Sentences with word «banal»

Continuing her research into advertising imagery and stock image photography through the use of technology, Reupke collected a multitude of banal letters of complaint and collated them to form a new, meaningful message.

It's just that the soporific uplift provided by the last two «Shrek» movies is just as banal as in any old live - action Hollywood drama.

Byrne is recognized for his innate ability to create extraordinary visual and sensory experiences out of ordinary and mundane materials, elevating the most banal of subjects to a high art form.

By transposing the ubiquitous into the unusual Loesberg brings to our attention the pleasure of ornament, the visual satisfaction of patterns and the beauty in banal everyday objects.

Three decades of sculptures by Hassan Sharif — colourful agglomerations of banal objects with coils of rope, elastic and rubber tubing — sit in the following gallery on shelves that could have been borrowed from the artist's studio, or a supermarket aisle.

So you can bet that his upcoming show «What You Want» — five emerging artists creating visual pleasure with banal objects — draws from a good deal of rumination.

This piece is from a popular and highly coveted series of doctored images that the artist made by taking interior settings — from banal living rooms to entire movie theaters — and wrapping them in 3 - D «skins» made from paintings by art - historical figures like Mondrian and, in this case, Georgia O'Keeffe.

It is confident in its pacing and characterization, not afraid to spend quite a bit of screen time on something as seemingly banal as Marty sitting in a hotel room eating room service spaghetti.

Introducing the arts into the classroom can breathe new life into banal subjects.

He is known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference aerial images of bombed German cities and for machined graphite sculptures of such banal objects as a water cooler or this scale reproduction of the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle produced by SculptureCenter.

But Francis Lawrence and his screenwriters only look to their potentially incendiary material for banal action beats (including a setpiece straight out of James Cameron's «Aliens») and quick flashes of charisma from the cast.

The work is influenced by banal spaces which are chosen for their lack of content.

It's striking how banal most of the posts are.

Large - scale paintings of U.S.A. FOREVER stamps are in fact reproductions from the USPS website, featuring a strikethrough over the text intended to prevent counterfeiting; the works highlight the chauvinistic message espoused by something so banal as our postage.

Andrew Fish's paintings use gesture and color to embellish snapshots of often banal in - between spaces — a bridge or a crosswalk — with an atmospheric sense of light and space.

That an American filmmaker can take the rather idyllic pair of movies Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and revisit a couple during not just a difficult period but a rather banal moment 18 years after they first fell under each other's spells allows for a rather unique opportunity.

while she announces «THIS IS THE MOST BANAL QUESTION EVER», even when it's just been asked by her Choice of Games editor.

Typed on flimsy forms or handwritten on scrap paper in archaic script, the file existed on that peculiarly Russian border between banal bureaucracy...

The founder and chief executive of Canada's largest dollar - store chain, Rossy, who is 67, still worries about banal details.

Creed has become particularly renowned for his aggressive deployment of a range of seemingly banal materials such as a blob of blu - tak stuck in the center of a wall, sheets of letter paper that are filled in with highlighter or ballpoint pen, collections of an enormous variety of balls, stacks of lumber, or neon spelling out simple words or phrases such as «Things», «Feelings» or «Everything is going to be alright».

However, I think there is something utterly banal about the explosiion of discernment ministries.

... The film becomes banal, violent, and absurd... [and it] gets old.

He made banal text into neon circles and Minimalist sculpture into confining spaces.

«Leaf Observer» badge, Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson's films often use banal items to unexpected ends — like the Adidas tracksuits that serve as Chas Tenenbaum's family uniform in The Royal Tenenbaums — but in many cases, the ephemera of the real world aren't distinctive enough for the director.

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

That means that when you're meditating and intense thoughts or feelings hit — not banal thoughts about picking up the dry cleaning, but rather a rush of anxiety or joy or heartache or anger — let go of the breath and open yourself to that experience.

This movement initiated the idea that art can be created from all sorts of stuff, including the most banal everyday scraps of material.

Great actors can take seemingly banal dialogue and make it memorable — for better or worse.

The discovery that laughter is more often produced at banal comments than jokes prompts the question, what did it evolve for?

I really disliked the movie and thought it was very juvenile with all the jump scares and quite banal plot but Shannon's performance here is my single favorite performance from 2016.

In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with curt texts, to skew otherwise banal images into anxious scenarios infused with a sense of irony and black humor.

This puts power into the hands of the State, «which can compel people to commit sin, tolerate it, or allow it to take place through banal conformism» (p. 59).

Rather people laughed at banal phrases such as «I'll see you guys later!»

Not only based in the study of technique, but also in the study of subject matter, the series is a detached meditation on banal things I see constantly around me and denotes a jumping off point for a development of both self and style.

Koons, known for his love of appropriation, is most famous for turning banal objects into artworks (think balloon dogs or sculptures inspired by kitschy Hummel figures, to name a few).

Deconstructing diverse images to make a new whole, Steve Roden uses personal artifacts to imbue the work with meaning that is sensed rather than seen; Kim Fisher uses the inconsequential to speak of time, location and impermeability; Sydney Croskery removes banal items from their original context to become hieroglyphic and lyrical symbols.

His paintings are inspired by diverse historical references as well as banal images found in old books, magazines and the media in general.

'» Why does that sound banal from many lips, but startling from this «dilettante» or connoisseur who has dipped into the finer points of Cyril of Alexandria's thought?

It's a bit of a foregone conclusion now, since in the time since the hack the notion of Russian interference with the election has gone from unnerving possibility to banal fact.

He's also ably supported by Toby Jones as Dr. Armin Zola, who is portrayed as the rare supervillain who is more coward than megalomaniac and is a nice reminder of how banal evil can be.

The 2016 farming / dating / life sim lets you forget your worries and embrace a soothingly banal life in the countryside.

Given that Rowland's show features banal objects sourced via Corcraft, a state prison industry facility, this talk should bring some much - needed historical context.