Sentences with phrase «almost alchemical»

This single gesture contains a lot, and works on a lot of levels — some of them almost alchemical.

Their strikingly vivid and immaterial backgrounds and clusters of colour are formed by an almost alchemical process, stemming from the artist's physical relation to natural elements and phenomena.

Interweaving fertility symbology, abstract shapes, color, glitter and invented avatars, Moyer creates surreal and historical compositions that are almost alchemical.

Smith understood his combinations of filmic images to be an almost alchemical process.

On this occasion, the former glass furnace has secretly revived and plays host to a whole new trade: an unofficial production line which is thought to conceal the mysterious vitrification of hourglass sand, with an almost alchemical ambition to crystallise time.

More than 50 works are to be shown and will give an excellent insight into the artist's diverse and varied production from its conceptual beginning in the 1960s to the fascinating, almost alchemical veiled colour pictures in large format from the 1990s.

Anselm Kiefer creates his own unique universe between painting and sculpture, using an almost alchemical method of incorporating objects into his canvases.

«Kauffman and Preece take two different approaches to the spiritual: Hers, an interior meditation; his, odes to the outside world and the beauty of nature... Their mastery of technique synthesizes a mystical, almost alchemical methodology into a potent, velvety, poetic presentation of images that lifts the soul.»

The best American movie this critic has seen in the past year, Chloé Zhao's «The Rider,» is the kind of rare work that seems to attain greatness through an almost alchemical fusion of nominal opposites.

Not exact matches

The work is alchemical, almost mystical.