Sentences with phrase «as tableaux»

(b. 1976, lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland) Kjartansson is well - known for his durational performances that take form as tableaux vivants..

In a series of works she refers to as Tableaux, Kilcollin makes computer generated renderings of still life arrangements and casts them using a unique, almost analog 3D printing process.

He went on to say, «What I love in Wes Anderson's movies is the feeling that there is a curtain that goes up before every shot — the way filmmakers like him conceive of their work as a tableaux.

«James and the Machine» extends the documentary work Moore creates in Working Men's Clubs in London and offers collaborative methodologies via stages as tableaux.

Not exact matches

Above all, the church must celebrate the Eucharist as the dramatic depiction, and as the succession of tableaux, that it intrinsically is.

Raf Simons set up his own interpretation of a Flemish still - life painting — an opulent tableaux of fruits, red wine, loaves of bread and impressive flower arrangements — as the backdrop for his fall collection, titled «Youth in Motion.»

In its incarnation as an art installation, mounted in Melbourne, Berlin and, most recently, New York City, Manifestoallowed viewers to wander freely among its dozen tableaux, each projected on its own screen.

The music in Deep in My Heart, recently released as an MOD through Warner Archive Collection, seems like aural realizations of Curtiz's vivant tableaux, rich with swelling strings, languid with mellow brass.

You may start to wonder about the condition of these fresh - faced young actors made to crawl on all fours, leashed as dogs; to mime the experience of gagging on excrement; and to place themselves on display during the climactic torture tableaux, staked out in the dirt like gazelles at the waterhole.

Smart as hell and unapologetically surreal, its central motivating image is a tableaux vivant of Henry Fuseli's «The Nightmare,» tipping off not just the ethos of the film, but also that there may be running threads concerning mothers (Fuseli was Mary Wollstonecraft's lover), monsters (Mary being the mother of Mary «Frankenstein» Shelley), the empowerment of women (the mother again), nightmares, of course, and maybe Romanticism, if only in the picture's awareness and perversion of nature.

In short order, Peter and company are being chased through the cosmos by the drone army of High Priestess Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki), giving us another spectacular tableaux of gilded space pods and a deadly quantum asteroid field as Peter and Rocket banter about who is the better pilot.

It feels desperate to cover every imaginable base, nowhere more so than during a ridiculous curtain call that sees Frodo mouthing our heroes» names as they saunter half - time into a sun - kissed Serrault, the picture's romantic tableaux not nearly so affecting this time around as they have been in the past.

Despite the repugnant malice he has to relay, McQueen gift for composing unforgettable tableaux shimmers through the horror of it all — the tender sun - soaked portrait of a young woman creating handmade dolls out of corn husks; the sick ritual of hanging being carried out with a casual slouch in the woods; the wind sifting through willow trees that dance in the breeze as they innocently drape shade over a plantation mansion.

Zanasi» film takes some getting used to as it's unashamedly strange and stylish, and doesn't mind bringing the narrative to a screeching halt to take musical interludes with slo - mo music video flourishes and some rather arresting tableaux.

Butch as outcast is the better statement between he and Will Munny on how time transforms our heroes into villains — and A Perfect World speaks of loss in a series of tableaux ripped from the covers of all those fraying, yellowing editions of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.

Roger Deakins's cinematography is a marvel, with a number of tableaux (note the final rape inside a projection booth, for instance) lit so subtly and skillfully that it doesn't seem as if there's any light at all but for some mysterious glow emanating from the sides of the actors» faces.

Rather than going the Roland Emmerich «big tableaux of destruction» route, Pompeii reduces the disaster to a series of steeplechase set pieces, fiery debris raining into the 3 - D foreground as the characters scamper over bodies and ruins or try to outrun a ship that's been forced inland by a tidal wave.

Unfolding as a series of theatrical tableaux, the film lacks dramatic rhythm.

Presented as a series of nearly static tableaux's, with stunning cinematography from Jerzy Palacz, Shirley: Visions of Reality is an experimental tour - de-force.

What seemed ingenious, a tad sacrilegious, on the printed page comes off as just plain dopey on the big screen, despite some wonderful Mathew Brady - inspired tableaux by veteran photog Caleb Deschanel («The Natural») and an amiably awkward performance by Benjamin Walker, who as Lincoln resembles a young Liam Neeson.

by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.

But such relatively commercial ventures were interspersed with the more personal work which increasingly occupied Akerman's attention, as in D'Est (From The East, 1993), an impressionist documentary of life in the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Communist regime, composed in a series of static tableaux in Akerman's signature, contemplative style.

Although it was initially received as an art - world satire, the new movie has more sprawling aims: Imagine, if such a thing is possible, one of Michael Haneke's exacting morality plays with a wicked sense of humor, or Roy Andersson's ultra-deadpan tableaux minus the Scandinavian gloom.

As the end credits roll on «Calvary» there is a series of images of the spaces from the film devoid of people — empty tables and open tableaux.

