Sentences with phrase «act of alchemy»

In BURRY, he transforms soft sheepskin into rigid, textured surfaces through the application of tar, and in this act of alchemy, Lang actively negates the expected qualities of the raw material.

The calm that settles allows us to recognize this Toronto painter's adroitness with colour and composition, almost an act of alchemy.

Not exact matches

Future Film That Time Forgot The Paperboy In an incredible act of reverse alchemy, The Paperboy, Lee Daniels» directorial follow - up to his breakout hit Precious, transforms a combustible series of elements into pure tedium.

There's a certain alchemy that goes into getting the final act of a trilogy right.

When one feels confounded or overwhelmed by the challenges of educational improvement, it's worth keeping in mind that teaching and learning aren't the product of some mysterious alchemy — they're deeply natural acts.

Butoden equally mixes accessibility and depth in an act of unlikely alchemy that somehow works.

In addition to the English voice acting, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy will give players the option of listening to the original Japanese audio for its North American release.

«I think that painting is a kind of alchemy... the paint is transformed into image, and hopefully paint and image transform themselves into a third and new thing... I want to catch something in the act of becoming something else» — Cecily Brown «When I reach for the right colour at exactly the right moment, that's when I know it's going well, that's the feeling I'm striving for.

«I think painting is a kind of alchemy», she has explained; `... the paint is transformed into image, and hopefully paint and image transform themselves into a third and new thing... I want to catch something in the act of becoming something else» (C. Brown, quoted in C. Mac Giolla Léith, «Painting Sensations», in Cecily Brown: Paintings, exh.

Ranging from photography to drawing to installation, the more than four dozen works in the exhibition include: critically acclaimed videos by Marilyn Minter (Green Pink Caviar, 2009) and Kate Gilmore (Between a Hard Place, 2008), who credits Minter for teaching her to «be bold, honest and to never, ever relax»; a new large - scale sculpture by Marianne Vitale (Double Decker Outhouse, 2011), who says seeing Hungarian flimmaker Bela Tarr's 7 - hour epic Sátántángó confirmed her need to be an artist early in her career; and the latest project from Lisa Kirk (Backyard Adversaries (Ashes to Ashes), 2011), who sees a «sublime level of alchemy, the act of making work that is not only inspiring, but is revolutionary» in David Hammons» Fly Jar (1996).

- Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK (2015); Flags, Serra di Giardini, Venice (2015); Weight for the Showing, Maddox Arts, London (2015); Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2014); Alchemy, State of Change, NEST, The Hague (2014); Intersections — Science in Contemporary Art, Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv (2012); Round the Clock, 54th Venice Biennale (collateral), Venice (2011); Beyond Ourselves, The Royal Society of Science, London (2011).

Performing an act of sheer alchemy, Gleason treats acrylic - coated canvases with a chemical mixture, which he then sprays with silver nitrate solution, transforming the surfaces into sterling sheets of metal.