Sotheby's boldly illustrated for reference purposes two other monumental views of the village Litzlberg am Attersee that are actually vastly superior.
Close-ups of breasts and the female pudenda from 1972 bring to mind both Eva Hesse's sexually charged abstractions and Joan Semmel's monumental views of entwined naked couples.
In the case of John Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein house in Beverly Hills (a well-known piece of architecture that was prominently featured as a location in Joel and Ethan Coen's "The Big Lebowski"), Lambri avoided the monumental views in favor of a study of the shifting light through a small skylight in its galleylike kitchen.
Independence Avenue and Constitution Avenue: These two grand avenues flanking the National Mall offer some of the best monumental views in town.
By Alfred Corn The New Yorker, April 9 , 1979P. 129 At this range, it's really monumental - View Article By Rivka Galchen By Zoë Heller By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell.
The public impression of him is of an avuncular, almost pastoral counsellor of restraint, of moderation, of patience... His temper is often unrestrained, his language immoderate in the extreme, his impatience monumental... View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen By Doreen St. Félix By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.
His description of Adrian Stokes reads like a self-portrait: "the passion for art, the intensity of concern, the almost raw hyperactive quality of a sensibility that threatens at times to engulf all else -the nature is a 19th century one determined to order itself by the 20th century's monumental new view, psychoanalysis".
The most absorbing, at Zwirner & Wirth, features tiny, two-figure paintings that become monumental when viewed close up.
Manuel Piña approaches abstraction with his monumental close-up views of the Malecon, Havana's oceanside promenade.
They offer an intimacy and a connection to the artist's working process that is often missing when one views monumental paintings.
