Sentences with phrase «features banal»

Stacey Menear's screenplay doesn't manage to sustain its clever premise, with the final act featuring a banal and formulaic revelation that unfortunately takes what had been a spooky haunted house tale into familiar slasher movie territory.

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly...

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly in retro 1950s colors.

Cormand also creates small, tongue - in - cheek installations featuring banal objects in unlikely situations.

Not exact matches

The Night Before (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language, drug use, nudity, sexual content The lowdown: This feature opens with a promising premise that quickly descends into the usual comic holiday cacophony of lowbrow, banal and tedious sex, drug and dick jokes.

Painted with broad expanses of flatly sprayed, banal commercial colors (e.g. manila envelope tan, file cabinet grey), they featured nearly imperceptible, atomized tonal gradations along their bottom edge — an unexpected intrusion of the transcendent into the profane, not dissimilar to that revelatory moment when a Reinhardt black painting begins to yield to an attuned and patient eye.

Her layered canvases feature hybrid objects made from images of power tools, car keys, body parts, and banal nature backdrops.

The banal relation between the disparate works leaves little room to appreciate the complexities of the featured artists» photographs; their profundity is lost in this cherry - picked exhibition.

Other exhibition highlights include a selection of animations and a well - known series of photographs featuring discreet interventions that the artist has orchestrated in various landscapes and interiors, injecting comedic irony into otherwise everyday banal imagery.

Michael Stamm's nine paintings feature subtly shifting color and evoke a sense of claustrophobia and longing for meaning in the banal; Pedro Pedro's vibrant color palettes and flattened perspective portray food, flowers, skulls and cigarettes.

This new body of work, created especially for the exhibition, features a series of found photographs altered with his trademark blocks of rich colour, accompanied by banal snippets of text that appear like captions beneath the images.

All the works in the exhibition feature the shop window as vitrine, framing its seemingly banal contents, and the photographs, as Susan Sontag writes, «[bring] to our attention the coexistence of sewing machine and umbrella, that chance meeting, which a great Surrealist poet has praised as the essence of beauty.»

The Black Mirror features a selection of White's haunting monochromatic paintings of the banal detritus of daily life, reimagining the still - life tradition through the lens of a contemporary Pop sensibility.

The featured imagery appears to be a component from a larger Greco - Roman scene, which is typical of the banal subject matter and second - hand imagery that Polke excelled at transforming from trivial into epic.

Robert Henry Contemporary featured Richard Garrison's solo show of beautiful abstract deconstructions of the quotidian colors of everyday objects, the beauty of the banal.

The first museum survey of Tara Donovan's sublime sculptures and installations, which are unexpected and ingenious assemblages of banal, everyday products ---- plastic and Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, plastic drinking straws, paper plates, and Scotch tape — features sixteen works from 1996 to the present.

Large - scale paintings of U.S.A. FOREVER stamps are in fact reproductions from the USPS website, featuring a strikethrough over the text intended to prevent counterfeiting; the works highlight the chauvinistic message espoused by something so banal as our postage.

Featuring subjects that range from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings invariably endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.

The twelve short video sequences were shown on a nightly basis and without any introduction, and feature narrative fragments unfolding in ordinary or banal settings.

NURTUREart is pleased to present «The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal», an exhibition curated by Brooke Moyse, which featured works by Jonathan Allmaier, Tamara Gonzales, EJ Hauser, Stephen Truax, and Maria Walker.