Sentences with word «allegory»

An allegory is a story, poem, or artwork that uses symbols and metaphors to represent deeper ideas or moral messages. It helps convey complex or abstract concepts by depicting them through characters, objects, or events that have symbolic meanings. Full definition
The centerpiece of the show could be called a type of allegory of the history of the affordable care concept in the USA.
This became the inspiration for his Venice Biennale pavilion (representing his native New Zealand), which, he said, «also tried to underline the value of reading his work by presenting versions of it and of other work from the Snowden archive in a kind of beautiful Renaissance library that is, in itself, a kind of allegory for the value of knowledge.»
He keeps inventing new ways to challenge our beliefs in ostensible truths and convincing lies, creating surreal stories that can be read as allegories for political events and historic accounts.
Heavily soaked in allegories about Greece's recent financial crisis, the film begs to be understood, but if you do not have any background knowledge about the crisis, you are lost from the start.
Ginny Casey's paintings often cast objects and human forms in allegories for making.
The political allegory component of the story isn't particularly compelling — it's been interpreted as a commentary on the hysteria of Trump era — but as a movie about parental anxieties, it's steely and effective.
My teachers always taught the lessons from the stories so I took them as allegories with a moral.
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When it is not allegory it is divinely inspired fiction.
Obviously, you still have to be rigorous about getting your case material into Allegory for it to work well.
We can always find a Maverick to get excited about using Allegory — and yes, there do seem to be more of these.
Instead, these new works function like allegories of painting.
Brought up in a secular home in the USA, she was oblivious to the Christian allegories in both.
A righteous Biblical allegory about the havoc we wreak on our planet (as I'm sure you've heard and heard again), damning not just the aggressive acts but the mindset behind them.
In that sustained religious allegory of moral heroism and imagery both vivid and frightening, the reader lives through Christian's travails and all - too - human backsliding, until finally tasting his victory as one's own.
It must be distinguished from allegory in which every detail of the story has symbolic significance.
Hairstyles became allegories of current events: Syringes were curled into wigs to celebrate the invention of the vaccine, boats crested on wavy heads to observe naval victories, and the pouf's shape's convenient similarity to the hot air balloon came in handy when commemorating the Montgolfier brothers» balloon experiments.
-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»
Rastros (Traces) is a consideration of the artistic processes that seek to represent or make allegories of rituals, time, space, power and movement, energy.
Firms like Novus Law, Seyfarth Shaw, Baker Donelson, Davis Wright Tremaine, in - house legal departments like Microsoft and 3M, and technology providers like Allegory Law, iManage, Neota Logic, and HighQ are all succeeding.
The show will provide an in - depth look at the symbolic nature of the artist's most striking depictions of individuals and groups — from intimate portraits to more complex narrative scenes — and will highlight how allegory permeates Eisenman's oeuvre as she fluidly ties the fictional to the autobiographical and the past to the present.
The exhibition will include the artist's recent video Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)(2017), which debuted at documenta 14 in Athens and presents a powerful allegory for the experience of exile.
Through allegory Making Money Religiously points out that personal exchanges and narrations of the self are influenced, knowingly and unwittingly, by sensibilities of objectification of the self and the other combined with identification with and yearning for power and control.
The book was revolutionary for combining science - based fantasy with spiritual allegories inspired by L'Engle's own deep Christian faith.
The film is entertaining enough, but an uninitiated audience is left too many blanks to fill in — and those in the know will far more readily recognise how much of a retread this is, even with its thinly veiled allegory for American militarism to chew on.
You all should be ashamed of yourself, ruining what could have been a good moral allegory to turn it into a pompous backwards powerhouse for the evolutionary challenged
Is it an obvious allegory for sexual transmitted diseases?
However, it's easy to assume that such a climate exists at any given time of conflict and that the main themes are universal allegory not specific.
[citation needed] By thus manipulating the conventions and structures of figurative painting, he creates corollaries for literary, philosophical, and historical concepts in visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception, meaning, and interpretation in art.
Afterwards, his paintings incorporated African themes with imagery of African - American life to create allegories about life, spirituality, hope and survival, according to the museum.
The series continues with Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists (1987), and Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990).
Longtime Screen Rant readers are aware that several members of our staff were disappointed with Alice, for reasons that run deeper than the distracting post-converted 3D and its recycling of Burton / Depp tropes; such as, how it trades in the discernible characters and satire of Carroll's novels for an ambitious (but, sadly, non-compelling) fantasy allegory where many dark Underland inhabitants and CGI backgrounds blurr together.
He says, «Thompson's» paintings were more allegory of blue, yellow, and red people.
Together, the place, people and animals (often crows) form allegories tying the human experience with the unpredictability of the natural world.
Cannes 2018: Director Ali Abbasi delivers a formidable load of WTF with a work that's part horror film, part allegory about our fear of outsiders
The Triumph of Poverty (2009) presents a complex allegory of contemporary economic conditions.
Allegory fell on hard times in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In fact, Jesus is just allegory for the sun.
Most reviews do a better job of explaining what the political allegories represented than the film did, which seem just political hammering in one direction or another.
Wizard of the Crow, a vast, sprawling, satirical allegory written in 6 parts, took about 10 years to write and two years to translate.
Had they persisted with a heavy handed allegory I would have left the theater.
I have not seen Allegory's new transcript tools, but I hope to catch up with Asay at next week's ILTA conference for a demonstration.
For some, it could be a religious allegory given its themes of survival and the eventual apocalypse.
Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories.
Do Julião Sarmento, Dosso Dossi, and David Salle all spin postmodern allegories?
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