Sentences with phrase «best as an allegory»

The film works best as an allegory of what men fear: loss of family, loss of profession, loss of respect, loss of sanity (resembling in this aspect the suburban unease of the director's Arlington Road), going so far as to cast a woman (Laura Linney) as the film's only representative of order.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).

The works evolve into art history as well as allegories perceived by the artist through the twist of expression given by its creator.

Not exact matches

The Hanfree case serves as an allegory for Kickstarter's growing pains as a crowdfunding platform, a largely new and unregulated world in which anyone with any idea — good or bad — can get paid to create it, largely without any vetting or approval process from the site itself.

He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

Genesis is best looked at as an allegory.

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

For instance, since «Bush has been remarkably successful in persuading the American people to endorse a simple allegory of good and evil,» Donoghue complains, «it would be difficult, in these lurid circumstances, to read Moby - Dick as anything but a revenge play.»

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

As the Celtics» radio broadcaster for 37 years until his retirement in 1990, Most spun a grand allegory of good and evil in which Boston's pure - of - heart warriors were pitted against scoundrels and thugs.

So, black holes as well as being sort of agencies of doom and destruction in the end of time and allegories of halo and all the rest of it, are also bringers of life.

There are echoes, too, of Christian allegory and the Reichenbach Falls, as well as less literary entanglements: the mortal tango of Nagini and Severus, snake and Snape; first kisses between — well, far be it from me to tell.

A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.

In what could well be the least subtle national allegory ever committed to film, an awkwardly placed, extended flashback reveals why protagonist Jacky (Schoenaerts) is obsessed with bulking up: just as he was beginning to develop sexually, his balls were irreparably smashed with a rock by a deranged French kid.

The revelations that finally materialize are of an unexpected and downright inexplicable sort, exposing the proceedings as a self - conscious biblical / Grimm's fairy tale allegory about crime and punishment — as well as the cost of refusing to take responsibility for one's actions.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

Here I expect the differences in species to be a possible plot point (an allegory to the current racial / religious / class divide) as well as the definition of what makes a family (Arlo, the dinosaur is an orphan).

As well, through a messiah - like allegory, they come to understand and appreciate the power of love and sacrifice.

Let the Right One In feels like an allegory for the vulnerability of young men coming of age — a suggestion, brilliant, that there are wolves in the forest for boys in red hoods as well.

Taken as an allegory for a powerful man who doesn't entirely understand the scope of his power and its consequences, the picture's disregard for coherence and narrative linearity make some sense as well.

And the film itself is as great as you might imagine: a gripping, deeply moving examination of one person caught up in an unfair system and trying to quell demons exterior and interior to fix it, which works equally well as a humanist portrait, as social commentary and even as political allegory.

Her world - building is so detailed and well - integrated, each character and place so well - drawn, one wonders if they truly exist somewhere... Seraphina is an engaging and innovative fantasy that uses the plights of dragons and humans as an allegory for the real prejudices we all must face.»

Plato's chariot allegory is about the soul, but it works just as well for these aspects of personality.

«11 What is interesting about Papety is that he was a Fourierist, and Courbet's Studio is among other things a Fourierist as well as a Realist allegory.

Making reference to the reaper who appears in everyday lives in Hans Holbein's 16th - century series «The Dance of Death,» as well as to the shadows that enthrall the fictional prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave (a recurring theme in Kentridge's work), the piece also conjures a modern - day New Orleans funeral march.

A graduate of Pratt Institute (BFA in Painting) and Parsons School of Design (MFA), Cake's works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and exhibitions, including a solo show at The Untitled Space in July 2015, «Allegories Of The Held,» as well as public works such as The Gateway Project's Mural in Newark Penn Station «Cast the Burden and the Light Will Impress».

Her work as a curator includes exhibits «The «F» Word: Feminism in Art» a group show of 20 female artists, «Human / Nature» a group show revolving around environmental themes and «Allegories of The Held», a solo show of works by artist Jennifer Caviola aka Cake, as well as «The Voyeur» exhibit at Art Basel Miami sponsored by The American Friends of The Louvre.

The «Allegories of the Held» exhibition presents a selection of works from Jennifer Caviola's «The Bride», «Mit Blumen» and «Feast of Shamen» series, as well as different artworks that have never been exhibited before.

