Sentences with phrase «austere aesthetic»

The effeminate, highly ornamental interiors of the belle époque, which had come to symbolize decadent and degenerate lifestyles, gave way to the purist, austere aesthetic of the modernist, single - family dwelling.

BLACK AND WHITE: JAPANESE MODERN ART The austere aesthetic of traditional Zen ink painting intersects with the influence of Western modernists in a grouping of avant - garde Japanese works centered on Inoue Yuichi's large calligraphy of a character meaning «filial piety.»

Best known for patterned, stamped and stenciled paintings that follow an austere aesthetic, Christopher Wool (born 1955) has expanded his vocabulary during the years since 2000, using his own images, silkscreened or digitally treated, as source material for subsequent works.

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An austere portrait of a man whose body and mind are slowly coming undone as he surveys a world apathetic to its own survival, First Reformed represents Schrader's most mature filmmaking to date, featuring a grab bag of styles taken from many mid-century Europeans directors (Bresson, of course, but also Dreyer, Ozu, and Tarkovsky) that ultimately merges into an aesthetic that's wholly and unmistakably his own.

«Hitman: Agent 47» takes an austere European aesthetic and combines it with Hollywood mindlessness, and the result is like a guilty pleasure, minus the pleasure.

The gameplay survives in the Shrines, which house the cleverest puzzles in chambers tinged with Portal's austere lab aesthetic, and out in the world, where boss monsters roam and elaborate combat gauntlets await.

Mucha does not have a signature style in the traditional sense; rich in sometimes playful detail, his pieces nonetheless exude the austere charm of industrial manufacture, perhaps an echo of the artist's early study of the technical aesthetic of minimalist sculpture.

Diverging from his early austere minimalist aesthetic, the vigorous broad stripes of the work create a seductive, vibrating expanse.

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

Her manipulation of miniaturised objects, dolls and interiors provided these domestic Mise - en - scenes with a dream like quality, which isolated the images from the austere «Pseudo-Documentary» aesthetic other artists were trying to achieve.

Their works were characterized by an austere industrial aesthetic and reductivism that made their pieces seem highly impersonal, intellectual, and urban.

Diverging from his early austere minimalist aesthetic, the vigorous broad stripes of Wall Drawing # 368 (1982) create a seductive, vibrating expanse.

Most companies have already established an aesthetic, a particular divergent design that harnesses, but often distracts from, the austere beauty of stock Android.