Sentences with phrase «as in surrealism»

In Male and Female the occasional areas of dripped and splattered paint were not springboards for free association, as in surrealism, but an effort to record the spontaneity of his unconscious thought processes.

But there is also a meticulously realistic modernism that carefully reproduces pieces of the world out there, but in such fashion as either to tell a story that is impossible in the world, as in surrealism, or to alienate the depicted reality altogether from our quest for coherence.

Not exact matches

Salvador Dalì had a profound impact on the art world as one of the most recognized figures in the surrealism movement in the mid-20th century.

That's the sort of action that many teen movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.

Madagascar 3 is deeply involved in surrealism, rivalling Disney's pink elephants on parade in a circus sequence that, if not as good as Dumbo's, is not as good because it's scored by a genuinely dreadful Katy Perry song.

Both share a space with surrealism in the positioning of animals (artificial or deceased) in industrial spaces (London's Battersea Power Station is the iconic backdrop of the «Animals» cover) as mute commentary, perhaps, on man's destructive relationship with his environment — a read that jibes comfortably with the thrust of Children of Men, in which we're told that one day in the not - too - distant future, humans suddenly stop reproducing.

Rudolph's underrated and visually inventive comedy Investigating Sex (2001)-- loosely inspired by José Pierre's study of the relationship between surrealism and sex — returns the director to a more salient concern with the connection between human desire and art; as its characters discuss their thoughts on sex, they sit among paintings and sculptures that would likely have also piqued the interest of Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind.

They share a background in comedy, but cite everything from punk to surrealism and the occult as influences on Tunley's...

Its wry sense of humor and surrealism reminded me of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, who used a checkpoint as a microcosm in his 2002 film, Divine Intervention.

His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».

The collection contains eight new stories that promise the same combination of surrealism and insight as those in her striking debut, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006).

That's not to say that Sunshine is devoid of the series» indelible mark of surrealism, as the aforementioned platforming gauntlets that serve as the bonus stages — where Mario is robbed of F.L.U.D.D. and has to rely on his own abilities — seem to be housed in a bizarre, often pixelated dimension, with random shapes and objects suspended in space in such a way that they feel like a precursor to the Galaxy titles.

Twin Peaks is not a reference that I would have come up with on my own as an analog to Scott Pilgrim, but there are certain parallels, especially in the surrealism that's encroaching on those very mundane environments.

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

These are aspects that are visible in her exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and surrealism.

«Childhood Memories» is described in the gallery's press release as «returns to the essence of the imagination, an exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by surrealism».

For all that the work can seem alien, Szapocznikow was no outsider: as Andrew Bonacina, co-curator of the exhibition at the Hepworth points out, she was plugged into the artistic movements and conversations of her time, and you can, if you so choose, read her sculpture in relation to pop art, to late ‑ flowering surrealism, and to neo-realism.

For much of the twentieth century, it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

An exhibition of works drawn from the museum's permanent collection considers the work of Chicago artist Frederick D. Jones Jr. in relation to the art movement known as social surrealism.

Vivianne Sassen counts surrealism as among her formative inspirations, and Hot Mirror has been immaculately timed to complement the second exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield which looks at Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain.

As he began creating metamorphic compositions — in which a particular image would be created out of thematically relevant forms (for example: clowns whose faces and bodies are comprised of circus figures)-- Tchelitchew's art became more closely associated with surrealism.

Featuring artists such as Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Man Ray Kay Sage, and Dorothea Tanning, Surrealism in America showed the pervasive influence of European surrealism in America while demonstrating artists» diverse responses to it.

This surge of surrealism, now considered as the genesis of Abstract Expressionism, is explored in Organic New York, 1941 - 1949.

But Stezaker was a student too at a time when a wholesale critique of the pop - cultural image was being launched by such thinkers as Guy Debord; the Situtationists» scurrilous repurposing of media imagery became an exemplary strategy for him, alongside his abiding, and then unfashionable, interest in surrealism.

His travels in Europe exposed him to the modern art movements of the early 20th century, such as cubism, surrealism, and expressionism.

From her an exile in America, through to her struggle to develop as an artist during the post second world war dominated by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and men.

Emerging out of the travel, correspondence, and conversation with international artists such as André Breton or Lee Miller, this group played a seminal role in introducing surrealism to the Cairo art scene.

As the youngest artist to present at the Whitney Biennial in 2006 (he was 25 at the time), Trecartin's first major work, A Family Finds Entertainment, has since become a seminal piece of video art; it's hyperactive pace and kitsch surrealism are now iconic (the word «Trecartin-esque» is a surprisingly common art - world adjective).

Cornell did not consider himself a Surrealist and is quoted in the catalogue as not sharing «in the subconscious and dream theories of the Surrealists,» adding that «While fervently admiring much of their work, I have never been an official surrealist, and I believe that surrealism has healthier possibilities than have been developed.

