Sentences with phrase «as masterpieces»

Highlights of the museum's permanent collection of arts and crafts include rare Native - American artworks, as well as masterpieces like the Bird of Paradise Quilt Top (1858 - 63) and Ammi Phillips's Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog (1830 - 35).

The Jewish Museum has done a splendid job of showcasing the paintings as masterpieces of modernism.

In its collection of North European Renaissance art, the Basel Kunstmuseum owns the world's largest collection of paintings by Hans Holbein The Younger (1497 - 1543) and family, as well as masterpieces by Konrad Witz, the religious painters Hans Baldung Grien (1484 - 1545) and Matthias Grunewald (1470 - 1528), the printmaker Martin Schongauer (1440 - 91) and the portraitist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553).

And just as some masterpieces (think of Shakespeare's plays «really» written by Bacon) are dogged by fancies that they were done by someone else, so it has turned out to be with Goya and the Black Paintings: a Spanish furniture historian, Juan José Junquera, recently created a brief flurry of headlines in Europe and America by claiming - on no pictorial evidence at all - that the Black Paintings were «really» done by Goya's son Javier, a ne'er - do - much who may have been a painter - certainly his father called him that, if only in support of his application for a pension - but by whom no attributable paintings exist.

Its holdings include the largest collection of paintings by the Holbein family, as well as masterpieces by Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung, Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Mathias Grunewald.

Heralded as masterpieces even when they debuted in the 1980s, they were the subject of a major world - traveling exhibition in the 1990s.

We feature award - winning artists who are recorded as their masterpieces are created.

Without prompting, Doig refers to the sale, saying «the way auction houses write about paintings as masterpieces seems such an absurd way to talk about a contemporary work of art.

Paintings such as The Card Players (1917), The City (1919) and Le grand déjeuner from 1921 are now universally regarded as masterpieces of Modernism.

Yet the film isn't needlessly morose, it's penetrating and powerful, shining a very bright light at the complexity of the situation involving the cartels and America's addictions, twisting the very notion of a war film as elegantly as masterpieces like Apocalypse Now have done in the past.

On the one hand, her timing was excellent, arriving on the scene just when American audiences were taking movies most seriously, thronging to the films of Bergman, Buñuel, Fellini, and Kurosawa, and hailing them as masterpieces.

Also, with games like Call to Duty and GTA, you dismissed them as violent because you did not have them (or have them right) and put them down when they sold big on REAL machines, but once you get them you will praise them as the masterpieces that (well GTA4 / 5 at least) are.

Many observers believe four cornerstone speeches delivered by Benedict XVI» at Regensburg, Germany, in 2006; at the College des Bernardins in Paris in 2008; at Westminster Hall in London in 2010; and at the Bundestag in Germany in 2011» will be remembered as masterpieces laying out the basis for a symbiosis among faith, reason and modernity.

People who say the Bible is boring probably need to forget everything they have ever heard about the Bible and begin to read it as the masterpiece of literature that it is.

some have hailed it as a masterpiece comparable to the works of Dante (First Things), while others have labeled it «obscene» (Boston Globe), «almost sadistic» (Los Angeles Times) and «a sickening death trip» (New Yorker).

When he raised the baton, the Herald began to play at full volume, devoting pages to the new document and hailing it as a masterpiece.

When Baby was little, if you handed her paper and crayon, these items were more likely to end up in her mouth than as a masterpiece!

So why isn't the report remembered as a masterpiece?

What one may see mundane i view as a masterpiece.

My favorite game ever is «Ocarina of Time» and Metroid Prime has come mighty close to being as outstanding as that masterpiece.

Anyone who doesn't view Telltale's The Walking Dead as a masterpiece doesn't have a good taste in games.

This trilogy is a grower and it time will be remembered as a masterpiece.

this movie should be watch as (Annie Hall 2), Allen ended the earlier by describing relationships «They're totally irrational and crazy and absurd», and after many years he completed his idea and made it crystal clear, and now I can see the whole artistic work of Woody Allen as a masterpiece.

