Sentences with phrase «artistic merit as»

40 - 50 annual Residents are now selected based on artistic merit as well as a collaborative spirit true to Flux's collective origins.

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This movies not only has artistic merit, it is sexy as hell.

Despite that identical, calculated timing, the movies seemed to add a credit for each of the director's two faces, The Adventures of Tintin intended as blockbuster fun and War Horse as the artistic effort worthy of merit.

(3) Yet it needs to be mentioned, as variations on this kind of argument have shaped views of both Spielberg's place in film history, and his artistic merit, from early in his career.

One truly can compare the watching of how big studios and their hired bigwigs operate as the equivalent of watching how sausage gets made, as many of us to very much enjoy the end product, but we would be less pleased if we were to know how a kernel of inspiration from the mind of a writer can be second - guessed and repackaged due to executive decisions made by relatively visionless empty suits who are in the creation process solely to make money, squeezing out all trace of artistic merit where it interferes with bottom - line profit.

So, it appears there's something of a disconnect at Sundance, between the idea of a perfectly neutral, non-partisan arbiter of artistic merit, the festival that focuses on the stories while politically, as Redford put it elsewhere in the press conference, «the pendulum swings,» and the reality of a filmmaking body that is deeply, sometimes radically, political.

Gilderoy also suffers substantially, having to endure Francesco's condescension and criticism as well as Santini's passive - aggressiveness and defensiveness about the artistic merit of the film, which Santini refuses to acknowledge as a horror.

Girish Shambu finds the artistic merit of Loach's I, Daniel Blake as valuable as the already measurable impact it's had on the debate over Britain's benefits system.

The eighteen films selected to compete for the Palme d'Or this year — from 1,930 hopefuls — as usual will raise questions, ranging from artistic merit to nepotism and politics, before and after their premieres, as to why they were chosen.

With Driver's sensitive soul as our guide, Jarmusch provides a rich, existential outlook on how recognizing artistic merit within ordinary aspects of our lives is what makes them worth living in the first place.

Since 1952 they select and award the 10 best illustrated books of the year, both evaluating the artistic merit of the illustration independently from the text and the work as a completed book.

And I think we are making some inroads slowly in seeing stuff that was formerly considered purely genre fiction as having more artistic merit.

Entries are judged first and foremost by artistic merit, followed by concerns such as financial need, proposal presentation, and the project's contribution to the LGBT community.

Selection of scholarship recipients is usually based on a set of criteria, such as academic, athletic, or artistic merit.

I have long viewed myself as some kind of champion of video games as a medium, apotheosizing the artistic merits of beloved and formative games like Metal Gear Solid or Earthbound, but my utter disinterest in completing BioShock — or even attempting to play the other games in the franchise — has revealed the harsh truth.

The lesson is intended to generate discussions about artistic merit, the quiddities of taste, and (as one young wag put it) «walking a mile in Jeff Koons's shoes.»

The jurors will review all applications and select a group of finalists based on evidence of artistic merit and promise as shared in the application.

In general, artists and arts organizations will be selected for available studio space based upon their artistic merit, artistic discipline and commitment, as well as contribution to the diversity of media, style and discipline representation in the Center.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a clean, a strong, and a varied one and of vast artistic, educational interest and importance, and, if I mistake not, will have as a result, and despite the unquestionably skeptical and even hostile attitude towards the merits of the new foreign movements, or an indisposition to accept them as being worthy of the title of art movements in general — the most marked effect upon the cause of art in America, and upon the coming production of American painters and sculptors, than anything that has occurred since the first exhibition of the so - called Munich band of young American painters in the old American art galleries in 1878, and of the work of Monet and his contemporaries and followers held here in 1883.

Rather, they offer up the perspective that modern and contemporary ceramics, often relegated to the annals of the decorative arts, are of equal artistic merit and deserving of the same scholarly attention as painting and sculpture.

The rise and rise of art as entertainment, the particularly silly department of Selfridges that is the Frieze Art fair, the vacant GSK Contemporaries - such marvels of our age drown the very idea of artistic merit.

The Visible Award is a day - long public jury that will bring together artists, experts, as well as members of the general public, and users of socially engaged art to assess the merits of nine shortlisted artistic projects and determine the winner of the $ 25,000 award.

Controversially, his persona, carefully hyped, often outshone the artwork itself, which inspired debate by critics as to whether it actually held any artistic merit.

Eligibility: Each applicants will be judged on the artistic merit of his / her work, interest and potential in printmaking, paper arts and book arts (or combination thereof), as well as the quality and clarity of his / her plan for the residency.

With expressive arts therapy the process of creation is regarded as being of value instead of the main focus being on the technical viruosity or artistic merit of the product.