Sentences with phrase «archetypal women»

At the time, Ms. Sherman was making her «Untitled Film Stills,» depicting herself in archetypal women's roles.

Brooklyn - based painter Haley Josephs makes enigmatic paintings of powerful, archetypal women, often engaged in private activities or rituals that can be both disturbing and absurd.

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The story of Wonder Woman, far from being a feminist fable, is actually the archetypal tragedy of the goddess who falls in love with a mortal man who must die while she lives on immortally.

Nathanson, the archetypal new woman, is also fearless, or at least able to live with fear.

Each election, they invent names such as «Essex man» or «Worcester woman'to describe archetypal voters representative of marginal constituencies necessary to win a parliamentary majority.

Practicing the Adi Shakti meditation helps heal feelings of loss and abandonment regarding our biological mothers, and help women connect with the universal and archetypal Mother.

The cast of archetypal characters includes a Hooker With a Heart of Gold (Raymonde), a Wise - Beyond - Her - Years Teenager (Diana Hopper) and even a Young Woman Who Is Obviously Gorgeous But No One Can Tell Because She's Wearing Glasses (Olivia Thirlby).

The rest of the key players also serve the script well: Kebbel as the archetypal «wild child» sister, Strathairn as the ambiguous dad, and Banks, happily camping it up as a woman with a talent for creepy - awkward conversation.

This Messy Magnificent Life by Geneen Roth The pressure to be the archetypal «angel in the house» in Victorian America must have been intense, even for a woman like Meg, who truly did want to devote herself to domestic life.

JMcK: Your paintings are essentially about men and women, familial dynamics and the archetypal relationships that override individual human lives and the decisions we make.

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.

The following year, the American Contemporary Art (ACA) Gallery in New York mounted his first solo exhibition, a series of works depicting the strength and beauty of real and archetypal African American women.

In Cindy Sherman's famed Untitled Film Stills series, most of the 69 photographs depict the artist as a archetypal character known from the movies: a housewife, a femme fatale, a working girl, and everything in between — all evoking the ways the cinema has the tendency to objectify women.

Inspired by a collaborative drawing with American artist Larry Rivers of his wife, her pregnant friend Clarice Price, Saint Phalle began to portray archetypal female figures with a more optimistic view of the position of women in society.

Her work portrays women not as exact likenesses but rather as archetypal figures whose personality is only partially exposed to the surface.

At the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, she works to make the archetypal car - obsessed city more welcoming to cyclists and to make the cycling community more welcoming to women and people of color.