Donna Dennis articulates her voice and place in the world through more concrete structures, drawing on language and architecture to symbolically explore
archetypal themes of birth, death, and rebirth.
Among the highlights is Tracey Emin's Family Suite: 20 drawings that deal with the artist's
archetypal themes of sex, family, abortions and Margate.
Not exact matches
Like J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord
of the Rings, the Harry Potter novels and C. S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles, Pullman's novels contain
archetypal themes: the loss
of innocence, the journey - quest, loyalty and the struggle against evil.
For example, there is a number, probably a fixed and limited number —
archetypal, Jung would say — to which we can reduce the mass
of themes in the universe as they might be catalogued by such folklorists as Aarne - Thompson.
What / Why: «A group show
of artwork inspired by
archetypal themes — fundamental types
of characters or situations embedded in the collective unconscious
of all human beings»
Created for a production
of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde, Viola's video employing slow,
archetypal imagery in service
of these
themes such as transcendence and agony as it meditates on life cycles and notions
of rebirth and healing.
Featuring a suite
of drawings and a series
of wall and freestanding sculptures, the exhibition continues Blackman's exploration
of archetypal themes and binaries.
Pollock's exploration
of the
theme may reflect his interest in the
archetypal myths explored in Jungian psychoanalysis.
Another
theme the artist adopted in later works was the
archetypal Hellenistic sculpture, Venus De Milo, which like the skull, served as an attribute
of the artist's studio.