Sentences with phrase «almost grotesque»

Other works like «Dark Stuff» (below) are mind - boggling in their eclectic choice of materials, edging on almost grotesque — 189 mummified animals, consisting of 67 field mice, 5 adult rats, 42 juvenile rats, 44 garden shrews, 1 fox, 1 squirrel, 1 weasel, 13 carrion crows, 7 jackdaws, 1 blackbird, 1 sparrow, 1 robin, 1 toad, 1 gecko, 3 garden snail shells.

Two shining examples of this approach are the playful food sculptures by Valerie Hegarty that are on view in Miami gallery Locust Projects «booth, and the cryptic, almost grotesque head sculptures by Jennie Jieun Lee that New York's Martos Gallery is showing.

The superabundance of his pictorial energies - the expression of a power almost grotesque in relation to its situation - link Pollock to the tribal art tradition of romantic exaggeration and hyperbole.

Indeed, much of what is miserable about the top of the game is that these asymmetries stretch and become almost grotesque.

He got the impression that «a vast chasm yawns within the soul of the American people, a gnawing hunger that, to the outsider, is almost grotesque.»

When we think of the awful need of humanity at this hour, it seems almost grotesque to turn to the church for help, if by the church we mean not some idealization, but the actual human organizations we know.

Not exact matches

So here's the thing: If «Gold» is almost entirely fictional, why did Matthew McConaughey feel the need to do elaborate character work and, in the process, make a grotesque spectacle of himself?

One where the plants are vibrantly multi-coloured garlands, where animals mutate into grotesque versions of themselves and where time passes almost imperceptibly.

Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self - pity and psychopathic explanations.

It's hard to get too critical with the plot as the game seems pretty self - aware, almost taking pride in being bad and grotesque at times.

But while an arms race for spectacle has engorged Hollywood action pictures to often grotesque proportions, «little» movies like this one become almost their own kind of unintentional criticism.

While the Ryan Reynolds - lead sequel leads the way with a similar formula to its predecessor, it builds on the successes in almost every way for 119 minutes of raunchy laughs and grotesque violence impressively being juxtaposed with an unexpectedly heavy amount of heart.

The shifts in tone, going from a romantic drama into something that is almost horror from the likes of Eli Roth and Pier Paolo Pasolini, in terms of torture and the grotesque.

Instead, the teams all have sort of odd or silly mascots, and the player designs are exaggerated, almost bobble - headed figures which range from charming to slightly grotesque.

Altered Beast «s world is also populated by vicious and misshapen monsters, each layer of its deadly environment protected by a mutated and almost Lovecraftian boss — swollen masses of flesh and faces, grotesque gestalts of man and animal.

Ena Douglas (1926), for example, one of 50 portraits by Morris exhibited at his one - man show in 1938 at Peggy Guggenheim's Jeune Gallery in London, combines aspects of Neue Sachlichkeit (primarily those verging on the grotesque) and cubism, whereby the viewer is almost able to see both sides of the subject's face at once.

These paintings were often populated by grotesque and damaged figures in scenes that seemed so full as to almost burst from the frame.

The grotesque and almost monstrous ways in which Goodman investigates beauty and femininity are utterly compelling.