Sentences with word «archetype»

An archetype is a typical example or a universal symbol that represents a pattern of behavior, character, or idea that is found in many different stories or cultures. It's like the original version or model that other things of the same type are based on. Full definition
The Rocketeer is too much in love with being American to suffer the idea that Old Glory didn't represent the wellspring of archetype in the modern age.
I look at these two guys as archetypes of writer - personalities.
«He developed his mature style using an image of women, black women as a kind of archetype for all people.
She's very much based on archetypes in the video game.
Untitled Film Still # 41 (1979) is from Sherman's breakthrough series of 84 works produced 1977 — 80, inspired by female archetypes from Hollywood B movies and European film of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
In writing Mildred, who's seething at the local police's inability to find her daughter's brutal murderers, McDonagh was out for nothing less than to create a new female archetype for the screen: an unapologetic woman who isn't following the rules, who feels no need to be likable, whose purpose goes far beyond what's typically explored in a traditional female character.
In this presentation, the artist introduces a new archetype for her first solo gallery exhibition in New York.
Philadelphia - based artist Emily Smith incorporates craft into her portraiture — each painting is wrapped in a fabric frame — to construct «playful», yet «subversive» pieces that explore female archetypes by way of a gender - nonconforming subject.
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The horror sneaks up on you as his characters morph from archetypes into more complex people.
Like archetypes capable of embodying shifting meanings, the blank figures become a mold for the human condition, at once satirical, tragic, humorous, and above all, contradictory.
Whereas Altair questioned Western conceptions of who could serve as a hero, Ezio drew from classic Western hero archetypes such as Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and even Batman.
Yet she does see in the figure of Sophia (Wisdom) an appearance of the divine feminine archetype in the Judeo - Christian tradition.
But his images always remained at least vaguely representational, with monstrous shapes and mask - like faces looming like Jungian archetypes in People, Birds and Sun (in the Tate) and The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun (at the Guggenheim, New York), both from the mid-1950s.
Massive armies: Recruit and command huge armies consisted of many different archetypes of various different races
Nor can I go along with the defense of a friend and fellow critic who argues that this is a movie about archetypes rather than a movie about characters; maybe it is, but so are most of the worst movies ever made.
While this selection covers a relatively short period of time, it articulates how as an artist he stands in for other archetypes such as the tour guide, the flâneur and the ethnographer.
«Nazarian creates a unique civilization and populates it with heroic archetypes who stand on their own.
It feels like for the majority of this decade Japanese (non-Atlus) developers have been increasingly retreating behind clichés to the extent that the characters are scarcely more nuanced than morality play archetypes of the middle ages... it's just another way in which their industry has languished.
The Caine Mutiny is not distinctive filmmaking or storytelling, and its idea of ethical debate is relying on familiar archetypes and arguments.
Previously collaborating with Tarantino on Django Unchained, as one of several costumers working under costume designer Sharen Davis (The 5th Wave, Get On Up), Hoffman has found a fruitful collaborative relationship with the auteur and had a lot of fun tinkering with western archetypes on Tarantino's latest.
9:00 — 10:00 Writers Track Master Class Paula Chafee Scardamalia — Gold Room Using Archetypes From Myth And Fairy Tales For Powerful Storytelling
Leaked artwork supposedly from the game — which has been in the works since 2012 — appears to show a fantasy game mixing classic archetypes with mechanical beasties.
Pickett's work includes symbolism that references universal truths embedded within archetypes that transcend the boundaries of language, time and form.
Her first novel, Bonfire, a psychological thriller about an environmental lawyer who investigates toxic waste dumping in her Indiana hometown, will be published by Crown Archetype on November 7.
The Hobbit concludes as it began: in a welter of continuous action, with characters who have become archetypes but seldom rise above that level, and with a host of ideas J.R.R. Tolkien didn't put into his short novel.
Even though there are only a handful of Zed varieties — a somewhat stock assortment of spitters, four - legged nasties and other archetypes ripped from the zombie playbook — they offer enough diverse qualities to keep gamers glued for countless rounds.
70s archetypes come together in this slow moving relationship drama from director Angelina Jolie.
Known for constructing the feminine archetype through juxtaposing the ancient goddesses of Mesopotamia, Egypt and India with the more «modern» goddesses such as the Mona Lisa, Umm Kulthum, Tahiyya Karyokka, the artist's mother or aunts, Lutfi captures the women's emotions, their sexuality and experiences in order to simultaneously celebrate femininity and expose the cultural restrictions imposed upon it.
Choose from rabbit, quail, or chicken formulas of the Wysong Archetype Raw Diet for felines and canines.
Your party members are also made up of monsters as opposed to a group of standard RPG archetype characters which does make things a little unique.
These cards are incredibly powerful and will create entire new deck archetypes for players to use.
A lot of the cliches are alleviated by intriguing supporting characters that break past typical fantasy archetype like the spoiled heir.
Combining this site with her invented cast of animated digital characters, Bennani layers universal archetypes of human behavior and ritual alongside the visual characteristics of contemporary digital media, testing the boundaries of what we regard as familiar or strange, real or virtual.
[3] While some artists aimed to present black experience and culture through narrative painting in a straightforward and sincere way, others created archetypes who stand - in to represent a larger experience.
In their show's Season 5 premiere, pirates trade in their aggressively alpha - male archetype for sexual consent and feminism.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a modern archetype defined by Nathan Rabin in his review of Elizabethtown (2005) as «that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»
Essentially nothing more that underdog story archetypes put in place to guide our hero through his journey.
The cultists are based around the same enemy archetypes as Pagan Min's army: the one that throws Molotovs, the heavy one, the one with the bow and arrow, and so on.
NEW ORLEANS, LA — Showcasing rare pieces from one of the world's largest private collections of Alexander McQueen fashion, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, on view from February 21 through May 28, 2018.
Those five ill - fated friends are readily recognizable archetypes from scary pictures both ironic and sincere.
The Mexican artist Francis Alÿs transforms apparently simple images into surprisingly powerful archetypes in works such as Untitled, 2001, depicting a man walking with his right index finger raised.
Subverting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype as she did in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Knightley's Greta is also coming up out of a tough split with her well - meaning but douchey ex boyfriend (Maroon 5's Adam Levine in an understated acting début) and she has an arc outside of merely being discovered by Dan.
Team Israel's design for a house draws much of its inspiration from the Mediterranean «4 Room Israelite House», an ancient building archetype found in archaeological remains in the region from 3500 years ago, with rooms built around a central courtyard.
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