Sentences with phrase «allegory of»

Take the allegory of the computer operating systems.

Having attended a liberal arts college, I must have read Plato's «The Allegory of the Cave» about a billion times.

Losey begins with the allegory of Plato's Cave, the story of prisoners who have been held captive in a cave all of their lives.

The allegory of the three wise monkeys, how see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing, could only wrongly be applied in this case becasue of the word «wise «in the description.

In the monumental tableau entitled The Sea (1981) Schnabel used shards of broken Mexican vases to evoke an allegory of death and to suggest an image of cultural upheaval.

Winkfield is a convincing writer, even when he dedicates time to subjects of quizzical merit — not just The Allegory of Faith, but Marcel Duchamp, Paul Signac, and Jasper Johns.

An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life (1640) National Gallery, London.

Shirazeh Houshiary, Allegory of Sight, 2015, cast painted stainless steel, 43 x 120 x 43 cm, Courtesy Lisson Gallery, © Photo: Dave Morgan, © Shirazeh Houshiary

Each of his assemblages, as they seemed to me at the time I first encountered them, was a moral allegory of his life as well as an expression of a personal existential surrealism, not to mention neo-narcissism (he often used casts of his own body in his art).

Studio and Production as a Subject of Today's Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extra City Kunsthal and Braem Pavilion, Middelhelm Museum, Antwerp 2013 A preface, Frac Ile - de - france / Le Plateau, Paris 2012 Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Eight large and recent paintings by Shaw will be shown alongside two paintings normally on display at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) that have long obsessed the artist, Joseph Noel Paton's (1821 - 1901) The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849 and Lucas Cranach's (1472 - 1553) An Allegory of Melancholy, 1528 (the latter work has been on long loan to the Galleries for more than 20 years).

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...

In order to access the exhibition space, the visitors are invited to pass through the work titled Stomach of the World (2017), an allegory of the world, described as a chaotic organism which alternates between processes of ravenous assimilation and moments of stasis, empathy or clashes between its inhabitants, and periods of control, digestion, expulsion and recycling of the «waste» produced, in other words its phobias and states of angst.

Considered by many to be the first dramatic work of the theater of the absurd, Roi (translated as «King Ubu» or «King Turd») is an allegory of anarchy that uses farce and scatological humor to comment on art, literature, politics, and the ruling class.

Artist Statement An allegory of humanity's progression from nature to civilization - Charles Thompson After losing his parents in a mugging as a child, Charles swore to avenge them.

You Killed me First (1985), one of Richard Kern's longer films starring David Wojnarowicz and Lung Leg, could be read as a clear teenage allegory of the Cinema of Transgression itself.

The centerpiece of the show could be called a type of allegory of the history of the affordable care concept in the USA.

This undated image released by Ringling Museum shows Paolo Veronese's «Allegory of Painting.»

«Far More Real is a group show from the members of the NAPOLEON Collective in Philadelphia that examines the work of each artist - member through Plato's «Allegory of the Cave.»

Rodney Graham, «Allegory of Folly: Study for an Equestrian Monument in the Form of a Wind Vane» (2005).

Trees in Contemporary Art Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg Animal Mineral Vegetable Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Allegory of the Cave Painting Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp Alchemy NEST, The Hague Size Matters Foundation for Art Fort at Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen Picture This SALTS, Birsfelden Halftone: Through the Grid Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Beating around the bush Episode # 1 Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Lugar a Dudas, Cali RE: Painted S.M.A.K., Ghent video screening 25 Zero, Milan Amnesia Nadácia - Centrum súčasného umenia, Bratislava 2013 Behind Images Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam (catalogue) Traces Stedelijk Museum, s - Hertogenbosch Agora 4th Athens Biennale, Athens On the Road to... Tarascon, Adrian Ghenie and Navid Nuur Plan B, Berlin Passion de l'Art en Finistère / Collection # 4 Centre d'art contemporain de Quimper (T) HERE Bonnefanten Hedge House, Wijlre Flex - Sil Reloaded Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen Casey Kaplan, New York The Image in the Sculpture Centre Pompidou, Paris (curated by Christine Macel and Navid Nuur) Time, Trade and Travel Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam Small Gestures MU / Strijp S, Eindhoven Mesures et disparition / Over maat en verdwijning Institut Néerlandais, Paris It wasn't there yesterday Raster Gallery, Warsaw 2012 This Title is an Artwork of Mine Motto Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (curated by Mikkel Carl) The Castle in the Air.

