Sentences with phrase «great masterpieces»

It is not that it was bad literature, it just was not, according to them, up to par with some of the other great masterpieces of history.

Today in 2011, with the benefit of hindsight, the movie feels like an even greater masterpiece.

Just as Shakespeare can transform well - known folktales or Coltrane can transform Broadway songs, Condo can transform iconic images from great masterpieces in his unmistakeable bizarre mental landscapes - that are really self - portraits.

«The problem that interests me most in painting — it's a tough problem — is to find that 50 - 50 balance between form and humor which many great masterpieces of literature have achieved... The cornerstone of humor is sex because sex is so violently spiritual and so violently physical at the same time... You laugh at a puppy dog or at the backside of a woman, not because it's funny, but because you love it,» stated Copland about his employment of irony in his paintings.

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London The last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism have descended on Mayfair — but this exhibition feels too market - led to let such colossal works shine

See the Mona Lisa and many other great masterpieces at the Musee du Louvre, the world's largest art museum, perfect for first - time visitors looking to see the best bits of Parisian culture.

Majestic murals, great masterpieces brimming with pulsating colors and details, provide a backdrop for many of the settings.

For a cinematic genius whose greatest masterpieces plumb the dark depths of primal obsession, chronic guilt, and abhorrent violence, the last shot of Family Plot glitters with a surprising whimsy.

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«Great masterpieces inspire great collectors from every generation» said Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.

Curated by Ann Temkin and drawn entirely from the Museum's vast holdings, Abstract Expressionist New York underscores the achievements of a generation that catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world during the 1950s, and left as its legacy some of the twentieth century's greatest masterpieces including work by Jack Tworkov.

«Today, SFMOMA has the capacity to acquire great masterpieces, and I have been encouraged to reach for the stars,» Grynsztejn said.

Miami, FL - Gary Nader is pleased to present the exhibition Great Masterpieces featuring an exclusive selection of important works by Modern Masters and Contemporary artists.

By the 1970s Morley had abandoned his strict Superrealist style for a newly developed painterly expression, yet his commitment to his first great masterpiece never waned, and SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam is reproduced in a number of later works, such as Age of Catastrophe, 1976, and The Day of the Locust, 1977, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

it's probably one of PBS's greatest masterpiece theatre series ever.

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

The sale is being lead by J.M.W. Turner's Rome, from Mount Aventine, one of the last great masterpieces of British art left in private hands and one of the -LSB-...]

It is his dream to someday see a Van Gogh or one of the many great masterpieces of art in western museums.

Read John Paul ll Writings called Women God's greatest masterpiece and His letter to women.

There are great masterpieces that have no hint of religious transcendence.

Great masterpieces!

Nevertheless, a sizable minority of physicists, Rovelli included, believe that any successful merger of the two great masterpieces of 20th - century physics will inevitably describe a universe in which, ultimately, there is no time.

«We believe CloudSat's going to give us a new vision of one of nature's great masterpieces, and that's the water cycle,» says Graeme Stephens, CloudSat's lead scientist with Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Could it be that when Ludwig van Beethoven composed some of the greatest masterpieces of all time that he was quite literally following his heart?

This Yule log looks so festive, a great masterpiece for the Christmas table and it also tastes incredible!

Another Friday, another great masterpiece from you Elena.....

A wonderful movie, one of the greatest masterpieces of Hollywood.

Thank you Luchino Visconti for this great masterpiece!

Maybe for its time, it was considered a great masterpiece but with little character development and no real emotions it's hard to like this slow paced uneventful long movie!

Bringing Out the Dead it's more a great masterpiece by Scorsese, which, unfortunately, doesn't had the attention that deserve.

This new film is by no means a great masterpiece but it's not trying to be and most importantly, it remains true to the feel of the first film in particular.

Kon has great masterpiece.

Is The Phantom Pain is indeed the greatest masterpiece from Kojima Productions.

Performing at prestigious film festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as well as little - known gems of the silent era.

«Fences» (Paramount Pictures) Largely considered August Wilson's greatest masterpiece, «Fences» demands an even higher level of emotional intensity and actorly commitment than his other plays.

To that end, Amour may just be Haneke's great masterpiece, the film he's remembered for.

Performing at prestigious fi lm festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as well as little - known gems of the silent era.

Contempt, one of Jean - Luc Godard's greatest masterpieces, has a stately air that breaks with the filmmaker's earlier, throwaway, hit - and - run manner, as though he were this time allowing himself to aim for cinematic sublimity.

The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking violence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, launched a revolutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of world crime cinema.

Even though fate was lined squarely against him, Coppola's extraordinary will — some might call it megalomania — saw production through to completion, resulting in one of the great masterpieces of the decade.

The great masterpiece from Orson Welles consists of a search for the meaning of a word.

American Graffiti has lost none of its charm or energy, making it one of the many great masterpieces of the New Hollywood era.

One of Kubrick's greatest masterpieces and a definitive film of its age.

Frank Capra's whimsical screwball comedy starring John Barrymore and James Stewart was one of the director's great masterpieces and the highest - grossing film from 1938, making it a favorite to win Best Picture.

4:30 am (9th)-- TCM — The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles» follow - up to Citizen Kane obviously isn't as great a masterpiece, but is still pretty darn good, despite studio interference.

That's the sign of a great masterpiece.

Miles Unger narrates the astonishing life of this driven and difficult man through six of his greatest masterpieces.