Sentences with phrase «ziggurat from»
A room for Superboxes has a tall cabinet at its center, in a stark gray and black — but also Egyptian archaeology, the Wiener Werkstätte (or Vienna Workshop, founded by Josef Hoffmann) of 1903, Donald Judd, and an Italian's striped ziggurat from 2012.
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Anxiety as flour - fine as sand from Aram fills ours hearts as we watch dense cloud ziggurats grow tall above the land, and weather warnings in cuneiform alert us of a coming thunderstorm.
From bottom to top: a ribbon with the club name in an excitingly chunky font; a lion, rampant; some kind of ziggurat; a couple of accompanying diamonds; a raised hand flanked by bees; and, finally, the crowning glory that is a goose with some feathers in its mouth, standing on a claret - and - blue barber's pole, trying to shake an egg off its foot.
Residents would commute from their living quarters to their jobs within the Ziggurat using a public transit system that's part elevator, part tram.
Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.
2018-04-07 14:25 A ziggurat (/ ˈ z ɪ ɡ ə r æ t / ZIG - ər - at; Akkadian: ziqqurat, D - stem of zaqāru to build on a raised area) is a type of massive stone structure Cooking Channel serves up this Energy Bars recipe from Ellie Krieger plus many other recipes at
A ziggurat (/ ˈ z ɪ ɡ ə r æ t / ZIG - ər - at; Akkadian: ziqqurat, D - stem of zaqāru to build on a raised area) is a type of massive stone structure Cooking Channel serves up this Energy Bars recipe from Ellie Krieger plus many other recipes at
Being a short and intense game, Ziggurat gives many incentives to be played again and again and only suffers from some technical flaws in its Wii U incarnation which nevertheless don't stand in the way of an addictive game.
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In Miami Art Deco architecture is characterised by the use of symmetry, elements in threes, cantilevered eyebrows that protect windows from the sun, and exotic embellishments like ziggurat (terraced step pyramids), influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb, and Aztec and Mayan patterns.
«The six sculptures in [2,3] take their cue from a range of geometric forms — the pyramid, sphere, ziggurat, octagonal bipyramid (gem), arc, and möbius - strip.
The lights go off: but what are those paintings of ziggurats that look like Italian art - movie posters from the 1970s?
The bands of paint appear as though they are stacked on top of each other, and narrow incrementally in width from bottom to top so as to form a ziggurat shape.
But the works that are displayed — a tough - talking Frank Stella, like a ziggurat seen from above; a scintillating, quivering early Bridget Riley; a couple of Cy Twombly's elegantly dishevelled «blackboard» paintings, from 1970 — are satisfying.
A monumental architectural structure, the ziggurat reflects the artist's interest in pre-modern and non-western dwellings and spiritual spheres from ancient Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures.
From the 1980s this often took the form of spatial components such as steps, doors, tunnels or shapes which resembled ziggurats, the ancient temple towers built up in successive stages.
In 1986, General Idea returned to the ziggurat paintings as a group, realizing Partz's sketches from 1968 - 69 that had never been completed.
In 1986, General Idea returned to ziggurat paintings, carrying out sketches from 1968 - 69 that had never been completed.
«If you look at business magazines from the «50s, for example Fortune Magazine, the advertising features a lot of skyscrapers, which are always stepped... the ziggurat came to represent the future, the strength of progress and technological change and the male power of construction.»
The exhibition will be on view in our Chelsea gallery from November 30, 2017 through January 13, 2018 and will feature approximately seven ziggurat paintings alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that expand upon the significance of the ziggurat form in the oeuvre of General Idea.
In addition to the planks, the artist also creates wall pieces and free - standing sculptures in varying geometrical shapes and sizes, ranging from smaller forms on pedestals to large - scale, outdoor structures in the shape of pyramids, ziggurats, tetrahedrons and occasionally crystals.
The Estate of General Idea (1969 - 1994) had their first exhibition with the Mitchell - Innes & Nash Gallery on view in Chelsea through January 13, featuring several «ziggurat» paintings from the late 1960s, alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that highlight the central importance of the ziggurat form in the rich practice of General Idea.