Sentences with phrase «ghostly figures»

These images look fantastic, and the scene of ghostly figures as they dissipate into the air produces a sense of discomfort that did the supernatural elements justice.

There are the usual elements here — grotesque ghostly figures appearing out of nowhere, a mixture of the spiritual and technology, and an innate technophobia — but they're used as shortcuts.

This exhibition shows the development of Andersson's recognisable painterly style in sensuous new paintings populated by ghostly figures amid dreamlike interiors and seemingly calm vistas.

Beasley has replaced the four church fathers surrounding the pope's chair — white, male, privileged — with ghostly figures he calls sentinels, guarding the empty throne of their fallen warrior.

20, and our blog, the Milan, Italy based artist uses nature as symbolism for his own observations about life, where ghostly figures often emerge in the final stage of drawing.

In Viola's Transfigurations works, black - and - white images of ghostly figures emerge slowly from complete darkness eventually passing through a threshold of water into a world of color and light.

Yet these great minds seemed remote and unreal» ghostly figures from books or a flickering apparition on the evening news.

The narratives of the New Testament become ghostly figures which haunt us in the twilight between «being» and «validity», between reality and the bare data of consciousness.

The images of decaying, ominous ghostly figures have stopped being scary a while ago, and there are plenty of gotcha moments telegraphed with the usual bluntness.

Divers and snorkelers visiting the museum float over and through ghostly figures of people and life - sized every - day objects from dry land.

And why do ghostly figures keep appearing everywhere?

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

Exhibition highlights include: a rare 1943 Jared French egg tempera on board of four ghostly figures entwined; a newly discovered Henry Koerner masterpiece, The Arcades (1950), depicting the bizarre on display at Coney Island's boardwalk; a haunting 1950 black ink drawing of two children by Charles White; and Robert Arneson's Black and White Mask (1983), an unforgiving self - portrait in glazed ceramic.

Conrad Armstrong: Echo Chamber @ Shotgun Studios Young painter Conrad Armstrong has something of Francis Bacon to his dark portraits where ghostly figures just about emerge from the gloom.

In an accompanying series of digitally manipulated photographs, stolen and lost sculptures by Helen Chadwick, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth are transposed to appear as apparitions and ghostly figures at twilight in public spaces in Askeaton.

An injured warrior in ancient Chinese armor is followed by three equally ghostly figures, clearly from mutually contradictory times and historical backgrounds.

Inspired by theater sets and period interiors, her dreamlike compositions are populated by ghostly figures, shadows, swirling clouds and distant mountains.

Using simple, but haunting visuals of ghostly figures, the video offers a stirring accompaniment to the worshipful new song.

• Gyula Krúdy, The Adventures of Sindbad: Not the Sinbad of the Arabian Nights, but a seducer and lover and aesthete of love, three centuries old at least, but indefatigable, a ghostly figure haunting the fading world of the Austro - Hungarian Empire.

The disciples were in trouble, and what frightened them even more than the storm was the ghostly figure of Jesus himself.

These ghostly figures — religious fanatics on the one hand, and spiritual ethical nihilists, on the other — haunt our discussions of religious freedom.

Harder still since it's quite obvious Longo is messing with him: No matter the sincere darkness of the letters he writes Finkel on yellow legal pads, the margins clogged with creepy drawings of ghostly figures, one never quite comes around to the idea that he might plausibly be innocent.

At night, the sobs of a woman echo through the halls, and soon a ghostly figure is manifesting itself, reaching out as if to draw the characters back into the past.

Despite the rampant slaying on display, Spectral is a curiously bloodless affair, almost in the vein of its ghostly figures.

The killer's portrayal as some sort of ghostly figure that only shows up on tape as a glitch creates a neat stylistic effect, but «Tuesday» crams too much plot in its short runtime.

Geena Howe, 15, can think herself into a painting, and when she enters a huge Monet, she finds herself in a bizarre place where stacks of wheat, moats, and castle towers appear and disappear after the appearance of a ghostly figure.

Did you see the ghostly figure when the lightning flashes?

Her presence merely felt like a method to allow him to undertake tasks his ghostly figures couldn't, rather than a compelling second lead.

A brief trailer shows him making cheerful conversation with one of his subjects, inquiring about his childhood as a ghostly figure appears by him, presumably one of the «layers» that Franz is channeling.

Her ghostly figure seems to fade into or emerge from the wall, making her part of the space.

The work is a black - and - white shot of Arizona's Antelope Canyon, with a piercing column of sunlight appearing like a ghostly figure between the rocky outcropping.

One can not even find one's way around — not unlike his ghostly figure on multiple screens in 2010, stumbling forward with a lantern or the woods.

The ghostly figures remind me of Fritz Lang Metropolis or Threepio, the robot in Star Wars.

A ghostly figure stands alongside with truncated limbs and a rigid staturesque stare, painted with slashes and splodges, as if to suggest a comic sidekick.

In Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak) a lion prowls along the exterior of a yellow building as a ghostly figure recedes into the wall behind, fading, jumpsuit and all, as if hardly there at all.

Ghostly figures, a theatric use of light, teasingly oblique narratives and the type of paint handling ability that can only be won over years of practice all add up to one potent image after another.

There are blood - dripping body parts suspended like meat in a butcher's shop, broken windows, slashing knives, a secret room entered through a closet, and a video of a ghostly figure.

These structures shelter fragile fragments of imagery — ghostly figures and shifting landscapes move around the piece before dissolving back into the sculptural form.

Figurative painter Daniel Maidman's elegant reclining nude in the vein of Modigliani captures us with her alluring, emotional gaze, while emerging artist Timothy Wilson's abstractions lend mystery and intrigue to the show with his ghostly figures and hollowed interiors.

The figure is often abstracted — be it simplified into a boxy, geometric tower that expands aggressively into space or a ghostly figure situated in the middle of a contained electron cloud, among other forms.

The exhibition includes such notable works from the series as An Anatomy of Melancholy II, 1991 - 92, in which we see a ghostly figure descending, echoing, perhaps, Christ's Descent from the Cross; also Blue Crucifixion, 1993 - 2003.