Sentences with phrase «evoke time and place»

His ability to evoke a time and place — mostly Florida but also the industrial Midwest, Las Vegas, and elsewhere — was wonderful, and he could get inside an occupation to give you the details and the feel of it like few other writers I've ever read.

«Memory, or an editing of memory, informs several of my pieces — material in a quilt, a pattern, the shape and feeling of a room — fragments that evoke a time and place, refuge, physicality, and act as talisman.

Petterson's ability to evoke time and place brought me back to the realities of living in a place defined by its starkness and reactions to being occupied.

And yet they are all great films that evoke time and place.

Dappled in retro hues, the widescreen frame is filled with painterly images that richly evoke a time and place, as well as capturing the mood of the melancholy drama.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Masterfully evoking time and place, Miles offers a nuanced, empathetic recounting of the lives of the bright, female, African American mathematicians who helped the U.S. attain superiority in the space race.

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Chateaubriand's autobiography, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, evokes a series of times and places as various as the author's life.

They are used to evoke feelings of tension and fear in audiences, to drive the plot of a film, or to create a sense of another time or place.

Altogether, the study indicates that endocrine disruptors might disturb the precisely coordinated sequence of events underlying fertilization in several ways: the chemicals might evoke changes in swimming behaviour at the wrong time and wrong place, hinder navigation of sperm towards the egg, and hamper penetration into the protective egg coat.

I did a post a little over a year ago how clothing can evoke a place or time, how you can see an outfit and just picture yourself wearing it at a cafe in Rome.

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For while it is technically a sequel, taking place in the same world as Scott's film and extending the narrative to thirty years later, Blade Runner 2049 at the same time wants to provide a sumptuously studied remake of Blade Runner, copying countless elements from it in order to evoke rich sense - memories of the original film.

These articulations, together with allusions to contemporary sun - saturated paintings, the illustrated «girls» stories» of Louise Mack, fairytales and dreams, summon an internalised, Utopian realm that occludes the outside world, and is movingly evoked in the credit sequence, its pictorial timelessness framed by two textual statements of time and place.

Taking place in a cornfield somewhere in southern Germany, the film evokes Malick's work not only because of its heavy - handed philosophising dialogue but also because of its strained attempt to infuse its cinematography with the very meaning that its dialogue about philosophy, including Being and Time, never achieves.

The cast is filled with actors who have worked with the director in the past, many of whom were given their debut by Meadows, and his use of music to evoke the atmosphere of a particular time and place is as powerful as ever.

The piney woods of East Texas set the mood of the time and place evoking mystical elements that both cower and protect.

A rare work of fiction that evokes a specific time and place yet movingly describes the universal human condition - a novel that once read will never be forgotten.

Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.

Think cinematic style sound and sound effects, all appropriately timed and placed to help evoke a deeper sense of world space.

Harrison then slices through or burrows holes into some of the blocks and stacks others, producing unique forms that evoke diverse places and times.

Of the 12 new paintings exhibited, the strongest, such as Far Out, evoke an emotional specificity and certainty, as though the image is about a particular feeling or place in time.

For The Refusal of Time, the artist turns the gallery space into a theatrical set that evokes a slightly antiquated studio, with randomly placed items and large megaphones.

The exhibition explores the sense of place that is Fortitude Valley, Brisbane as it is evoked through the effect of people and time on the built form in that area.

Prager, whose practice often explores the figure in relation to its surroundings, will exhibit recent photographic work that evokes a sense of ambiguity about time and place.

Whatever his subject, Katz — a painter of atmosphere — evokes the distinctive light of a particular time and place.

At both shows, buyers can immediately take Hubacher's work home with them, a real draw for the art - loving holiday shopper and a fine way to experience what Hubacher evokes through her Eastern Shore visions: «solitary, contemplative time spent in quiet places.»

Mahmoud Bakhshi's gallery filling installation The Unity od Time and Place, 2017, evokes this chornological overlap and a place central to these events: Abadan, an oil producing city in southwestern Place, 2017, evokes this chornological overlap and a place central to these events: Abadan, an oil producing city in southwestern place central to these events: Abadan, an oil producing city in southwestern Iran.

Each painting evokes the cluttered worktop of the natural historian's study, a Wunderkammer of found objects with the painter an eager collector and observer of the organic world, its multiple places and different times.

Since time immemorial, blue has held a special place in art history, evoking the loftiest sentiments, the most aristocratic pedigrees, and the profoundest spirituality.

The painting reflects on the political climate during the time the Bauhaus was in operation - the 1920's and 30's, and serves as a framework through which to consider the other paintings in the exhibition which depict places evoking authoritarianism, globalism, the rise of right - wing populism, and locusts of power.

Gormley's work has always explored the body as a place rather than an object, and here he takes us into a new zone of structural complexity while at the same time evoking the body as an open space of possibility connected with the earth as well as space at large.

My colours seem to simultaneously evoke both the past and the future, often referencing time periods or places, but they are obviously not the traditional palettes of those periods.

As with all Dean's films these are as much about time and place and the material of film itself; and particulars of circumstance, possessions and atmosphere evoke each of these subjects as much as their individual likeness.

«La Belle Epoque: Evoking Proust's Place and Time,» photographs of French art, culture and scenery from the 1880s to World War I, an era featured in Marcel Proust's novel, «In Search of Time.»

Today, Langa is perhaps best known for his introspective, almost insurgent visual journeys through time, place, and memory, and for his attention to ephemeral acts and events that evoke enduring narratives of (be) longing, displacement, and solitude.

The painting reflects on the political climate during the time the Bauhaus was in operation — the 1920's and 30's, and serves as a framework through which to consider the other paintings in the exhibition which depict places evoking authoritarianism, globalism, the rise of right - wing populism, and locusts of power.

Veering from the path of the initial incarnations, which were organized by founder and former director Dan Cameron, the third Prospect New Orleans, curated by Los Angeles County Museum of Art chief curator and P. 3 artistic director Franklin Sirmans, features 58 national and international artists that explore ideas associated with a search to discover one's place in the world — sometimes related to the «Crescent City» and the South, while at other times evoking the place whence the artists came or imagine they might want to be.

The 1990s through the present has witnessed the continued efflorescence in painting, as demonstrated in this show by works such as Judith Godwin's Blue, No. 11 (1997), a lyrical expression of mixed emotion, Jasmina Danowski's Tender Trap (2012), in which the artist conveys a sense of moving through an aquatic and sensuous world, Carol Hunt's Easter Morning (2011), featuring a calligraphy of line and shape that conjures archetypal signs and symbols, Katherine Parker's Behind and Above (2011), a canvas built of thin layers of paint that the artist has scraped away to convey a metaphysical awareness of the passage of time, and Susan Vecsey's Napeague Bay, Montauk (2012), in which the subtle color stained into the canvas evokes the emotion of a place remembered and deeply felt.

Artist Statement: Color, contrast, shape, subject, place, and time motivate and evoke painting for me with many aspects of nature as sources.