Sentences with word «allegorical»

While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting.

There's a transparency to the performances that transcends naturalism: you sense that the actors are not only playing themselves (more so than usual), but also that they're playing themselves as allegorical figures in a metaphor for their lives.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.

Another crucial text in Taoism is the «Chuang Tzu», an often funny collection of allegorical tales and poetry.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

Combining imagery, Fischerkeller embeds his stark compositions with allegorical figures appropriated from historical artworks, altering their striking poses to symbolize contemporary socio - political issues which include gun violence, climate change, and criminal justice reform.

Williams interweaves references to true incidences of violence with allegorical scenes in which black resistors taunt and tame their abusers.

He developed a penchant for creating allegorical works, informed by his personal experience, historical and current events, mythology, Biblical stories, and literary writings.

So it was for the development of allegorical methods for interpreting classical religious texts by Stoic, Jewish and Christian thinkers in the Hellenistic period.

Teeming with struggle, conflict, faith, sexuality, and power, his works afford the viewer a ringside seat for allegorical spectacle as the spheres of fantasy and reality collide.

But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?

The conceptual artist Slater Bradley often integrates his biography into allegorical imagery, creating abstract self - portraits that are also mirrors.

Many Christians solve the problem of violence in the Old Testament through allegorical interpretation.

In his more recent body of work, titled Flat Screen Nature (2012 — current), Goode uses an industrial hand saw to cut through sheets of painted fiberglass, creating allegorical landscapes of jagged edges and menacing peripheries; the artist's visual vocabulary comes full circle to represent our environment's vulnerable sky, land, and sea.

And while Milton made no overt allegory in his Samson Agonistes, 1671, it is probable that he and his readers assumed this kind of allegorical reading and «that this duality was part of — perhaps the center of — the meaning which the poet intended the tragedy to have.

She sees a direct allegorical relationship between the scaffolded scenarios she creates and the social and psychological processes that are the invisible scaffolding supporting human -LSB-...]

The feature - length work transforms the genre of the Western into a melodramatic story populated by allegorical characters.

His April - May 2009 exhibition at Postmasters Gallery presented five projects based on the same concept (one of them a video), and made over the last several years, with the selection of sites alluding to Thomas Cole's series of allegorical landscape paintings (at the New - York Historical Society), «The Course of Empire.»

«Cremaster 3,» actually the fifth film in visual artist Matthew Barney's non-linear sexual - anatomical - allegorical film cycle, was shot in part at the Saratoga Racecourse.

Germano Celant's text further explores the influence this 16th - century style had on Mapplethorpe's artistic practice and sensibility, illuminating the artist's interest in the study of pure form as well as allegorical imagery.

Bronze sculptures by James Muir are typically realistic, figurative artworks with allegorical references.

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.

A third essay by Guggenheim Curator Jennifer Blessing traces allegorical representations in 19th - and 20th - century photography, with references to Mapplethorpe's oeuvre.

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

His placement and presentation of the bulbs also reduces them to signify, at once, their own objecthood, the effect they produce and the corporations that produced them, while attempting to remove them from the «symbolic» «transcendental» and allegorical impulses traditionally associated with artistic creation.

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

The films Mamet has directed range from sophomoric (House of Games) to grating (State and Main) to just incompetent (Heist), though Spartan reminds the most of one he only wrote: the wilderness howler The Edge, with its machismo over-examined and placed in a context that isn't allegorical as it must be, but hardboiled realism as it can't be.

Each profile is presented in chronological order and is accompanied by a stunning allegorical portrait by artist Stephen Alcorn.

Greg Sestero's allegorical take on his and Wiseau's friendship makes for a richer experience than one might expect.

Roz Morris shares tips on how to blend a parallel, allegorical fantasy plot into your novel.

His practice also includes text - based paintings, posters, and books that explore allegorical themes including technology, spirituality, war, and death.

As Visceral Games worked to craft a story loosely based on Dante's Inferno, planning only to use the epic poem as a backdrop, an increasing amount of the Divine Comedy's religious and allegorical nature slowly seeped into the video game apparently unnoticed by the team.

The genre includes depictions of moments in religious narratives, above all the Life of Christ, as well as narrative scenes from mythology, and also allegorical scenes.

Inka Essenhigh's paintings and prints evoke allegorical traditions in which nature and humanity are magically entwined.

In his fourth novel, Exit West, Hamid explores the worldwide refugee crisis using simple, almost allegorical language spiced with an unexpected dose of speculative fiction.

But the associative connections he draws in the trance - like state of poring through old footage is what gives Tribulation its form as well as its highly allegorical content.

... «Farscape» doesn't plumb mysteries of the cosmos or boldly go into profound allegorical realms.

He produced vividly colored landscapes, still lifes and floral paintings as well as allegorical series like «Diana and Actaeon» (1987 - 88), considered by some critics to be his best work.

Welcoming the new show by the famous American artist David Michael Smith that features artist's latest allegorical figurative paintings, the gallery is opening its new season.

Their relationships to social, political and philosophical expressions of feminism are as diverse as their work in sculpture, painting, drawing, video, installation, collage, assemblage and the wearable — yet all six directly consider the literal and allegorical ways in which the female body occupies both physical and semantic space in the modern world.