Sentences with phrase «from banal»

Over the past three decades, Judith Linhares has practically invented the genre of imaginative figurative painting largely populated by confident young women engaged in activities ranging from the banal to the idiosyncratic, thus paving the way for artists such as Amy Cutler, Hillary Harkness, and Dana Schutz.

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.

Nauman's Clown Torture videos borrow Dadaist ideas about the procedures and operations of art making, but as Joanna Drucker describes, that is where their fine art referential ends: «The imagery and iconography of (Nauman's) work comes from a banal world of mass meditation, pop's playroom of neon and lettering.

Continuing the «Artists as Curators» series this week, let's look at «The escape from the banal of everyday life to the world of the ideal,» an exhibition at NURTUREart curated by Brooke Moyse, a Brooklyn - based abstract painter known for vivid color and casual landscape imagery.

In some of my art, as seen in this exhibition, I attempt to bring together disparate references, often taken from banal or common - place social artifacts, behaviours, or codes of meaning that are considered so unglamorous or boringly functional as to be unworthy of notice.

«Our hallucinations worsen with each passing day of blinding sun, no UV can save us from the banal fate of eating sunscreen by the bucket in a futile attempt to survive life on earth's blistering surface.»

Aside from the banal symbolism, the infelicitous use of Avery - like foreshortening and nervous, dissonant colours betray an artist far from finding a voice of his own.

• Pop Art (1960s onwards) Championed by Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) who made fine art from banal, mass - produced imagery.

His prize - winning work was a collection of 57 arresting photo images, from the banal to the poignant.

Objects can be glimpses into or our inner emotional lives or, in the case of exalted objects such as talismans or heirlooms, inspire magical thinking that is an escape from the banal and gives us a sense of control.

He is interested in elevating the ordinary occurrences in our every day lives, and transforming these common events from banal to beautiful.

The Peripheterists, a group show curated by Jocko Weyland at Apex Art, is an ode to artists «away from the banal fuss of the validated...low - key and unsung.»

Villalongo's many Muses perform acts from the banal to the extraordinary, at times undergoing anatomical transformations in bursts of color and light.

For his exhibition at the Schindler House, Wurm sourced props ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set of instructions for visitors to perform the various sculptures for sixty seconds at a time, consisting of balancing acts, mild contortions, and altered uses of everyday physical objects.

Convening luminary artists, writers, activists, and scholars to discuss how technology is transforming culture, Open Score will consider how, in light of our precarious and violent political moment, digital forms are called upon to assist us with tasks that range from the banal to the most urgent.

This piece is from a popular and highly coveted series of doctored images that the artist made by taking interior settings — from banal living rooms to entire movie theaters — and wrapping them in 3 - D «skins» made from paintings by art - historical figures like Mondrian and, in this case, Georgia O'Keeffe.

They mark tenuous anchor points that track the peripatetic range of the exile's experience, from the banal to the universal.

The plot and other game events are pushed forward by coming into contact with other survivors who, as soon as finding out you are immune immediately task you with some form of fetch quest ranging from the banal but vital task of getting car parts or fuel to burn bodies, to the weird and stupid like searching for some nutters teddy bear and necklace.

With the Millennium Falcon returning to the screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, CBR explores its lingering mysteries, from the banal to the bizarre!

Excuses ranged from the banal («It's not a Sunday night kind of movie») to the procrastinatory.

But the rewards are always great, and the intrepid viewer, hungry for liberation from the banal blockbusters of our day, will find much to love in a Kaufman film.

These works consist largely of inspirational testimonials glued together by pseudoscientific theorizing and advice that ranges from the banal to the ludicrous.

The only problem is, they don't always have that much to contribute aside from banal parenting observations and running commentary on their kid's softball game.

The quality of homily services ranges from the banal to the brilliant, with occasional slips into the heretical.

Not exact matches

YAAAS YOU BETTAAAAA,» passes as fairly banal blast from the IHOP Twitter account.)

There are also panel discussions ranging from the sci - fi (Bionic Organs: Prostheses to Cyborgs) to the practical (Innovation in the Aviation Industry) to the banal (Regional Tech Development Priorities and International Collaboration).

Yet, for the truly astute CEO, business knowledge can come from even the most banal consumer experience.

Statements like these may appear banal or merely pious, but if we view them against the backdrop of our own theological history, they are far from either banality or vacuous piety.

Banal Christmas cards from a previous occupant still decorated the walls, but our friend Monica brought one she had made, the front of which read, «Et lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt.»

'» Why does that sound banal from many lips, but startling from this «dilettante» or connoisseur who has dipped into the finer points of Cyril of Alexandria's thought?

But it is incompatable with the church order that takes its model from the more banal children of this world.

Moreover, leaving aside its unfortunate opening and closing frame chapters, where the struggle to believe is treated in banal, secular - triumphalist terms from the protagonist's adult vantage, this novel persuasively represents Islam as an active, complex source of theologically framed consolation and challenge for Midwestern Muslims, who emerge as variously flawed believers at odds with each other about the nature and imperatives of their faith.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

He loved to hear music from the guard's radio but would criticize what struck him as banal.

However banal it may sound, those fathers who teach their sons that the skill and the joy they get from participation in various events are much more important than winning, give their children so much more.

The minister can retort with something equally banal from his party's own phrasebook.

These messages that «we perceive even if we do not conceive them» stand out from the materialistic and morally deficient chaos of our daily lives and «open up on another world which seems removed from the repetitive, banal and mundane» (p. 131).

TN: And not something banal and meaningless like reporting that a meeting was «productive», which is by - and - large most of what's broadcast from diplomatic and political Twitter accounts.

Tony Blair's enduring, if banal, insight is that parties win elections from the centre ground.

Observations range from the astute to the banal, but it is a lively literary romp.

The humour might have been banal, but we did demonstrate to a curious audience that three MPs drawn from different parties could be friends.

Probably my letter will seem banal and boring, but I ask you not to think, that this next identical letter from the Russian woman I think, that you receive set of letters from women, and probably you correspond with them, it was explained me by the assistant in the internet cafe.

Brooks builds eight neat instrumentals from gradually layer guitar, playing in a closed circle with himself, a dialogue that is sometimes affecting but more often banal.

The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.

This game is a welcomed break from the cookie - cutter mmos, banal fantasy games and cash - in sports titles.

Jones» character here is a fine companion piece to Berberian's Gilderoy - a man beset by anxieties banal and primal, unable to escape from his tiny world.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

The supporting roles (apart from Harrelson's) are one - dimensional, and the plot banal.

Distance from home is emphasised by Bob's fax machine that springs to life and spits out hand written notes in the early morning hours, banal questions about decor, shelving and carpet color, tedious reminders of home.

Despite these shenanigans spanning the universe, Infinity War is shockingly short on memorable images, with most scenes composed in the banal shot - reverse - shot coverage familiar from episodic television.