That failure of nerve is a shame, because in all the swooning close - ups of the Casters» spinning records during their early domestic reverie, and in all the eerie tableaux of Will 2.0 hovering over his wife's bed, smiling placidly on several reflective screens as he remotely measures her blood pressure, one senses that Pfister would rather be making his own modest riff on David Cronenberg's romantic melodrama The Fly.

While credit is due for the clarity of the battle scenes in and of themselves, Gods and Generals washes out as a stultifying tribute to the pathological meticulousness of (largely Southern) Civil War recreationists — glossing over the ideology and blood sacrifice in favour of a series of almost static tableaux.

References to the home movies of Nikita's son Sergei provide evocative imagery as counterpoint to the staid tableaux of official pomp.

As Atkinson subtly delineates all the pathways a life or a country might take, she also delivers a harrowing set piece on the Blitz as Ursula, working as a warden on a rescue team, encounters horrifying tableaux encompassing mangled bodies and whole families covered in ash, preserved just like the victims of PompeiAs Atkinson subtly delineates all the pathways a life or a country might take, she also delivers a harrowing set piece on the Blitz as Ursula, working as a warden on a rescue team, encounters horrifying tableaux encompassing mangled bodies and whole families covered in ash, preserved just like the victims of Pompeias Ursula, working as a warden on a rescue team, encounters horrifying tableaux encompassing mangled bodies and whole families covered in ash, preserved just like the victims of Pompeias a warden on a rescue team, encounters horrifying tableaux encompassing mangled bodies and whole families covered in ash, preserved just like the victims of Pompeii.

The center of the cube contains an installation: a wood - paneled, upholstery - heavy living space based on the kind of rec rooms Thomas knew growing up in New Jersey in the»70s, an example of the tableaux she normally assembles in her studio as photographic sets.

He pioneered a new technique, creating life - sized sculptures from plaster — using his family and friends as living molds — often setting figures in tableaux with found objects.

Best known for her «plastic portraits» of dolls and dollhouses, the photographer Laurie Simmons has been making psychologically probing tableaux since moving to New York as a young artist in the late 1970s.

For their first collaborative project, the Sausage Photographs, the pair constructed and photographed playful tableaux — including a car crash and a fashion show — featuring various kinds of sausage as the central figures.

The crude texture of her characters» skin, the brash and deliberate outlines that define the exaggerated figures within tableaux, the patches of thinly applicated paint that barely cover the ground, or the dug - out passages of drawing that carve into the surface, are all archeological — as if she was unearthing some hidden pattern that was embedded into the canvas all along.

Barnett Newman relaxes with a cigarette in a chair before a few tableaux, contemporary artist Steve DeFrank considers his containers of Lite - Brites, and a sickly Matisse snips colored paper for the collages as he lies propped - up in bed.

Exhibited together for the first time, these extraordinary paintings and arrangements (or tableaux) of objects reference and echo each other, as combined reflections on landscape, heritage, religion, history, life, and death.

In them, he depicts figurative tableaux that obliquely reflect social values such as race and gender.

His commanding portraits and tableaux of recent years combine familiar representational forms, such as the portrait of the artist or the academic life - drawing class, with political references that frame deeply probing historical narratives.

The new work, entitled Thousand Years Business as Usual, includes three sculptural tableaux composed of industrial Styrofoam and Polyurethane insulation foam.

The ceramic work serves as a repository for an elaborate sculptural tableaux whose assembled detritus creates a string of hieroglyphs, a kind of archaeological anagram: encrypted sequences present short bursts of personality and internal logic.

Working with materials commonly seen as poor, such as plywood, cardboard, paper, tiles, etc., Pernice creates «Gebilde» (formations), assemblages, and sculptural tableaux whose seemingly unstable, enigmatic forms possess a casual charm and evoke a brittle domesticity, as such questioning ideas of permanence and impermanence.

Using ink on Mylar, Waugh reimagines an assortment of 19th - century tableaux, depicting quaint scenes of countryside estates and horse stables, as well as turn - of - the - century buildings on New York City streets.

Curated by Brussels - based collective Bunk Club, the installation consisted of four new figurative wall reliefs, cast from acrylic - modified gypsum and arranged in a narrative tableaux, reading across the gallery as a life - size frieze.

For his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site - specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of art.

Taylor McKimens has been known for years as a painter of «American Life», making large and narrative paintings that feature rural tableaux, economically marginalized people, overlooked and often beautiful details of the natural world and cultural debris.

The upbeat optimistic colors defy the underlying tension, as organisms appear to vie for survival in tableaux with underpinnings in the natural selection process.

Mark Bradford's abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty.

With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.

As Marcel Duchamp said: «Ce sont les regardeurs qui font les tableaux» — It is the onlookers who make the paintings.

Although essentially portraits, Osborne treats the figures as elements of a tableaux, creating tension and intrigue in deceptively simple interiors.

These tableaux of rubble also serve as documents of reconstruction, and draw upon the artist's own experience as a youth of the ravaged Balkans in the 1990s.