Sentence examples for monumental styles from inspiring English sources

Hopper stands with two other American artists, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, whose likewise monumental styles also trashed prevailing conventions of good painting and have proved to be deathless.

The principal manifestations of the monumental style are the megalithic monuments, although there is great variety among the megalithic customs of the many different populations in Sumatra, Laos, Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines.

The figures are treated in a strongly classicizing, frozen, and monumental style.

Home to everyone from Irish shipbuilders to Chinese traders, its grand "monumental" style buildings had fallen into disrepute.

The fascist monumental style expresses this sense of progress, but the palace also features the typical Romanesque style of Puglia.

The heavy, monumental style of the earlier part of Louis's reign was gradually replaced by a lighter and more fluent curvilinear style.

Along with Mahler's Eighth Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand), the Gurrelieder represents the peak of the post-Romantic monumental style.

The nearby former Fascist Party Headquarters (unsurprisingly in the monumental style) was undeniably striking; it's now put to far better use as the Eritrean Ministry of Education.

"For Spain, One, Great and Free" (1936-39) is rendered in a monumental style that reinforces the notion that warfare is heroic and warriors are supermen.

But Mumford and Jacobs, writing when the automobile had begun to drain life from the urban street, failed to see that Burnham's monumental style strove for social betterment as well as aesthetic uplift.

But unlike his near-contemporary Copley, David never altered his monumental style all that much; he merely changed the subject matter to make it more palatable to whomever happened to be running the show in France at the time.