Sentences with phrase «bombastic works»

A Jean - Michel Basquiat skull grimaces over an anodyne selection from the early 1980s, including bombastic works by Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer and a self - absorbed Francesco Clemente gouache.

And yet: while Sean Kelly Gallery successfully offloaded works by Hugo McCloud and Antony Gormley, the most bombastic work in its booth, Idris Khan's Overture (2015), had yet to find a home by the end of the day.

The rooms are so large that they threaten to swallow up anything but bold, bombastic work.

Not exact matches

Erbert & Gerbert's was not the flashiest or most bombastic company that I worked with.

Today, Jürgen Klopp addressed the recovery of those in his side that have been working hard to be fit for Liverpool's bombastic ending to the season and he's come out with two delicious scoops of Dejan Lovren and Joe Gomez.

Furthermore, the dresses are decorated with bombastic floral motifs captured with flora and fauna prints and thread works.

Add in an epic, bombastic orchestral score by Kevin Riepl (he also worked on Gears of War) and a surprisingly robust and easy - to - use level creation tool and you have one of the better games to be released so far in 2011.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

Similarly, Michael Giacchino's diverse score is both delicate (in keys that remind of his work on television's «Lost») and bombastic, rolling with ominous brass in certain sequences that plays like Stravinsky in hell.

After all, a swords»n' sorcery saga takes a lot of work, and I found myself fretting about all the hours Jason Momoa must have spent in the gym to get those muscles, all the expense that must gone into the ridiculous costumes and sets, all that effort that must gone into lugging lights and cameras to the Bulgarian hills and caves where the film was shot... all to make such a noisy, bombastic load of nonsense.

There might also be no film more in need of help being championed, a work surely going to be stampeded in a year where more brash, loud and bombastic films will take all the attention away.

Whether you find director Peter Jackson's work majestic and whimsical, or just bombastic and twee, his Tolkien films have created an indelible set of cinematic images over the past dozen years.

With Courtney B. Vance providing omniscient narration (and a superb, bombastic score from Alexander Desplat), a score of the auteur's regular players have key voice work moments, from Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Ed Norton and Jeff Goldblum as a pack of helpful mutts, to Scarlett Johansson and Harvey Keitel as love interest and savior.

He is well known to moviegoers for his droll turns in big popcorn projects such as «Die Hard,» «Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,» «Galaxy Quest» and «Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street» as well and his nimble work in less bombastic films such as «Truly, Madly, Deeply,» «Love Actually,» «An Awfully Big Adventure,» «Michael Collins» and Ang Lee's «Sense and Sensibility.»

Some genre purists would certainly take issue with such an obvious effort to create new material by fusing the icons of literary classics, but Sommers» adrenalized upgrading for modern audiences isn't that different from Siodmak's first venture; the former's just over-cranked and way louder (aided by Alan Silvestri's outrageously bombastic score) in a 5.1 mix guaranteed to work out your home's subwoofer.

I'd often kill myself intentionally in the hopes that I'd load back to a previous checkpoint, just so I could play through one of the game's many bombastic scenes again and enjoy the great work that Crystal Dynamics has done here.

All the elements are in place; huge budget, decent developer, tech know - how, bombastic set - pieces that would make a cocker spaniels eyes bleed; yet like a crude hand - traced version of a great work of art, something doesn't seem right.

The music should fit the game and with it dark grim post apocalyptic tone it works well with music like this rather then something that is very bombastic.

Fiona Bradley, director of the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and also on the panel, said she loved Wilkes's work because «it doesn't shout, it's not bombastic.

Known for her bombastic, immersive paintings, German artist Katharina Grosse has created a site - specific work for her first institutional solo exhibition in London.

This sounds extremely bombastic; yet one can not help but feel a little disappointed by the subtlety of Eliasson's works.

Seeing it again four years after its debut at the Venice Biennale, it struck me as oddly grating, an overly bombastic (though accomplished) attempt to explore the themes she would go on to tackle in a subtler, more successful way in subsequent works.

«My desire,» the artist says of his work, «[is] to present the most epic human themes in a way as immediate and bombastic as possible, seeing them all through a pop culture lens.»

The artist doesn't disappoint, introducing the show with a confident, bombastic and lengthy title and artist statement that confront and challenge the outsized expectations and criticism of her work.

Performance and video artist Andrea Fraser is known for her institutional critique in works such as Official Welcome (2001), in which she delivered a monologue satirizing the bombastic language used when presenting art exhibitions and prizes, or the controversial Untitled (2003), a videotaped encounter in which a collector paid $ 20,000 in exchange for sex with the artist, posing the question of whether art is prostitution.

It's an interesting counterpoint for an artist who is most widely known for his more bombastic painted works.

Located on the bustling Mission Street thoroughfare between to - die - for taquerías and mango - laden fruit stands, this exhibition of works by Ruth Laskey and Suzan Frecon, both known for creations that eschew the bombastic in favor of a cool craftiness, is a meditative world apart.

The occasional small virtues to be found in sculptor Matthew Barney's work were swamped by the bombastic ambition and art - world star power mobilized in this premature retrospective of an immature artist.

But there is an unmistakable sense of conflicting emotions in the intense intimacy of each small painting, especially when they are contrasted with the now legendary works of the same period executed by the Abstract Expressionists as part of one of modernism's more bombastic movements.

The company is on a hiring spree that could change that, but its work seems worth more as a series of parts than a product, and its bombastic promises aimed more at generating vague publicity than reaching potential consumers.