Sentences with phrase «as archetypal images»

In the early 1940s Rothko abandoned Expressionism and, under the influence of Surrealism and Jung's ideas on the collective unconscious, began to use archaic symbols as archetypal images.

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As I read the book, my image of Broad shifted, from a semi-caricature of the Arrogant American to an archetypal Self - Made Man from the Midwest.

His works, such as his 1975 self - portraits, evoke the power of individual expressive acts in a photo - saturated culture by reaffirming painterly control over technical images and archetypal symbols, in this instance photographs of the artist in a crucifixion pose, drawn over with manic black marks.

Often, her videos would reconstruct television imagery using archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes and techniques such as the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music.

These domestically sized objects brilliantly capture the archetypal image of a missile as commonly found in cartoon iconography - an elongated oval placed upright on four supporting feet.

Hood is interested in how image forms are used for that purpose in contemporary culture and how they can act as archetypal activators of pictoral and emotional content.

Best known for his evocative abstract paintings featuring architectural motifs, Beattie typically employs a muted palate of earthy colours and expressive, gestural brushstrokes to create an array of archetypal images and pictographic signs such as stairs, steps, ziggurats, ladders, gateways and tunnels.