Sentences with phrase «grotesque forms»

The result is that they are victims of grotesque forms of negligence that have not been widely seen in the civilian world for more than a hundred years.

In these scenarios, entities of human flesh exist in various grotesque forms that are left to thrive or die as they adapt to Earth's diverse environments.

Saul's grotesque forms and garish colors are well - suited for the outlandish picture he paints of a society without morals.

Ossorio's art arrived at a creative breakthrough during this period, as it continually evolved into more grotesque forms.

Using natural and artificial media to create realistic and grotesque forms, the world renowned Australian artist visualizes humanity's challenges in navigating between nature and biotechnology.

Not exact matches

It is possible that the grotesque and farcical forms of Russian capitalism ultimately prevented this phenomenon from becoming an ideologically dominant conception in my society.

Inequality before the law takes many forms, some of them grotesque, as in the Republic of South Africa or the Soviet Union, some more subtle.

Given over to fearful crime and passion, plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued trimphantly from the jaws of ever - imminent destruction the torch of life, which, thanks to them, now lights the world for us.

To put it in the mildest form possible I'd call that a grotesque over-reaction though there was a certain technical issue he used to get around the BE ban and that was seen as an attack on the Vox systems.

The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in «Mary and the Witch's Flower:» the green woods and mist - filled forests of England rendered in swooning evocative watercolors, and the show - stopping Endor, a psychedelic space from out of a dream or drug trip, packed with strange objects, unexplainable phenomena, students floating by in soap bubbles, fountains morphing into human form, grotesque creatures loping out of the shrubbery and disappearing.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

Form follows plot premise: if you can't be funny, you can at least be grotesque enough so people won't be able to look away.

These are the deeper issues that are supposed to form the relatable ground layer to what is otherwise a frantic, often grotesque, farce.

As the script grows more grotesque, Powley commits fully to her monstrous form, embracing both the terror and invigoration that come packaged with maturity.

One of the vastly powerful Eternals of Titan, Thanos was shunned as a child for his gigantic form and grotesque appearance.

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.

It's only fitting then that BHN is immortalized in all her grotesque glory through statue form.

During her school days, talented young Trockel has already shown an undeniable interest is the grotesque and the unusual and majority of her early artworks were influenced by the later forms of surrealism.

Later works on view illustrate ways Still repurposed his Yaddo images, as his career progressed, into grotesque social commentary and symbolic forms alluding to sexual drive and mythical dualisms.

I use clean lines with odd geometry and unexpected forms to heighten the visual surprise and given a hint of the grotesque.

These different fascinations are often combined in the same work, highlighting a predilection for unconventional forms of knowledge - production as well as a sense of the absurd and the grotesque.

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.

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.

Dealing with themes of power, gender, identity, sexuality and identity, Frank's grotesque figurations of the human form have been favorably compared to Francis Bacon and the artists cites painters like Velasquez, Goya, Gober and others as inspirations.

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

In the studio, her organic forms become anthropomorphic, resulting in sculptures and paintings that are both humorous and grotesque, existing in a space between the artifice of lo - fi movie props and the reality of our fragile bodies.

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

In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms.

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Kusama has completed several major outdoor commissions, some giant pumpkins and other sculptures in the form of brightly coloured grotesque plants and flowers, for public and private institutions including the Kirishima Open Air Musuem, Japan; Fukuoka Municipal Museum of Art and Matsumoto City Museum of Art in Japan; Eurolille in Lille, France; and recently, the Beverly Hills City Council in Los Angeles.

The works presented examines the concept of hybridity, coexisting in human and animal form, of one both grotesque and sexualized through abstraction.

While these emerging artists clearly share a fascination with the everyday, the most striking common aspect of their practices is an uncanny, subtly grotesque emphasis on the body as it assumes the forms of (or interacts with) household objects.

Historically speaking, «grotesque» first referred to the bizarre motifs discovered in Nero's palaces in the 15th century — strange hybridities of plant, animal, and human forms.

Initially serving as a basis for her paintings, Aerts» collages on paper consist of roughly cut colour planes arranged to form landscapes Using a generous helping of humour, Aerts merges her fantasy, her surroundings and the art scene into a whole which is both poetic and playful, as well as absurd and grotesque.

Incorporating narratives that are concurrently playful and grotesque, the works in the show are all rooted in the human form.

They quote copiously, and hilariously, from the history of aristocratic fashion, annihilating conventions of idealized physical form to instead dwell on the extreme, unexpected, and grotesque.

McCarthy may be best known for his cartoonishly grotesque video installations and sculptures, but John C. Welchman's essential catalogue essay, House, Yard, Studio, Set, offers a different reading of his work, highlighting instead the important influence of McCarthy's richly varied studio spaces on the artist's subject matter and forms of production.

They appear as a series of grotesque mutations of impossible organic forms — ones that could only appear in a scientific textbook or theoretical drawing.

Exploring how working with the body in art reflects on the human form, this show spans the grotesque to the uncanny, the poignant to the satirical, across ages, genres and countries.

To complement the exhibition and residencies that form part of The Politics of Food, Delfina Foundation hosts Subtleties and Warnings: Power and the Edible Grotesque with resident artist Candice Lin.

The wildly colourful world of Wendell Gladstone, whose contorted characters are reflections of the bizarre, grotesque structures of our own society, will stand next to the abstract sculptures of Reuven Israel, who explores a range of form and colour in his conceptual and painstakingly crafted artworks.

Although his style of the 1930s bears some resemblance to Picasso's and his canvasses of the 1940s relate to the satanic, grotesque imagery of some forms of Surrealism, Still consistently rejected all such associations.

The human figure is also central to the exhibition, often appearing in distorted, grotesque, anthropomorphic, or hybridized forms.

Artists Erwin Wurm, whose multidisciplinary works push representations of the body through lenses both funny and grotesque, and Brigitte Kowanz, whose works explore the visual forms of light, will represent Austria at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

Those of us who need to have long since formed our judgements about the grotesque workings of their minds — can we not now simply move on, and get our blog back — please?

The grotesque, in particular, takes a couple of forms in The Shape of Water.

The only acknowledgment of the existence of anything but straight humans comes in the form of a ham - fisted and grotesque caricature of two gay men.