Sentences with phrase «allegorical representations»

Allegorical representations of Mars, the god of war mercilessly attacks the arts are juxtaposed with images of destroyed cities, historical pieces, propaganda materials, postcards and critical reflections on art theft and destruction.

In the early 17th century still life became an independent genre in art, but it was considered less important than historical and allegorical representations of the period.

George Edward Sears wrote in 1889 that the Dance of Death was «A name given to a certain class of allegorical representations, illustrative of the universal power of Death, and dating from the fourteenth century.»

They share a common drive to subvert the tropes of the realist mediums by delving into the realm of perception and allegorical representation.

Through allegorical representation, my paintings portray shared dramas experienced by humans and animals alike — survival, deceit, wonder, anxiety, aspects of change, and transition.

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He appropriates the allegorical image as symbolic representation of universal conceptions of the world (be it mythological or religious).

In his still lifes, portraits, allegorical scenes, and abstract works, Verne Dawson investigates the continuities that persist in human nature and culture, exploring how they are chronicled through narrative and visual representation.

Artists sought to criticize traditional modes of representation, mainly government - commissioned religious and allegorical works, by blending elements of high and low culture and incorporating parts of newly modernized quotidien life in their works.

In this exhibition, established artists such as Betty Tompkins, Tom Burr, John Coplans, Donald Moffett and Nancy Grossman, coexist alongside an emerging generation of artists, including Wyatt Kahn, Xylor Jane, Robert Zungu, Dave Hardy, Michelle Lopez and Archangelo Sassolino, to deploy abstracted, allegorical and symbolic representations of the body within a post-historical culture.