Sentences with phrase «between surrealism»

It provides extensive insight into the development of his themes and the delicate balance that he maintained between surrealism and abstraction, introspection and expressionism.
Those who have followed Graves» career are likely familiar with her more abstract work, which incorporates brightly colored oil paint on white backgrounds, and straddles the line between surrealism and abstract expressionism.
In reading the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois through the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein, Mignon Nixon offers a new understanding of the neglected relations between surrealism, feminism and child analysis.
His playful creations exist in their own world somewhere between surrealism and abstract art and communicate pure freedom.
The two paintings in front of us are works created at the evolution between surrealism and abstract expressionism.
Rudolph's underrated and visually inventive comedy Investigating Sex (2001)-- loosely inspired by José Pierre's study of the relationship between surrealism and sex — returns the director to a more salient concern with the connection between human desire and art; as its characters discuss their thoughts on sex, they sit among paintings and sculptures that would likely have also piqued the interest of Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind.

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Leary is working with a fabulous cast, which is why he and co-creator Peter Tolan can dance so nimbly between realism and surrealism, drama and comedy.
Maquiling creates an unusual and intriguing tone somewhere between sharp, deadpan comedy and a soft, dreamy surrealism.
The latest episode of Twin Peaks divides its time between domestic drama, overarching mythology, and seriocomic pop surrealism.
During that same period, Farber referred to Preston Sturges as a filmmaker working eternally within «the presence of Dada and surrealism» — and it's taken over fifty years, it seems, for the United States to produce what is at its essence the product of a marriage between Welles's self - conscious audacity and Sturges's common touch: Charlie Kaufman — more specifically, the Charlie Kaufman Screenplay.
Strong chemistry between Mendelsohn and Reynolds ease the more predictable elements from taking hold and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck «s ability to slam the occasional magical surrealism into his pragmatic sentiment makes Mississippi Grind a well - played victory, if not a chip - sweeping royal flush.
Ramos» paintings are based on surrealism and absurd connections between unrelated objects.
Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.
Opening: «Hedda Sterne: Machines 1947 - 1951» at Van Doren Waxter One of the few women in the New York School of artists and poets, a group of post-war American artists that included the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Hedda Sterne was a Romanian - born painter and sculptor who made work that ranged from surrealism to expressionism between the 1940s and her death at 100 years old in 2011.
The work also stands out for its hallucinogenic spaces, with interiors fracturing and distorting from realistic representation into abstraction and surrealism, and «teetering,» as she puts it, «between claustrophobic and agoraphobic.»
At this point, Contino's paintings pulled away from the norm by breaking down the barrier between geometric and surrealism.??
Working in a remarkable mixture of surrealism, minimalism, pop, and psychedelia, she moves effortlessly between different media, between east and west, between art and popular culture, and between cultural identities.
The exhibition will particularly address the ways in which Lucas engages with the legacy of surrealism — from her clever transformations of everyday objects to her exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd.
Operating between documentary and fantasy — especially in the form of science fiction — his practice is influenced by both conceptualism and surrealism.
Drawing on the language of pop art and surrealism, Belanger's sculptures turn everyday objects such as lamps, cigarettes, and watches into uncanny anthropomorphic artworks that blur the boundaries between function and artifice.
Playing upon tensions of equilibrium and subtle, aerial installations, the work of this talented young Korean artist draws upon the codes of surrealism and explores the boundaries between the...
2/3 - 12/5/2018 SURREALISM: A CONVERSATION The exhibition will cover the period between 1923 and the early 1960s, and will seek to reaffirm the overarching influence of the Surrealist movement.
These works were both influenced by surrealism and a harbinger of Pop Art and, as such, form an art historic bridge between movements.
Goldwater had visited the store to purchase a selection of prints by Pablo Picasso, and «in between talks about surrealism and the latest trends, [they] got married.»
Bringing together Oursler's ongoing interest in mysticism, psychedelia, popular culture, and media history, the work employs macabre humor and theatrical surrealism to reflect on the irrational relationship between belief systems and the authenticity of images.
By merging a refined selection of graffiti and mixed media techniques, Soto continues to bridge the gap between street art and pop surrealism.
Brooklyn - based artist Matthew Ronay's solo exhibition, Ramus, balances between a world of modern abstraction and surrealism, spiked with a potent splash of sensual psychedelia.
The works of Gardner and Maltese have clear affinities — their separate practices arise from a pictorial alchemy where, while maintaining mimetic characteristics of modernism, surrealism and troupes of abstraction, the distinction between figure and ground or environment has been significantly collapsed, favoring more flattened volumes and depths of field.
In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.
Your recent work seems to fall somewhere between realism and surrealism.
The effect is reminiscent of Rothko's similarly plasmatic color compositions that comprised his transitional works between what might be termed his «aquatic surrealism» phase and his signature horizontal blocks of closely valued hues.
Returning to a well - trodden strategy of surrealism, displays that allude to conversations between objects and the systems which display and mediate them is a trait in a number of shows at the moment...
John Wesley (b. 1928, Los Angeles, California) is an American artist whose paintings hover between pop art and erotic surrealism.
Matthew Ronay a Brooklyn - based artist unveils his new series solo exhibition, entitled «Ramus» a balance between a world of modern abstraction and surrealism.
About the artist Borrowing from the archives of psychoanalysis and surrealism, Shana Lutker's work takes shape in a variety of mediums and materials, foregrounding the relationship between history, memory and interpretation.
He experiments with elements of surrealism intermingled with abstracted gradients, evoking a sense of innocence in his desire to find a balance between life and death.
Chodzko operates in the tight, poetic spaces between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism, public and private space, often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer.
Deren's interest in trance, dance and Haitian voodoo, led her to develop a specific body of work defined as «ethnographic surrealism,» aiming at blurring the boundaries between performance, ritual and the real world, and incorporating the primitive and magic worldview within the very film process.
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