It will showcase intriguing and ambiguous images of
grotesque beauty, his most recent studies for the upcoming frieze.
Taken out of context, Wrath of the Titans is merely fine, offering some colourful sequences and tremendously hideous beasties (that Chimera is a thing of
grotesque beauty) but offering nothing in the way of arresting drama, tense romance or distracting belly laughs.
From his start as the enfant terrible of the early -»90s independent scene, Korine has been obsessed with
grotesque beauty.
Not exact matches
The ghost of Federico Fellini hovers wickedly over The Great
Beauty, a fantastic journey around contemporary Rome and a riot of lush imagery juggling past and present, sacred and profane, gorgeous and
grotesque.
From an aesthetic standpoint, Maleficent may as well be protecting Pandora from the grubby hands of the human scum who threaten its unobtainable
beauty — and
beauty really is unobtainable in a movie from first time director Robert Stromberg, who carries over his
grotesque production design aesthetic from Oz The Great and Powerful and the Tim Burton incarnation of Alice in Wonderland.
Moments of
beauty persist alongside the film's
grotesque discomfort.
I'm not sure if the
grotesque appearance of Troll is supposed to draw attention to Troll's inner
beauty, rather emphasizing the bond and friendship that forms between Otto and the large brute, but if that is the case then Spiral House is on point with Troll's design.
I attempt to correlate the notion of
beauty with the
grotesque.
The survey demonstrates the extraordinary visual range of Bickerton's oeuvre, which oscillates between playfulness and brutality, extreme
beauty and the
grotesque.
Marilyn Minter's work examines glamour and its seedy underbelly through a juxtaposition of photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs which hone in on the moment where «clarity becomes abstraction and
beauty commingles with the
grotesque.»
Eschewing any conventional notions of
beauty, or in many cases even taste, these works privilege instead a form of the
grotesque, where identity often approximates a kind of caricature or mask: an exaggeration and amplification of reality.
Los Angeles - based photographer Ilona Szwarc creates works that often employ a surrogate for her own likeness to stage serial moments in a clinical transition from youthful
beauty into the
grotesque.
Living somewhere between film, modern news media and history painting, Kahrs» work seamlessly merges the
beauty and tradition of painting and portraiture with banal yet
grotesque objectivity, seducing the viewer into a reductive, saturated palate only to confront them with an aggressive yet all too familiar imagery.
Living somewhere between film, modern news media and history painting, Kahrs» work seamlessly merges the
beauty and tradition of painting and portraiture with banal yet
grotesque objectivity, seducing the viewer into a -LSB-.....]
Transgression and transcendence, the abject and the seductive,
beauty and the
grotesque are all intermingled — their borders confused and overlapping.
It was on this occasion that Charles Saatchi fell irreversibly in love with Damien's work, although the astonishment was provoked by the
grotesque rather than
beauty.
Paul McCarthy, Sweet Roll Body Smear, Piccadilly Circus, London, 2003 Body Politic: The Anatomy of the
Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality,
Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the
grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality,
grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on
beauty, sexuality, and race.
She subverts long held standards of female
beauty, consumption and femininity by using this historically charged medium to portray the
grotesque.
The New York - based painter and photographer has long played with the tropes of feminine
beauty in works that seamlessly stir the alluring with the mildly
grotesque.
Her gnarly compositions conjure romantically - charged narratives while delving into the
grotesque aspects of her subjects, simultaneously highlighting both the
beauty and the abjection of human eroticism.
For the Site Sante Fe Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, invited curator Robert Storr examines contemporary embodiments of the
grotesque tradition in art, a spirit which unites formal opposites: emotional and intellectual conflicts,
beauty and ugliness, delight and delirium, tragedy and comedy.
The work sits in tension on the boundary of what can be seen as purposely
grotesque or aesthetically pleasing, presenting both
beauty and melancholy.
All her works consciously confines the use of the imagery against clichés where
beauty tilts over and approaching the
grotesque and traumatic, and shows the glimpse of the other side: when something slips, and the image of reality shifted.
Mikhailov's language is an uncompromising and playful view of the
beauty and the
grotesque of an era.
The
grotesque and almost monstrous ways in which Goodman investigates
beauty and femininity are utterly compelling.
Marilyn Minter is an artist who juxtaposes photorealistic paintings with painterly photographs and videos, honing in on the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and
beauty meets the
grotesque.
His art, which constantly evades categorization, pinpoints the moment where sublime
beauty and the
grotesque are held in productive tension.
The
beauty and
grotesque of pop syncopates against a curious and contradictory surrealist imaginary.
Each artist's approach presents a challenge to the orthodoxy of
beauty and mimetic precision in creative production, mediated through humor, fantasy, and the
grotesque.