Sentences with phrase «grotesque figures»

The grotesque figures have more in common with the nightmare crowds of the Belgian painter Ensor than with Degas or Manet.

De Jong's grotesque figures, often inspired by art historical subjects, are an unorthodox means of spotlighting issues of morality and self - destruction.

Made out of polymer clay, these grotesque figures lashed together have grown sick of each other — implying that their alliance was an unholy one from the outset.

Scorching social commentary, cartoon - like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul.

It is a novel idea executed brilliantly as the men turn into grotesque figures, staring out at us as much as we look at them.

Basically, he turned himself into a fat, bald, chain - smoking, nervous - wreck version of the Nutty Professor entirely for fun — a sweaty, fidgety, grotesque figure in a movie in which we were supposed to take this guy seriously, that was all about a man and his dream.

In Bad Medicine, for example, grizzly bears invade a housing development while a grotesque figure painted in the style of Francis Bacon squirms on the curbside.

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They are grotesque, distorted figures from the American south» snake - oil salesmen, cripples, prophets, murderers... They are characters we can not avoid looking at.

Those four steps help us get rid of those alcoholic lenses that were before our eyes — the ones that caused us to see not the decent, kindly folk about us but grotesque and distorted figures — demons in a land of nightmare.

In the 1800s, Norman Macleod, in the midst of his exuberance for the vistas of Banaras, referred to «that ugly looking monster called God», and Sherring wrote of «the worship of uncouth images, of monsters, of the linga and other indecent figures, and of a multitude of grotesque, ill - shapen, and hideous objects.»»

In the beginning, when St. Paul first used it, the figure of speech must have seemed extreme or even grotesque.

Night comes down, the strong land - breeze rushes seaward from the Peaks singing a mournful dirge among the treetops; the fitful glare of the fire throws weird shadows among the tall trees, eclipsing the twinkle of the firefly that flits among the leaves; and all is silence and slumber, save when a gaunt figure steals out of the hut, its lean proportions doubly grotesque in the uncertain firelight, to watch the progress of the grilling of the prized meat.

A Freddy Krueger figure, in other words, is transmogrified into a Jaws one, adding a rich layer of suspense to a film that lacked the thrill of, to borrow from another famous Curry grotesque, «anticipation.»

As Jacob gets closer to figuring out who killed his sister, he gets deeper into the grotesque world of Los Angeles, starting with petty drug dealers and moving up to politicians and power players.

All things Halloween (including ghoulish creatures, grotesque monsters, and frightening figures) are used to create the setting in this stop - frame animation.

His creative world is populated by grotesque creatures, trimmed with a hocus pocus collection of vampires, bats and spiders, littered with bare - boned figures and dismembered body parts, threatened by an evil Oogie Boogie Man, (voice of Ken Page), and decorated with depictions of female victimization, torture and poisoning.

The better reading of We Are What We Are is that one must break away from the family unit, or the grotesque father figure, a popular Gothic role model, Bill Sage's Frank Parker echoing a Heathcliff-esque villain, in order to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

The Palazzo Bartolomeo, just round the corner is perhaps Scicli's Baroque masterpiece, with grotesque grinning figures, complete with bald heads and tongues outstretched, supporting its long balconies.

Read on to follow the Street Fighter action figure saga to its inevitable conclusion: ironic remakes of the grotesque Hasbro toys that started it all.

Instead, the teams all have sort of odd or silly mascots, and the player designs are exaggerated, almost bobble - headed figures which range from charming to slightly grotesque.

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

There, the combination of political figures, pop culture and the grotesque nature of sex and death generated a powerful show that has since influences the context of his work.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

These psychologically charged works depict figures, often females, caught in grotesque or surreal scenes — from a hand holding a decapitated head to a man lying next to what appears to be his own skeleton.

In the mid-1970s, as Ramberg's figures became less sexualized and more grotesque, she achieved levels of formal coherence that demonstrate an increasing artistic maturity.