For now, at least, the first movie remains unchallenged as the masterpiece of the franchise.

Bernardo Bertolucci directed «The Spider's Stratagem» the same year as his masterpiece «The Conformist,» but this film is nowhere near as good.

Pic's rediscovery in the capitalist U.S., and its reappraisal as a masterpiece of visual pyrotechnics, gives Brazilian documaker Vicente Ferraz's tale an upbeat final twist — after some mid-film doldrums.

While I can't endorse the film as a masterpiece, or even excellent there are enough great moments to respect it as a worthy effort, even if I can't join in with those who champion this as one of the greatest masterworks in the history of cinema.

How do you follow a film that many have acclaimed as a masterpiece?

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

Seems like every Marvel movie that comes out is touted as a masterpiece.

A great, weird film that I think will be seen as a masterpiece in years to come.

Now, almost seventy years later, Bambi still holds up as a masterpiece of animation and art.

This singular, daft, diverting psychological drama / psychic melodrama caused quite a bit of division when shown at Cannes last year, with some critics proclaiming it is a woefully misconceived dud and others praising it as a masterpiece.

The mixed critical and commercial reaction to Sullivan's Travels (now universally recognized as a masterpiece), and the fact that Sturges was always a tough act to follow, meant that the film would have few imitators in its own era.

It is now hailed as a masterpiece of Chinese cinema.

Regarded as a masterpiece of the silent film era, this new home release for The Passion of Joan of Arc is sure to be an excellent choice for any film fan's collection.

That I regard The River as a masterpiece and the work of a master doesn't mean that I consider it fun or pleasant — terrifying and beautiful would be more appropriate.

Critical consensus about any movie is impossible, but judging from end - of - the - year polls, Robert Altman's Gosford Park is widely recognized as a masterpiece.

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

But the film failed to catch fire with audiences of the period, although it is now routinely recognised as a masterpiece, and, along with Jean Renoir's Toni (1935), as a forerunner of the neo-realist school of filmmaking.

In Peeping Tom (1960), a controversial film that nearly ended his career but is now regarded as a masterpiece, Michael Powell offers a Freudian portrait of a London serial killer (Carl Boehm), a cameraman with a predilection for recording the terror of his victims.

«Would not be the least bit surprised to see it hailed as a masterpiece (and it might actually be one).»

Sorcerer is now considered by many critics — including this one — as a masterpiece; 1985's To Live and Die in L.A. gave us one of the best car chases of all time and introduced audiences to then - unknowns Willem Dafoe, William Peterson, and John Turturro; and in recent years, Friedkin's film versions of the Tracy Letts play Bug (with Michael Shannon) and Killer Joe (with Matthew McConaughey) have won him high acclaim.

I see The Blair Witch Project as a masterpiece in horror filmmaking and honestly one of my favorite horror films of all time, and although I was never expecting this belated sequel to live up to that, my expectations were still sort of high.

Only «Eternal Sunshine» of her nominated perfs this decade will be seen as a masterpiece.

Unfortunately, the on - air antics of Cronauer's radio personalities just aren't enough to classify the film as a masterpiece.

Never released on VHS, rarely seen on TV or cable (and even then only in pan-and-scan versions) or revived in the dwindling repertory circuit, this film has not received its due as a masterpiece of American social drama in large part because it's been so damnably difficult to see.

I'm so happy it has finally come to be appreciated as a masterpiece.

Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse will be here, which our own Domenic hails as a masterpiece, and Iran's A Separation has not only been getting strong reviews from all quarters, but it's Iran's official Oscar nominee as well.

Though universally hailed as a masterpiece, I suspect an individual could easily not warm to Annie Hall (especially if they're expecting a really profound and poignant Best Picture winner) or any of Allen's other comedies.