Sentences with phrase «archetypal images of»

Continuing to embrace his Jungian philosophy, Engel incorporates archetypal images of the collective unconscious via the use of mythical, mystical and dreamlike images in his figures and faces.
By filtering museological categories through visual art the artists combine credible and fictional elements, playing with our response to archetypal images of knowledge and research.
«There are the archetypal images of soldiers embracing their wives and children.
I wet my hair so many times during the day in an attempt to cool down that it is now ratted up like some archetypal image of a tough girl from the 50s.
It became the archetypal image of snow largely because of the work of Wilson Bentley, a Vermont farmer who spent the winters between 1885 and 1931 outside his house photographing snow through a light microscope.
Don't let the archetypal image of a leathery old man in a billowy white linen suit put you off, these garments are far more wearable than you think.
He called his small premises there White Cube in reference to the influential collection of essays by Brian O'Doherty, Inside the White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery Space, in which the author argued that the blank, box spaces of modern galleries had themselves become «the archetypal image of 20th - century art».
These domestically sized objects brilliantly capture the archetypal image of a missile as commonly found in cartoon iconography - an elongated oval placed upright on four supporting feet.
She enriches the archetypal image of the house with emotions; she depicts her own memories and the personalities of the people who lived at each address.
Probably because of the dominance of Western modernity over other cultures, the piano has become the archetypal image of music.

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And yet those datable acts of beginning, radical though they were, and archetypal for all later reflection about America, were themselves mythic gestures which could not but stir up, at the beginning and later, the images and symbols of earlier myths and mythically interpreted histories.
Dumbledore is certainly a proponent of white magic, but he is also an outspoken advocate of what the Gospel of Luke calls the «narrow door» — an archetypal image for the transforming power of major choices or recognitions (Luke 13:22 - 30).
On the other hand, this might be the most perfect role for Witherspoon since her Tracy Flick from Election: a little spunk, a little intelligence, and a lot of gorgeous life — some of the strength of this performance no doubt due the fact that, personally, no archetypal images swim to mind upon mention of June Carter Cash's name.
It is a cyclical film (beginning and ending with the founding of a town) with archetypal characters (father / son aggressions, mother / daughter deceptions), and it is told like Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, through image and an almost instinctual understanding of the stories inherently related by a time and a place.
As I read the book, my image of Broad shifted, from a semi-caricature of the Arrogant American to an archetypal Self - Made Man from the Midwest.
In the early 1940s Rothko abandoned Expressionism and, under the influence of Surrealism and Jung's ideas on the collective unconscious, began to use archaic symbols as archetypal images.
His works, such as his 1975 self - portraits, evoke the power of individual expressive acts in a photo - saturated culture by reaffirming painterly control over technical images and archetypal symbols, in this instance photographs of the artist in a crucifixion pose, drawn over with manic black marks.
Often, her videos would reconstruct television imagery using archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes and techniques such as the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music.
These unique works apply a programmatic approach to exploring the archetypal building blocks of an image — the circle, square and cone; and the primary colors — blue, red and yellow.
The ease with which he can unearth archetypal images out of abstract shapes, and his ability to create associations that range from the frivolous to the sublime, have made him an artist's artist.
But Tucker's observation that «the freedom with which these artists mix classical and popular art - historical sources, kitsch and traditional images, archetypal and personal fantasies, constitutes a rejection of the concept of progress» was prescient.
Photographed in many cities across continents, the images merge to create an archetypal megacity of endless glass and steel grids, layer upon layer — uniformly resembling each other.
Hood is interested in how image forms are used for that purpose in contemporary culture and how they can act as archetypal activators of pictoral and emotional content.
Using a variety of media — ranging from photography, drawing, sculpture, and found images — the New York - based artist engages the viewer with archetypal representations of identity, symbolism and history.
I photograph the people and rituals involved in these public showdowns and explore both the archetypal and divergent images of masculinity in and outside of the ring.
Welding the indexicality of the photographic to the archetypal of theatre, «A country road, a tree, evening» elegantly manifests the complexities of historical conjecture within paradoxical photographic images.
Her images are both self - revelatory and speak to the collective unconscious in their evocation of archetypal forms.
The artist states, «I find that, through the transformative act of painting, an image can be stilled and changed into something more archetypal: it ceases to be simply about the particular person or fleeting moment captured, and becomes instead something more public, permanent and aesthetically deliberate.»
David Salle's new paintings are crowded: The nine large canvases upstairs at the Skarstedt gallery on the Upper East Side are brimful of archetypal images from 1960s - era advertisements — cars, cigarettes, shoes and food.
Best known for his evocative abstract paintings featuring architectural motifs, Beattie typically employs a muted palate of earthy colours and expressive, gestural brushstrokes to create an array of archetypal images and pictographic signs such as stairs, steps, ziggurats, ladders, gateways and tunnels.
My interest in clinical works focuses on the relationship with the unconscious, dream analysis, images, symbols and archetypal patterns, and the intersubjective field phenomenon of psychotherapeutic work that emerges with a two - person analysis.
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