Sentences with phrase «portrait as the allegory»

In her Portrait As An Allegory of Fidelity (oil on linen), the artist presents herself holding her child while around her are piled the trappings of family life including toys, a dog, and a strange gentleman peering from around a curtain in the right rear quadrant of the painting.

Not exact matches

Painted on a larger canvas, The Bourne Ultimatum poses itself as an unavoidable political allegory (what with Greengrass fresh off the triumph of United 93), lending a lot of weight to its portrait of a completely broken world where one wrong word spoken on an open line can bring the whole weight of a rogue National Security Agency down on them like a concrete gargoyle.

And the film itself is as great as you might imagine: a gripping, deeply moving examination of one person caught up in an unfair system and trying to quell demons exterior and interior to fix it, which works equally well as a humanist portrait, as social commentary and even as political allegory.

«As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, «Thelma» feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment.»

Karen Heagle takes her self - portrait as a male from Egon Schiele, L. J. Roberts sharpens a memorial to the Stonewall riots by George Segal, and Alyse Ronayne treats her studio to a messy «real allegory» after Gustave Courbet.

He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.

The curator refers to the image as the «portrait in absentia of a charismatic person [and] an allegory of an extraordinary way of life.»

Several artists, however, used the mayor's charismatic flair as a motif in their works and humorously portrayed the losers of the last election campaign, as can be seen in the photographs of the artist duo Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda at Atelierhaus Monbijou, or the homage - like portrait to Berlin's mayor, Allegory of Government, in an empty room at KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin by Clegg & Guttmann.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...

We can see this in works as different as Jennifer Pastor's «Four Seasons» (1994 - 96) and Douglas Blau's «Sacred Allegory» (1996), a wall full of photographs of people working on experiments, from Hollywood mad scientists to real researchers to wine tasters and artists» self - portraits in their studios.