Sentences with phrase «desolate urban»

His work features imagery of everyday and consumer objects, such as paper clips, light bulbs, and champagne flutes, found in desolate urban settings as a reference to his upbringing, but also to broader universal ideas including desire, luxury, and the influx of consumerism into South African society.

Here the silence of the saying, holed up in this desolate urban nook, indicates the emptying out of its meaning: a lone, individual plea that is no match for the weight and power of the governments and institutions it seeks to upend.

The installation focuses on four distinct characters / scenarios: a Tokyo auctioneer, a young man (Andre 3000 from the music group Outkast) navigating desolate urban streets, a helicopter factory worker who doubles as a tap dancer, and a young woman playing handball.

Many of the works in the exhibition depict figures suspended in desolate urban landscapes or fractured environments that are in the process of falling apart.

Additional landscapes by Sironi, now best known as a founding member of the fascist - aligned novecento Italiano art movement, record desolate urban landscapes, punctuated with trucks, cranes and traintracks which glint impressively out of the gloom.

Not exact matches

Rackstraw Downes excels at painting marginal, sometimes desolate landscapes — whether urban or rural — with tremendous sympathy and slightly distorted spatial effects, which render them absorbing and oddly majestic.

«That Rothko's images possess a distopian air during a post-utopian era of economic decline does require us to account for them in relation to the desolate culture of the urban scene, a conception of the city that is often expressed in turn as the experience of a peculiar space.

Lee - Smith painted desolate, urban landscapes inhabited by solitary people of different ages and sexes and across the racial spectrum.

The son of surrealist artist Roberto Matta and a graduate of the Cornell School of Architecture, Matta - Clark took a guerrilla approach to both his work and his environs, perhaps best exemplified by Window Blowout (1976), a series of photos of desolate housing projects included in an exhibit at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in midtown.

Stephanie Buer's incredibly realistic paintings and charcoal drawings capture the vacant and desolate sprawl of abandoned urban spaces.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.