Shirazeh Houshiary, Allegory of Sight, 2015, acier inoxydable peint en fonte, 43 x 120 x 43 cm, Courtesy Lisson Gallery, © Photo: Dave Morgan, © Shirazeh Houshiary

It may be a sculptural analogy for Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

Unlike Warhol's films, Sietsema's may have another level, a plane on which his fake botanicals form an allegory of modern art history.

Several artists, however, used the mayor's charismatic flair as a motif in their works and humorously portrayed the losers of the last election campaign, as can be seen in the photographs of the artist duo Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda at Atelierhaus Monbijou, or the homage - like portrait to Berlin's mayor, Allegory of Government, in an empty room at KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin by Clegg & Guttmann.

See the latter's Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1338 - 9, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

The present work thus reveals the foundations of Scully's praxis as he combines real life structures with the poetic allegory of a subjective viewing experience.

The unfolding action becomes an allegory of human behavior under social and psychological «pressure.»

Angela Dufresne, «A Real Allegory Of My Artistic And Moral Life,» 2014, oil on canvas, 84 by 132 inches.

Equilibrium: An Allegory of Rebirth opens May 5th at The Lodge Gallery as part of Frieze Week in New York City.

Two wall - based works, Allegory of Sight and Allegory of Sound, explicitly strive after synaesthesia.

Grotwork also acts as an allegory of Angell's practice, as one of systematic accretion and editing, and as a physical allegory to his reverse - painted glasses, which are painted via hundreds of flecked layers of paint.

«My Amazon account kept suggesting this book,» she says of George Orwell's 1945 allegory of a barnyard gone Bolshevik.

Angela Dufresne, «A Real Allegory Of My Artistic And Moral Life» (detail), 2014, oil on canvas, 84 by 132 inches.

In Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some), NYC Version, inspired by Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio: A real allegory of a seven year phase in my artistic and moral life (1855), Oursler creates his own three - dimensional studio identical in scale to Courbet's painting.

Together, these three pictures create an allegory of photography and how it opens onto the practices of painting, sculpture, and performance.

Beyond allusions to Hartley's seascapes, such as the white foam, dark sky and lobster - red figures of Surfer (2015), there are associations to the tragic allegory of Nine Bell's Folly (1933), his striking nocturnal commemoration of the poet Hart Crane's suicide at sea, featuring eyes in the waves and apocalyptic commotion in the sky.

A triple translation, as art critic Michele Robecchi notes, through which the artist stages her own allegory of memory and time, making visible the redefinitions that take place when memories overlap.

Weerasethakul further describes his work in relation to Plato's allegory of the cave:

We are immediately reminded of «Flora,» represented in Botticelli's «Allegory of Spring», a profusion of flowers coming out of her mouth.

Desiderio's picture is an allegory of the unhealthy modern world at its incurable worst, as distinct from the healthy classical world at its utopian best — the health - restoring world of curative light in Un» Historia in contrast to the wildly sick darkness in I» Liberati.

Kabisch's aesthetically ironic figuration of humans takes the physical body as an allegory of our society; using the self to explore mankind's manners and paradoxes.

The wall - text in the museum explained: «Dürer's deliberately ambivalent interpretation might be an allegory of transience (Vanitas), or of seduction, or avarice.

These are separated by two metal partitions of the sort you see between men's room urinals, making the whole thing a suave allegory of male privilege.

The curator refers to the image as the «portrait in absentia of a charismatic person [and] an allegory of an extraordinary way of life.»

He says, «Thompson's» paintings were more allegory of blue, yellow, and red people.

The exhibition proposes that the future available to art is not the futurism of doom or the futurology of gridlock, not an allegory of ecology or technology, but the future of interpretation.

Her recent group exhibitions include Permutations, Truck Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary (2011); The Black and the White: An Allegory of Colour, 5th KWAG Biennial, curated by Robert Enright, Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery (2011); and, Autofunction, curated by Derek Sullivan and Shane Krepakevich, G Gallery, Toronto (2011).

What appeared to be a painting about the stabilization of a painting instead becomes an allegory of disallowance and insecurity, with touch charged and denied, and racial identifiers mismatched, displaced, and altogether confounded.

Women would be more accurate — women who are not reduced to an allegory of beauty or desire,...