Sentences with phrase «as totemic»

One major component of Ailan Kastom relates to the role of turtle and dugong, which have great significance as totemic animals for many Islanders.

With his flatly painted one - colour panels and sometimes eccentrically shaped paintings you might relate him to minimalism, though the simplicity he sought was a much more complicated matter of relationships, insides and outsides, singularities and relationships as much as the totemic and the enclosed.

Recent work such as the Totemic Masks of his Totems Series look at the sacred in consumer objects of past and present.

The isolated lamb in Hirst's Away from the Flock 1994 has become fully as totemic a symbol of his artistic identity as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living from three years before.

Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.

But the HRA has, nonetheless, had an important impact on the political discourse in our country — it has acted as a totemic reminder of the need to strike a balance between liberty and security, and to preserve the liberties that grew up naturally as a result of our common law.

Not exact matches

The Economy Totemic policies such as the introduction of the minimum wage in the early Blair years have been eclipsed in the minds of voters by mismanagement and light touch regulation in the run up to the financial crash.

It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»

Tentatively reported at the weekend, but now repeated as fact, the hierarchy of the Labour party is once again locked in a totemic struggle.

I like how the IT BAG was once described in Vogue as «that totemic accessory that announced you were owner of all that was desirable in the world.»

Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?

Dragonfly, for all its intimations of totemic spirituality and faux religiosity (going so far as to provide Linda Hunt, Dragonfly's third Oscar - winner, a walk - on as a homuncular nun), is ultimately a vapid shuck - and - jive with all the depth of a traveling medicine show.

As cool as towering totemic warriors and slumbering smoke dragons are, I was more interested in the twins wielding these godlike powers than the powers themselves, but we never really dig beneath the surfacAs cool as towering totemic warriors and slumbering smoke dragons are, I was more interested in the twins wielding these godlike powers than the powers themselves, but we never really dig beneath the surfacas towering totemic warriors and slumbering smoke dragons are, I was more interested in the twins wielding these godlike powers than the powers themselves, but we never really dig beneath the surface.

Holley has made totemic sculptures from items such as steel scrap, plastic flowers, melted televisions, defunct machines, and crosses.

In the work of French - American De Saint Phalle, meanwhile, totemic sculptures recall surrealist works as well as so - called outsider art, in their resistance and playful subversion.

As a result, his interest moved from making recognizable images to presenting archetypes of the subconscious — highly stylized and at times totemic figures or markings.

He flourished as a critic in New York from the 1940s to 1960s, but even today, decades after his best - known work and 17 years after his death, he is a totemic and constantly invoked voice on modern art.

These totemic materials predominate throughout the German artist's work, with the myth as a resonating centre of meaning, both personal and historical, even if the story itself isn't really true.

In 2010 art historian Jean - Pierre Criqui wrote about Fritsch's depictions of animals: «The way the artist uses them, but also the situations in which she places them, gives them ambiguous powers at the intersection of several tendencies: humanity's ancestral fears and superstitions, as expressed, for example, in tales and legends; the intensities of totemic thought and of its images; and the uncanny and Freudian dream study.»

His series Library of Dust and History's Shadow delve into hidden archives, unearthing objects from the past and recasting them as potent, totemic images.

There are other sculptures, totemic stacks of geometric shapes, that I love equally, but the Guggenheim did not include them as part of their press materials, and no photography was allowed (I tried).

In the 1940's, these connotations evolved towards a more universal language which included the creation of myths such as Idolatress I (1944) by Hans Hofmann (1942 — 43), archetypes such as Pollock's totemic Male and Female, and primitivistic forms such as the savage biomorphs of Richard Pousette - Dart's Undulation (ca. 1941 — 42).

Assembled negatively - like a print or photographic film - Otero's recent text - based invocations of twentieth - century philosophy (which include quotes from Sartre, among other totemic figures) also serve as visual essays in metaphysical instability for our own stunningly unreflective, culturally dumbfounded time.

Their strong relationship to nature is evident through the use of a natural material like clay manipulated in order to become nature again, but in this case nature has become fetishised as in the lava trees» totemic presence.

In an essay published in the catalogue of Stamos's 1946 exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery, Barnett Newman wrote that the younger artist's «ideographs capture the moment of totemic affinity with the rock and the mushroom, the crayfish and the seaweed,» adding that «one might say that instead of going into the rock, he comes out of it» — an image of the artist not as an inhabitant of the natural world but, rather, as its progeny.

