Sentences with phrase «as naked figures»

They have depicted themselves as naked figures in their pictures, recasting the male nude as something vulnerable and fragile rather than as a potent figure of strength.

Not exact matches

When a naked bank robber was arrested as he ran along Las Olas Boulevard throwing stolen money in the air last July, many figured it was just another bizarre South Florida moment.

Away from the mob, a man of «Honour» is flogged at a whipping post by «Vilany,» assisted by an ape in devilishly flamboyant garb, while the figure of «Honesty,» stripped naked, is bludgeoned by «Self Interest» atop a wheel of fortune as a minister intones a prayer over him.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

I figured it was time to undress Kellogg's Special K Original cereal to see if it looks as good naked as the marketing messages claim.

As we figure, why waste time wondering what they'll look like naked when you can find out right away?»

You quickly find yourself caught up in a rebellion to overthrow the oppressive regime of Pagan Min, a figure known as much for his sense of style and charisma as for his cruelty and naked brutality.

Oblivion saw her as the pandering girlfriend figure and in Hitman, she was featured as little more than something naked to look at.

With Good Luck Chuck just around the bend, and making such a desperately naked play to position itself as the next Wedding Crashers, I figured it's time to re-post a slightly redacted version of that film's original review, originally published in Screen International upon its theatrical release in 2005.

Antony Gormley, best known for his work Angel of the North and recently One & Other is dotting thirty - one of his life - size cast iron and fiberglass naked figures around prominent New York landmarks as well as along rooftops and other high spots.

Prudence Heward exhibited frequently during her lifetime and she often received positive reviews — although some of her figure paintings, such as The Bather (1930)(Art Gallery of Windsor) and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Hester (1937)(one of her paintings depicting a naked black woman), provoked hostile reactions in the press.

As a tabletop bronze, The Damned Women (before 1890) from The Gates of Hell becomes a lesbian fantasy, while the swooping figure of Iris from the second, unrealised Monument to Victor Hugo (1891), stripped of her wings and head, becomes a classically fragmented and shamelessly erotic naked gymnast.

diameter) demonstrates this mortal unease, as the tiny, naked and blindfolded figure of a man is flung towards the jaws of a ferocious, stylized beast breathing fire, a cloud of black smoke smothering the many writhing nude figures trapped in its lower jaw.

The Nakeds takes as its starting point selected drawings of the single figure by Egon Schiele.

This injection of «naked» urbanism into the not - so - naked frame of the gallery suggested the stripped - down figure of the artist - as - flaneur - in - the - buff parading another form of sly institutional critique.

On one hand, the dreadlocked figure — sometimes in a business suit, sometimes naked — is blinded or constrained by the ties, perhaps an allusion to male responsibility, or, as Whyte has suggested, a more sophisticated form of Western bondage.

The first single from Odd Blood, «Ambling Alp,» is an invigorating self - help anthem with cryptic allusions to boxing matches of the»30s, and is accompanied by a disorienting video that simultaneously points to the youthful exuberance of photographer Ryan McGinley and the mystical deserts of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo — naked young bodies leaping and tumbling down sand dunes as a strange, shape - shifting figure clad in nomadic robes looks on from horseback.

Of course, as art historian Linda Nochlin famously observed, it was difficult for women to paint nudes when historically they weren't even allowed to attend figure - drawing classes because of the naked people necessarily present.

When Livin and Dyin finally reaches its denouement, it does so in the collapsed shapes of the cartoon figures of Wile E. Coyote, Kool - Aid Man and Roger Rabbit, as well as a life - size sculpture of the naked artist himself.

They have depicted themselves naked, recasting the male nude as something vulnerable and fragile rather than as a potent figure of strength.

For many centuries religious / mythological figures in particular — for instance, Adam and Eve — were used in painting as a way to represent the naked body, usually a controversial, prohibited subject.

The artist James Barry complained of prejudice towards the representation of the naked figure by those who regarded it as «indecent and tending to lewdness».

Images of giant flowers and fields of tombstones recurred, as did the figures of the artists, now naked and self - consciously hugging and vamping.

When a naked bank robber was arrested as he ran along Las Olas Boulevard throwing stolen money in the air last July, many figured it was just another bizarre South Florida moment.