Sentences with phrase «hallucinatory power»

His art is figurative and often based on photographic images, but the end effect is to take us into a completely different world of often hallucinatory power.

As Roberta Smith put it, «Nordström's drawings have a hallucinatory power all their own, which emanates less from his imagery than from the extraordinary range of drawing techniques that bring it into being.»

Poppy Fields, the title of this new series, evokes the hallucinatory power of the poppy seed and its damaging effects.

Ningde has described these works as deliberately generating «an illusory feeling,» an insight into the hallucinatory power of photography as a whole.

At its best, the film has some of the hallucinatory power that gives the play an eternal aura of mystery, like Nicolas Winding Refn's psychotic Viking epic Valhalla Rising, but with words.

There are moments here that arrest you with their hallucinatory power, like a gay - club rave that becomes the shimmery dance number of Marina's dreams, or a stylized tracking shot in which she confronts an overpowering and highly metaphorical wind.

Not exact matches

Central to the beauty and power of the ballet Swan Lake — of which Black Swan is a sort of contemporary, hallucinatory offspring — are contrasts and dynamics, complimentary parts of a yin - yang whole: Light and dark, good and evil, soft and loud (as in Tchaikovsky's famous music).

To call his hallucinatory Conrad retelling, with its reduction of anti-American forces to voices in the jungle and faceless civilians to be mowed down with glee, a true summary of the war is a decidedly Amerocentric view, yet the intimate power of this undulating epic creates an atmosphere that speaks to a war within, if not the external war happening around the characters.

Hewlett guides the viewer through a psychedelic journey that is by turns hallucinatory and dreamlike, illicit and subversive, all linked through the tantalising power of suggestion.