Sentences with word «apotheosis»

The exhibition is also a kind of apotheosis of Mr. Williams's own artistic milieu: 1970s site - specific installation, 1980s Pictures Generation art and the arcane 1990s trend of institutional critique.

Clyfford Still may have his own posthumous apotheosis in the form of eye - popping prices and a one - man museum, but it is Park who has recently received heartfelt tributes in the form of two written accounts of his life and art.

Therefore, the symbolism of Vanitas paintings is often misread nowadays due to its Baroque appearance and commonly perceived by Russian audiences as apotheosis of the richness of life, hymn to the material achievements of self - made men.

It seems Nintendo has taken the teetering tower of customer complaints away into their magical, mushroom infested workshop and built a suitable apotheosis with the fan's best interests in the spotlight, emerging with what the console should originally been — just in time for possibly their biggest year yet.

A high note of the pavilion, the work feels like a symbolic apotheosis for an artist now well into her 70s.

The film starts off rationally, even grounded scientifically, but then almost completely derails into utter madness, crossing beyond all logic to culminate in a deeply emotional apotheosis during which much is felt and little is explained.

Allen's view of the aristocracy and the world as callous and senseless reaches its dismal apotheosis when Chris, whose basic human decency has been overrun by greed, nevertheless, realises that money will never distract him from guilt — his last remaining trace of humanity.

In fact, the present apotheosis of Broodthaers as an artist is a radical cultural transformation, just not the liberatory one that people of the arts so often talk of in vague and longing terms.

The reigning tendency of current Protestantism, the so - called dialectical theology, denies every revelation of God outside the Christian Bible and looks upon the non-Christian religions as mere attempts at self - apotheosis which are under the judgment of God.

And so, fifty years on, to revisit the Death of God movement is not to witness the absurd apotheosis of sixties - era religion.

That happily is not the case with Thornton Dial, a self - taught African - American artistic heavyweight who has bucked the odds to see his own apotheosis occur during his lifetime.

The doll is the alchemical apotheosis of the starving street man and woman, adorned with gilded trivia and the rag - tag litter that a consumer society throws up.

This will make clear one reason why Israel abhorred apotheosis, whether of the king or of any other; for the Hebrew thinkers, God was in heaven, and man below.

Every discussion about the «point of contact», about the historical and supra - historical elements in Christianity, about apotheosis and incarnation, has always revolved around this relation between Christianity and classical humanism.

With the virtual apotheosis of Al Gore, talk of global warming has become pervasive» and pervasively one - sided.

But it was never in their capacity to remake us, to extirpate the reflexes of fear and resentment of the other that achieve their repulsive apotheosis in racism, and that are inscribed in our characters like a genetic code.

One encounters a stunning array of images of angelic metamorphosis, astral immortality, even apotheosis.

The ultimate apotheosis of this approach is molecular biology.

Nevertheless, QWERTY's apotheosis came slowly.

Pride of place goes to Jas Mitra (Freida Pinto, of Slumdog Millionaire), a nurse working at Hammersmith hospital but about to experience a revolutionary apotheosis, and Marcus Hill (Babou Ceesay), a mild - mannered English teacher continually being knocked back at job interviews by sneering white supremacists (eg «you want to teach English?

The action stops, we pause, a realization that the film has ended crystallizes, and gradually a mental image of the truck and couple rises in our mind's eye (at least it did in mine), a sheer, unqualified apotheosis of the determined, skilled individualist who forsakes the comfort of conventionality for the risk and thrill of independence and who, finally in Peckinpah's eighth film, will have the opportunity to experience that independence with someone else and in relative freedom.

Of course, one could argue that parts of the film look cheap and phony on purpose, and that The Disaster Artist represents the conceptual apotheosis of Franco's directing career, which is itself a vanity project.

In Elf, Ferrell found for his mock - serious character comedy a sweet accessibility akin to Robin Williams, but here, vigorously working his face down to his double - chin, he finds a raunchier apotheosis.

Not content with reaching a dazzling apotheosis in the on - screen presentation of song and dance, Fosse wove singing and dancing into a semi-autobiographical narrative chronicling the final days in the life of Joe Gideon, a genius director - choreographer whose non-stop work regimen is making him physically ill.

Oblivious to her glaring lack of talent, the wealthy soprano was the source of rampant ridicule, her folly reaching an unmitigated apotheosis following a sold - out Carnegie Hall performance in an instance of truth being stranger than fiction.

SIG, the U.S. Department of Education's School Improvement Grant program, was surely the morbid apotheosis of the turnaround craze.

Perhaps you don't need telling that self - help books, the modern - day apotheosis of the quest for happiness, are among the things that fail to make us happy.

The Banner Saga: Wind Ensemble Suite - 5163 / 6452 / tp +5 — 4:30 Journey: Nascence + Apotheosis — 2222 / 4231 / tp +2 / hp / strings — 7:30 (string orchestra version available) Journey: I Was Born For This — Mezzo soprano solo + 2222 / 4231 / tp +2 / hp / strings — 4:30 (concert band version available)

The recent apotheosis of Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) is a little more surprising.

Concetto spaziale, Attese is not only unique in Fontana's practice, but also stands as a supreme apotheosis of his philosophy.

Burning can wreak devastation and ruin, and yet in Ferro T has become a phoenix - like force of change, salvaging scrap and granting it an iconic apotheosis.

In Untitled (de Kooning), Prince has taken two seemingly opposed images and, together with his own artistic subversivness, has created a new image of strange apotheosis, smuggling «low» art into a «high» art and ravishing us with pure visual pleasure.

Upon her return to New York in 1954, in the middle of the Abstract Expressionism apotheosis, her austere geometrical abstractions were tepidly received.

We've reported on art investment grades» apotheosis moments.

Intended to be the American - born painter's English apotheosis, it resulted instead in the brutal rejection of his achievement.

Rachel Harrison and Matthew Barney are skeptical inheritors of an Attic apotheosis

What's more, constituting the most significant work by Brown ever to come to auction, The Tragic Conversion of Salvador Dalí (After John Martin) not only stands at the very apotheosis of the artist's extraordinary corpus of monumental sci - fi panoramas but also ranks as perhaps the most magnificent work of Glenn Brown's entire creation.

But The Tomb, a harrowingly realistic self - portrait sculpture as a beatnik corpse, is the undisputed apotheosis.

I'm a total fan, but, outside Switzerland, he's not exactly the most obvious candidate for such apotheosis.

While drawing upon the events leading up to the Trojan War, as detailed in Homer's epic The Iliad, Twombly creates an ambivalent scene, evocative of a frenzied battle, but also a «deliberately eroticized apotheosis of life and death» (Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume II, 1961 - 1965, Munich, 1993, p. 30).

Mr. Da Corte's piece can read as a rather obvious apotheosis of appropriation art, Neo-Geo and art - about - art, but craft, color and unrepentant beauty increase its potential.

For the absolute apotheosis of architecture, the elevation of the New York Condo into a new, higher state of being, watch this movie.

I know this is the closest I'll get to judicial office, let alone benchly apotheosis.

Investment has come increasingly to resemble its frictionless, efficient - market theory apotheosis.