By appropriating the Surrealist technique of automatism, artists such as Peter Busa, Arthur Dove, Gerome Kamrowski, and Boris Margo found their voices in what Theodoros Stamos called, «abstract surrealism,» now known as organic abstraction.

The Italian illustrator, who's based in Dundee, loves to create illustrations using a wealth of bright colours, and describes her style as «fun» and «naive», inspired by pop surrealism, collage, psychedelia from the 1960s and street art.

As Amy Winter shows in her book about Paalen, Robert Motherwell, who had worked on Dyn and received, as he put it, his «post-graduate education in surrealism» from Paalen, gradually lost a sense of indebtedness to hiAs Amy Winter shows in her book about Paalen, Robert Motherwell, who had worked on Dyn and received, as he put it, his «post-graduate education in surrealism» from Paalen, gradually lost a sense of indebtedness to hias he put it, his «post-graduate education in surrealism» from Paalen, gradually lost a sense of indebtedness to him.

Arising from his interest in philosophy and conceptual art, but nonetheless immensely formal, his work reveals him as an artist who has inherited as much from surrealism and minimalism as from Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys.

Now no style, no technique or material can pretend uniquely to speak for the times as, for example, abstract expressionist painting did in New York in the»50s or surrealism did in Paris in the early»20s.

The movement was linked with Freudianism in the 1920s, producing the wild imagery of surrealism and verism, as seen in the paintings of Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró.

Modern and contemporary styles represented in the collection include precisionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, pop and op art, Fluxus, photo realism, and minimalism, as well as works that explore social and political issues.

The artists will present 30 new paintings on canvas in styles such as surrealism and abstract expressionism, inspired by artists including Picasso, Salvador Dali, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

Simple motifs which are often rooted in surrealism, such as the umbrella or the bowler hat becomes a palm tree, or martini glass, or a woman's groin repeatedly feature in Frosts» paintings, drawings, prints and slide - shows.

Over the next decade his diverse work varied in terms of content, medium, and technique as he was inspired by surrealism, dadaism, and minimalism.

There are the ones that establish you publicly as an artist respectful of art history and scholarship — in Brown's case, surrealism, appropriation, the mannerists — and then there are the ones you keep secret, which stained your imagination as a teenager staring at the covers of progressive rock records and science fiction paperbacks.

By invoking seemingly antagonistic art - historical models — from the technological experiments of Russian constructivism to the base materialism of Bataillean surrealism and the cybernetic systems aesthetics of Jack Burnham, as well as the entropic geographies of Robert Smithson — «Foreign in a Domestic Sense» participates in contemporary discussions regarding the power of things and materials to operate beyond the scope and frame of the human, while insisting on an urgent geopolitical awareness about the conditions of Puerto Rico and kindred territories in the global south.

In terms of her own style, Milanesi describes it as «a blend of abstract expressionism and Dada / surrealism with a dash of realism.»

Art Wynwood Fair has established itself four years ago as the first art fair in the world to provide space and put the spotlight on the contemporary underground movement and genres like street art and pop surrealism.

** Schmidt and his vision were, however, one and the same: there was no conceptual detachment, no cynicism, and in the process of pursuing his own truth, he touched on the theatricality and the teasing antilogic of surrealism, the notion of the readymade, the improvisational vitality of abstract expressionism, the psychological fabric of assemblage, environmental sculpture, and light phenomena as subject matter.

Her work is the most offbeat of the shortlisted artists as it brings in surrealism, comedy and uncompromising sexual imagery.

Influenced in his use of colour, like Rothko, by the abstract artist Milton Avery (1885 - 1965) known as the «American Matisse», Gottlieb's surrealism received a boost in 1940 with the arrival in America of European Surrealists fleeing the German Occupation of Paris.

Elizabeth Murray's genre - bending 1998 painting fused abstraction and pop, while drawing on everything from cubism to surrealism, the comic books she religiously read and drew as a kid in Chicago, and the graffiti she saw plastered across the walls of 70s and 80s New York.

Mr. Kelly was a true original, forging his art equally from the observational exactitude he gained as a youthful bird - watching enthusiast; from skills he developed as a designer of camouflage patterns while in the Army; and from exercises in automatic drawing he picked up from European surrealism.

Most scholarship has viewed Smith's early work as developing in a linear fashion, from the European influences of Picasso and cubism in the 1930s; to a figuratively based, highly detailed, American surrealism in the 1940s; to a lyrically abstract, expressionist expansiveness in the 1950s; culminating with the seemingly disconnected breakthrough embodied in the reduced, geometric monumentality of his final works.

Yet here the line of representation inevitably blurs, as the artist nudges his forms toward abstraction and surrealism through softened edges, shifts in scale, lush but strange colors, manipulated perspective, and shapes and imagery that repeat but become altered over time.