When vertical it forms a tall, totemic pillar and is known as All That Rises Must Converge / Black (1972).

The final pieces, sometimes as large as 10 feet wide, are totemic - like shrines that expose Kuksi's disenchantment with the structures of power and the fallacies of man.

What most struck me about paintings such as Untitled (Red Butterfly)(2002) and others was how Grotjahn had commandeered Newman's totemic and cabbalistic «zips» - those declarative vertical stripes judiciously deployed to rend and reconcile oppositional forces on the picture plane Old Testament - style - and so handily retro - fitted them with the lollipop palette of Kenneth Noland, the geometrically compartmentalized painterliness of Alfred Jensen and the segmented cartwheeling compositions of early 1960s Frank Stella.

A mix of cartoons, huddled masses, and street comedy, it begins and ends on the New York waterfront, where a forlorn creature first sets out and then packs up her totemic wares, as if uncertain whether her space invasion had found a welcome.

His vaguely biomorphic shapes evoke totemic presences, as if they were examples of a tribal formalism anchored to a dark future.

The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting.

As evidenced by this early anthropomorphizing of her totemic creations, Bourgeois continued to relate her sculptures in this way both to one another and her audience throughout her career.

Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used to impose forms of power, authority and control.

Huanca's totemic sculptures merge tactile materials such as clothing, natural and synthetic fibres and other cultural artifacts, which are then deconstructed and reassembled to create delicate abstract compositions.

Newman emphatically declares what might be called a totemic space, while Fontana literally slices through the picture's plane with a razor, and Klein, as he pronounced it, leaps into the void.»

Inspired by Romanesque, Byzantine, Cubist, and Surrealist painting as well as African, Oceanic, and Native American art, he created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.

A vast wasteland is filled with totemic stone formations and a small villa - museum, which holds such objects within as a Classical statue of a hero masturbating.

They may also be seen in the context of Moore's totemic bronzes, such as Upright Motive No. 1 Glenkiln Cross, 1955 - 6 (Alan Bowness ed., Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 3: Sculpture 1955 - 64, 1965, LH 377, pls.18 - 20), and the columnar works of William Turnbull, such as Janus 2, 1959 (Tate Gallery T01382, repr.

Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock The Abstract Expressionists were led by the totemic Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, while the two professed a lifelong friendship, they were bitter rivals as well.

The Alabama native, who made his first artwork at age 29, is known for his assemblages of found objects, incorporating natural and man - made ephemera, such as plastic flowers, crosses and steel scraps, and turning them into totemic sculptures.

«Reception» — as with the later series «Telltale» — utilized orphaned materials, ranging from fur to tennis balls, are aggressively detached from their original function and replaced by an animate, almost totemic, and at times uncanny presence.

In assemblages such as Terry Adkins's Tonsure, 2010, and Nayland Blake's October Chain, 2007, found objects take on a totemic quality through their eerie juxtapositions, indexing a haunting sense of an implied, disembodied human presence.

Known as In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, the new body of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful aesthetic.

The totemic form appears ancient and is reminiscent of prehistoric fertility goddesses such as the Venus of Willendorf.

Jamie Fitzpatrick's practice deals with the rhetoric of image making, the relevance of the figure and how objects and totemic gestures such as flags, statues or plinths are used within the work to impose forms of power and control.

Priapus is a new edition based on a cast plaster work made by Sarah Lucas as part of her Penetralia series, a group of totemic objects inspired by her move to the Suffolk countryside and combining casts of a penis with fragments of found flint and wood.

Organized by LACMA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, this exhibition is Pousette - Dart's largest in a museum on the West Coast and will showcase the artist's transcendental mysticism in fifty drawings from 1940 to 1992, representing his progression through as many styles — from the totemic, which marked his early years, to the abstract black - and - white of his later works — as there were decades of production.

Huanca's totemic sculptures merge tactile materials such as clothing, natural and synthetic fibers and other cultural artifacts, which are then deconstructed and reassembled to create delicate abstract compositions.

A similar stacking up of elements was seen in larger, more totemic pieces such as Three Forms Vertical (Offering), 1967 (BH 452, Gimpel Fils, repr.

Many of his paintings and sculptures from the 1930s, such as Woman Bird Group (Smithsonian American Art Museum), embrace these totemic and symbolic forms.