Sentences with phrase «as symbolic imagery»

Dadaism, Surrealism and Pop Art have all incorporated toys in some manner or another, either as symbolic imagery or physical form.

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With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

Filmed in aqueous greens and blues, its period design dripping with kitschy nostalgia and retro - futurism, «The Shape of Water» takes its cues from Golden Age Hollywood, including musicals, Bible epics and 1950s creature features, as well as the sleekly optimistic advertising imagery of the early 1960s: Elisa's best friend and next - door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is a commercial artist working on a campaign for Jell - O, the shaky symbolic repository for the time period's most uncertain hopes and anxieties.

The Colonial Revival was national in its scope, but as a state rich in historic resources, Connecticut became inextricably linked with the movement, supplying both symbolic imagery and active adherents.

The intricate decoration of the items on view includes religious imagery as well as people, animals, birds, insects, plants, and landscapes that tell stories or have symbolic meaning.

Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.

Alongside this traditional imagery, everyday textiles from the uniforms of park wardens, policemen and refuse collectors created colourful «paintings» that formed part of the artist's exploration of the symbolic use of fabric in both Italian religious art as well as in its contemporary secular forms.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

To highlight their fragility, she incorporates them into the work after passing them through an obstructed photocopier, or more recently, using them as symbolic source imagery.

Powerful, culturally symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.

Her first solo show, Ontology at 36 (1981), however, marked a shift that would continue, toward experimentation with mixed materials, representational elements such as the figure, landscape or symbolic imagery, and more emphatic themes.

Also known as Deadly Nightshade, this amongst other botanical elements, symbols and body parts literally fuses a symbolic role to his botanical imagery and transforms the object into an exotic hybrid.

In Griffa's observations, metaphorical and symbolic imagery exist as an overlay functioning on top of the canvas, superimposed rather than prevailing as integral to the material itself.

The exhibition is now considered a turning point in Indian art as it marked a move away from symbolic and abstract imagery towards contemporary and personal subjects.

Sabin's well - honed technique and use of symbolic imagery explores themes of fecundity and fragility as well as strength and protection and emulation of the sublime.

They use varying kinds of imagery appropriated from popular culture and abstract interpretations of nature, used as a symbolic vocabulary to express a mystical, ephemeral and kaleidoscopic viewpoint.

His poetic works often employ recurring symbolic imagery, such as birds and flowers.

Nation imagery, such as that of the Vatan as a dying mother that has been failed by her children [41], and the symbolic fatherland which ethnically Hungarian groups, separated following the 1920 Treaty of Trianon from Hungary, construct [45], is created to elicit emotion [1].

Primes of nations as attachment figures, including imagery that personify nations as symbolic caregivers, can be employed to investigate several avenues, including the effect on the acculturation orientations of both heritage and mainstream samples, endorsement of multicultural ideology, and patriotic and nationalistic attitudes.