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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
It is a
bucolic scene — until we also notice that the paths
of righteousness could also mean the ways
of justice.
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.
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»).
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.
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.
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.
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.
An exhibition
of sunny,
bucolic scenes from around Umbria, Italy, painted by Ella Yang during a residency in 2017.
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.
According to Vance, these
bucolic scenes also evoke interesting questions about displacement and our notions
of ownership
of land and water.
Nod to the 18th century aristocratic penchant for covering every surface with
bucolic scenes by enveloping a corner in layers
of toiles.