While the 24th Street show, «Comrades II,» draws on the African liberation movements and communism, «Lerato,» on 20th Street, employs allegory and lerato, the Setswana concept that best translates as «love.»

Twombly often quoted the poets as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats, as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works.

The well, the crack, were always the most literal metaphor for the mysteries of the body and the land, allegories of life, of sex and of death, the earth's crust as a geological scar on the universe the body and its most intimate mysteries are inscribed on.

Evading the reach of language, his subtly double - edged allegories make visible a broad spectrum of sensory experience, as well as physical and emotional exchange, coalescing at his work's center the unpredictable physicality of our world.

The exhibit explored issues imbued in the controversial trend of «saggin» — the style which sees young men wearing pants well below their waist — as an allegory to talk about Black male mobility and agency.

He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.

The more time I spend on this side of the pond, the more I think this company allegory applies to these United States, as well.

2010 Order to see, Galerie Praz, Delavallade, Paris, France In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro, London, Great Britain Whitney Biennial, New York / NY, USA 2009 We Are Sun - kissed and Snow - blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris Artists of Conflcting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany Cave Painting PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany Mrs. MacGruder, Benson Keyes Arts, Hello, curated by Michele Maccarone, Southampton / NY, USA Cave Painting: Installment # 1, Gresham's Ghost, Curated by Bob Nickas and Ajay Kurian, New York / NY, USA 2008 Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York / NY, USA Blasted Allegories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Works from the Ringier Collection, Luzern, Switzerland ESTRATOS, Contemporary Art Project, Murcia, Spain Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York / NY, USA 2007 XXS (Extra Extra Small), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, curated by Bob Nickas, Zurich, Switzerland The Third Mind, Palais de Toyko, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris, France Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland 2006 Panic Room, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greek Painting Codes, GC.AC, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy 2005 Lyon Biennale, Lyon Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Interested Painting, Gallery 400, University of Illionois, Chicago / IL, USA Down by Law, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / NY, USA 2004 Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2003 Utopia Station, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy Breathing The Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London, Great Britain Dreams and Conflicts, Venice, Italy, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 20th Anniversary - Welcome home, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York / NY, USA 2002 Five Years, Jousse Enterprise, Paris, France From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York / NY, USA Urgent Painting, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 2001 Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield / CT, USA Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Great Britain Extended Painting, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy Invisible Museum, Memphis / TN, USA Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Great Britain How is Everything?

Curves aside, the element's recyclable material is the first hint to the eternal return theme, which later takes the form of more or less literal references to the myth of Sisyphus (Marcell Jankovics, Koenraad Dedobbeleer) and the Uroboros (Pedro Barateiro), as well as more abstract sculptural allegories.

At the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, she has overseen commissions by Andreas Slominski (1999), Hiroshi Sugimoto (2000), Lawrence Weiner (2000), and Gabriel Orozco (2012), as well as organized the exhibitions Douglas Gordon's The Vanity of Allegory (2005) and All in the Present Must be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys (2006).

Desiderio's picture is an allegory of the unhealthy modern world at its incurable worst, as distinct from the healthy classical world at its utopian best — the health - restoring world of curative light in Un» Historia in contrast to the wildly sick darkness in I» Liberati.

Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.

In his first solo museum exhibition, Fahamu Pecou uses the trend of «saggin» (the style which sees young men wearing pants well below their waist) as an allegory to talk about Black male mobility and agency.

The plastic objects, as well as the entire shop, are part of the work; together with the film, they form an allegory for the living and working conditions within our global society.

Twombly often quoted the poet Stephane Mallarme, as well as countless myths and allegories in his works.

Each of his assemblages, as they seemed to me at the time I first encountered them, was a moral allegory of his life as well as an expression of a personal existential surrealism, not to mention neo-narcissism (he often used casts of his own body in his art).

However, instead of merely cataloging species as Audobon did, Ford uses the familiar visual language of the well - known wildlife artist and other early natural history artists to depict historically - based allegories of the violent collision of man and nature.

As in the allegory, a «global average» temperature obscures critical dynamics that are best understood by examining local causes of «regional climate» change.

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