Sentences with phrase «ghostly faces»

Ghost run (1975) meanwhile abandons perspectival logic or narrative coherence in favour of a compression of differently sized, and contrastively rendered, figures — a matron with full breasts, a cavorting girl, or ghostly faces with saucer eyes.

His drawings on paper are affixed to stretched canvas that acts as a container for the bird - monsters, amphibians and ghostly faces that crash against its margins.

These themes are further echoed in another composition entitled Tree (1989), in which sinewy branches bear ghostly faces evoking genealogical history instead of fruit or blossoms, in a metaphor for remembrance and foretelling.

Lots of non-violent, non-gory but otherwise unsettling scenes worth mentioning: many «jump» scenes when people or objects startle others; we hear some noises during the night in many scenes (creaking doors and floorboards, screams, eerie whispers, doorknobs turning, pounding at doors) and doors slam shut as people run past them; we see eerie carvings and sculptures throughout a house, a maelstrom and sculptures come alive and scream and a skeleton sits up abruptly; a ghostly face is seen at a window and in a ceiling, windows become eyes, ghostly children are seen a few times (in one scene, a ghostly baby from a sculpture crawls under the sheets as a woman lies in bed) and a woman's hair is braided by invisible hands.

Finally we switch away from the roaring tons of water to a more abstracted sequence: a close up of a shiny blade turns this way and that until we can focus in on the ghostly face reflected in it.

The outside is covered in what looks like burlap that has been imprinted with a ghostly face.

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I follow her story only in part, like a man looking from a lit room at dark hills, silhouetted against navy skies — his own staring face superimposed by a ghostly glare from the light of the room.

Jack was nimble Jack was quick but now his ankle made him sit The crowd called out for another DM as the season flew away My Kingdom for a striker as the Gaffer told his tale I can make a silk purse from a sow's ear by casting pearls before wines and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of blue.

This special issue, 169 Best Illusions, contains a smorgasbord of static images that appear to be moving (such as the Hatpin Urchin shown here), «impossible» sculptures, freaky faces, ghostly afterimages and even some edible illusions.

Another miracle of the film is how well it keeps up with the characters, using the Battle of Hogwarts to greet old faces and introduce a few new troublemakers (Kelly Macdonald makes a memorable appearance as the ghostly Helena Ravenclaw).

Allah has loaded Black Mother with so many remarkable faces and observations that viewers can hover in its details with ghostly ubiquity, and he only breaks the spell with the recurring image of a nude woman holding a coconut to ground us in some kind of structural trajectory.

As Power kneels to a crucifix before a battle, the deathly blueish glow of the Christ figure casts a ghostly pall over his face.

Now forced back home, Joy must face the frightening — and ghostly — truth behind her carefully veiled memories...

You'll also be forced to face your failures if you continue to die on a level, since the game leaves behind a ghostly image of where you met your end.

They appear to wear hoods made from Rabites family pelts, and sometimes when they are surprised or injured the hoods will lift off and reveal their ghostly looking faces.

In The Bright Lord DLC, The player has the chance to become Celebrimbor (your ghostly elf companion from the original story), and face the Dark Lord himself, Sauron.

The multitude of delicate lines form ghostly figures, dragons, phoenixes, and faces, sometimes interwoven, smiling and serene or terrifying and monstrous.

Here, images take on a ghostly quality: childish grimaces blend with the mechanical expressions of the faces of politicians, creating a chamber of horrors of today.

The main gallery showcases paintings by the designer and street artist duo Graphic Airlines, populated with their signature ghostly, bloated - faced figures, alongside Mok Yat San's and Kevin Fun's fanciful sculptures and Lam Tung Pang's mixed - media landscapes, in which plastic models of floating islands hover above the Hong Kong cityscape.

Ghostly creatures in long white cloaks, screaming monkeys and melting faces of social outcasts and storybook characters make up the haunting, textured landscape of Schulnik's world.

She earned acclaim in the 1960s for her delicate and ghostly silver paintings, depicting the faces of fashionable women appropriated from popular culture.

The ghostly museum in Walid Raad's performance Kicking the Dead hints at the real challenge facing the Louvre's new Middle East outpost

Cahn's paintings are uncommon and immediately recognisable: an extraordinary colorist, she uses vivid pink, violet and blue to represent ghostly silhouettes, faces and animals.

As a pioneer video artist in Hong Kong, she has continuously involved elements of video and new media into her theatre work, for example, Heart to Heart, Face to Face I (1992) and the latest production Very Ghostly Grey, just to name a few.

Mr. Oliveira strayed from the human figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a face.

Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink - jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray - scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111 - color screenprint.

The image of the ghostly porcelain face touched ever so gently by the impish...

Dumas's intense portrait of her daughter, The Painter (1994)-- with its ghostly, unfinished face and feet — is all the more powerful in its sketchy rawness, as is de Kooning's Woman, I (1950 — 51), which hangs next to it on the Breuer's fourth floor.

His subjects» faces become ghostly and unrecognizable — their images, relics of an opulent society with a dark underbelly.

He collected some 10 mirrors with ghostly backstories, setting them into simple metal structures with facing pieces of coloured glass, giving the spirits, if they exist, a space in which to recognize themselves and their condition.