His graphic works of self - portraits, portraits of old lovers, and depictions of the human figure produce the same grotesque and expressive natures as those seen in his paintings.

Most of the work in this show comes from the past decade, comprising mostly three - dimensional paintings on plywood, where layered forms and colour combine to create a motley crew of cartoonish figures that are loud, grotesque and irreverent.

The figures in the new series have got down from their pedestals and turned into grotesque giants cast in one of the most tradition - laden materials in art history — bronze.

His female figures seek a peculiar balance between beautiful and grotesque, situated in dense scenes of sexual gluttony or humorously taunting the viewer with awkward nudity.

Ghenie's beautifully grotesque abstract figures have continued to mature for the Romanian artist.

Cars and human figures merge to form his Carnivores species, with characters engaged in a variety of scenarios ranging from whimsical to grotesque.

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe's first U.S. museum exhibition, Journey Elsewhere: Musings from a Boundless Zoo, is filled with grotesque half - animal, half - human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.

He exaggerates these figures to the point of vulgarity in works that are both tour de force of the grotesque and wry political commentaries on the imagery promoted by marketers and advertisers in Japan.

Harsh and rough with heightened expressive power in material and theme, de Jong's figures embody a grotesque horror and macabre humor reminiscent of the work of the 20th century European artists Georges Grosz and James Ensor.

This seeming simplicity arises from Nordström's signature cartoonish style, where his figures take on grotesque, outsized, and exaggerated features, sporting elongated torsos or legs or boasting bizarrely - shaped hips and noses and heads.

His large format multi-panel works feature skeletal figures with nuts and bolts which unforgivingly reveal the grotesque and dispassionate aspects of human being.

The show's title is a play on «allegories,» emphasizing both the art - historical pedigrees of Eisenman's figures and her love of the grotesque, the absurd, and the down - to - earth.

During the Protestant Reformation, artists made satirical prints criticizing the Catholic Church and in particular the Pope, who was represented as a grotesque, avaricious figure.

These paintings were often populated by grotesque and damaged figures in scenes that seemed so full as to almost burst from the frame.

John Altoon's grotesque yet whimsical figures blend abstraction and cartoon style.

The two exhibitions were developed separately — De Jong's sculptural figures dwell on the grotesque while Redwood's paintings take on portraiture, landscape and still life — but work in tandem.

This is apparent in the mysterious symbols which are strewn across the canvas — arithmetic notations, suggestions of floating eyes, and so forth — and by the grotesque, nightmarish heads of the figures: the woman looks like a frightening cat, and the man, with gaping mouth, resembles a devouring demon.

The grotesque, human - like «figures» and transcendent, textural shapes with a subtle resemblance to sexual organs.

Through the figures that emerge from thick and loose brushstrokes, Eloyan successfully navigates the «joyously grotesque» — coined by Willem de Kooning in his response to his painting Woman I, 1950 - 52.

Flowing over and out of their gilded frames» physical limits, these three - dimensional paintings capture grotesque scenes with animals, half - human figures and invented beasts that represent Gutheil's continued exploration of excess, exaggeration, chaos, and figurative painting.

Each canvas is painted in a washed pastel palette and depicts a statuesque, classically draped goddess - like figure that hovers between land and sea, antiquity and modernity, the sublime and the grotesque.

Although this show focuses on Bhabha's two - dimensional work, the artist is best known for her grotesque yet monumental sculptures born out of ancient tribal artifacts, German Expressionism, and popular science - fiction influences such as those in her recent exhibition at MoMA PS1 of otherworldly figures appearing in a state of decay.

The grotesque, anatomical quality of the figures, often fully or partially nude, recalls depictions by painter John Currin, with features brought so sharply into focus by mannerist tendencies as to seem overly fleshy and slightly repulsive.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

The anthropomorphic figures in Brierley's works conjure up decrepit and sexualised body parts that are at once grotesque and desirable, their obscenity intensified by the luxurious moiré oil in which they are draped.