Sentences with phrase «classical compositions»

ACE Team has taken classical compositions that are associated either with the country you are fighting in or with the time - period.

Pablo Picasso's re-working of classical composition inspired in part by African masks, Frank Stella's creation of non-rectangular shaped canvases, and Dan Flavin's experimentation with neon light are all important milestones in the history of modernism — an art movement that has origins in Western Europe in the early twentieth century and took hold in America in the 50s and 60s.

The smaller schools have a hard time fielding concert bands that can perform classical compositions with parts for dozens of instruments.

However, there is a phenomenon known as the Mozart Effect which showed that listening to classical compositions by Mozart seemed to improve performance of certain mental tasks.

The string quartet, organized by Dutch artist Gabriel Lester, performed classical compositions for half an hour, and while the significance of concealing the players» bodies remained somewhat elusive, the music imbued the cavernous space with warmth, even drowning out the cannonade of balloons.

The portraits, which employ classical compositions, theatrical lighting, and saturated color to render the faces and expressions of the subjects in intimate detail, hint at a tension between interior realities and external presentations.

To borrow a British example, one could say that the Orthodox composer Sir John Tavener's classical compositions represent high culture while the Gospel songs and other compositions of Andraé Crouch embodied folk culture.

Glory's overbearing father takes her on a European tour to showcase her celebrated talent of seamlessly blending classical compositions with modern rock, often on the fly.

One could argue that the original Fantasia only used classical compositions, and the couple of original pieces that composer Inon Zur (best known for contributing to game soundtracks such as Fallout 3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Soul Calibur V) adds are great, but then why do we have to deal with Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj?

This entailed fusing styles of aleatoric music, early 20th century classical compositions and musique concrète into something altogether new.

Each fever dream was inspired by and contained renditions of some of the most well known classical compositions.

While these elements reflect the components of a seemingly classical composition, Carreño portrays the scene within a verdant landscape that evokes an imagined tropical garden inspired by the artist's native Cuba.

Wiley is part of an important new group of highly visible artists of African descent such as Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare and Barkley Hendricks who have introduced people of color into major classical compositions.

Entitled Light Passage, the artworks include classical compositions and dramatic use of light and dark along with subtle references to anime, street fashion and youthful rebellion, tracing back to Morimoto's Japanese heritage.

«In the Hall of the Mountain King» is one of the most recognizable classical compositions in the world but, ironically, was composed by Edvard Grieg as a satire intended to reek of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and «to - thyself - be-enough-ness».

Riffing off of classical compositions — most notably Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya — the Dresden - born artist takes an attitude of irreverence along with impressive skill and respect for traditional technique.»

The results of a study showed that listening to classical compositions by arguably the most famous classical music composer of all time was seen to improve performance of certain mental tasks in the short term.

His Patagonia pictures — referencing romantic landscape painting — employ classical compositions.

The decline of interest in American - style minimalism is due in part to the emergence of a new style of classical composition that has found a comparably large popular audience.

One expert witness testified for the defense that the photograph of a penis with a finger inserted into it «was a very ordered, classical composition» and that another photograph, of an arm in an anus, was formally similar to the photograph of a flower.

And if John Williams is any indication, the line between film score and classical composition has gotten muddled.

Note the classical composition, the flowing camera — its reverence for natural beauty comparable to Ford; its mysterious doubling worthy of Hitchcock; its theme of the Miracle of Empty Hands lifted from Robert Bresson's Le Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest, 1951)-- yet all of this under the yolk of nouveau riche multinational executives who can do no more than mouth words passed down through history via literature, poetry, philosophy....

There's a great dynamic between the classical composition and the asymmetric woman's face that creates a powerful pull into the story.

«The Longest Time» has a fantastic piano part and can be played as a classical composition if you know what you're doing.

Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.

The classical composition and colors of the paintings draw the unsuspecting viewer into the fabel - like characters» fantastical dilemmas.

The work's classical composition is upset by its inversion, becoming both an homage to painterly technique and a challenge to conformism to naturalism that typified art of the 1980s.

The re-writing and narration of the individual shifts to a slightly different perspective in the artist's later series, titled Exodus, as the classical compositions emphasize global aspects of living and the political geography of our globalized culture.

There, the two artists emphasized technical skill and classical compositions.

Better yet, find a classical composition, or some classic jazz and look at the painting while listening to music.

Riffing off of classical compositions — most notably Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya — the Dresden - born artist takes...

Yoshikawa anticipated a classical composition; however, in his own words, «I was astounded and speechless with what I was hearing!

«' All but four of the oils were selected from the work Turner did in the last twenty years of his life, in order to show the revolutionary aspect of a period in which he developed a new consistency of painting that eliminated linear draftsmanship and classical composition and glorified light and shade.

Combining oil painting and textile collage, the colour palette is very much inspired by a 19th century approach, with Fritz Bornstück working like an impressionist in the field, while at the same time turning the works around to pull them in a decidedly more contemporary direction, inflicting contrasting architecture and items on the classical compositions.

But behind it the classical composition of the figure in terms of contour, volume and mass still remains discernible.

Known as the father of modern still life photography, Leslie Gill elevated editorial images to classical compositions, becoming an artist in the process.

The German painter Gerhard Richter sets up a classical composition that could easily be a study for one of his own photo - based canvases.

Cascades of flesh and faces riff off Degas and turn his classical composition into painterly chaos.

Mostly posted between the 1960s and the 1980s, the postcards represent landscapes that somehow allude to well - known paintings in their classical composition.

«Like musicologists discussing a classical composition, the «judges» then take apart a lawyer's arguments and suggest where they may fall flat, distract the judges