Sentences with phrase «highly idiosyncratic»

A tan leather sofa adds a distinctive 1960s feel, while vintage accessories complete the highly idiosyncratic look.

Designed with input from the artist, the exhibition features over 60 works drawn primarily from the Museum's rich collection of highly idiosyncratic work made by Lucas Samaras.

From an art - historical perspective, Liz Magor's decades - long engagement with the world of material things and their resonance has led her to stake out a highly idiosyncratic position.

The four large Gilbert & Georges are characteristically gridded photographic compositions of their highly idiosyncratic and homoerotic take on contemporary life in London.

What takes their place, instead, is a highly idiosyncratic approach filtered through pronounced affect, comic - book and sci - fi aesthetics, dreamy narratives and an eagerness to engage with our political moment without forfeiting the sensuousness of the medium.

The book tracks his movement from an initial interest in signage (the early -»60s drafts for his iconic paintings of the 20th Century Fox logo, the Standard Oil gas - station sign, and «Annie» in the comic strip's type) to later images that are highly idiosyncratic, downright poetic concoctions («Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge» is the phrase in one 1976 pastel).

Mellors has attracted international critical interest in recent years for a highly idiosyncratic vision and inventive multi-media practice combining visual art, music, theatre and text.

While Congdon's highly idiosyncratic and laborious sequence of drawing, cutting, spraying, and brushwork may not be immediately apparent, the resulting graphic edges and serial images give the impression of a mechanical fastness or distance from the artist's hand.

It presents a consumerist nightmare and a liberated paradise that subverts codes of retail, transmitting a highly idiosyncratic vision of the role of the individual within a status - fueled, capitalist society.

Mining a visual aesthetic reminiscent of German Expressionist film, with Three Sisters Bock develops his own language and artistic vocabulary to create an emotional and highly idiosyncratic world in which connections are made between language, the built environment, and the individuals who inhabit it.

Purposefully ambiguous, Gardner fluctuates between the corporeal and cognitive in his work, encouraging a highly idiosyncratic read that brings the viewer into a subtly shifting world that is at once truth and artifice.

The appropriation and re-presentation of highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one - line jokes, off - colour cartoons, cowboys («borrowed» from Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are essential to his work.

This sense of «rupture» — both physically and psychologically - is perhaps the prevailing aesthetic attitude that unites the otherwise highly idiosyncratic artists — and art works — brought together in Everyday Abstract — Abstract Everyday.

The «Annual» exhibition series hopes to illuminate aspects of the specific, yet highly idiosyncratic routes — geographical, intellectual, historical, social, etc. — that individuals follow in an increasingly expansive and fragmented cultural environment.

In them, she united fiction and reality as well as personal and political views in a highly idiosyncratic approach.

He combined elements of gestural abstraction, drawing, and writing in a highly idiosyncratic and potent expression.

The «Annual» exhibition series hopes to illuminate aspects of the specific, yet highly idiosyncratic networks — historical, social, aesthetic, etc. — that individuals follow in an expansive and increasingly fragmented cultural environment.

Datumsoria: The Return of the Real is a group exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe which brings together ten highly idiosyncratic works.

The American artist's work is famous for having three distinct phases — realism, Abstract Expressionism, and then an unexpected return to figuration, with a highly idiosyncratic, and cartoonish, visual vocabulary.

A series of autonomous and highly idiosyncratic exhibitions for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum of Art, including works by more than sixty artists.

All the while, Copley — working under the name CPLY — made his own highly idiosyncratic, expressive, often erotically charged art, which has in recent years come to be an important influence on contemporary artists like Bjarne Melgaard (who staged a show with his work in 2013).

Each artist in the exhibition works though certain media tropes, which are neither appropriated nor directly quoted, but rather percolate within the subconscious and manifest in highly idiosyncratic forms.

From her early collections of mock burial artefacts, to primate - like figures constructed from discarded fur coats, and her more recent enigmatic gurus, Upritchard has developed a highly idiosyncratic language of sculpture that frequently borrows from craft practices and a broad range of references from the deep recesses of museum collections, folklore and counter-cultures to high modernist design.

Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Sixteen paintings from her estate, currently on display at LA Louver Gallery, provide a brief but satisfying introduction into her highly idiosyncratic art and - to put it mildly - into her unconventional way of life.

A fiercely independent and highly idiosyncratic country, Ethiopia has never been successfully conquered or colonised and it boasted for a while the most powerful empire in Africa.

As with human babies, canine potty habits are highly idiosyncratic.

The strategy is highly idiosyncratic and not managed with the objective of achieving a particular return relative to a benchmark index.

In general, highly idiosyncratic and indivisible assets like a home should not be sold in pieces.

The romance cover is a highly idiosyncratic art form.

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During the New Wave, however, Melville went his own way, making highly idiosyncratic crime films — classically mounted if daringly existential — that were beholden to no trend, including Le doulos, Le deuxième soufflé, and Le samouraï.

Yet both are the work of a highly idiosyncratic filmmaker, his strong command of cinematic language elevating them above the status of filmed plays.

This one, a kind of horrific black comedy of vengeance, directed and co-written by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), may not be exactly groundbreaking or original either, but at least it's done with high style, technical mastery and a singular, highly idiosyncratic vision.

Their highly idiosyncratic output includes the 2012 bloody black comedy «Sightseers» and last year's «High - Rise,» based on a dystopian novel by J.G. Ballard.

The idea of the unequal glory of the blessed may run against our egalitarian instincts, but it is really a way of saying that individuals count, Saints are highly idiosyncratic.

Her portrayal of Weil's religious conversion — which marked a major division in her life — is highly idiosyncratic.

The strategy is highly idiosyncratic and not managed with the objective of achieving a particular return relative to a benchmark index.

International debt settlement rules were thrown into a turmoil last year when U.S. Judge Griesa gave a highly idiosyncratic interpretation of the pari passu clause with regard to Argentina's sovereign debts.

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And because he ran an idiosyncratic portfolio, it's highly likely Keynes would be fired by professional investors in today's day and age.

While every country doubtless has its own idiosyncratic pressure — this time around, for example, Brazil are not only Brazil but Brazil in Brazil, arguably the most pressurised state of existence in football — English football fans are highly aware of just how much impact a country's and a country's media's view of its football team can have.

«You need to be highly attuned to very specialized, idiosyncratic needs,» he says.

Think of it as Love Story meets Total Recall and Dark City, which doesn't quite do justice to the movie - going experience at hand, but comes close to describing the idiosyncratic, highly cinematic world writer / director George Nolfi generates here for his filmmaking debut.

Since Hill's feature debut, The Foot Fist Way, the Carolina hooligans have been crafting idiosyncratic comedies about highly capable buffoons that — despite being remarkable joke generators — are also three - dimensional human beings.

He got noticed when his no - budget, highly personal and idiosyncratic feature debut «Eraserhead» became a staple of the midnight cult horror circuit, tried to mount «Ronnie Rocket» (for the first of many times — it remains one of our 25 Greatest Movies Never Made), and instead was brought in as director - for - hire on «The Elephant Man.»

In the gender comparison, all of the results show that one gender's idiosyncratic achievement has a positive, highly statistically significant effect on the idiosyncratic achievement of its peers from the other gender group.

This ever idiosyncratic writer hasn't published a work of fiction since 2006, so this collection of short stories is highly anticipated.

Not just lucky, but deemed worthy by the exclusive publishing industry and its favoritism of acceptable themes, genres, and ever changing idiosyncratic preferences, the result of a highly isolated and neurotic group of people the world has ever known.

We agreed that this era of globally synchronous growth, while highly welcome, may eventually become more idiosyncratic, potentially creating opportunities within specific countries and sectors.

So you're dealing with a highly, highly specific property that's idiosyncratic to one persona and one person's point of view and the way in which they interpret sort of culture and Western culture and twist that back around into this super pure amazing property that has a tone that I think is unlike anything else that is out there.»

While the 1980s may have been idiosyncratic and highly specific in many ways, the revivification of works like Bender's, Bloom's and Wodiczko's proves that there's plenty in «Brand New» that's still timely, even over 30 years later.