Sentences with phrase «romantic sublime»

Bringing together the tragi - comic and the romantic sublime, the absurdity of Coates» desperate petitioning speaks to us through its stark contrast with the indifference of the natural surroundings and the relentlessness of time.

The often evocative and textured brushstrokes foregrounds the materiality and physicality of paint, while also recalling his genres» historical associations with the romantic sublime.

Reacting to the perceived excesses of the romantic sublime (Abstract Expressionism, otherwise known as the New York School), abstract artists were straight up with no chaser in their content.

A student of the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1990s, Wateridge abandoned painting until 2005 when he embarked on a series of dramatic disaster paintings that fused B - movie aesthetics with the romantic sublime.

Sometimes landscape, sometimes still life — this toying with scale allows him to tie the early Romantic sublime to the more shallow pictorial ether of modernist abstract painting.

ARC: At the same time, your images have been associated with a Romantic sublime tradition centred in England and Germany, but there are also suggestions of James Whistler, Edward Steichen and what I think of as painters of stillness, such as Edward Hopper and Giorgio Morandi.

While shows such as the Tate's 2010 «Art and the Sublime» chose the more marketable monumental expressions of the Romantic Sublime — the huge canvases of John Martin or Francis Danby — this exhibition chooses to focus on what curator Matthew Hargraves describes as the «quiet transformation» of landscape in the late 18th and early 19th century.

Robert Rosenblum famously sought the origins of Abstract Expressionism in the Romantic sublime, and floating fields of color are bound to recall Mark Rothko.

They shared a mixture of ideas including interest in existential philosophy, Jungian psychology, the romantic sublime, and art from around the globe.

New York always offers an uncanny transposition of the Romantic sublime, which Kant defined as esthetic comprehension surpassing rational appreciation.

In her essay, Galitz draws upon the research of the art historian Robert Rosenblum, who in 1975's «Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition» expounded on the connection between the Romantic sublime of the 19th century and Abstract Expressionism.

F. E. Church's fabulous volcanoes and sunsets not only capture the Romantic sublime, but also served American art history even better than Turner's.

Both drop the Romantic sublime's soaring Gothic revival in favor of a new - found intimacy.

With an eye to the romantic sublime and another on the burgeoning urban sprawl, Siri Hayes» photographic landscapes are at once lyrical and down - at - heel.

The project symbolically explores the complex network of forces and concerns giving rise to these simulations — from the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty to efforts to understand how the building blocks of planets and life were created — and their relationship to the techno - romantic sublime.

They look less like the Romantic sublime than Photoshop enhancements of snapshots from a campfire.

Concerned with notions of the romantic sublime, phenomenological experience, and secular spiritualism, the work continues Russell's unique investigation into the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence.

Otherwise, they would become too large, like the Romantic sublime, or too small, like a collectible for the marketplace.

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

Who knew that Hollywood's jungle had learned so much from the Romantic sublime?

And Robert Rosenblum saw in them all the Romantic sublime, which in American terms long meant the Grand Canyon and Hudson River landscapes.

Naturally it also translates the Romantic sublime into the scale of the new world.

Not exact matches

A Romantic can be anti-slavery, but to him the «lost cause» is sublime, tragic, and heartbreaking, which is why the Alamo was not memorialized as a shameful defeat.

Close to the sublime, especially if you have a thing for sensuous Italians of either gender unleashing ballads of soaring romantic masochism.

One thing the final act can not sully is the sublime score by Michael Patton, with its echoing keyboard effects conjuring a romantic melancholy that electrifies many of the film's key scenes.

Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art - house hit features a sublime supporting cast — including Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott, and Maggie Smith — and remains a touchstone of intelligent romantic cinema.

The colony is a world of extremes and that's reflected in its cinema: garish, gorgeous, vulgar, sublime, bloody, lush, romantic, nihilistic.

But aren't the last 30 minutes of James Gray's turbulent, romantic The Lost City of Z, a sprawling movie adventure of the kind that's hard to get funded by Hollywood these days, comparably sublime?

March 10, 2015 • Hear the eminent pianist in a recital of sublime works spanning Classical - era elegance and introspective Romantic drama.

The Assayas film is a more refined expressions of that same drive, while the Chan and Minghella are sublime examples of more traditional romantic forms.

The Asset is also an unabashed romantic who loves hard - boiled eggs, which is even strange for a human and enjoys Benny Goodman which is not as strange but, as del Toro says, «What is ridiculous can also be sublime.»

His primary interest as an Romantic painter artist was contemplation of Nature and the Sublime, what places him in art history.

It's simply sublime and ready for a romantic escape or Kauai family vacation.

Family - friendly, yet ideally suited for romantic getaways and wedding celebrations, The Sands at Grace Bay offers a harmonious balance of home comforts and sublime Caribbean elegance - as well as a picture perfect location on the sparkling shores of Grace Bay Beach.

These petite works of art range from the romantic, mysterious, and sublime to the downright silly, proving that like love, cupid has a delicious sense of humor.

The sublime setting and refined ambiance set the stage for a dreamlike paradise that creates romantic moments you will remember for a lifetime.

Caribbean weddings in Nevis, at Montpelier Plantation and Beach are sublime and romantic.

The beach is expansive and sublime, and a classic romantic opportunity is not to be missed of sipping a cocktail to accompany an unforgettable sunset of red liquid fire into the balmy Indian Ocean every night, whilst soothed by a pleasant ocean breeze, before heading home.

While its sublime vista recalls those of Romantic painter Casper David Friedrich, Richter's landscapes are diffused and void of human presence.

But she departed from the first generation's romantic search for the «sublime» to pursue her own path.

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

In this sense, she participates in a contemporary sublime of plastic beauty, leaving behind the Romantic attachment to nature's mythic truths.

His work is often concerned with narratives of exploration and the sublime landscape, in which he focuses on the validity of Romantic clichés in the 21st century.

The glamorous appearance of Stingel's Untitled reveals his affinity for an abstraction that is a step into the sublime, but not in romantic sense and his interest in the seductiveness of the surface brings to mind the abstractions of Gerhard Richter.

Infused with philosophy and an attachment to Baroque and Romantic styles - Wynne creates a shifting environment of the sublime and the surreal.

Alloway traces their embrace of this aesthetic concept to the 18th century Romantic reprise of the Sublime's «momentous and powerful» qualities, in which the pleasure from nature's beauty is accompanied by a sense of awe, fear or dread, «solitude, silence, and infinity.»

Like Edmund Burke's sublime landscape, [1] which informed 18th - and 19th - century romantic landscape painting and writing, [2] Kjartansson positions human beings as solitary and commanding against the vast and sometimes chaotic natural world.

Perhaps surprisingly, his technical prowess recalls the more gothic of 19th - century Romantics, such as the German painter of the moonlit sublime Caspar David Friedrich.

When Barnett Newman wrote «The Sublime Is Now,» was he, along with Jackson Pollock and others, returning to Romantic myths or looking past them to now — and how quaint does that look after Postmodernism?

When Barnett Newman wrote «The Sublime Is Now,» was he, along with Mark Rothko, returning to Romantic myths or looking past them to now — and how quaint does that look after Postmodernism?