Sentences with phrase «alchemical images»

Fifteen decades later, the «ancient» photographic methods of the nineteenth century, and the vaporous, alchemical images they render, once again appear «new and mysterious.»

In this sense they are a continuum of Felver's quest to expand the portrait as an alchemical image of consciousness.

Not exact matches

I use the word «melt» advisedly — the film's images literally look as if they're burning in the crucible of some kind of alchemical reaction.

«Kauffman and Preece take two different approaches to the spiritual: Hers, an interior meditation; his, odes to the outside world and the beauty of nature... Their mastery of technique synthesizes a mystical, almost alchemical methodology into a potent, velvety, poetic presentation of images that lifts the soul.»

The arm holding onto what might be Malevich's Black Square is an image of the attempt to harness the alchemical power of painting.

The patterning that composes each image is sourced from both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions: Paleolithic and Neo-Paleolithic fetish objects, West African ceremonial masks, Greek Icon painting, Italian and Northern Renaissance altarpieces, Jewish ceremonial textiles such as Tallit and Torah arks, Islamic prayer rugs, alchemical diagrams and geometric references to mathematical equations.

Tillmans» images capture the essence of a moment, and the pictures and installations that the artist has created over the last two decades are an alchemical blend of detachment and engagement.

Smith understood his combinations of filmic images to be an almost alchemical process.

Audiences are invited to celebrate images of intense sexual chemistry, interactive prints with mixed pheromones, sculptural installations made of growing crystals, very large microcosmic photographs, paintings depicting molecular structures and alchemical laboratories and a dedicated screening room featuring films about liquid forms, universe and drugs.