Sentences with phrase «from austere»

His varied yet instantly recognisable work chronicles the significant changes in British art from the austere 1950s to the post-post-modern late 1990s...

Indeed, the LACMA exhibition of Dwan's multiple endeavors encapsulates a sizable chunk of the contemporary cultural landscape, sweeping along artists of so many persuasions and highlighting pieces of the art puzzle that they helped to define — from the austere minimal work of Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Fred Sandback, to Carl Andre's sixty - four - piece floor grid fabricated from hot rolled steel and an aloof diptych by the painter Jo Baer.

The oil - on - canvas triptyph Facing, Turning (Intro / About), Cleaving (Apart / Together), 1978 - 79, departs significantly from her austere Minimalist vocabulary, depicting pastel penile forms and feminine curves against a worked, netural ground.

Her manipulation of miniaturised objects, dolls and interiors provided these domestic Mise - en - scenes with a dream like quality, which isolated the images from the austere «Pseudo-Documentary» aesthetic other artists were trying to achieve.

His diversity ranges from austere photo - based figurative realism of the early 1960's; brightly colored gestural abstractions, squeegee abstractions, bold Colour Charts and the recently completed Strips.

Over the course of a five - decade career the artist has consistently reinvented himself, to such an extent that today we are faced with seven or eight Stellas, ranging from austere minimalist to baroque maximalist.

In the early 1960s, Sol LeWitt began creating three - dimensional structures which have since varied from austere and open in form to dense in mass.

Dressed in business attire as impersonal as the office she inhabits, Hultén manages to remove herself from the austere corporate landscape by finding unlikely hiding places in file cabinets, discarded cardboard boxes, carpeting, and window blinds.

His diverse and unpredictable subject matter ranges from the austere post-war Britain of Our... (more)

Dash and door panel forms emphasize function yet are far from austere.

Through the decades, the design of the Volkswagen Beetle convertible has evolved from the austere looks of the original to the way - too - cute previous generation known as the New Beetle.

This movie may not be the critical darling one would expect from an austere adaptation of Strindberg, by Liv Ullmann, starring Jessica Chastain.

More than just a collection of thematic tropes, noir is also among the cinema's most distinctive visual forms, although its hallmarks have been cribbed to some degree from the austere lighting and canted camera angles of German Expressionism and other movements of the early eastern - European cinema.

Toller has psychological and physical problems that lead him toward a reckoning that allows the film to pass from an austere, Ingmar Bergman-esque story to an out - and - out thriller like «Taxi Driver.»

Some of them just want to meet men from other cultures, while some of them are also looking for a way to meet someone who might take them from the austere conditions in most parts of the Russia.

Castel Gandolfo feels a solar system away from the austere surroundings of the academy back in Vatican City.

From these austere accomplishments to Men In Black to his more serious roles of today, he is surely and most certainly a star.

From the austere to the overt, here are nine pink - ish restaurants across the world.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

Not exact matches

The kingdom's austere interpretation of Sunni Islam bans alcohol, imposes a dress code, limits gender mixing and prevents women from driving cars.

A Vanity Fair profile of Dorsey last year mentioned his «austere» Mint Plaza apartment located mere blocks from the headquarters of Square and Twitter.

«Used to describe fiscal restraint,» he wrote, «austerity — you would think — means austere: A word (from Latin and Greek) that expresses sacrifice.

My own view is that the weaker trends grow out of some less benign developments, like the deleveraging from the housing bubble, austere fiscal policy, stagnant earnings, and high inequality.

The Spanish government outlined an austere 2014 budget that includes further cuts in spending by its ministries and a salary freeze for public employees despite the country's emergence from recession.

In the West, however, the austere film language that results from censorship is often mistaken for profundity.

If I am right, Whitehead does not divorce his role as educator from that of philosopher, even in his most austere later treatments of the problems he has helped formulate for the University of London special M. Sc.

It is a rugged and strong land, a land whose charm is austere: rocky hills climbing their juniper studded slopes steeply to the sky - line, narrow glens, hasty watercourses, but ever the sudden view from a hilltop over peopled valleys and far regions where mellowing distance clothes the hills in a veil of allurement and entices one on to things that the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard.

Along with these, and apparently from a desire to accent the joyous rather than the austere aspects of Christian worship, celebration has become customary.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

While not failing to strike these same notes of righteousness, judgment, and repentance, it differed as widely from John's message as his manner of life differed from that of the austere prophet, who lived alone in the desert, was clothed in camel's hair, and «came neither eating nor drinking.»

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

But The Christian Century, one of the foremost Protestant magazines, said: «We wonder a little how recently he (the President) has read those three austere and humbling chapters from the Gospel according to Matthew.»

Yahweh had always been conceived as powerful and ruthless in war — even brutal from the standpoint of later ideals — but he had been virile, austere, and chaste.

Olive oil is the glue that keeps this recipe together, that which separates rich, silky cooked - to - death vegetables from drab, austere cooked - to - death vegetables.

His marriages have suffered from his political commitments and he has been happy to live an austere existence, oblivious to personal possessions including clothes.

Much of the public's disaffection with the party springs from the perception that it has betrayed its socially liberal identity and pandered to the Tories» austere economism.

Early next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget, cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending — cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.

Governor Paterson released a relatively austere budget proposal for the 2010 — 2011 fiscal year this morning, one that cuts about $ 1 billion each from health - care spending and school aid in an effort to close an estimated $ 7.4 billion budget deficit.

Strong evidencethat microbes could survive in an even more austere environment wasuncovered in 1995, when a team working at the Department of Energy» sHanford Reservation in Washington State found rock - eating organismsthat get their sustenance from elemental - mineral energy sources.

One - piece sleek austere fuchsia satin flows gracefully from wide rhinestone trimmed neckline to floor length hemline.

There is an austere feeling from the sharp shoulders and three - quarter sleeves, but the sexiness is most definitely not lost.

This lavish yet austere, floor length, one shoulder gown features countless hand - stitched chiffon pleats from...

Hailing from the Ural region of Russia, this talented artisan designer received an early education in producing bespoke articles of clothing in response to the austere conformity in the then communist regime.

But instead of playing that situation for sympathy, Haigh takes the Bressonian high road, adopting an austere, arm's - length style that keeps the audience at an uncomfortable distance from the character.

Sidney Pollack directs «The Interpreter» with an austere distance that detracts from the film's intended suspense.

In effect reprising his role from Peter Weir's 2003 swashbuckler «Master and Commander», the ever - reliable Bettany plays Darwin as a kindly fusspot who discovers that his austere view of death as an essential cog in the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneration.

Sidney Pollack («The Firm») directs «The Interpreter» with an austere distance that detracts from the film's intended suspense.

Bruno Dumont carries on his jolting journey from the maker of austere, cerebral dramas to full - blown slapstick with this curious, formally accomplished, deeply irritating film.

It is a cinephile's delight and a believer's conundrum, an austere American art film with a bracing B - movie soul, and a story in which the cruelest of cosmic punchlines may finally be no different from the most beautiful accession of grace.

Based on an actual case that happened in Romania's Moldova region in 2005, the film unfolds in and around a remote monastery where pious young women — many of them orphans who have merely migrated from one form of institutional living to another — toil dutifully under the ever - watchful eye of an austere priest known as Papa (played by the excellent Valeriu Andriuta).