Sentences with phrase «deadpan approach»

This kind of deadpan approach allows the viewer to concentrate on the poise of the composition as well as the richness of detail in each image, but it is hardly gemütlich in the way one might assume from the subject matter.

Both movements were reliant on the circulation of photographic media in popular culture, along with a detached, deadpan approach.

Samuel Rousseau's minimalist video installation, Un peu d' éternité (a little eternity), uses a candle and endless projection of a flame to convey an endlessness that our minds can grasp only speculatively; while Andy Warhol takes a characteristically deadpan approach with his film Empire, placing a camera in front of the Empire State Building and shooting it for 24 hours.

Jack Black gives a funny, dynamic performance, even if it isn't his best, with his energy contrasting with the deadpan approach given to most of the rest of the performers.

The episodic narrative that follows, in which Johnny explores his gifts, investigating incidents of escalating significance, is really just a vehicle for Cronenberg to mine his fascination with bodily horror, with a deadpan approach to violence that occasionally erupts into spectacle.

Particularly enjoy your benteke-gate swipe, and your deadpan approach in general,.

Not exact matches

Morris's approach in his portrait films is deadpan, sardonic, wondering.

The assured, ironic tone of the presentation cements the comedic approach, with the laughs flowing from the deadpan introductory sequence.

In her words, «I'm rapidly approaching 50» (Elle's deadpan is matched only by her sense of irony — Tomlin has around rounded her third quarter - century.)

Although completely deadpan in its approach, nothing is played for seriousness, as even the costumes have been crafted in a comical way (like something out of «Sigmund & the Sea Monsters»).

Having an idiosyncratic approach to Surrealism, he avoided stylistic distractions of most modern painting, settling on a deadpan, illustrative technique that clearly articulated the content of the work.

Best known for his oversized, deadpan portraits, his unmediated shots of commonplace interiors, his colorful abstractions taken from the Internet of Japanese manga & anime, and his evocative nudes borrowed from pornographic websites, Ruff has quietly approached many familiar genres and proceeded to discreetly reinvent them.

, to the deadpan appropriations of Mike Bidlo's Not Picasso series, a wide swath of art historical territory is being covered in an equally wide range of styles, attitudes and approaches.