Sentences with phrase «allegorical figures»

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.

Artists represented here included Guido Reni, Diego Velazquez, Guercino, Charles Le Brun, and some less well known (Andrea Vaccaro, with his luminous allegorical figure Logic; and Massimo Stanzione, to name two) who more than held their own in such company.

It was almost always representational, usually of heroic or allegorical figures related to the purpose of the building; the themes were usually chosen by the patron, and abstract sculpture for decoration was extremely rare.

About the Participants Laylah Ali is a New York - based artist best known for her paintings of meticulously drawn, colorful, and disturbing allegorical figures, including her long - running «Greenheads» series and her newest work, the «Acephalous» series, which was exhibited in the spring of 2015 at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

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.

Early paintings included biomorphic and mutant, allegorical figures in spare settings.

Aptly, one of the allegorical figures above its large brass doors was called «State Craft», depicting a male figure holding open a scroll with both hands.

Crisp's Spirit shows us the allegorical figure lifting high her «torch of knowledge» and her mirror, which the curators» commentary tells us «reflects the news of the world.»

«Only a petty mind, an artist who at most speaks and dresses as such, looks solely for people in whom he recognizes the harmonious proportions of allegorical figures.

Bortolami is pleased to announce Fortune, Jutta Koether's second solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with a reprint of the artist's 1987 novella f. On view from May 9 through June 6, 2015, this exhibition presents a new series of paintings that both reference and depart from the allegorical figure of Fortune's wheel.

In these paintings, «the nude no longer appears as an idealized fantasy, allegorical figure, or landscape of desire but rather as the self - apprehended body of a specific woman.»

What / Why: «This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.

Even today, less than 10 per cent of the 800 - odd statues recorded by the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association are of named women — and most of those are idealized mythological or allegorical figures.

Amboy is both an allegorical figure and a geographical site: a vector by which the film proceeds, interrupts itself, transmits its story, and unspools its own making in the same filmic time and space.

Tomaselli's stylized works range from psychedelic abstractions to idealized representations of allegorical figures, animals, nature, and the cosmos.