Sentences with phrase «allegorical imagery»

Taking up key, allegorical imagery in Wilding's work, the exhibition focuses on themes of «becoming,» both the transformative event itself and the threshold to transfiguration.

For more than three decades, his work has explored contentious political systems such as colonialism, totalitarianism, and apartheid through powerful allegorical imagery and theater.

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.

With its Klansman caricatures and awkward, cartoonishly allegorical imagery, BioShock Infinite is a game that so earnestly wanted to say something about the social issues it brought up but didn't quite know what to say once it took the opportunity.

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Paladino's figurative paintings are invested with emotive religious, and spiritual imagery, which form allegorical tableaux.

Fantastical and allegorical in imagery, and intricate in technique, Filomeno's works are deeply informed by his upbringing in Italy.

As Hieronymus Bosch used allegorical scenes and elaborate fantasy imagery in his paintings as a commentary on the social and religious climate of the 15th and 16th centuries, Wright reacts to today's social networking with Baroque - like compositions of intricacy, interconnectivity and complication.

Specializing in fusing Americana, popular imagery, and traditional painting techniques, Nicola Verlato is best known for his highly refined allegorical surrealism that recalls the murals of Thomas Hart Benton and the heightened drama of 17th - century Italian baroque paintings.

Her painting clearly employs imagery from Pieter Bruegal as well as his dark allegorical sensibility and moral tone.