Sentences with phrase «blankness of»

Typical of India, the blankness of these hoardings is never absolute.

His photographed scenes initially look real, but on closer inspection reveal a lack of detail that conveys a certain tension between the institutional blankness of each photograph and the loaded cultural background that informs them.

Kon Trubkovich's heavily worked graphite drawings of TV static, the result of his labored reduction of surface, search for memories that hover in the blankness of the past.

It looks as if, for Tworkov, painting is an endless interrogation: how does one come to terms with the blankness of the canvas, this zone of unbounded possibility?

His works elicit a blankness of southern Californian suburbs, of patios and bungalows, architecture of the oblique, paired with deadpan dialogues, which reveal the absurdity of the banal.

When the head rolls over we see the dark blankness of its interior: who can ever know what is going on inside another person's mind?

In the past, Catherine Opie has faced the blankness of American cities and human encounters.

The canvas plays obviously with the painted gesture, but the blankness of the image denies its own trace of the living artist.

As the market trend in painting favors non-compositional process abstraction (somewhat reductively classified as Zombie Formalism), the return to New Image Painting or Bad Painting or simply the art of making pictures becomes a radical refusal of the passive blankness of art made as an easy commodity.

As the film's anti-hero, Ryan Gosling channels the ambiguous, amoral pretty - boy blankness of Ryan O'Neal in The Driver and Richard Gere in American Gigolo — in many ways, Gosling's character is himself a gigolo, but one who seduces cars rather than women.

Without putting too fine a point on it, Holmer occasionally shows us the concrete - covered blankness of the outside world, the hard - edged reality through which Toni must move.

To the left, though, the vista modulated between forest and rangeland, then would fall away in the flat blankness of soy field: mile - long rectangles of bare earth.

I quickly realised that I loved colouring in but, halfway through the picture I was getting bored with the repetition and blankness of mind.

Not exact matches

But I feel sure that many of them also experience the terrible blankness I have just described.

Bereavement can be, not blankness and utter loss, but suffering that with all its poignancy is nevertheless the beginning of a richer fellowship with the Eternal.

(The apotheosis of hero - dude blankness: Keanu Reeves» Neo in The Matrix.)

Actually, 2001 doesn't exactly fit that first camp either: something in its mandarin blankness and balletic vastness, and refusal to trade in the emollient dramatic forms of human interest and human sympathy.

The result is something quite rare in professional show business: 1 1/2 hours of pure blankness.

While «Farewell, My Queen» does boast admirable elements (more on those below) overall, despite some showy trappings it is a frustratingly empty experience, built around a character whose blankness is supposed to be a virtue, but ends up costing the film dearly in terms of identification and interest.

Anyway, suffice it to say that Sacks is not only no Frank Sinatra or John Wayne, he's not even much of a Billy Pilgrim, and while his blankness complements the passivity of the character (and Vonnegut's essentially fatalistic view of life), it creates a serious charisma vacuum that, in the novel, is filled by the narrator's generous philosophical digressions.

Sutherland has the marginally less thankless role as a man entering his second childhood: a snowy - haired babyface of blankness.

In projects as varied as That Awkward Moment, We Are Your Friends, Dirty Grandpa, The Paperboy, and At Any Price, he's had opportunities to play all manners of comedy, drama, and romance, and he approaches it all with the same himbo blankness.

Here his blankness is perfectly suited to Chili's unflappable cool — and in one of the most welcomely gratuitous dance sequences in cinematic history, he reprises both his defining rôle from «Saturday Night Fever», and his seminal floor moves with Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction.

Her blankness as a character made it all the easier to insert yourself in her place as a reader, but when you're charged with bringing her to life on screen, that vagueness of personality is a huge, maybe insurmountable challenge.

In both Losing Isaiah and Candyman the racial positioning of key figures essentially winds up taking the place of characterization; self - consciousness about correct images effectively yields a kind of enforced blankness that not even good actors (like Jessica Lange and Halle Berry in Isaiah) are capable of filling.

Amour means love, and this film could easily have been titled Love and Misery, as strong and indescribable feelings mount when a life partner begins the inevitable slide downhill... a trip which often starts with something as bland as a few moments of blankness at the breakfast table.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other textures blasted out to snowy blankness.

The character of Ray Moody in «Take Me,» played by character actor Pat Healy (in his directorial debut) is made up of equal parts blankness, desperation and fragility.

