Sentences with phrase «grotesque nature»

Tamara said: «My intention is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, reflecting the vulnerability of our physical existences.»

My intent is to confront the viewers with the real and grotesque nature of violence, offering a context for reflecting about the vulnerability of our physical existences.

Bianca states: «I like to offset the antique with the modern and grotesque nature of plastic».

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.

Towards the end (no spoilers) I found my mouth drop open at the savagery and grotesque nature of one of the end bosses.

Not exact matches

For such a view leads to the most grotesque bifurcation of reality which is much worse than that criticized so convincingly by Whitehead: on one side, the realm of timelessly valid propositions, including those referring to future events, while on the other side the temporal realm of nature and mind in which the timeless propositions are being gradually embodied.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

Guillermo del Toro infuses the grotesque with innocence and wonder, as if he has slipped into our dreams and fascinations, not to judge, but to find truth and grace in the dark furrows and creaky hallways of human nature.

As the pair, and by default the audience, start to examine the nature of their unconventional relationship, the black humour that stemmed from the grotesque materialism of Liberace's world transforms into something more serious, which is when the film becomes most compelling.

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.

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.

«Maisie Cousins is a London - based photographer who looks at the female body and nature and its relationship between the grotesque and beautiful.

These artists revel in the grotesque and the gauche, mixing high and low in a way that was transgressive in the late - 1960s and «70s but which today is second - nature to Curry, Mike Kelley, and Richard Hawkins, who later taught Curry at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, also impressed on him the importance of digging through popular culture's darkest and most insanitary corners for subjects ripe for art.

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.

McCarthy (b. 1945) came to be known for his filmed performances in the 1980s, that satirised the infantilising nature of US popular culture and used foodstuffs alongside children's toys to grotesque and comic effect.

The Nature of Particles gives insight on how two groundbreaking artistic practices separated by 200 years explore the human capacity for barbarity, war and the grotesque.

Focusing on the grotesque in contemporary art, the artists featured in this exhibit reveal essential aspects of human nature that are at once comical and profound, playful and monstrous.

Filling the rear part of CHARLIE SMITH is Joshua Raffell — a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design — with another his mixed media figurative sculptures; provocative and a little disturbing — a patchwork grotesque, the artist's puppet - like figures — sometimes kinetic in nature — are like a Frankenstein's monster with an overt sexuality stitched into the intricate detail of colourful fabrics alluding to taboos that would normally illicit the opposite response in society.