Sentences with phrase «bucolic scenes»

Nod to the 18th century aristocratic penchant for covering every surface with bucolic scenes by enveloping a corner in layers of toiles.

According to Vance, these bucolic scenes also evoke interesting questions about displacement and our notions of ownership of land and water.

Even when free range and organic egg production is significantly better than the battery hen counterpart, it's a fair bet that most supermarket eggs were produced in conditions that bare little resemblance to the bucolic scenes of pastures and red barns that tend to adorn their boxes.

Bucolic scenes of shepherds with their flocks, or idyllic depictions of rural life were sentimental evocations that harked back to Classical notions of Arcadian paradises, not unlike picture postcards whose images have been edited.

An exhibition of sunny, bucolic scenes from around Umbria, Italy, painted by Ella Yang during a residency in 2017.

Bucolic scenes from trips or images extracted from videos that caught her attention trigger a process towards paintings that come into existence in a rare combination of seriousness and leniency.

Hovering at the edges of these works are intimations of suffering and mortality which layer the poignancy of experience into these vividly playful and bucolic scenes.

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.

Then the bucolic scene takes on a darker cast and is no longer quite so pleasant to contemplate.

It is a bucolic scene — until we also notice that the paths of righteousness could also mean the ways of justice.

Did I lift this almost laughingly bucolic scene from the pages of L.L. Bean's most recent fall catalog, you ask?

In his latest novel, his first since 2000's Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje weaves a mesmerizing saga of closely - knit characters who suddenly and dramatically disperse, and are forced to reinvent themselves years and continents apart.The novel opens with a bucolic scene a...

But once you have a dog, that bucolic scene can look more like a hotbed of potential pain and injury from foxtails (also called «grass seed awns»).

Nearby, William Villalongo presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

Ostensibly a bucolic scene of fall foliage, the painting is in fact based upon a still from the film Apocalypse Now that shows an area of jungle being napalmed.

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

This canvas began its life as a meticulous recreation of Johannes Itten's color wheel (which she did herself; she outsources none of her painting to assistants), which she then overlaid with an uncharacteristically sweet and wistful portrayal of a believably proportioned naked woman gazing out through the slats of a barn, a bucolic scene with a lovely sense of interiority.

I would be out there all the time on that great swing, overlooking the magnificent bucolic scene that you have....

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Boyle has a mother (Fionnula Flanagan) who's only got a short time to live, and he has installed her in a bucolic facility for dying oldsters (perhaps this is where all that crime - scene money is going).

Cone lays down each scene of this calming coming - of - age story like he's building a matchstick house, instilling Miranda's Chicago intelligentsia existence with bucolic calmness, and making Cyd's journey — which entangles her with barista name Katie — a bold, photographic statement that's simply a pleasure to witness.

The understated area has a budding food and beverage scene, and its bucolic surrounds are ripe for exploration.

The cultural scene is alive and well with crafts and artists galleries, community theater groups, and visitors love our local weekly newspaper which gives a glimpse into the bucolic life in the small town of Cambria.

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.

He mixes archive interview clips, therapy scenes and random bucolic shots of the Scottish countryside.

A similar rejection can be found in Virginia Overton's 2016 piece Untitled (Waterfall), a found steamer trunk — papered with a bucolic waterfall scene — filled with a sound machine that references Robert Morris» 1961 wooden cube, Box with the Sound of Its Own Making.