Sentences with phrase «gilliamesque in its surrealism»

Salvador Dalì had a profound impact on the art world as one of the most recognized figures in the surrealism movement in the mid-20th century.

But there is also a meticulously realistic modernism that carefully reproduces pieces of the world out there, but in such fashion as either to tell a story that is impossible in the world, as in surrealism, or to alienate the depicted reality altogether from our quest for coherence.

Madagascar 3 is deeply involved in surrealism, rivalling Disney's pink elephants on parade in a circus sequence that, if not as good as Dumbo's, is not as good because it's scored by a genuinely dreadful Katy Perry song.

In that exaggeration, in that surrealism, is a show asking us to question the way we treat each other, and how we reckon with our own troubling behavior.

Tony is an amazing artist that bases his talent in surrealism; Mortal Kombat II's introduction to Outworld was a perfect match for Tony.

Twin Peaks is not a reference that I would have come up with on my own as an analog to Scott Pilgrim, but there are certain parallels, especially in the surrealism that's encroaching on those very mundane environments.

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

In the late 1930s, through a friendship with artist John Graham, Gottlieb became interested in surrealism and the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Influenced by her roots in surrealism and growing up surrounded by poets and writers, her subject matter alludes to comical and unpredictable narratives.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

It is the first major exhibition to explore the central role of drawing in surrealism, according to the Morgan.

The role drawing played in surrealism's development is revealed in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Though her work shares the unassuming frankness and heady optimism found in the work of the leading First Generation New York School poets, her art parts company with those poets» sensibilities in that it never traffics in surrealism, pop culture, fragmentation or collage.

Each of the artworks has a rather ironical title to coincide with it, further grounding the pieces in surrealism.

As Amy Winter shows in her book about Paalen, Robert Motherwell, who had worked on Dyn and received, as he put it, his «post-graduate education in surrealism» from Paalen, gradually lost a sense of indebtedness to him.

Simple motifs which are often rooted in surrealism, such as the umbrella or the bowler hat becomes a palm tree, or martini glass, or a woman's groin repeatedly feature in Frosts» paintings, drawings, prints and slide - shows.

While neither expressed much interest in surrealism, Diebenkorn's automatism and Matisse's fields of color both find in art a sense of dreamlike suspension.

Her work is the most offbeat of the shortlisted artists as it brings in surrealism, comedy and uncompromising sexual imagery.

Any young artist interested in surrealism could simply drop by and attach himself to the group.

A more radical turn in his art was prompted by the spontaneous automatism found in surrealism and in the works of Miró and Matta.

One of the finest - and most personal - collections of modern art in the United States, it excels in surrealism, abstract expressionism and such American neo-Dada and pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Twombly and Andy Warhol, and their European peers.

But what about female artists in surrealism?

In Male and Female the occasional areas of dripped and splattered paint were not springboards for free association, as in surrealism, but an effort to record the spontaneity of his unconscious thought processes.

Introduced to Paalen through Matta while in Mexico, Robert Motherwell received what he referred to as a «post-graduate education in surrealism, so to speak.»

Bosch, however, does a better line in surrealism than Lee.

Not exact matches

To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.

It all was in the daylight, with the mesquite outside and no sign of snow in the rolling desert, a scene of rattling surrealism.

Blessed with an eye for the surrealism of reality and the oddity of humanity and nature, Sikka's photography often casts the world in an otherworldly light.

International About Blog Carollyne Yardley, Canadian artist who specializes in new contemporary movement, squirrealism, pop surrealism, art, fine art in oil, costume & fashion design.

Blood, guts, and offbeat surrealism in another crackpot classick from «The Wizard of Gore» himself, director Herschell Gordon Lewis.

John Landis tries for a laid - back surrealism in his romantic thriller Into the Night.

Heralding back to Medieval Ages and tracing the origin of the transformers to the days of Merlin, Bay dips his artistic vision in the realm of magic, surrounding his audiences with a silly and convoluted story of redemption and surrealism.

Gomes plays some tricky games with sound and voiceover, and an understated sense of surrealism lurks around the edges of the film, most notably in the form of the many animals that populate the film.

The camera sinuously glides through Sampha's life, connecting people and spaces with moments of cinematic surrealism, like the troupe of still dancers that haunt an abandoned swimming pool in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

That's the sort of action that many teen movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.

But those very defects give the film a special mood, lucid in its nastiness, but not too far from black surrealism.

It is not easy to appreciate D4 in its entirety, especially due to the Japanese surrealism it contains, sometimes extremely difficult to understand.

Despite the film's claims towards realism the excessive violence in Gangs of Wasseypur borders on surrealism.

Directed by Federico Fellini in 1980, City of Women contains touches of surrealism and often harsh portraits of women.

In one of the movie's few moments of casual surrealism, Bjornsen gobbles a tray of marijuana like a cartoon bear.»

The manner in which Connie knocks across Ray is genuinely hilarious and the increasing absurdity and surrealism of the night's events sometimes call to mind Scorsese's After Hours.

The many pans and tracking shots in The Boys in the Band and the touches of surrealism in The Birthday Party give them a unique aesthetic foundation.

«Directed from Jon Raymond's fact - based script, this suggestively allegorical, discreetly trippy Western recalls Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and even Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest - destiny madness; the Reichardt approach is, however, more stringent and pointed in its weirdness.»

There are also moments of magical realism and startling surrealism (with a drum - based score that can be distracting) that are so in - your - face, I often wished the bombardment of style would shut up so I could hear the characters.

Ignored by most audiences, this is a subtle, sublime work that merges the best of Villeneue's craft — his arch, noir tendencies from Prisoners, his level of detail exhibited with Polytechnique, his sense of complexity beautifullly realized in Incendies, and even some of the morose surrealism of Enemy.

This kind of surrealism is what «Sherlock Gnomes» is largely lacking in terms of personality.

Besides the aforementioned Thompson ties, it fuses Dali surrealism, film noir (Beatty's corrupt mayor is modeled on John Huston's character in «Chinatown»), «Don Quixote» (for Alfred Molina's quixotic armadillo) «Star Wars» and «Apocalypse Now» (for a batty canyon chase set to «Ride of the Valkyries»), Peckinpah's «Ride the High Country» (for the dysfunctional family of mole varmints), and, most notably, Sergio Leone's famously over-the-top Westerns.

The film moves at an effectively erratic pace: action in the real world moves fairly swiftly, but once it's in the world of the mind, the pace becomes more languid, befitting the surrealism of dreams.

It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.