Sentences with phrase «allegorical works»

During the late Victorian era in Britain the academic paintings, some enormously large, of Lord Leighton and the Dutch - born Lawrence Alma - Tadema were enormously popular, both often featuring lightly clad beauties in exotic or classical settings, while the allegorical works of G.F. Watts matched the Victorian sense of high purpose.

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.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

Renowned Chinese political artist Ai WeiWei whose allegorical work is usually focused on social & political injustice took a vacation from the usual heaviness this month with a massive paper kite installation Er Xi («Child's Play») commissioned by historic Paris department store Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche.

And the pictures» lingering connections to Jessup's figurative allegorical work, which he primarily achieves with a cartoonish outline in the manner of late Philip Guston, only serves to make their gesturalism look hemmed in and mannered.

History Painting Religious, historical or allegorical work, with a moral message.

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The reason this novel is successful is that it is the least allegorical of his works; there are few one - to - one relations between the characters and events of the novel and some outside structure or pattern of ideas.

Early use of this allegorical approach may be found in the work of Philo in the first century of the Common Era.

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).

Her works are not allegorical (one fact points to another) or moral (what should be done).

Thanks to the admirable work of de Lubac on the «four meanings» of Scripture — historical, allegorical, moral, anagogical — the breadth of this mutual interpretation of Scripture and existence is known.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless god.

Luckily, there's plenty of allegorical beef for everyone, as Grau paints a vivid picture of Mod Madness in steady, deteriorating orbit around the entropy and hedonism of the time — sprinkling it liberally with a disdain for dictatorships Grau no doubt nursed whilst working under the heel of Francisco Franco's regime.

Not only does the narrative assuredly work on face value as a commentary on modern society (and all our foibles and failings), it completely functions in all of its Mobius strip - like allegorical connections (religious and whatnot).

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

After an immersion into the allegorical X-Men universe, students read Golding's Lord of the Flies with far greater confidence and efficiency, able to make light work of complex analysis.

With this powerful and puzzling novel, Nobel laureate Coetzee returns to the allegorical focus that defined his early works.

He has completed his first novel, a work of allegorical science fiction, and is currently working on the second.

Yet one of these allegorical, socially progressive artists working prior to 1848 is worth examining more closely, if only to lend higher relief to the truly advanced qualities of Courbet's postrevolutionary Studio: this is the little - known Dominique Papety (1815 — 1849), for a time one of Chenavard's assistants, dismissed by Baudelaire in his 1846 Salon under the rubric «On Some Doubters,» as «serious - minded and full of great goodwill,» hence, «deserving of pity.»

The European side begins with works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.

In his newest and most evocative work — exhibited first at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and in this accompanying catalogue — an ordered sequence of allegorical fresco - like images immerse the viewer in a total aesthetic, sensory and philosophical experience.

Remaining faithful to the materiality and autobiographical nature of her more intimately sized works, here the artist pushes into larger canvases, incorporating found materials into allegorical, albeit elusive constructions.

While Edouard's work in watercolor and oils of landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, still lifes, portraits, and allegorical subjects ranged from Impressionism and Post Impressionism to semi-abstraction, Luvena's portraits and still lifes in oils hewed closer to Realism.

Evoking the tone and mood of many of the allegorical murals he created earlier in his career, Hassam noted of the work at the time that «Montauk must look now as did countless years ago, when gods played their last game of jackstones, the mosses and low flowers grew as they do now and there could be no great forests, no higher than now, for the winds were always blowing.»

An activist artist, Lemus's work creates metaphorical and allegorical structures that highlight societal issues and their possible remedies.

While the paintings thematize everyday leisure on the NYC streets in the seventh decade, certain allegorical motifs so typical for OSGEMEOS's work, the sound installation titled White Carnival depicts the brothers in a formation similar to a choir.

Filomeno's iconography, in contrast to the allure of his work, often incorporates and explores the allegorical and the macabre, including insects, fish, human body parts, skeletons, and reptiles.

In this series of works Perry plays with idea of using this ancient allegorical art to elevate the commonplace dramas of modern British life.

Ged Quinn specializes in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

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.

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.

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In 2004 they began working closely together as a duo to create transgressive narratives rich in symbolic meaning and emotional reach, mining allegorical myths and grotesque, nightmarish visions in pieces such as Tiger Licking Girl's Butt (2004) and We Are Not Two, We Are One (2008).

Even in his later works that depict the atrocities of war, allegorical still lifes, vivid interpretations of art - historical masterpieces, and his sensual canvases created during his twilight years, he continued to apply a reduction of colour.

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.

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

Moreover, her work bears an overt allegorical sensibility from which it derives a vibrant moral compass.

Reflecting on the Parsons exhibition, Rauschenberg was unusually self - critical, admitting «how completely indulgent» he had been when he started painting.47 He acknowledged that the works were youthful attempts at producing «allegorical cartoons, using abstract forms.»

Additional paintings reflect upon lived and imagined experiences the artists share, including allegorical motifs such as water and the moon and stars, which have long appeared in their work, rendered vividly to conjure a lucid dream state.

Part of a series of allegorical photographs based on Roman life, the works point to Antin's desire to rewrite historical narratives.

Modeling her CG animations on the allegorical paintings of Casper David Fredrich, Fu continues her aspirations in the sublime from her painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous landscape.

At its core, Cooke's work is an allegorical conception of creativity and production, played out in a world populated by artists and philosophers.

In addition to the formal, art - historical reference found in her paintings, Schulnik draws inspiration from the works of Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm, interweaving the dark realities of iconic stories in to her own «allegorical odyssey.»

In the introduction to the catalog, Pegg notes that the works were created between 1870 (Lot 40: «Landscape,» an oil on canvas by Charles Ethan Porter, 1845 - 1943) and 2005 and that prices range from $ 300 to the highest estimate of $ 80,000 (Lot 550: Bob Thompson's «Allegorical Scene,» a circa 1959 oil on canvas).

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.

The show entitled «Love Before Intimacy» had five works presented and comprised of allegorical suggestive figurative paintings.

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

In her new work, Brown presents an allegorical and turbulent vision, drawing from Théodore Géricault's iconic painting of a shipwreck, The Raft of Medusa (1818 - 19), as well as those by Eugène Delacroix.

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.