Sentences with phrase «dramatic gesture of»

It's a compelling dramatic gesture of wisdom, understanding and what I can only call moral goodness.

It was the most dramatic gesture of reconciliation between them in a decade.

In one of the most dramatic gestures of «Revolution in the Making», Jackie Winsor's soaring «30 to 1 Bound Trees» stands at the center of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's sprawling outdoor courtyard, an architectural hub where key galleries of the complex converge and connect.

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In John, then, acquiring the donkey is something that Jesus himself does as a dramatic gesture, and it is a beautiful symbol of his humility in the face of triumphalist misunderstanding.

The 1960s antiwar tradition of making dramatic public gestures is indeed alive and well in the EP.

I am pretty dramatic by nature, so it is okay to use gestures or move around if it just part of who I am right?

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)

But it should also come as not much of a surprise, sadly, that the filmmaker's latest is pockmarked by a lot of the same conservative dramatic conventions and broad political emotional gestures that have marred much of his work over the years, but particularly his recent output.

by Walter Chaw Manny Farber described the films of Robert Bresson as «crystalline,» and it's hard to argue with the singular idea of purity represented by that word: they're all of gesture and implication, reduced down to the purest grist so that the powder of dramatic movements, rubbed together, might hum in miniature perfection.

Education Superintendent White and board President Chas Roemer dismissed Jindal's rejection of Common Core as a dramatic but meaningless gesture.

[12] Controlled, experimental studies exploring intrinsic motivation of college students has shown that nonverbal expressions of enthusiasm, such as demonstrative gesturing, dramatic movements which are varied, and emotional facial expressions, result in college students reporting higher levels of intrinsic motivation to learn.

As you get more comfortable and experienced in reading poems aloud, experiment with different ways of making the poem come alive by pairing the poem with a prop, adding gestures or movement, trying out specific dramatic - reading techniques, singing the poem to a certain tune, and so on.

Regardless of «who» or «why,» some dramatic gesture was called for.

Camera angles, dramatic pans, sweeps, and character gestures will keep players glued to the action regardless of how many times they may have sat through them back in 1998.

Seoul - based artist WanJim Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting.

Consisting of six contemporary painters and approximately thirty works, this exhibition explores the manner in which these women appropriate both the physical, dramatic processes and the expressive freedom of direct gesture at the core of action painting, redeploying the now - historic style to boldly advance the abstract painting of our time.

Ranging from Abstract Expressionist gestures in the 1950s to clean - edged discrete pools of chroma on white fields in the 1960s, Dzubas then amassed dynamic shapes of dramatic coloration that exploded on a monumental scale in canvases during the 1970s and 1980s.

In the Stedelijk's building, with its dramatic gestures and undeniable moments of theatricality, four artists explore the notion of «staging» further within the context of the art museum.

The show actually loses something with its most literal and dramatic gestures, as in Tammy Bickel metal Dragonfly, Doug Makemson's bird of prey, or Miles Van Rensselaer's wiry pied piper.

The pleated pieces appear baroque in their dramatic suspension of gesture, while the newest ones made of paper covey a sense of delicacy and entropic time.

But, the way he manipulates the frame and orders the subtle chaos of light and gesture, generates immense dramatic tension.

It is the dramatic gesture itself in modern times, not a religious content, that accounts for art's hold on the minds of men.»

Painterly gesture is often a uniquely dramatic sign of inner emotion, but ritual repetition lets the steam out.

A typical Crow painting quotes a male artist's work or style (Bruce Nauman, Keith Haring, Dash Snow) and imposes it over a physical space, ranging from a hunting lodge to a Vegas casino, from an oil patch to the gardens of Versailles, all done in blazing colors and dramatic painterly gesture.

As noted by Mary Davis MacNaughton, «Gottlieb's art is not dramatic «gesture» painting... Nor is his art austere «color field» painting... Instead, Gottlieb's mature art synthesizes contrasting esthetic modes — both free and controlled — to express both the emotional and rational sides of his inner experience.

This method of making abstract art involved dripping and smearing the paint onto the canvas in dramatic sweeping gestures.

Distinguished by dramatic shifts in technique, tools, scale and gesture, Hartung's output over the course of his last years is testament to his rich and constant exploration of the language of abstraction.

Even her preparatory studies, with their decisiveness and forceful density of overlapping lines, structural forms, and occasional colors, confer full autonomy to these smaller works on paper, rich in dynamic directional play and dramatic painterly gestures.

In these days of social media there is a desperate hunger for success and leadership and therefore, we want to achieve miracles, quick fixes by dramatic flourishes and few gestures.