Sentences with phrase «artistic ambitions»

The artistic ambitions of that group might be satirised and ridiculed but hardly denied.

Where so many other painters seek to convey their artistic ambitions through signs of intensive labor, grand scale, daunting complexity or serious themes, Heilmann, who began as a ceramist, seems to position painting as ceramics by other means.

Barbara Gladstone ripped apart her facade and allowed her interior to be covered in duct tape to indulge the artistic ambitions, respectively, of the young German art stars Gregor Schneider and Thomas Hirschhorn.

After he graduated high school in 1899, his parents, though supportive of his artistic ambitions, encouraged him to pursue commercial illustration.

He found the city of Cleveland to be well - suited to his artistic ambitions, discovering there a vibrant symphony and art museum.

She married businessman Charles Nevelson in 1920 and later left her husband (divorced 1941) and child to pursue her artistic ambitions.

The exhibition focuses on Moser's architectural work in its unusually close relationship with the visual arts, a complex symbiosis comprising the often exhaustive artistic appointment of his constructions, his collaboration with artists as partners on his projects, Moser's own artistic ambitions and, last but not least, his buildings dedicated expressly to art.

In 1919, Schwitters coined the term Merz, taken from a portion of the German word for commerce, to express his philosophical and artistic ambitions.

In 1916 Goodrich returned to the Art Students League but he gave up his artistic ambitions by 1918.

«Revolution of the Eye» is one of the few museum exhibitions to highlight television's artistic ambitions and the quality and depth of some of its early programmes.

The resulting exhibit gives insight into Blom's artistic ambitions.

Albers was a polymath, and the multidisciplinary environment of the Bauhaus was fertile ground for his artistic ambitions.

She attended the Folkestone & Dover School of Art until 1956 but soon put aside her artistic ambitions to raise her children.

Her first work of literary fiction, The House at the End of Hope Street, was inspired by an idea the author had to set up a house for female artists to give them a year to fulfill their artistic ambitions.

The Changeling, the latest from Kenzaburo Oe, is an ambitious, sweeping novel about friendships, artistic ambitions, and the distances we'll travel to preserve both.

Though its artistic ambitions are admirable, Guardians is neither as fun as DreamWorks» standard comedies (e.g. Megamind) nor as exciting as their better - regarded, more action - packed tales like the Kung Fu Panda movies.

These adjectives may be apt, but they also function as shorthand, eliding the filmic while serving as a connecting thread between the aesthetic impression a movie makes and its larger artistic ambitions.

Kurosawa, 80 years old at the time, makes a clear metaphor here in relation to his own artistic ambitions — he went on to make two more films after this.

Think of the filmmaker's latest as a spiritual sequel to 2005's The Squid and the Whale if the principal characters of that film were 30 years older, with the grumbling patriarch (played here by Dustin Hoffman) still unsatisfied and unsuccessful in his artistic ambitions.

Meeting up in Columbia, Missouri, where the Ross's Western screened at the 2015 True / False Film Fest, they discuss the adventurous aspects of their films, the artistic ambitions that can hide behind an unpretentious demeanor, and the challenges of balancing an enjoyable life with the task of documenting the lives of others.

While those two films got bogged down with the self - importance of their «radical» artistic ambitions, Kumble has the keen sense to not take himself too seriously, making Cruel Intentions something that those films never were — entertaining.

Glen, in contrast to Russell, is confidently out of the closet and has strong artistic ambitions, allied to a boldly gay - centric world - view.

Those contradictions also place it squarely within the filmmaker's apparent artistic ambitions.

While easy to categorize Golan as an exploitation producer (a reputation he lived up to frequently, with one self - directed effort cashing in on the death of Gianni Versace), he also had artistic ambitions.

Zemeckis, a showman in his own right, seems intoxicated by the artistic ambitions of his subject — so much so that he can't help but gloss over some of the less flattering aspects of Petit's personality.

The writer - director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close - knit Iranian Jewish community.

If they made any paintings on the cave walls 100,000 years ago, calcium carbonate deposits would have obscured them, so the team plans to beam X-rays through the layers to see if our ancestors left traces of loftier artistic ambitions.

His mother, Ruth, was an American of Quaker background with artistic ambitions.

LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he had been born into captivity, he would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first chance [he] got.»

«It is to Baudelaire that I owe the awakening of poetic feeling, and what is deep in me,» he wrote, and his youthful discovery of Baudelaire brought sensual craving and artistic ambition surging to the surface.

His grandfather, Swiss post-impressionist painter (and namesake) René Auberjonois and his father, Pulitzer Prize - nominated Swiss journalist and author Fernand Auberjonois, assured that young René was constantly exposed to a creative atmosphere and any artistic ambition was nurtured.

The second season revealed artistic ambition, reaching for a certain amount of depth in characterization and storytelling.

So breathtaking in its artistic ambition, so technically accomplished, so morally expansive, so fully realized that it defies the usual critical blather.

Aside from its lack of artistic ambition, however, it's kind of hard to bellyache about Ballers.

Cash - strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

Sid Meier's Starships is a pretty good challenging strategy game, with tactical depth, but suffers from a lack of artistic ambition and a flat atmosphere that leaves one indifferent.

Cash - strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

It's just as much a movie about loss, grief, and artistic ambition — and yes, it's also very funny.

Cash strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

Artistic ambition can be a bitch in this day and age.

Although «The Tempest,» like Ms. Taymor's «Titus,» «Frida» and «Across the Universe,» is technically a movie, its heart belongs to the same stretch of Broadway where tourists flock to «The Lion King» and curiosity - seekers nervously await the opening of «Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark,» and where her commercial ardor and artistic ambition collide and commingle.

With a premise tailor - made for creativity and artistic ambition, The Dangerous Book for Boys, co-created and written by Bryan Cranston and Greg Mottola (Superbad), misses a great opportunity to be uniquely engaging.

As seems to be a tradition, the stylized animation achieves, more or less the look of the previous film while not aspiring to the same level of artistic ambition in backgrounds.

One of the great icons of post-war America, Burt Lancaster was that rare thing — a movie star whose charisma, vitality, and power were matched and then some by his intelligence, artistic ambition and integrity.

Spillman captures the rawness of youthful artistic ambition eloquently and self - consciously, the «amplified emotions you only feel in your twenties, when you are wildly changeable.»

I have faith that over time games will continue to fragment into different sub-genres related to gameplay, subject matter and artistic ambition.

Unless you have something completely unique and visionary to say about New York (I have yet to meet somebody in the flesh who does), any kind of Manhattan - fuelled artistic ambition runs the risk of turning you in to a «ligger».

We offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development.

In the midst of the Chelsea art scene, Martin's show presents an opportunity to step away from it all all and reflect not on one's self or your own artistic ambition — but a complete disassociation with your surroundings — and to engage with art that was made viscerally, with pure artistic intent.

The sculpture demonstrates a combination of delicacy, decoration, pleasure, and artistic ambition, as well as a revealing degree of ambivalence about traditional female roles — the very ones that, paradoxically, Schapiro was proposing as a vital new source of inspiration for high art!