Sentences with phrase «as psychological portraits»

These sculptures function as psychological portraits of his imagined subjects — usually male, usually black — whose features are in fact an amalgamation of sources: observed individuals, «types» represented in the media, and ancient, classical and neo-classical sculptures.

But most intriguingly, «Borg vs. McEnroe» is shaped not as a ticktock of a legendary sports event, but as a psychological portrait of competition, friendship and a complicated, temperamental prodigy, whose outbursts and lack of self - control threaten to derail what promises to be a fruitful athletic career.

As a psychological portrait, key elements are lacking.

Not simply a chronicle of an investigation, Evil Genius also doubles as a psychological portrait of those with unfulfilled «potential,» and director Barbara Schroeder expertly weaves the police procedural aspects with creepy yet touching personal stories.

Not exact matches

Now a new study suggests that the ubiquitous smartphone self portraits don't just have psychological implications for the people taking them; they can also have a real impact on their friends and followers, as well.

What a portrait of young love, self destruction, and the Great Depression (both as historical event and psychological metaphor).

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Carr's novel goes into tremendous detail as it explores the early origins of psychological profiling and forensic science, while also offering an eye - opening portrait of urban life under 19th century capitalism, in a time of tremendous wealth inequality and social injustice.

It quickly became a polarizing film for film critics, many embracing the Red Shoes meets Repulsion psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman (Natalie Portman) who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams, others critical of the melodrama, hysteria and blunt metaphors («high - grade hokum,» as one critic called it).

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But it is also an unmissable portrait of one man, FBI informant Saeed, the psychological toll the job has taken on him and the incredible story of one particular operation that ends in an (as far as we know) completely unjustified arrest and eventual incarceration.

Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of «Camelot» that they created and loved so well.

Vertical Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for the release of the psychological horror - thriller Rupture, from director Steven Shainberg (of the film Secretary over a decade ago, as well as Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus).

Award - winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychological portrait of a wildly charismatic patriarch as seen through the eyes of his daughter.

A character - portrait novel in the full definition of that type — which means as meticulous in detail and as sound in psychological understanding as a biography — Irishman Tóibín's latest rich novel, following the provocative Testament of Mary (2012), is self - assured in its authenticity, daring in the male author's presumption of inhabiting a female protagonist, and all this is achieved through prose at once alive and understated.

While it includes all the requisite details of Hemingway's storied life — the love affairs, the feuds, the wars (real and emotional)-- that shaped the writer in all his complexity, her portrait is a largely psychological one, seeking both the impetus for his distinctive fiction as well as the roots of the failures in his personal life.

All this makes Hellblade more of a psychological portrait than anything else, and as such, the story itself isn't all that complicated.

I rely on animal body language in my work as a metaphor for these underlying patterns, transforming the animal subjects into human psychological portraits.

The latest, Self - portrait as the Billy Goat, brings together a selection of physical, psychological and imaginary self - portraits by more than a dozen leading international artists including Pawel Althamer, Louise Bourgeois, André Breton and the Surrealists and Enrico David.

A subset of the «Cells,» the «Portrait Cells» present a concentrated portrait of a psychological or emotional state, and usually give prominence to the human head as the seat of iPortrait Cells» present a concentrated portrait of a psychological or emotional state, and usually give prominence to the human head as the seat of iportrait of a psychological or emotional state, and usually give prominence to the human head as the seat of identity.

The composition of Ossorio's intriguingly titled psychological portrait Donald Clean and Healthy with His Worries in His Hair (1944 - 49) is re-worked almost twenty years later as an abstract congregation in Undistracted (c. 1963).

Los Angeles, fine artist Anja Salonen returns to figurative painting with psychological portraits of herself and her friends posing with chains, wigs, sunglasses; all elements the artist explains as connected to the formation of the personalities of those shown.

Instead, the exhibition succeeds more as a portrait of a specific ideology and frantic psychological state.

