Not exact matches
Like the man - apes before him, Dr. Floyd is similarly awed and stirred by his first view of the
alien form - it is a religious experience as the men worshipfully
gaze at the altar where the monolith stands.
They stare out
at the viewer with an uncanny,
alien gaze, created by lavishly painting eyes onto the models» closed eyelids — a technique drawn from the «Doll Girls» community.
Rather, it is revealed dialectically as the artists psychically work through the ugliness and insanity of contemporary life; their psychical mastery and emotional restoration of the self are evidenced in their mastery of technique and the aesthetic transcendence it elicits.8
At the same time, it is important to underscore just how
alien both the figuration and content of this new wave of history painting would appear through the humanist
gaze of traditional history painters and the Old Masters.