One minute, a hollow commitment - phobe who partakes in binge - boozing and public bathroom sex to feel any kind of connection, the next an empathetic human connection for recently orphaned Lucy (Quvenzhane Wallis), Seyfried's doe - eyed performance runs the gamut from passion - free blankness to public histrionics.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other texture blasted out to snowy blankness.

But the film's restraint verges on blankness; a mood of desolation builds in this story of the West Memphis Three, but not an involving drama.

The screens glow vivaciously in daylight and their seemingly frictionless surfaces dim to a slick, black blankness when switched off, but this digitalization marks the end of a great era of mechanically analog information transfer.

A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety - two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simpleminded.

A young man might have ripped his blankness right out of Yayoi Kusama — and his pink shirt out of a canvas by Mark Grotjahn.

The process by which the artworks are cast in urethane add to the blankness, as the artist has to fill in the puff stickers with paint to recapture the pop culture icons and weather them to recreate the look of the original.

Others have communicated more of the subject's blankness, anomie, violence, or cost, like Catherine Opie, and Clark himself has milked images of self - abuse to greater theatrical effect.

In the middle of it all is Robert Rauschenberg's White Painting (1951), one of the earliest pieces in the show and perhaps the one which, in its simple paradox of filled - in blankness, epitomises the cyclical quest for the end of painting.

The tape itself may play something of the role of lettering for Ed Ruscha, objectifying the blankness.

In this show the serenely sphinx - like faces are a template through which the artist can systematically explore the concerns of painting and drawing, not ignoring the sentimental implications of rendering a human likeness, but by their blankness and repetition allowing the viewer to move on to other aspects of the work besides «who is this» or «what can I learn about this person.»

How, if he always started from blankness and worked spontaneously, could he make use of that partial success?

His uniquely abstract, process - oriented artworks that investigate the puzzling dualities of existence such as blankness and figuration, singularity and plurality, the manual and the mechanical, have won a lot of attention in both American and international art scenes.

The monumental bulk and blankness are intimidating, even without intimate knowledge of that novel and its oppressive political landscape.

Wagenknecht's latest body of work puts a new spin on Klein's act, laying her own nude body on blank canvases while a Roomba saturated with IKB shuffles around her, creating a confused pattern of blue streaks outlining the large patches of blankness where she reclined.

Instead of religious imagery, Artschwager has adorned his panels with anything but — ghostly blankness, an orgy, quotidian domestic interiors.

So the autonomous work of art wouldn't necessarily tend towards emptiness, negation, blankness — but towards function.

But prolonged looking brought the realization that these flecks of white served to assert the thingness of the canvas, their grainy blankness crackling against the dots and strokes of color, and reinforcing the tactility of the surface.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, November 10, 2012 - February 9, 2013 «Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists,» Los Angeles, CA, September 22 - October 27, 2012 «Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art,» Jack Rutberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, November 17 - December 22, 2012 2011 «The Lord & The New Creatures,» Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA, September 10, 2011 - TBD «Arsenale: Graphics from the Museion Collection,» Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, July 1 - November 6, 2011 «Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg,» Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, June 24 — August 21, 2011; catalogue «The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2011 - February 20, 2012 «Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981,» The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 2011 - February 13, 2012 «For a Long Time...» Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 — August 6, 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Elllipse Foundation, Portugal, April 3 — December 18, 2011 «Blankness Is Not a Void: Scott Campbell, Steven Parrino and Raymond Pettibon,» Marc Jancou Contemporary, April 29 - June 4, 2011 «CLAP,» Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard College, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY, March 27 — May 22 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28.

Blankness is Not a Void is featuring a new body of works by Scott Campbell, the Punk Rock / Black Flag Era, drawings of Raymond Pettibon and the late Steven Parrino.

Different levels of clarity, density and blankness, like different levels of depth within the sculptures, provide the visual equivalent of poetic rhythm and metaphor.

Reviewing the latter exhibition in Artforum's October 2003 issue, art historian Michael Lobel noted that «the large scale of much of Rosenquist's work was initially intended to offer the viewer some critical perspective on commercial imagery by calling attention to its numbing blankness,» and that «the hallmarks of Rosenquist's mature style — the slick rendering, the vibrant Pop colors, the sustained attention to the surfaces of commodity objects ---- are brought together to imbue [his smaller] works with an uncanny psychological resonance.»