Molded from vegetation and earth in which human and animal remains have been mixed, these nearly abstract zoomorphic forms both encapsulate the cosmos and, as if swollen with poison, sustain conflicting energies of unimaginable force under near-explosive pressure.
He deflected speculation about what the PATH terminal might look like, an inevitable question since his designs are renowned for sinuous curves, abstract monumentality and sometimes anthropomorphic or zoomorphic forms.
"Extremely inventive if not disturbing use of the form.
In art, nagas are represented in a fully zoomorphic form, as hooded cobras having one to seven or more heads; as human beings with a many-hooded snake canopy over their heads; or as half human, with the lower part of the body below the navel coiled like a snake and a canopy of hoods over the heads.
Lot 55 in Sotheby's sale today is a carved wooden Mambila mask from Nigeria, intricately shaped into a zoomorphic form, with an elongated, pierced snout, wildly protruding cylindrical eyes and two large swept-back horns.
In the zoomorphic form, Varaha is often depicted as a free-standing boar colossus, for example, the monolithic sculpture of Varaha in Khajuraho (c. 900-925) made in sandstone, is 2.6 m long and 1.7 m high.
Like Vishnu's first two avatars - Matsya (fish) and Kurma (turtle), the third avatar Varaha is depicted either in zoomorphic form as an animal (a wild boar), or anthropomorphically.
A third dispersal occurred a few centuries later and involved the appearance of burnished red pottery, the use of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vessels, clay figurines, and other stylistic characteristics.
And the use of violence is a form of power.
The use of outside managers has a variety of forms.