As the Rorschach paintings transform from beautiful abstracts to loose figurations of our own imaginations, we are simultaneously exploring the inner psyche of the artist's mind during the time of their creation — Warhol psychological self - portrait.

Despite knowing that Doig paints scenes of cold, blustery environments from photos in his London studio, I think of Figure in a Mountain Landscape as a self — portrait of the artist - perhaps more of a conceptual or psychological self — portrait rather than an actual one.

Audience members are left questioning the definition of female labor, in addition to considering the work as an intimate portrait of struggles to overcome, be they emotional, psychological, or physical.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

Self - Portrait as the Billy Goat (until 20 August 2017) brings together physical, psychological and imaginary self - portraits by a selection of leading international artists.

Self - Portrait as the Billy Goat brings together physical, psychological and imaginary self - portraits by a selection of leading international artists.

In Self Portrait, Skull (1958) Neel depicts herself as a terrifying death's head in a moment of psychological and physical breakdown.

She painted expressionistic, psychological portraits, as well as still lifes and landscapes, and also made sculptures.

Drawing inspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people.

By conflating these two spaces it is as much a portrait of this man as of the psychological space he reflects.

The exhibition combines depictions of funerary bouquets, which Packer approaches as psychological stand - ins for people, with individual portraits of those she knows well — mostly family members and close friends.

She also conveyed the social struggles of African - Americans through powerful psychological portraits such as Mob Victim (1945) and Jennie (1943).

The other big portrait show in town promises just as much psychological intensity, with a group of 70 works that includes all the usual suspects (the Metropolitan Museum of Art's «Boy in Red» made the trip, as did many paintings from Spanish museums and collections) and some of the master's characteristically mordant self - portraits.

Self - portrait as the Billy Goat brings together a selection of physical, psychological and imaginary self - portraits...

Simultaneously, the works can be read as intense psychological portraits: a translation of meaning into visual patterns.

Axsom will discuss Close's prints as portraits, focusing on their psychological and expressive dimensions.

Morgan herself has described her work as «psychological portraits», focused on presenting the sitter's psychological state.

As Cecily Brown describes, Stettheimer's work affects audiences through depictions of «interior spaces that read like psychological portraits.»

Her portraits stand out for their psychological insight as much as for their vivid sense of colour and animated brushwork.

Goya: The Portraits The psychological penetration of Goya's portraits is as unsettling as the acid colours of the flamboyant dresses and silk pantaloons of his 18th - century sitters are bPortraits The psychological penetration of Goya's portraits is as unsettling as the acid colours of the flamboyant dresses and silk pantaloons of his 18th - century sitters are bportraits is as unsettling as the acid colours of the flamboyant dresses and silk pantaloons of his 18th - century sitters are beguiling.

From renowned series such as Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, to the Family Album series of self portraits of the artist wearing masks disguised as her family members, Wearing explores these important issues through a lens of personal history, and a unique and compelling psychological resonance persists throughout.

A portrait might be darkly psychological, as with Freud's fraught figures; expressively off - kilter, as with Chantal Joffe's disproportionate, listless subjects, or it might flatten and modularize a figure into something readily consumable, as with Lichtenstein.

From 1908 - 12 Kokoschka began a series of expressionist paintings, namely his «psychological portraits» of Viennese celebrities, seen as the first works to reveal modern existential anxieties: a genre exemplified by his portrait of the prominent architect Adolf Loos (1909, State Museum, Berlin).

When the paintings are installed together, they form a constellation of moments that may be seen as contradictory, but together make up a portrait of a specific moment in a persons psychological, physical, or emotional life.

She views each painting as an autobiographical, psychological self portrait: each individual Myers paints has helped to shape her personality, define a little bit of who she is.

Marion Wagschal's paintings created between 1980 and 2015 reflect the artist's affinity for psychological portraits, the selected works are telling of her preferred subject: the feminine figure as a repository of stories both personal and universal.