Sentences with phrase «grotesque faces»

In both the sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art - historical typologies: from the African, Oceanic and carnival masks to those worn by the actors / dancers in the Indian theatre, from the grotesque faces of Expressionist painting to the demonic, hybrid features we may find in the characters of science - fiction movies or the Marvel comic books.

Their grotesque faces, tragicomic anatomies and enigmatic postures make for freakishly compelling images.

Masahiro wanted a monster whose unseen face was more disturbing in a player's imagination then just an exposed or grotesque face.

Dix's paintings revealed the grotesque face of capitalism inherent in both world wars.

So is Tony Oursler's fake meteorite with a grotesque face video - projected onto it: installed just outside the front door to the museum, it speaks in a rumbling, comically scary voice, warning: «Walk away!

Not exact matches

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Truth be told I'm rather grotesque, face like a gargoyle.

I'll bet the numbers are right up there with the amount of kids whose faces have frozen forever in that mean / sulky / grotesque pose.

Perhaps if he acted like a man with them, instead of a kindly granny pampering them and picking them, making constant absurd excuses for them, metaphorically buying them «sweeties and chocolate», out of love for his dictatorship and his grotesque salary, they might find that faced with a PROFESSIONAL MANAGER they were suddenly not so tired after all, with their jobs, salaries and positions on the line.

The Royal Anglians had to face a chanting mob waving grotesque placards accusing THEM of terrorism and child murder.

GLAAD takes action against Ticked Off Trannies with Knives: «The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face.»

While most superheroes are rather po - faced do - gooders, Deadpool offers something more irreverent, more grotesque in its humour and — with his withering asides direct to the audience — more knowing.

Facing off challenges not just from the ferocious undead but also from the living, will Edward find an exit to the grotesque caricature of what humanity has become?

The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas.

Samus faced off against the grotesque creature who fell into the ship's reactor core upon defeat, causing it to explode.

Charlton Heston is a stiff, straight - arrow Mexican government agent Mike Vargas whose planned honeymoon with his American bride Susie (Janet Leigh) is derailed by a sensationalistic murder and police detective Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), a bloated, blustery grotesque with a doughy face and an ill manner who has a habit of creating evidence to speed the process of justice.

One action - packed and featuring Aaron Eckhart's conflicted creature Adam as he faces some grotesque foes and the other with Bill Nighy and Yvonne Strahovski discussing the chances of the classic tale of a man pieced - together being real.

For his latest challenge, the German - born leading man who has been inspiring crushes all over the globe has tucked his gorgeous face away into a grotesque paper mache mask for Lenny Abrahamson's outlandish dramedy Frank.

They were the most grotesque looking things because they sculpted the actor's faces so perfectly it really looks like the half eaten body of Eric Christian Olsen laying in some warehouse, it's kind of disturbing.»

Jim's Mask is a grotesque green - faced schmooze - ball with a passion for farting, cheesy chat - up lines and Cameron Diaz.

Every single character is a grotesque person, either indifferent to the plight of others, or cruelly smiling in the face of their pain.

The message, which has all the subtlety of a slap to the face, is that girls can be just as grotesque, offensive and self - centered as guys.

A person's face on a horror cover is often frightened or grotesque.

These are «exceptional examples of NeoGothic Revival architecture, complete with carved faces (grotesques), gargoyles, and other carved stone embellishments».

It wasn't a fear of grotesque monster - infested loonies running rampid that got to me, it was the giant freak with a chainsaw and bag over his face that ripped my partner in half that really left an impression.

The freeform character development and top notch enemy design, both in terms of their grotesque appearance and tricky mechanics, are worthy of high praise, but it is the sense of accomplishment - found in surviving against the odds - that makes Dark Souls worth hammering away at, diving face first into constant failure.

Altered Beast «s world is also populated by vicious and misshapen monsters, each layer of its deadly environment protected by a mutated and almost Lovecraftian boss — swollen masses of flesh and faces, grotesque gestalts of man and animal.

The monsters are grotesque and The Evil Within is not afraid of throwing them in our faces.

Keeping the classy feel of vintage photography, Gokita rarely shows the faces of his subjects, and often exaggerates their features all the way to absurdity or grotesque.

Hieronymus Bosch's Christ Mocked The suffering, passive face of Christ looks back at you from the ring of cut - throats and grotesques who are vilifying him.

A grotesque mannequin torso faces a vanity mirror rigged with a camera and crude facial - recognition software that attempts — with modest success — to identify the viewer's age, gender, and mood.

David Altmejd: Faces @ Modern Art Grotesque and surreal faces inventively sculpted out of crystals, fruit and various other materials provide a visual feast of «anti-faces&raFaces @ Modern Art Grotesque and surreal faces inventively sculpted out of crystals, fruit and various other materials provide a visual feast of «anti-faces&rafaces inventively sculpted out of crystals, fruit and various other materials provide a visual feast of «anti-faces&rafaces».

A remarkable performer, Sherman reconfigures her face and body for the camera — either through subtle distortions or grotesque prosthetics — to render herself all but unrecognizable to the audience.

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

For instance, holding a sheet of glass against her flesh, squeezing her body parts against the glass and smashing her face, breasts, hips, buttocks and stomach onto the surface from various angles, Woodman distorts her physical features making them appear grotesque.

Volker Stelzmann - the quintessential German Artist Grotesque figurative forms are often rejected by the society as it attempts to turn its face away...

Ena Douglas (1926), for example, one of 50 portraits by Morris exhibited at his one - man show in 1938 at Peggy Guggenheim's Jeune Gallery in London, combines aspects of Neue Sachlichkeit (primarily those verging on the grotesque) and cubism, whereby the viewer is almost able to see both sides of the subject's face at once.

Just as New York artist Cindy Sherman's untitled portrait of vanity and the grotesque comes face to face with Kwakwaka» wakw artist Beau Dick's mask of Dzunuk» wa, the Giant of the Woods, artworks in the exhibition are presented as a series of conversations, from intimate to confrontational.

Facing this grotesque ensemble, a sculptural panel made from various animal pelts stands as a sort of morbid trophy.

He writes: «Taking cues from Colescott, Nina Chanel Abney reminds one also of the mask - like faces of Vincent D. Smith's paintings and the eccentric primitivism of William Henry Johnson, though she also shares a penchant for the contemporary grotesque with the work of her near contemporary Dana Schutz.

The paintings of Otto Dix and photographs of August Sander portray Germany in the 1920s in contrasting ways; the objective sobriety of Sander faces the grotesque painterly imagination of Dix.

A festering portrait with dark, drawn and indistinguishable face, and grotesque mouth puffing upon an actual cigarette entombed in paint, acrid smoke trailing across the canvas.

Allison Schulnik's EAGER is a jumble of grotesque and beautiful scenes that begins with a dance of skeletal female figures who communicate with their long, stringy hair, since their faces are absent.

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

This solo exhibition presents new sculptures by Altmejd that feature grotesque and surreal human faces using materials such as metals, paints, plasters, clays, foams, and gels.

★ Neuberger Museum of Art: «Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels» (closes on Sunday) The painter Dana Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.

Three other video works, which depict the faces of overtly grotesque mammal-esque creatures, fuel a sense of disquiet.