Sentences with phrase «as war paintings»

Also in 2015 she had a solo exhibition at the Barbara Kreakow Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts as well as War Paintings at Museo Correr in Venice, Italy.

While you were driving to the store, your little one was applying their snot as war paint.

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«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.

The world outside the church building is broadly painted as a vile, immoral war zone, with «God's people» hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned.

Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.

Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota said if he could turn back time, he would not have waged war with the Brooklyn Museum over a dung - covered painting of the Virgin Mary while serving as Rudy Giuliani's deputy mayor.

Ø in 2011, Philip C. Smith, a highly decorated Korean War combat veteran and well - known figure in Schuyler County government and veterans» affairs; Ø in 2012, J. Arthur «Archie» Kieffer, a World War II combat veteran and a widely admired fixture in Chemung County government as the Chemung County historian; Ø in 2013, Painted Post Mayor and World War II combat veteran Roswell L. «Roz» Crozier, Jr.; Ø in 2014, Anthony J. «Tony» Specchio, Sr., a distinguished Korean War veteran and widely respected for his long - standing and active service to veterans and government in Watkins Glen and throughout Schuyler County; and Ø in 2016, P. Earle Gleason, a lifelong Yates County resident and long - time director of the Yates County Veterans» Service Agency.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo has responded by painting the GOP as the state's enemy in an «economic civil war.»

If the GOP can win the PR war by painting MoveOn as a group far out of the mainstream, it could make it more difficult for Democrats to take money or other support from the group.

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

Something the public loves to hate in its political cabals battling to run the country from the thick of Westminster's guerrilla territories, and something our war - painted politicos on all sides perennially condemn as an obstruction to policy - building, while sharpening their poison darts in the undergrowth.

The ad is a homage to a TV commercial from Lyndon Johnson's campaign 50 years ago, which tried to paint Republican nominee Barry Goldwater as a president who would start a nuclear war.

Jackson Pollock, for instance, used drums of World War II surplus paints for his splashiest effects, and he often added texture by mixing in things such as cigarette butts.

Native War Paints This Beauty Loves Chocolate is a pale pinkish mauve with some lavender tones with a scattered holographic mixed in, as well as gold shimmer.

It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

However, his work was interrupted by the Korean War, for which he did two years service in Germany; his time there was mainly spent putting on Soldier Shows, which, as he would later remark, gave him his introduction to show business.While working on Venice, a 28 - minute documentary that juxtaposed contemporary views of the city with paintings by the masters, Ivory was introduced to art from India's golden age.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

Not only does this film resurrect old Cold War red menace paranoia to paint the villainous Decepticons as Commies, but it also evokes a lot of contemporary xenophobia towards a vague notion of what lies in the Middle East.

Since World War II, he's had difficulty holding down a job due to his hot temper and affinity for paint thinner - spiked potions, but the charismatic Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman in a more subtle, but equally skillful turn) finds him irresistible as a project, a surrogate son — maybe even the shadow self that he normally keeps hidden (Dodd shares Quell's propensity for the occasional splenetic outburst).

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

Suddenly Paul — a conscientious objector in the Korean War, a man painted by his cynical co-workers as a «bleeding heart liberal,» a natural marksman who hasn't fired a gun since a distant childhood trauma — has a lot more to think over.

The humans aren't painted as evil and the apes aren't war - hungry savages.

The Huntsman: Winter's War gets a second trailer that paints the Snow White spinoff as a grand (if also silly) helping of fantasy spectacle.

A scene where Adrien Brody, as Gulf War I vet Jack Starks, wanders away from his loony bin down a long tunnel in a Robert Frost wood and Dr. Lorenson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) stumbles after him demonstrates both, with Deming painting a beautiful landscape from paint pots full of bleak, oppressive isolation.

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

Guilt - ridden interviewees paint Foley as saintly, selfless and idealistic, if somewhat naive, alluding to the competitive and reckless aspects of war reporting.

Gibson's choice to give Wallace a grandiose mystique makes the story difficult to take as anything but a tall tale, especially as he applies the war paint and storms in and out of castles on horseback.

Max lost an arm in the war and can no longer paint; Hitler still serves as a Corporal and uses his experiences to recreate the battlefield faithfully.

In an instant, considerations of space, of honour, of allegiance to his men at war with an allegiance to mankind serve to paint the sailors aboard Das Boot as children of fear and violence connected still to a base morality.

Those early years included a turn as Hugh Laurie's son in the short - lived series, Fortysomething; starring as Stephen Hawking in the TV movie, Hawking, and Vincent van Gogh in the TV movie, Van Gogh: Painted with Words; and roles in period dramas Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, War Horse and Parade's End.

Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as «one of the great films in motion picture history,» Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary - like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair.

New details about Benicio Del Toro's character in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi have surfaced, painting the character as without allegiances.

During the Second World War he painted murals and portraits as a member of the United States Army Special Services.

No art without external relations», he explained his famous series paintings «Spanish Elegies», These paintings referred to the Civil War in Spain in the 1930's and were meant as a lamentation for something one cares about - to reveal a terrible death of many Spanish civilians which should not be forgotten.

Though it's an act of vandalism, graffiti is also regarded as an artistic style, as much a contemporary statement as the early Dadaists painting on urinals to make bold statements against World War I.

Gearing up for the release of the new Star Wars movie, vehicles in New York are going to be driving around painted as storm troopers!

As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow - up to M.J. Rose's «brilliantly crafted» (Providence Journal) novel The Witch of Painted Sorrows.

Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family's legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, the one - time college golden boy and descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short - circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Civil War re-enactor.

In addition to opening his bar only every Friday for much of its existence, he allows patrons to make their own drinks, recites Shakespeare and Beckett, greets the very occasional new patrons of his bar as close friends, sings, paints, kayaks in New York Harbor, and tells captivating stories of life in wartime Red Hook among the mobsters and war heroes who frequented what was once his grandfather's bar before it became his father's, and then his.

Illustrated with a mix of portrait photos and a few paintings in childlike or abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead - in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).

To be clear there is no «mortgage rate - war» as much as the media may wish to paint such a picture.

Some of the paintings have heavier themes as they were created around the civil war and the tumultuous periods prior.

Games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War have painted Sony as somewhat of a golden - child for offering AAA single - player experiences to its players, a move that has only strengthened its position and reputation.

Sadly, the story is forgettable, often left off to paint Commander Zavala, the Vanguard leader, as some jarhead soldier with little thought about how to win a war.

The first saw the game as a watered down battlefield game that had a fancy Star Wars paint job to distract you from how lackluster it was.

Players who pre-order XCOM 2 will also receive the Resistance Warrior Pack, offering additional soldier customization options such as bonus outfits, headgear and custom facial war paint.

XCOM 2 pre-orders will unlock the Resistance Warrior Pack, granting players additional soldier customization options (bonus outfits, headgear, and facial war paint) as well as a new XCOM recruit, a «Survivor of the Old War,» who will be available in the Avenger's barracwar paint) as well as a new XCOM recruit, a «Survivor of the Old War,» who will be available in the Avenger's barracWar,» who will be available in the Avenger's barracks.

The Turf War battles that are the default online mode see two teams of four face off against each other from opposite sides of the map, working to paint as much of the floor as possible in their own ink.

Put on your war paint, grab your fatigues and prepare for battle as The Insert Coin (s) team is proud to present GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER on Thursday, May 17 at Oxford Art Factory.