While both Minter and Wynne's use of recognizable,
iconic imagery seems to function as deliberate superficiality used to discuss deeper, more meaningful issues, their conceptual divergence is just as complimentary to one another as their aesthetic convergence.
After a year dedicated to the abstract, this year
the iconic imagery seemed to come back to the characters and the actors who portrayed them.
Not exact matches
But though it doesn't have Gomorra's comprehension problems, it also lacks that film's
iconic cinematic
imagery and
seems ultimately far less memorable.
Although beautifully shot by Soderbergh himself, too often there are scenes that
seem to have the sole purpose of creating a snapshot similar to the
iconic imagery with which we're already familiar.
They include one of Barnett Newman's «zip» paintings, «Onement II,» with its vertical brick - red stripe slicing through a scarlet field; Mark Rothko's 1949 «Untitled,» an arrangement of abstract forms that foreshadows his
iconic imagery of the 1950s; and Clyfford Still's «Number 5,» a vivid yellow canvas with splashes of color that
seem to leap off its surface.