Mir's paintings present a world populated
by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.
Not exact matches
Captured indelibly
by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like
mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.
In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential
mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will
by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.
Instead of making the guy a
mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed
by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.
Where there's little modeling in work
by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar
mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured
figures) but in a more classical figurative style.
Work dealt with the shadowy, mysterious realm of
mythic subject matter and the unconscious, later marked
by a poetic feel, with abstracted
figures against a timeless, mottled ground.
As distinct from such
mythic references, the upward thrust of Hepworth's works of the late 1950s takes on a combination of figurative and spiritual aspects, as suggested
by Figure (Requiem) and Cantate Domino (Tate Gallery T00956).
There is
mythic construction of Wróblewski as a self - destructive, melancholic
figure who was encroached upon
by tragedy from all sides, but this is too simplistic.
However,
by including such figurative works as «
Figure at Window with Boat» (1964) and the later
mythic paintings, «
Figure, Boat, Clouds» (1971) and «
Figure with Tree» (1972), the exhibition suggests that there are more sides to Bischoff's figurative paintings than his urban scenes, and the full extent of what he did between 1952 and» 72, is still unknown, particularly on the East Coast.