Sentences with phrase «edge of surrealism»

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Gomes plays some tricky games with sound and voiceover, and an understated sense of surrealism lurks around the edges of the film, most notably in the form of the many animals that populate the film.

And so is the foundation of this novel: a man turned political allegory edged by Orwellian surrealism.

In addition to a 2008 solo exhibition, the gallery has featured his work in several major group exhibitions, including: Aspects of American Abstraction, 1930 - 1942 (1993), Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer (1998), Organic New York, 1941 - 1949 (2005), and two major surveys of abstract expressionism and surrealism, in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

Identified as part of the California hard - edge painters, after she left surrealism - influenced work behind, Windblown has an unmistakable lightness and seems to foreshadow later works that more closely incorporate references to the landscape into her geometric abstract paintings.

Yet here the line of representation inevitably blurs, as the artist nudges his forms toward abstraction and surrealism through softened edges, shifts in scale, lush but strange colors, manipulated perspective, and shapes and imagery that repeat but become altered over time.

Most scholarship has viewed Smith «s early work as developing out of surrealism and his later hard - edged forms as foreshadowing minimalism.

But the surrealism of her sculpture is far from the hard - edged spirit of nearly everything else on view.

Full of his trademark subversive surrealism and edge - of - madness rants, artist David Shrigley's new screed is his biggest, and most laugh - out - loud, yet