Sentences with phrase «banal images»

Continuing his investigation into what he terms «social geometry» — the intersection of physical space with human thought and behavior — Lionni trains his eye on seemingly banal images, objects, and substances, filtering them through a variety of meticulous processes in order to focus our attention on their oft - overlooked

The photographs include images of well - known monuments like the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum and the Golden Gate Bridge as well as seemingly banal images of city streets, gardens, tropical sunsets and apartment buildings.

His paintings are inspired by diverse historical references as well as banal images found in old books, magazines and the media in general.

Prismatic lighting and small, surprising details in the models» clothing lends these otherwise banal images a psychedelic effect, which is exaggerated by each girl's preternaturally large, sparkling eyes.

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.

Some examples of Pop art, however, were subtly expressive of social criticism — for example, Oldenburg's drooping objects and Warhol's monotonous repetitions of the same banal image have an undeniably disturbing effect — and some, such as Segal's mysterious, lonely tableaux, are overtly expressionistic.

Taking a found photo of a sheet billowing in the wind, the two artists make installations, paintings and sculptures inspired by said banal image to maximise the imagination required by each artist in an attempt to present «open scripts» of interpretation for its viewers.

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If I were trying to make up a sympathy sob story I would make up better details, more believable ones, than the grinding, boring, crushing, and banal reality of what it was like to be targeted by Men Of God protecting their image and bottom line.

Punishing herself for going off on «banal» tangents that conjure vivid images of Hitler's squalid bunker (Blind Spot's structural conceit finds Junge judging the playback of comments she previously made), she recounts in linear detail the beginning of the end, so to speak.

Despite these shenanigans spanning the universe, Infinity War is shockingly short on memorable images, with most scenes composed in the banal shot - reverse - shot coverage familiar from episodic television.

Tellingly, Shame starts to feel banal as McQueen explains who his characters are and where they come from; in narrative filmmaking, one can present decontextualized images for only so long.

The word «compliance» can conjure up images of boring, banal courses that spew out bullet point after bullet point of lackluster content.

At the Southfirst booth, small furious drawings line the walls; these images are the output of the groundbreaking filmmaker Joe Gibbons, who spent his time in prison sketching banal scenes and goods sourced from magazines and catalogs.

His images rampaged through history, ranging from demure 18th - century prints of an aristocratic astronomer that slyly signaled his interest in optics to images of the watchtowers and barbed - wire fences of Hitler's concentration camps, stenciled onto banal printed fabric.

Utilizing simple, everyday images, Op de Beeck raises universal questions about meaning and mortality, finding a delicate balance between the serious and the absurd, between the banal and extraordinary.

One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

Her layered canvases feature hybrid objects made from images of power tools, car keys, body parts, and banal nature backdrops.

Kitsch, tacky or banal graphics and images are wryly incorporated into a dialogue that incorporates art history, literature and music.

As a painter of political ideas — and, often, the grotesque and cruel — Luc Tuymans is a historian of images that appear banal but reveal sinister workings: colored blobs are actually disembodied eyeballs; a bare room with flattened perspective is the site of uncountable murders; a limp cloth turns out to be the emblem of a growing nationalist movement.

The series reaches an apotheosis of banal profundity with an image of Snoopy reclining on his master's disembodied, planet - like head.

These medium - format images of Western tourists in the spiritual meditation and yoga centers of India transcend the medium and their potentially banal subject matter.

His practice pits the active image of the past against todayʼs screen - based image culture of slick and banal immediacy.

Many of her portraits are drawn from her own photographs and media images, such as «Evil is Banal» (1984) and «Martha — Sigmund's Wife» (1984).

Painters have tended to select the photographic equivalent: banal newspaper images, functional archival pictures and domestic snapshots of family, sports and leisure.

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.

Like many of Brannon's prints, Masturbating A Lot combines the superficiality of simplified form and content with acerbic narrative text and images, uncovering a deeper — and sometimes abysmal — meaning concealed in these banal situations.

These 1970's students added modern technical ability to the 1920's German school of New Objectivity as promoted by their mutual teachers Bernd and Hiller Becher who bland images of water towers and coal bunkers demystified photography into something more present and banal.

This new body of work, created especially for the exhibition, features a series of found photographs altered with his trademark blocks of rich colour, accompanied by banal snippets of text that appear like captions beneath the images.

Presented in book format, as a static archive, it's completely banal — not a series of erotic images so much as an overall picture of a particular erotic, much as Guyton's black paintings together represent an idea of the monochrome rather than a selection of monochromatic works.

Another troublesome fly in the ointment is this: Warhol's abstract paintings were mostly a flop — banal retreads of earlier classic images of Campbell's soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, flowers and more.

His prize - winning work was a collection of 57 arresting photo images, from the banal to the poignant.

This 57» x 84» image of the most banal subject shines in the hands of a master.

In Monk's Rew - Shay Hood Project IX, Ruscha's intentionally banal 1962 image of a Texaco station in Jackrabbit, Arizona, is transformed, newly presented onto the hood of a 1970 Datsun 240z as a dynamic, graphic airbrush painting.

Students explored their notions of beauty and the sublime, reflecting on Adams's ideas about beauty as an admitted pursuit that is «suspect,» and created projects adapted from the ART21 Season 4 Educators» Guide in which they sought to make a beautiful image from something they would otherwise deem ugly or banal and mundane.

Gerhard Richter's life and art interrelate in Atlas in a multilayered way: banal subjects such as a toilet roll [Sheet: 14] are juxtaposed with horrifying Holocaust images [Sheets: 16 — 20]; serial landscape pictures are lined up with intimate family photographs; colour samples attached to source images can be found as well as photographs showing museum installations.

Benbenisty transforms objects, images, ready - mades, ephemeral materials and texts from the everyday, the banal, the ordinary, moving towards the unique, the individual.

He is often incorrectly associated with American Pop art because of his many images of banal objects.

His colossal still life painted in response to a request for images of September 11 may be great, or awful, or even banal - I don't know yet.