Sentences with phrase «cool detachment»

The feral, organic, orgasmic energy of Meat Joy, and many of Schneemann's other works from that time, also took aim at the polish and cool detachment of Pop Art: «The male Pop artists» endless depiction of nudes that looked like shiny parts of automobiles — these were all very strong influences that I could work against,» says Schneemann.

We regard the probability of contracting cancer in our lifetimes with cooler detachment than the improbability - in the United States - of being ever nipped by a rabid animal (Table 1).

To say that American painter Philip Pearlstein (b1924) paints his models with the same cool detachment as he paints his props is not a criticism.

Prince's cool detachment isolates his finished products from the source materials they emulate.

The ambition now became to give colour a freer rein through cool detachment.

It could be argued that many such images by Eggleston here are, in fact, not portraits in the strictest sense: they refuse individuality; they overpower personality with formal considerations; they could retain the casual air and cool detachment of his photographs of the anonymous, if they remained anonymous.

There's little momentum to the story, with Winding Refn only offering enough set - up to allow him to play with a character as a cat might with a mouse, batting Jesse around curiously but with cool detachment.

Her well - meaning but doofy husband Drew (Ron Livingston) helps the kids with their homework and labors to pack their lunches but their relationship is one of cool detachment, the few moments they have to themselves filled with iPad adult reality shows and headphoned Gear of Wars 3 gaming.

Theron portrays such deciphering and standoffish through her eyes, able to both internalise the seriousness of the situation, whilst maintaining a cool detachment.

Assayas observes her with a mix of cool detachment, queasy eeriness and hot bursts of horror which typifies his work's curiosity and contrasts.

Emerging at the end of the 1980s, his painting, along with that of contemporaries such as Julian Opie, echoed the cool detachment of 1960s British Pop, nodding to Caulfield and Michael Craig - Martin (who taught Hume at Goldsmiths in London).

The obsessive eroticism of his motifs clearly distinguishes Wesley from the cool detachment of the New York Pop scene.

According to the artist, the cool detachment of these aerial views mirrors the perspective of modern methods of warfare, such as planes and drones, which essentially generalize and dehumanize those below.

But I could not have developed my own work in that direction without having absorbed her cool detachment and deep intellectual engagement in the artistic process.

Noted throughout his career for his cool detachment and gray palette, these landscapes represent the most subjective of the artist's oeuvre, rendered in brilliant colors.

Although he knew Andy Warhol and considered him among his favorite artists (along with de Kooning), Brainard's works are often humorous and earnest, in contrast to the cool detachment of much of the Pop art of the period.

They are also areas avoided by his painterly New York counterparts, where many figurative artists aspired to achieve the cool detachment of the Pop artists and Minimalists.