Sentences with phrase «archetypal subject»

Surrealist artists, many of them refugees from Europe living in New York during the war years, brought with them an interest in primitive and archetypal subject matter, together with the technique of automatism, in which the artist, by relinquishing conscious control over pencil or brush, creates marks which may trigger visual or conceptual associations.

Arthur Kwon Lee is a Korean American painter best known for his large scale paintings on repressed archetypal subject matter.

LONDON — Dead butterflies, sectioned cows and sharks suspended in formaldehyde are archetypal subjects of Damien Hirst's art.

Not exact matches

The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

Simmons's career - long exploration of archetypal gender roles, especially women in domestic settings, is the primary subject of this exhibition and is a topic as poignant today as it was in the late 1970s, when she began to develop her mature style by using props and dolls as stand - ins for people and places.

Here his subjects are friends, acquaintances and archetypal characters of that period, portrayed in relaxed and happy situations: people chatting on a sofa, lovers lying in bed or a man chilling in an armchair, like in Renato e Poltrona (1965).

With a keen awareness of how representation fundamentally alters the subject observed, this exhibition proposes a loose correspondence among historical materials, obliquely assembling a class of «more archetypal forms».

Kitano eliminates any reference to social hierarchies, however, by merging the subjects» identities into a unified, archetypal figure.

These subjects are both archetypal and, in some cases, specifically drawn from the artist's surroundings — the artist's beloved dog Bubbles makes an appearance.

Later, Motherwell realized that he had more to say on this subject, that it was in fact a series of archetypal motifs lamenting not just the extinction of one matador, but of a whole nation.

Often considered the archetypal whale, the sperm whale was subject to intense whaling during the 19th century, and again from the 1950's to the end of the 1970's.