries will exhibit Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — Grands Formats on view September 17 — October 23, 2009 New York, NY - September 1, 2009 - From September 17th through October 23rd, Acquavella Galleries will exhibit Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — Grands Formats (Large Scale) works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — 2works by renowned twentieth - century Canadian artist, Jean Paul Riopelle (1923 — 2002).

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

The gallerist, who El Anatsui himself entrusted to install the works, added, «It has been a lifelong dream to exhibit El's work on this sort of grand scale.»

It was the first time I saw my work realised on a grand scale.»

I was therefore surprised to find myself backing off from Shadow on Frankfort Barren, the largest of Welliver's paintings in the show — although by no means his grandest scale: he liked to work on canvases 10 feet wide.

Triangle of Need, 2007, her multichannel video installation, formed the central core for practice - based activity on a grand scale; the work was informed by theories of Neanderthal man, the culture of African scam letters, gypsy folklore and the history of American industrialist James Deering.

By the 1950s, White depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures that made his subjects into heroic figures.»

Christina Pettersson's work explores resurrection and savage demise on a grand scale once reserved for history painting.

«One of the goals behind Vitality and Verve is to spotlight artists who are stepping out of their studios to paint on a grand scale using outdoor walls as their canvas as well as urban artists who are beginning to work in a traditional studio setting.»

Caulfield was a painter's painter, an artist whose work revealed great depths when contemplated, and to those with an understanding of art, its history and possibilities, his work could resonate on a grand scale.

Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles's work ballets — a series of seven grand - scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel — which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam and Tokamachi.

Her work explores resurrection and savage demise on a grand scale once reserved for history painting.

For the first time major works of the international movement from 1957 to 1967 are being shown together on a grand scale.

I've long been familiar with the work of photographer Andreas Gursky, and especially how his images capture a world that we recognise, on such a grand scale, frequently dystopian, unsettling, abstract and utterly unforgettable.

The opportunity to show her work in a way that's virtually impossible to miss, in the plaza that for one week in June is the undeniable center of the art world, is a thrill for the artist, who said she had always been drawn to public artworks on a grand scale.

Often printed on the grand scale of a history painting — exhibited either as backlit lightboxes akin to advertising displays or as crisp ink jet and silver gelatin prints — Wall's works reveal their poetic potential through portraying empathetic characters, picturing impossible vantage points, and capturing elusive moments.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

Now this same penchant for working on a monumental scale has made Mr. Kiefer the ideal artist to inaugurate an annual solo show — called, appropriately, Monumenta — that opened on Wednesday in the cavernous space of the Grand Palais in Paris.