We exist in this world of monumentality, which is literally carved in stone - yet we are fluid. From Wordnik.com. [In the studio with Bill T. Jones] Reference
The sewage treatment plant does have a certain potbelled monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Bali and the Hsihsanhang Archaeological Museum] Reference
Its monumentality seemed to live on easy terms with an earthy and playful spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Sculptor di Suvero: His Eight-Foot Work Is Now Steel Drawing] Reference
Ms. Abbott confers monumentality on her "Hot Dog Stand, 1936" and its white-aproned vendor. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Look at Work and Modern Mexico] Reference
Though it's half a person's natural dimensions, this work exudes a beautiful monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient History For Collectors] Reference
In form and monumentality, it is a direct ancestor of the great stone pyramid complexes of Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference
Nowhere did Kahn join monumentality and light more eloquently than in the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth (1966-72). From Wordnik.com. [How To Talk To A Brick] Reference
The importance of his book was really the timing of it and the monumentality of it, that it was -- it was produced at a time when the. From Wordnik.com. [Gulag: A History] Reference
In painting the giant murals, from 1911 to 1919, Sorolla returned to the academic salon formulas that stressed classical monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Sorolla and the Light of the Spanish Sun] Reference
Her pictures 'restless skies and stepped, sharply carved mountain peaks retain the vastness, monumentality and naturalism of their subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Laissez-Faire Summer Fare] Reference
The horse stood with that feeble monumentality of a milk horse, patient as if between the shafts, waiting while his master delivered the milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
In the late '60s, Piano worked for Louis Kahn, but where Kahn's architecture is about massiveness and monumentality, Piano strives for lightness. From Wordnik.com. [The Future, Italian Style] Reference
Accompanied by keening African music, the pictures are projected on walls (both interior and exterior), giving them a monumentality that is inescapable. From Wordnik.com. [Picturing Genocide] Reference
Chicago used to produce proud monumentality, for example in the tall, dark and handsome John Hancock building, but it's been a while since we've made the world look at us. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Lifson: What Will It Take To Get Chicago The 2016 Olympic Games?] Reference
But for all the wit and fun, there is a dark side: in questioning the notion of architectural monumentality and permanence, Gehry's work reflects the uncertainty of our time. From Wordnik.com. [A Maverick Master] Reference
(The large scale of this work is, she has stated, a self-conscious rejection of the predominantly male assumption that monumentality and masculinity form a natural partnership.). From Wordnik.com. [Artists: Contemporary Anglo.] Reference
In the 1960s, modernists were wedded to the in-your-face raw concrete monumentality of Brutalism, arguably one of the less people-friendly and more offputting styles of all time. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Center Rejoins the City] Reference
Maybe this is what it means to subvert monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Serving] Reference
Thomas Houseago's towering figures are monuments that tackle monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Serving] Reference
The monumentality of the place goes on display this weekend for the first games. From Wordnik.com. [No Land Grab] Reference
Those who stand before the altarpiece cannot but feel overwhelmed by its monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
By making monumentality vulnerable, he has dealt a decisive blow to masculine authority. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Serving] Reference
He understood that his very presence was enough to mark the monumentality of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News-Record] Reference
This seven-ft high head auctioned by Saffronart is representative of Reddy's monumentality. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand - with whom Hopper shared a penchant for monumentality - to. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Mozart's than with Wagner's; he eschews the massiveness and monumentality that conductors like. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The monumentality of it and the complexity of it fascinated people from the moment it was painted. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The sport gets knocked because it's low scoring, but to me that's offset by the monumentality of each goal. From Wordnik.com. [BTDF] Reference
The tension between lightness, monumentality, and surprising rawness is appealing in a real, un-gimmicky way. From Wordnik.com. [Archpaper.com - News Channel] Reference
The figures are assembled from geometric fragments that suggest both the monumentality of stone and the ghostliness of negative space. From Wordnik.com. [independent.com stories] Reference
Whether the figures be large or small, whether their features be fair or foul, they assume a kind of plastic beauty and monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Presentation] Reference
"There is a soft monumentality of Rodin that he brings into his pictures but also the great understanding of abstract form that Brancusi brings," she said. From Wordnik.com. [WTVM - 1- WTVM Home] Reference
In the context of the Asylum's sheer monumentality, it might be useful to note that it really was built to military specifications. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Others have also looked at monumentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Conserver Society] Reference
The buildings miss true monumentality by a mile. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Center Rejoins the City] Reference
"Like most of my recent work, this piece is concerned with monuments and monumentality, but also with 'nature'; that implacable hard stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Daily Photo] Reference
There is a monumentality about the fruit. ". From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
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