Sentences with phrase «from allegorical»

All four artists mentioned portray altered visions of reality that range from the allegorical to the abstract to the horrific.

Reducing the plane to thick brushstrokes, arranged in tessellated brick red blocks, Sean Scully's Grey Red is a minimal and poetic composition from his allegorical practice.

Bortolami is pleased to announce Fortune, Jutta Koether's second solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with a reprint of the artist's 1987 novella f. On view from May 9 through June 6, 2015, this exhibition presents a new series of paintings that both reference and depart from the allegorical figure of Fortune's wheel.

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

MacLeish's changes between the manuscript and published form of J. B. move the play from specifics to the universal, from the allegorical to the human, from mediated to unmitigated suffering, from imposed rationalizations to the dramatic action which is left to speak for itself.

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That description was from a dream and was allegorical.

In dealing with the problem, they made free use of an allegorical method of interpretation, which was a legacy from ancient Greek scholarship.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

Several of the allegorical stories are from the my own life, but I also poke fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today's churches.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Essentially two dimensional, allegory moves without variation from the plane of the narrative to the plane of the allegorical meaning in an interrelationship that must be patterned, precise.

; the healing of the blind man was the release of the disciples from «Jewish blindness»; names like Jaïrus and Bartimaeus contained subtle allegorical meanings; the Gerasene demoniac symbolized idolatrous heathenism; the rending of the temple veil meant the end of Judaism; the darkness at the Crucifixion symbolized the darkness of men's minds apart from Christ; the healing of the deaf mute was the symbol of conversion — either of Jews or Gentiles, it was not certain which!

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

Indeed, when St. Paul does happen to mention a relevant text from the Hebrew Scriptures — «You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain» (Deut 25:4)-- he does so simply to apply it by a kind of allegorical interpretation to the economic support of those who preach the gospel.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.

Jan 04,2016... There was something almost allegorical about arrivistes from the Sun Belt (the Tampa Bay Lightning)...

Water pours from his elevated hand soaking the body and symbolising the figure's significance as the allegorical god of the Tyne.

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

Black Panther is in - your - face with its political perspective, neither soft - peddling its allegorical aspects nor shying away from an ideology that may be controversial in some circles.

The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces (1954), moving from psychology to morality to formal concerns and finally to the theological.

-- which is currently busy dividing critical opinion with its deranged, allegorical depiction of a woman under increasingly heavy siege from within her own life — has been far less polarizing for regular movie - goers, who gifted it with a rare «F» grade via audience polling service CinemaScore.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless god.

Its dark, dramatic, allegorical presentation is clearly something quite different from the norm.

No film this year, however, addresses the matter with more thematic exactitude and near - scientific scrutiny than Michael Haneke's grimly riveting «The White Ribbon,» a film which differs from the ones previously mentioned by taking an entire community, as opposed to a solitary family, as its allegorical subject.

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

«Directed from Jon Raymond's fact - based script, this suggestively allegorical, discreetly trippy Western recalls Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and even Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest - destiny madness; the Reichardt approach is, however, more stringent and pointed in its weirdness.»

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.

Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.

Adapting mostly from the first of 11 novels in Burroughs» Barsoom series that was written over three decades, Stanton (who co-wrote the script with Pixar co-worker Mark Andrews, with revisions by novelist Michael Chabon) does try to make Carter as adventurous as Burroughs» books were, while also attempting to include allegorical complexity.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

The films Mamet has directed range from sophomoric (House of Games) to grating (State and Main) to just incompetent (Heist), though Spartan reminds the most of one he only wrote: the wilderness howler The Edge, with its machismo over-examined and placed in a context that isn't allegorical as it must be, but hardboiled realism as it can't be.

I had this kind of emotional story about a marriage falling apart, and then I had this kind of allegorical idea about the state of the world from an environmental perspective.

Departing from the oblique allegorical style of his earlier films, he makes an important and impressive attack on state corruption, violence and censorship in contemporary Iran.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

Here's a sampler of what readers choose to highlight from William P. Young's allegorical Christian novel: «Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions.

The phrase «All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others» is the most widely used quotation from a well - known allegorical novella Animal Farm by George Orwell.

By contrast, Senua's struggles — from both a narrative and allegorical standpoint — are more relatable.

Diagrammatic and textual elements underline the drawings» allegorical nature, such as the five - cornered polygon labelled «Five Points Make a Man», a Byars title derived from Leonardo's Vitruvian Man.

From the chambers at Knossos to the villas and municipal structures of Rome, from medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical architecture to Baroque courts and palaces the mural was a primary vehicle for pictorial space, the wall the substrate of choice for public - scale allegorical figuration both secular and sacFrom the chambers at Knossos to the villas and municipal structures of Rome, from medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical architecture to Baroque courts and palaces the mural was a primary vehicle for pictorial space, the wall the substrate of choice for public - scale allegorical figuration both secular and sacfrom medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical architecture to Baroque courts and palaces the mural was a primary vehicle for pictorial space, the wall the substrate of choice for public - scale allegorical figuration both secular and sacred.

While Edouard's work in watercolor and oils of landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, still lifes, portraits, and allegorical subjects ranged from Impressionism and Post Impressionism to semi-abstraction, Luvena's portraits and still lifes in oils hewed closer to Realism.

Whether photographing the sky from under water or the bodies in water from the sky, changing my perspective helps me access these characteristics and their allegorical implications.

It is rendered in a graphic, illustrative manner, and could be a relic from the 1980s, when neo-expressionism and a revival of allegorical figurative painting was prevalent.

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a two - part exhibition on view at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, presents a range of work from the mid-1990s to today by the artist Francis Alÿs (Belgian, b. 1959), who uses allegorical methods to explore the cyclical nature of change in modernizing societies, the urban landscape, and patterns of economic progress.

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Many of the allegorical elements in and around Gortner's primary figures are parts from other artists» paintings; segments that Gortner cuts out, arranges, staples and glues as a foundation upon which he paints.

Moreover, her work bears an overt allegorical sensibility from which it derives a vibrant moral compass.

The exhibition will feature photographs from Shonibare's allegorical «Fake Death Pictures» series, sculptures, and the film «Addio Del...

Modeling her CG animations on the allegorical paintings of Casper David Fredrich, Fu continues her aspirations in the sublime from her painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous landscape.