Sentences with phrase «as poignant»

The Yorta Yorta case [9] stands as a poignant reminder of the injustice contained within the common law's recognition of native title.

I've written at length about how disappointed I was by Oculus's decision to package an Xbox controller with the Rift, and that feeling's just as poignant now as it was a year ago.

The exhibition includes approximately 60 sculptures and 50 works on paper, as well as a poignant group of photographic works, demonstrating the tremendous range and scope of Alina Szapocznikow's art.

Both exhibitions seem to serve as poignant bookends to an illustrious career.

It is this evocative quality, as well as its poignant subject matter and rich palette, which make Peter's Series: Back a charming rarity in British contemporary painting.

Following the tragic events of September 11th 2001, Hector McDonnell painted Ground Zero and the surrounding streets, capturing the architectural changes and their effects on ordinary New Yorkers - this work was recently exhibited as a poignant record of «post-9 / 11» New York life.

One is as a poignant rendezvous of some of the New York artists who have formed Mr. Close's wide circle — Philip Glass, in a well - known image of a wild - haired young composer, who will watch protectively over commuters as they descend an escalator; Lou Reed and Cindy Sherman, along with the painter Cecily Brown, the artist Kara Walker (above) and the painter Alex Katz, who is going strong at 89.

This new sun stands as a poignant metaphor for the celebration of life and beauty, one closely attended by death and deprivation.

Gates» hoses stand as both poignant relics and cautionary tales: warning symbols for a world of unresolved conflict.

In these, as in most of his paintings, the artist removes paint from the canvas using turpentine, as a poignant way of suggesting human existence.

Dan Graham's work questions the relationship between architecture and its psychological effects on us and remains as poignant today as it did in the 1970's when Graham first explored issues such as «the performative», exhibitionism, reflection, mirroring and the mundane.

'... there's nothing quite as poignant as the uneven quality of a hand - painted line.»

For three decades, Ann Hamilton has been recognized as a poignant observer of social history with a unique capacity to materialized abstract concepts such as language, memory, and time.

Al Beik's movie unfolds as a poignant narrative of the dramatic events affecting his homeland and leading to the extinction of love and happiness, which Fellini's protagonist Marcello Rubini was unsuccessfully looking for decades ago.

From performance as a poignant gesture or a mirror of contemporary societal commonalities to grandiose filmic applications and animated fantasy worlds, these works are immersive and experiential and will take each viewer on a powerful emotional journey.

Seen within the context of his images of black men, the inclusion in a diptych of a distorted mug shot of convicted white sex offender Brock Turner — the former Stanford University student who was only sentenced to six months in confinement for raping an unconscious young woman — stands as a poignant testimony to ongoing racial inequity.

The human impetus to create self - prints can be as simple as a child's finger painting, and as poignant and poetic an assertion of one's presence in the world as the stenciled, silhouetted outlines of human hands found in prehistoric cave paintings — both gestures seeming to declare: «I was here.»

As a testament to their foresight, these works are just as poignant today — only now they are among the most sought after examples of contemporary art in private hands.

In Standing Alone, which debuted at his 2013 Venice Biennale Bahamas Pavilion, Tavares Strachan plants the flag of his native Bahamas on the North Pole in proxy of a lunar landing, as a poignant post-colonial gesture.

Simmons's career - long exploration of archetypal gender roles, especially women in domestic settings, is the primary subject of this exhibition and is a topic as poignant today as it was in the late 1970s, when she began to develop her mature style by using props and dolls as stand - ins for people and places.

Translating her political beliefs into abstract forms, Baron created «an art of concealment and protection,» one that remains as poignant and necessary today as it was in the late twentieth century.

As a poignant counterpoint to the methodical abuse by Allied Powers, Siatous does not ignore or glamorize any aspect of its sordid history and grounds each canvas with a historically significant date and title in what he calls «a political act,» celebrating a much longed for life in his hometown of Diego Garcia and a hopeful vision for the future.

Set in the refined garden space of Wave Hill, Containers emerges as a poignant vehicle for undermining a romantic vision of the Caribbean at the same time that it gives voice to Afro - Latina perspective.

The version played by the piano is a bit deconstructed but just as poignant as Holiday's version.

Continuing the art historical quest to locate the unknown within material form, his portraits and abstractions serve as poignant evocations of the sublime.

Writer and Professor of Sociology Avery F. Gordon reprints extracts from an interview with Golub from 1999, while artist Hans Haacke shares his admiration for Golub as well as a poignant photograph.

As such, the implementation of Judgement isn't as poignant as it should be.

The tephra at Brooks Camp can certainly serve as a poignant reminder of the explosive tendencies of Katmai's volcanoes, but what is not so clearly accessible is what lies underneath Novarupta's ash.

But there are thousands of other homeless cats and dogs whose stories may not be as poignant as Scarlet's, but who need help just as much.

Ada and Stefan are representative of the families, friends, and lovers separated and destroyed by the wall; their grandmothers serve as poignant reminders of the toll WWII took on the European population.

Interestingly, both men and women who listed the Bible as a poignant read in their lives also saw a decrease in communication, but that could speak to the fact that religion - specific dating sites do exist, and eHarmony is not necessarily one of them.

Adding a new angle to the Nativity story, this thoughtful tale serves as a poignant reminder of what Christmas is about: the spirit of giving.

After young Levi travels to North Carolina to meet his father, an elite paratrooper in WWII, he experiences Jim Crow racism for the first time, as well as poignant emotions as he gets to know his dad.

Instead, when understood as needing nesting, the Core Sphere is seen as a poignant place to begin — not end.

Keep a note of all those funny moments with the children, as well as the poignant ones, and keep these at the forefront of your mind.

And while it becomes far less comical as it moves inexorably towards its somber, come - to - Jesus conclusion, what it loses in laughs it gains in profoundly moving drama and emotional texture (one serious scene between Gleeson and his daughter Reilly is as poignant and heartrending as anything you've ever witnessed in a black comedy).

This film is about as poignant and insightful as an episode of the Bill Mahar's talk show.

In its deconstruction of the unending cycle of violence in the Middle East, the director's political thriller remains as poignant as ever.

This is a show that should not work to the degree it does, a show about animated animals that can every bit as poignant as The Sopranos or Mad Men.

Last Flag Flying is another addition that is just as poignant as anything he's ever done.

But the weighty solemnity isn't earned by the subject matter, especially with characters who don't seem at all capable of the kind of introspection that might make the film feel as poignant as Turturro clearly wants it to be.

Those expecting belly laughs will be disappointed, but as a poignant love - letter to a city and an era, Inherent Vice is pure dope.

I wanted it to be good, as poignant and believable as its leading character.

You could take these earlier films, like the new one, as brilliant, unorthodox slide lectures, but they also work as poignant posthumous extensions of the friendships they recount and the careers they review.

The film builds momentum as it progresses, its mystery thickening as poignant mayhem ensues with layers of believability and not the contrivances and holes often seen.

In many ways the film is among some of the best cinema has to offer this year — every bit as poignant and rewarding as you could hope for a film to be.

And while both are laced with product placement for Coca - Cola, this acts as a poignant reminder of the varying quality of life for those living in the modern age.

As poignant as it is shocking, Precious stands as an undeniably authentic contrast to those ghetto fabulous adventures celebrating macho, misogynistic, malevolent and misanthropic behavior presumably of no emotional consequence.

That's a shame, because watching Square Enix's first anime short inspired by the game paints it as a poignant experience.

There were plenty of films at this year's Sundance that dealt with sexual abuse or harassment, but none were as poignant as Jennifer Fox's harrowing journey to unearthing an old trauma.