Sentences with phrase «fantastical works»

They're also flocking to the Renzo Piano - designed main museum to see the mindful explosiveness of «Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds,» featuring fantastical works by an American sculptor who sometimes drew with a blowtorch.

For the past seven years his fantastical works, oscillating between figurative and abstract, have captured freeze - frame instances of stirring sporting events, amusement park thrills, and mass group exercises in attack strategies that often situate the...

Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the fantastical works of Barbara Fracchia.

is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the fantastical works of Barbara Fracchia.

This is an opportunity missed, yet it's still an interesting show with some fantastical works to explore.

A self - taught artist, she has been creating fantastical works of art for as long as she can remember.

In his work, Troy Brauntuch draws from visual materials taken from newspapers, television and cinema; using a white pencil and black pigments, he adapts them on canvas, giving life to cryptic, unreal and fantastical works.

Dorota Jurczak's macabre and fantastical works combine influences from folklore and mythology, along with inventions of her own imagination.

For the past seven years his fantastical works, oscillating between figurative and abstract, have captured freeze - frame instances of stirring sporting events, amusement park thrills, and mass group exercises in attack strategies that often situate the male figure in actions that bolster his heroic status.

Originally labelled a haunted house movie set in space, it created a whole new sub-genre of science fiction horror, kickstarted the careers of Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver, and introducing mainstream audiences to the fantastical works of the late surrealist sculptor and painter, HR Giger.

Unlike much modern art that revels in the macabre and the bizarre — self - referential, solipsistic, nihilistic — the fantastical work of these two Catholics is not such a sorry project.

Jessica Oreck's fantastical work combines animation, traditional storytelling, and contemporary nonfiction filmmaking styles to recount the Slavic folktale of the frightful Baba Yaga, a witch said to live in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs who roasts her guests for dinner.

WHERE TO SHOP Whether it's young señoritas thronging at Zara or their parents haggling with fish vendors at El Mercat Central, the fantastical wrought - iron and glass modernista central market in the Old City, shopping is pursued with gusto.

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My delightful cousin - by - marriage (and artist) Barbara Stein recently sent me an email about the work of Carl Warner, a photographer who creates fantastical «foodscapes» — eerie scenes in which all the visual elements are actually foods.

How is a private firm contracted to do public service work for the UK government issuing fantastical information to the Home Office?

Given that the Tories were the preference for working class voters, it seems fantastical to believe that moving further to the left will magically win a majority of this group.

This unique hue is a must for all fantastical creators thanks to the intense color payoff that works for every skin tone.

Director Ron Howard delivers an admittedly appealing opening stretch that effectively establishes Willow's fantastical world and raft of quirky characters, with, in terms of the latter, the movie certainly benefiting from Davis and Kilmer's thoroughly charming and affable work as the disparate protagonists (and it doesn't hurt, either, that the chemistry between the two couldn't be more solid).

Production designer Stuart Craig (who has worked on all eight Potters) and cinematographer Eduardo Serra (a collaborator on the final two) create a Potterverse as familiar and fantastical as a dream.

A film praised by Variety's Guy Lodge as her «most richly strange feature yet» and a «willfully, gorgeously out - of - time work, one that tangles past and present with critical concern for the future,» her third feature is a fable that follows the eponymous peasant on a fantastical journey.

Gilliam's vision for the film was ambitious and every bit as fantastical as his work on Brazil, but the studio opted for Chris Columbus following the director's two - hour pitch to executives.

The charm of a fantastical hand - drawn work like this is that it reconnects us to the primal wonder of the image.

All that work has paid off: The movie is an astonishing visual delight, with animation techniques that seem lifelike and fantastical, both at once.

It was a huge catchphrase among science fiction authors and readers back in the 1990s, denoting strange works of fiction that blend realism and fantastical elements.

