Sentences with phrase «bucolic landscapes»

Comprised of material shot for Laura Poitras's Academy Award - winning documentary Citizenfour (2014) about whistle - blower Edward Snowden — for which the artist was a contributing cinematographer — instruments of surveillance are revealed in scenes of bucolic landscapes, uncharacteristically marked by satellite dishes and radomes, busy city centres and moody seascapes.

The photographs» bucolic landscapes are the result of a «walk through nature,» in a region once inhabited by the artist's family, echoing the style of the photo - documented art of 1970s Land Artists, an act infused with the ideals of Romanticism.

Declaring his commitment to a «hygiene of vision,» he filled his work with store - bought items, glamorous women, and bucolic landscapes: symbols of purity that engaged the period's fascination with novelty and surface appearance.

Walk to the hilltop castle for views over these bucolic landscapes, framed by majestic peaks.

Stalin threw about a million troops into the dense forests and frozen expanses that connected the two countries, and able, determined Finnish troops turned the bucolic landscape into a charnel house for underprepared, underfed, and initially overwhelmed Soviet troops.

The vast monolithic apartment complexes of Kiev have disappeared, giving way to small wood frame houses in a bucolic landscape of green and brown fields.

Cloud shadows sweep across copses and hedgerows, and all around you the bucolic landscape is punctured only by... a passel of volcanoes.

Their hurts and sorrows seem common enough — love not returned, the complicated bond of mothers and sons, paths not taken, paths taken and regretted — and Mayer plays them out in a drifting ebb and flow set against a serenely bucolic landscape belied by the turmoil within each savage breast.

With its bucolic landscape of rolling hills and country farmhouses, it better fits Ferruccio Lamborghini's original business as a builder of tractors.

More than 50 of his landscapes are gathered together at Brandywine River Museum of Art, a 30 - minute drive out from Philadelphia into a bucolic landscape that has long attracted both the hugely wealthy (two Du Pont family estates, Longwood and Winterthur, are open to the public) and artists from Hudson Valley painters to three generations of Wyeths.

During this time, hundreds of American artists traveled to Holland to sketch in the bucolic landscape or study the art of the Dutch Old Masters.

Roy Lichtenstein's «Red Barn 1» (1969), a Pop version of a quaint American barn set in a bucolic landscape, was estimated at $ 1.4 million to $ 1.8 million, A telephone bidder paid $ 2.4 million.

The original home nestled on over 10 acres of bucolic landscape was designed by...

The bucolic landscape, laid - back lifestyle and delicious food and wine make this stretch of northern California ideal for an indulgent weekend getaway.

Not exact matches

Trimmed, landscaped, bucolic and imbued with a sense of leisure which most of those who play on it often wish they could themselves actually possess, as they drive, swing and putt their way around, it is an almost perfect backdrop for any kind of contemplation — particularly girl watching.

As the rises on this bucolic horizon, the clouds turn to soft pink and gold above the lush green landscape.

Green landscapes, vineyards, and fishermen's homes lend their bucolic, romantic, and vintage style to -LSB-...]

Hepburn, who also wrote the screenplay, shows a fondness for neo-realism, with a wealth of handheld shots, often uncomfortable closeups, elements of kitchen sink melodrama ---- great secondary performances from the likes of Nicholas Campbell and Mary Galloway make any soap opera elements utterly convincing ---- and sequences where the bucolic backgrounds and wintry landscapes seem to obsess and overwhelm the characters.

The Hotel Punta Islita's awe - inspiring natural setting and proximity to unspoiled Costa Rican villages and towns provide ideal opportunities to relax by the pool or beach, explore idyllic landscapes, or engage in rugged adventure while capturing a glimpse of a lifestyle rooted in rich traditions and bucolic simplicity.

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platformer from indie studio Swing Swing Submarine with some fairly unique mechanics and a story somewhat rooted in Celtic mythology, revealed to the player in pieces as they travel through bucolic deserted landscapes.

Widely considered to be among his best work, these large - scale landscapes — with Untitled XVIII a seminal example — evoke the bucolic splendor of the artist's East Hampton studio at Springs.

Both «A Sense of Place: Selections from the Guild Hall Permanent Collection» and «Cornelia Foss» highlight works illustrating the influence of the light, landscape, and seasonally bucolic ambiance that has attracted artists for more than a century to the East End of Long Island.

What at first glance appear to be bucolic scenes of a pristine world become on closer inspection images of a landscape that at every turn has felt and recorded the impact of human habitation.

The exhibition (30 April — 30 May 2018) brings together artists including Anne Ryan, Abigail Lane, Peter Doig, Ross Taylor and Nicky Hoberman, who have been invited to respond to «The Lore of the Land», with interpretations ranging from folklore, the land, legends and myths to landscapes; urban or bucolic, threatening or seductive.

Written in 1940, the song's original lyrics introduced a critical perspective to the idealistic view of America as Underwood's images challenge the common bucolic perception of the landscape.

Sweeping views of the bucolic English countryside are interrupted and fractured by glitches and ruptures as you realise you are looking at a digital rendering of a landscape courtesy of Google earth.

Herr offers canvases that playfully move in and out of abstraction, tackling everything from the brutality of American football to landscapes both bucolic and suburban.

Gronon's Manure series — piles of manure captured in different bucolic locations - reference historical landscape paintings, but on an intimate scale and in subtle tones of black and white photography.

Boat names evoke the pastoral activity of fishing and the landscape of the sea; the paraphernalia of naval warfare describes a bucolic idyll expressed as if a shaded garden temple; instruments of revolution and agriculture - a gun, a drum, a guillotine blade, a hoe, a spade - similarly harness the language of the seasonal metamorphosis in which a garden, like society, is ordered and celebrated through themes suggested by the French Revolution.

The bucolic, rural landscape still attracts some of the most important American artists of our time.

If this photograph depicts a sublime landscape, Mettmann, Autobahn (1993) shows instead a calm, bucolic scene intersected by silver - grey bars.

Based in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, American painter Mary Sipp Green has a superlative ability to engage the viewer in the emotive atmosphere of her landscapes and seascapes.

It was executed during a burst of creativity in the mid-1970s — following a dry spell in the late 1960s — when de Kooning produced a series of large paintings that were inspired by the landscape of Louse Point in Springs, New York, a bucolic hamlet in East Hampton where he moved in 1963.

It becomes a pastoral landscape of a type familiar in Venetian painting of the Renaissance, as well as in more modern works such as Henri Matisse's «Bonheur de Vivre» (1906) in the Barnes Foundation, a bucolic idyll that seems to recall a golden age, a garden of paradise.

Bucolic wallpaper envelops the room, and the part of the pattern positioned above the fireplace mimics the look of a landscape painting.