Sentences with phrase «genres finest works»

Alejandro Jodorowsky crafts a stunning, visceral and action packed Western film that can actually be compared to some of the genres finest works.

Not exact matches

This book, which on its face seems to have been motivated by the old - timer's urge to reminisce by means of the biographical genre, is actually a fine work of history, and in the end its author is unafraid to suggest that the work of history is itself an enterprise of devotion, a kind of spiritual work.

Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn deliver fine work, in roles that give them much more to do rather than fall in love or other such cliches of the genre.

As I often write, black comedy is a difficult genre to pull off, but thanks to Todd Phillips comfort with outlandish material working from a clever script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, it all comes together to form a funny and satisfying movie that belongs next to Apatow's finest in the burgeoning «bromance» genre.

For Annihilation is ultimately a cerebral work whose visual beauty, strangeness, heady sound design and sophisticated ideas prove Garland once more to be one of genre cinema's finest living practitioners.

Here's looking at some of his fine works in the genre.

As the narrative arc treads old ground, there's no mistaking this film is all about the acting, and it's a fine ensemble working under the surprisingly assured direction of Russell — in this genre.

Genre exercises that are really stealth critiques of American mores are fine and dandy, but please, let us do at least a little bit of the interpretive work ourselves.

Award - winning Tana French's novel works perfectly fine as a police procedural, but it's much more than that: the depth of characteris - ation, authentic dialogue, under - standing of human behaviour and sense of inner - city place are as good as you'll find in any novel of any genre.

In combining this «straight» Western, with what remains unsaid in the Oedipal narrative Red River shifts from being just a fine genre piece or one of Hawks» better works, into something constituted by a series of intensities collocating around certain moments.

Many readers will come to this novel wanting Price to walk a fine line, hoping to find either a masterful work of crime fiction that transcends the genre or a finely crafted novel shot through with a thrilling dose of crime drama.

If you know a fellow author who can recommend someone, that's wonderful, but if not, it's fine to poke around the websites of some editors and see who appeals to you (and seems to work within your genre).

Truthfully, science fiction is a fine genre with some amazing work and there are writers out there putting out some steller stuff.

«It's difficult to describe the work of Donna Leon other than in superlatives... An annual blessing, a fine series — one of the finest (see what I mean) in the mystery (or any) genre... There are few reading joys that equal cracking the binding of a new Leon novel... If you have not experienced this world, so exotic and yet so familiar, you can pick up literally any volume in the series and begin a comfortable entry into Brunetti's Venice.»

Although SNK is mainly known for their in depth fighting games, that is not all they have done and this is proved by the selection of games in the pack. There is a wide array of genres from fighting to sports and the variety will please many a fan of the console. That said, the original versions of the games would probably work better than their emulated counterparts. In all of the games sound effects appeared to be on a half - second delay the first time they were heard, then fine for the remainder of the session. As an example, the first time you throw a grenade in Metal Slug, it will explode and just as the animation is finishing, you will hear the explosion. This problem is off — putting but easily forgettable once all of the sounds have loaded properly. The main exception here is Shock Troopers which actually freezes up momentarily when loading up a new sound which makes the game almost unplayable for the opening instances of each level.

Students in the UK also study my work quite frequently and I am bombarded by their questions... SO theoretically I should continue to paint in this genre (which I may do, as I do love this type of art)... but I am torn as I have a new genre — paintings to do with obesity / healthy eating / weight issues etc — which is a relatively new and uncommon topic in fine art, and I am positive has a lot of potential, and is really an issue which greatly interests me... so the question is whether I should then focus all my effort on this?

He works with a wide range of genres, such as sculpture, installation, painting, performance, and interactive multimedia, and has participated in several international exhibitions, including Shanghai Biennale, Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Documenta, with exhibitions presented at the National Art Museum of China, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai Long Museum, Today Art Museum, Songzhuang Art Center, Museum of the Orient in Portugal, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, C5 Art, Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Center, Times Art Museum, White Rabbit Gallery in Australia, Centro Cultural Providencia in Chile, and Bonn Museum of Modern Art in Germany, and also solo exhibitions held at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and Phoenix Art Palace.

Over the last 35 years, her work in the fields of fine arts, design, and craft have continually broken the rules and ruptured the confines of genre,» remarked exhibition curator Luca Lo Pinto.

Following major acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2014 and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco earlier this year, these acquisitions draw from the Foundation's extensive collection of works across media in this genre to promote increased scholarship and understanding of an important and often - overlooked perspective in the narrative of American art history.

«High and Low Life in the Netherlands of the 17th Century,» at Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, is a generous — maybe too generous — mélange of still lifes, genre painting, landscapes, religious and historical works whose best - known artists include the still - life specialist Pieter Claesz, the fantasy landscapist Joos de Momper and the genre painter Dirck Hals, brother of the celebrated Frans.

The two venues in the United States — The Phillips Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — took different approaches to the installation of Chase's work, but both effectively demonstrated his stylistic and material virtuosity.2 The exhibitions included roughly ninety portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, landscapes, and, most notably, Chase's large - scale pastels.

Part genius, part idiocy, their work may just be the most hotly contested of the «fine art» genres.

Also included are genre spanning works by McKenzie, who combines fine art with craft, fashion, heritage and commercial concepts, as well as Story's pieces that bridge the mediums of sculpture with painting.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

Rehs teamed up with Pat Wilshire, founder of Illuxcon (the world's largest annual showcase of Contemporary Imaginative Realism) to bring together an influential group regarded as some of the finest artists working in the genre.

Abend Gallery Fine art is presenting a group exhibition featuring the works of various artists operating in the genre of figurative art.

The foremost commitment of 3rd Street Gallery is to extend an awareness of and appreciation for fine art by engaging the public with insightful and challenging creative works in various mediums, genres and styles.

As an artists working in graphic design, illustration, film, and fine arts since the 1960s, Tanaami keeps pushing the boundaries of mediums or genres by traversing them through his practice.

Moreover, many of these contemporary paintings treat matters of genre with a light, skilled hand, bringing innovative techniques to bear, to create works of originality and flair that truly deserve the name «fine art».

Arranged thematically, the exhibition will reveal Bell's pioneering work in the genres of portraiture, still life and landscape and will explore her fluid movement between the fine and applied arts, focusing attention on her most distinctive period of experimentation in the 1910s.

Side by side, these works embody a conversation about the medium of painting and it's genres, as well as the relationship between craft and fine art.

One of the finest examples of her work, available at VFA, is Geisha, a 23 color Ukiyo - e woodcut on Torino paper, done in the ukiyo - e genre of art that was popular in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries.

The gallery represents work in every genre of fine art photography including landscape, figurative studies, documentary photography, still life, conceptual, abstract, and alternative processes.