Although «The Conjuring 2» isn't without its flaws (the fantastical elements don't work as well as the stuff grounded in reality, and it's much too long at 135 minutes), Wan has delivered yet another effectively creepy horror flick that earns its scares thanks to some chilling visuals and inventive set pieces.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children also reunites Burton behind the camera with his Dark Shadows and Big Eyes cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel, whose knack for creating glossy visuals through his film work (by utilizing soft shadows / focus shooting techniques) looks to serve Burton's upcoming film well - in particular, during those scenes that take place in the fantastical setting where Miss Peregrine and the «Peculiars» live.

Jared opens the book, and reads of his great grandfather's life's work, studying a fantastical world of fairies and goblins.

The Secret Garden remake is in the works, with Marc Munden (Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams) helming the «fantastical reimagining» of Frances Hodgson Burnett «s classic children's novel.

This is thanks in great part to the brilliant work of costume designer James Acheson and production designer Milly Burns, who got to create realms both recognizably historical and completely fantastical for this time - travel story.

(Still, it's encouraging to see Morgan continue to move away from his trademark fact - based work, in light of the drubbing dished out to last year's misguided fantastical foray «Hereafter.»)

Still, he won an Academy Award for the similarly fantastical short film «Helium,» which shared a number of themes and demonstrated he has a facility for working with younger actors.

The intermission marks more than just a shift in narrative focus from Rana to Kochadaiiyan but in Ashwin, who then takes what works best to the next level by completely embracing both the story's inherently exaggerated nature as a «legend» and, more importantly, the fantastical unreality of and the unbridled creative freedom granted by her chosen filmmaking approach.

The costumes and architecture are all impressive, and the film works well when it's presenting fantastical events through the lens of real samurai values and concerns.

Every aspect of The Shape of Water works together to create a memorable and fantastical world with rich characters and a classic story.

Believing the tales he heard as a child to be no more than fantastical lies, Will sets out to prove that his father's life is simply a work of fiction, with Ed's storytelling serving as the narration throughout.

A bit fantastical, Logan Lucky is another classic American heist movie about the struggle of working men sticking it to the man.

Payne has rarely delved into the fantastical, preferring to work within more grounded territory.

Lacking the zingers that make the character and his surroundings fantastical, Skyfall's dialogue helps the movie present great awareness to the permanent shift of the spy game, like when Fiennes says, «We can not work in the shadows anymore, there are no more shadows» (echoed beautifully later in Shanghai).

The studio's happiness with these saw her hired for «Guardians Of The Galaxy» a while back, and if her previous work is anything to go by, she'll be grounding the fantastical adventure in real science.

Early reviews for The Shape of Water have largely praised the director's latest work, indicating he may have another fantastical hit on his hands akin to Pan's Labyrinth.

Including a crossword - puzzle enthusiast (Jeffrey Wright), an animal - loving widow (Mary Beth Hurt), a group of slacker friends (including Jared Harris) and my personal favorite, a guy who only works out one side of his body (Freddie Rodriguez), the tenants are slowly drawn into the fantastical events of Story's world with one purpose: help her get back home.

Guillermo del Toro has laid down markers as a wizard of the fantastical with such previous works as Pan's Labyrinth and Crimson Peak (though we'll skate nimbly around Pacific Rim), and now he has brought it all back home with The Shape of Water, as...

Working from Shauna Cross» script, director Cutler doesn't treat this fantastical premise for anything resembling grit.

The story of the kids is good enough that the film works as a twisted variation on a coming - of - age tale, in which the fears and traumas of real life are juxtaposed with the fantastical terrors that have plagued this town since its founding.

Couto incorporates a dual - narrative technique and fantastical elements in his work, most notably in Sleepwalking Land, his famous work about the 1977 - 1992 Mozambican Civil War.

The beloved fan site Pottermore announced this week that it's bringing the eye - catching art behind the appeal of the fantastical web experience to physical works of art.

If this were fiction, the plot would be fantastical; as a work of nonfiction, it is a testament to the resilience and ingenuity of the human spirit.

Some of them are completely serious authors who try to keep their work as realistic as possible, while others take a more fantastical view to their writing.

Unless you are a publicist / author I've worked with before, A Fantastical Librarian will no longer be accepting review requests.

Next up is LYM, built by Harvey and his crew; it's a fantastical corkscrew of elevated ramps that defies logic but works.