Sentences with phrase «greek myth»

Narcissus: Greek Myth.

Drawing on the Greek myth of Iphigenia — Agamemnon's daughter, whom the king had to sacrifice after offending the goddess Artemis — The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a disturbing drama from director Yorgo Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster).

The streaming service's TV additions are joined by a number of compelling films, including critically acclaimed dramas like The Florida Project, Greek myth - inspired action flick Troy, and Mel Brooks» indelible Star Wars parody, Spaceballs.

You know the Greek myth of Sisyphus?

Inspired by the eponymous Greek myth, the editors saw Pandora as an inquisitive heroine, fearless in her search for answers.

«My father, who grew up in Athens under Nazi occupation, once told me a modern Greek myth: After God finished creating the countries of the world, he was left with a bag of rocks, and that's what he used to create Greece.

The film is called «Pandora» — a reference to the Greek myth about the woman created by Zeus to punish humans — and its slick special effects are equal to anything made by Hollywood.

In the context of global warming it's worth noting that in Greek myth Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but when she failed to return his love Apollo put a curse on her so that no one would believe her prophesies.

The Hydra of Greek myth was a terrifying many - headed water monster with virulent breath and noxious blood.

This painting powerfully brings to life the ancient Greek myth of a monster half - human, half - horse; here, the beast is shown suffering in the wild.

Included in her paintings are Alice, from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Medea, the sorceress of Greek myth.

A native of Nebraska and MFA graduate of University of Las Vegas, Sheppard now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.Moist Gilding draws from numerous sources: Mannerist prints, the erotic and transgressive drawings by Franz Von Bayros, illustrations by Sir John Tenniel (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking - Glass), the Greek myth of the abduction of Psyche, Louie XIV & XV, and George Bataille's, Eroticism.

Which role does the Greek myth of Narcissus play in your Selfie Drawings?

In Greek myth the Titan Prometheus defied Zeus by teaching mortals how to make fire.

Jackson Pollock named at least one painting after the novel and intended to give its name to his classic early work Pasiphae, then switched to something from Greek myth because his patron Peggy Guggenheim didn't like the Melville reference.

The titles of Schaufler's works often refer to a narrative, to a particular Greek myth or religious text.

Thai - born, Los Angeles - based artist Nuttaphol Ma combines elements of Greek myth, Western operatic form, and European weaving to create a maze - like installation based on a story of migration and survival in his installation Ruins of Daedalus» Labyrinth.

There's the Greek myth, biblical speak, a journalistic voice, and a kind of ironic touching voice.

She moved, specifically, from classicist drawings of hands to textile works — a self - defined style of «drawing with a sewing machine» in which she sometimes used materials bequeathed by her mother, and explored the Greek myth of Medea, the mother who killed her children after her husband betrayed her — to, later, collage works, or «drawing with scissors».

They too worked in big, muscular formats and took inspiration from Freudian psychoanalysis and Greek myth.

Employing the very material used to escape Daedalus» Labyrinth in the classic Greek Myth, Ma utilizes threads and yarn to carve multiple passageways through a maze.

About Johanna Hedva (formerly Kozma) is a Los Angeles - based artist and writer, working in performance, theater, text, poetry, and Ancient Greek myth.

According to an ancient Greek myth, Tantalus, a mortal king and son of Zeus, was invited to dine with the gods on Mt. Olympus.

If one was to fully appreciate John Torreano's recent exhibition «Scapes,» it helped to be familiar with the ancient Greek myth of Orion, the hunter, who was immortalized as a constellation by Artemis (sister of Apollo and the object of Orion's love) after she killed him accidentally.

They are called «Les Pléiades»: the seven sisters, daughters of Atlas, who, according to Greek myth, were turned into stars by Zeus to escape the hunter Orion.

Good and evil, reason and madness are powerfully contrasted in this primal vision of Greek myth.

Titles, too, combine the mythic proportions of postwar art with high - tech convention, often with characters from Greek myth in full caps joined by punctuation.

With her Amazonas, Sánchez embraces feminine forms by imagining each geometric painting as a body with nipple - like protrusions, their titles perhaps referencing the Greek myth of the Amazons as a group of warring women who chopped off their own breasts to better wield bows and arrows.

The paintings include large, textured, stained, all - over canvas creations like Schwabacher's Antigone I, from 1958, a 51 x 82 1/4 inch canvas of blood red, ochre, black, blue, gray and white markings that is a figurative abstraction of the Greek myth.

Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).

If one was to fully appreciate John Torreano's recent exhibition «Scapes,» it helped to be familiar with the ancient Greek myth of Orion, the hunter, who was immortalized as a constellation by Artemis (sister of Apollo and the object of Orion's love)...

For her solo exhibition, Arianna Carossa focused on Argo, a mythological boat with the gift of language, a «character» in the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

He identifies the sublime with Greek myth rather than northern lights and human heroes.

Jonquil (2017) and Narcissus (2017), two works in the exhibition by Sanford Biggers, amalgamate references from the Trans - Atlantic slave trade, Greek myth and Japanese origami, reaching across time and place in a nuanced flattening of history.

Beginning with Priapus Agonistes (2013), Reid Kelley explores the Greek myth of the Minotaur, turning the hybrid creature into half woman rather than man.

On view at Sargent's Daughters, «In Times of Perseus» offers a retelling of the Greek myth, reclaiming Medusa as not a monster, but one of our own, weaving together motifs of stone, reflection, the gaze, and lots of hair.

[11] Daniel Maidman, «Theophany: Kyle Staver's Greek Myth Paintings at Tibor de Nagy Gallery» (Online: Huffington Post, Oct. 16, 2013).

In the original Greek myth, when King Minos fails to sacrifice a beautiful bull to Poseidon, the sea god curses Queen Pasiphae to couple with the animal.

God of War doesn't just bring Kratos into Norse mythology, moving him from Greek myth; the combat mechanics and set - up of the game are also wildly different than that of the previous chapters.

It's just the right size for someone who wants to experience a neat game and a new revisionist take on Greek myth.

He also wrote last year's The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth, illustrated by P. Craig Russell, which I covered last year at Guys Lit Wire.

Can there be happiness for the two or will the conflict between Hephaestus and Aphrodite consume them?This is a romantic novella based on the popular Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea...

However, like Pandora in the Greek myth, Achilles is unable to comply.

From Greek myth to today's debates about GMOs, milk has been there for it all, and Kurlansky's got the fascinating story.

Start with these... Shearwater: a mermaid romance Scarlet Thread: dark fantasy based on Greek myth Prescient:...

Something goofy and colorful that plays out like a Greek myth.

Much like the two - faced Janus of Greek myth, the Sympathizer is forever looking both forward and back — forward to a time when he and the people he reports to can make a comeback in Vietnam, and back to his life in the United States, one of the many «boat people» the country is forced to accommodate, all an uncomfortable reminder of an inglorious outcome: «The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat.

It has a little bit to do with the Greek myth of Demeter, the god of the harvest.

Orpheus is a musical inspired by the Greek myth.

Tale Time re-tells the classic Greek Myth: Theseus and the Minotaur, plenty of atmosphere but told with a little Tale Time fun.