Sentences with phrase «grotesque imagery»

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.

Through a close reading of this print in its political context, curator Theresa Papanikolas traces how Ensor's youthful immersion in Belgian anarchist circles led him to develop violent and grotesque imagery through which he hoped to expose the incompetence of unchecked authority and indict a society in crisis.

In the late 1980s and into the»90s, she expanded her focus to more grotesque imagery, like the mutilated mannequins of her «Sex Pictures» (1992).

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.

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Neverending Nightmares, by indie developer Infinitap, is inspired by developer Matt Gilgenbach's battle with obsessive - compulsive behavior and depression, and it shows, with plenty of creepy and grotesque imagery, freakish, detailed monsters, and surreal gameplay.

That's the thing, The Evil Within works well to create moments of tension and a chilling atmosphere at times, bombarding the player with utterly grotesque imagery, but then it doesn't really know what to do with you once it has your attention.

It's a dark and sticky descent, but effectively so, as the grotesque imagery only makes the situations all the more horrific, and the danger to the precious little girl Ripley all but adopts all the more immediate.

A handful of honorable mentions include Jaume Collet - Serra's Giant Shark vs. Blake Lively creature feature The Shallows, Nicolas Pesce's demented black - and - white minimalist slasher The Eyes of My Mother, Polish murder mermaid musical The Lure from Agnieszka Smoczynska, Adam Wingard's effective if somewhat disappointing Blair Witch sequel, Nicholas Winding Refn's ethereal and equally not - as - great - as - it - should - have - been, the sanguine - soaked feminist satire The Neon Demon and Turkish import, Can Evrenol and Ogulcan Eren Akay's WTF - loaded Baskin, which features some of the most grotesque imagery of 2016.

Not exact matches

Using imagery that the Anti-Defamation League has appropriately referred to as «grotesque» and «anti-Semitic,» the comic featured a disturbingly bloodthirsty and violent villain named «Monster Mohel.»

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.

On the other extreme, there will be those who are repulsed by the imagery and dark themes, not really entertained by the very unrealistic characters (especially the man - eating Kevin and the grotesque Yellow Bastard), or the intentionally stilted noir dialogue.

Kenyan - born Wangechi Mutu combines fashion magazine imagery and ink to create elegantly grotesque collages of the female body.

Mike Estabrook, through various media, including drawing, painting and video / animations, integrates fantasy with politically charged imagery to create grotesque and humorous imagery.

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.

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.

Claiming imagery typically referenced through our daily interaction with media sources, Kahrs builds on the diversity of photographic images infused with the seductive palette of artists such as Richter and Tuymans, but invests them with a grotesque, bodily relationship to the viewer seen in the work of Jenny Saville.

The imagery in this show will range from the surreal, the seductive, the playful, the mystical, the beautiful, the contemplative and the grotesque.

The whimsical drawings surely would attract the admiration of all age groups, despite the grotesque and dark imagery your eye met once it got past the enamored trance caused by the sweet and playful color palette.

Flood's paintings and collages of the 1980s and 1990s transform pervasive corporate, pornographic and celebrity imagery into provocative and knowing grotesques of the colliding worlds of art and consumer culture using adulterated found materials: signs, advertisements, flea - market paintings, and magazines.

Known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, and raw imagery, Francis Bacon is one of the most celebrated British painters.

The angry provocateur who helped to forge a new identity for German painting after the Second World War is still taking risks; the painter who saw works from his first solo exhibition in 1963 confiscated by the authorities for their grotesque sexual imagery is still challenging the viewer.

The imagery you were making in the late «90s to the 2000s — the extreme close - ups and lurid colors — border on the grotesque.

As initiated by the museum, this exhibition sought out current manifestations surrealism through an imagery of pop culture made uncanny or grotesque through intense subjectivity.

Often drawing from popular science - fiction imagery and narrative, Atherton challenges the ambiguous separation between the natural and the fantastic, creating a theater through which to experience the grotesque side of nature.

Oelze's imagery, however fantastical, grotesque or abstract, is always grounded in landscape.

Saul's color - drenched grotesques emerged out of the same heady stew that produced the underground comix revolution, and this imagery and inclination has metastasized in the work of Parker, his former student.

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.

This leaves the rest of Respighi's music to be haunted by our memory of Conner's indelible imagery — by turns pathetic, exotic, ridiculous, comical, catastrophic, grotesque, banal, glorious.»

Works by a group of artists loosely known as the Chicago Imagists — Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, H. C. Westermann, and Karl Wirsumand — use funky, sometimes grotesque or surreal imagery leavened with humor.