Sentences with phrase «disorienting image»

It's a disorienting image, one that turns the familiar into something otherworldly, and is a good showcase for why Leviathan has bowled over so many people.

With edges that look as friable as leftover slices of wedding cake, the paint shards offer a destabilizing context for these disorienting images, so thoroughly imbued with a tenuous «Through the Looking Glass» spirit themselves.

The artist has continued exploring these issues through chalk - on - asphalt portraits made up of multiple Jerome mug shots, disorienting images that were recently on view at Jack Shainman Gallery.

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After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the film's opening stages are less concerned with setting a scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.

As the first weekend of Sundance comes to an end, FC Editor - in - Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image, discuss the white privilege and bacchanalia of Sebastián Silva's disorienting Tyrel, Ethan Hawke's biopic of heavy - drinking country singer / songwriter Blaze Foley, Gustav Möller's gimmicky debut thriller The Guilty, and the joyousness and charm of Sandi Tan's first - person Singapore - set documentary Shirkers.

They are complex images that speak to the increasingly disorienting experience of modern urban existence.

Reminiscent of aerial photography, the Weather Paintings are mysterious images photographically printed as an aerial view of the land, creating a disorienting sense of sight so that the viewer feels suspended above rather than being on the ground.

His work frequently combines elements of the everyday with the fantastic, all rendered in psychedelic colours, giving his images a disorienting and surreal feel.

Images of wandering crowds, thrift store trinkets, children playing in a flooded backyard, etc., are buried under layers of color and gestural marks, distorting and disorienting their inherent narratives.

The resulting images of the anonymous subjects suggest the unpredictability of a drug's force; some people smile or laugh, others appear pensive and detached, another is disoriented, unreachable.

Where virtual reality has been criticized for leaving you disoriented or queasy, isolating the eye in this manner simulates the fantasy of living inside a painting or having painterly images converge with your retina.

Saliha Kasap's insect - like cityscape photo collages relate to Marcie Kaufman's disorienting industrial images, and Elif Oner's videos depicting dreamlike, mystical, timeless spaces corresponds with land art by Australian artist Andrew Rogers whose work is concurrently on display at the main gallery.

Like his older compatriot Mark Leckey, Atkins deftly utilizes syncopated montages of sounds and filmic images to create disturbing and disorienting virtual realities.

For these works Bickerton designs intricate stage sets and paints directly onto his models, their clothes, and props, photographing them and then editing the images during post-production to create hyper - realistic yet artificial and disorienting scenes.

«Louis's works explore the boundary between representation and abstraction, posing questions about how the human brain responds to images that are, at once, familiar and disorienting.»

Subverting a tantalizing advertising style of rich colors and textures with staged images that disorient, Scozzaro questions the representability of certain ideas that recur in mass media.

With the gallery's dim lighting and the constantly changing visuals, the effect can be slightly disorienting, overwhelming, as in the close - up images of four women, including Eartha Kitt, singing «Angelitos Negros,» a video which Thomas dramatically edits, focusing in on the eyes and mouths of the singers, as if striving for even more intimacy and connection.

He melts together catastrophes, the glitz of popular culture and the mundane into one disorienting alloy image,» explains Raphaela Platow, the CAC's Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator.

John O'Reilly transforms collaged photographs, images from art history and clippings from pornographic magazines into intimate and seamless spaces that, at first, read as plausible and familiar, but then reveal themselves to be disorienting.

Looking through the images for Warsaw's Private Settings, Art after the Internet group survey, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, it's a disorienting trip through a recent and familiar past for any fan of this kind of contemporary art.

Alongside Olivares's performances are Barbara T. Smith's Xerox poetry sets created during her dual life as a Pasadena housewife and emerging artist in the 60s, Mélanie Matranga disorienting sceneographies, and Dena Yago's flatbed scanner images, which she will discuss during a Culture Now talk with McLean - Ferris at the ICA on March 27.

The correspondence between apparently formally similar works, remembered from one place to another, underscored the radical difference and cultural specificity of respective practices, for example the disorienting slippage between image and sound of Bruce Nauman's Lip Sync (1969), in relation to the sucking, swallowing, silencing and disgorging of mouths in Anna Maria Maiolino's Super-8 film In - Out (Anthropophagy)(1973), a critique of American cultural imperialism.

As dissonant and disorienting as Salle's superimposed images are, the overall painting is held together by an uncanny compositional instinct.

We are disoriented by the ambiguity of the image as it presents both as a mass and a void.

Her work, dominated by images from popular culture, explores the impact of this burst on the human psyche, often juxtaposing them so they are at the same time familiar and disorienting.

In this earlier moment, artists as diverse as Dan Graham, Peter Campus, Bruce Nauman, and Joan Jonas established feedback loops of live cameras and monitors into which viewers could wander: Sometimes their images were replayed to themselves in altered form, as in Campus's works, and sometimes spectators encountered their displaced projections on a short delay or in kinesthetically disorienting environments, as in installations by Nauman and Graham.

Delman uses the imagery of sports competition — a video of masked teams plays behind sports netting, a multimedia work houses audiovisual components within the image of a man's flexed bicep — in a disorienting exploration of media portrayals of competition, power, and success.

Injecting a shot of energy into a selection of canonical photographers» images of mountains — «the oldest subject and most immovable landmark» — Penelope Umbrico rephotographs them using smartphone camera apps to disorienting effect.

Transitions and animations tend to be choppy compared to modern streaming boxes, and TiVo's ribbon menu concept — in which rows of image thumbnails appear as you scroll through a column of menu text — can be disorienting compared to fully image - driven apps like Netflix.

If the image is shifted too far in any direction because the lenses are not correctly positioned in front of your eyes, the 3D effect can quickly become disorienting.