Sentences with phrase «idealized beauty»

The show focuses on works that employ the human figure as a model in advertising, exploring questions of iconography, idealized beauty and consumerism.

This complexity is similarly evident in her use of the tree as an object representing both utility and idealized beauty.

By completing six distinctive groups of works (monumental - scale paintings and drawings) with themes that include southern rituals, oppression, justice / injustice, incarceration, regeneration, war, inequality, technology, feminism, motherhood, the absence of humanity, fantasy and idealized beauty, Andrews raised a consciousness.

In this solo endeavor Stoller continues using clay as a vehicle to explore issues of idealized beauty, vanity and the subjugation of the female body using porcelain as her primary media, a material inextricably linked to desire, secrecy and commodification.

Teller subjects his models to unflattering angles, uses a bright, harsh flash, and never retouches his photographs, exposing the myth of idealized beauty that airbrushed fashion images offer.

John Dugdale, Arnold Fern and Mike Lee present nostalgic and idealized beauty, while JD Talasek, Derek Jackson, and Carmine Santaniello subtly twist such idealizations.

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Why not make the photograph stand as an idealized representation of the departed, not in a state of decline or debility, but at the pinnacle of physical strength and beauty — even if the face being rendered thereby is a face from thirty or forty years ago, a face much more attractive and cheerful, but one that almost no one still living would recognize?

Since, in the initial act of distancing, the gods were portrayed as idealized men and women, the beauty celebrated by the Greeks was ever the beauty of the human body.

Smartphones and increased electronic devices mean your teen will see the idealized version of beauty everywhere.

We believe people have a certain beauty born not of idealized image, but of natural uniqueness.

Their income depends on the image they project, which typically has to conform to the ridiculously idealized standards of Hollywood beauty.

She refers to her concept of creating idealized artificial worlds that sit in harmony with our own reality that is often unpleasant as «aggressive beauty.»

One mainstream is represented in the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Monet: expressing beauty, sensuality, primitive power, painterliness, opticality, art as the conveyor of emotion primarily thru color, the spiritual archetypes of Jung, art as the an uplifting sensibility, art as a depiction of idealized life, art as a depiction of everyday (existential) life, and the act of painting itself.

Their ambiguity and darkness are overridden by a fierce optimism powered by a belief in beauty that is both canonical and dissident, idealized and lashed by intimations of mortality.

As Rosenthal says, Hulusi reflects on «ruins and the abandoned places of lost civilizations» while suggesting an idealized place, with the landscape in a primordial balance between harmonyand beauty, and at the same time referencing socio - political history and the mechanics of image making.

Peyton typically imbues her figures with an idealized and sometimes androgynous beauty.

In a potential nod to famous futurist Buckminster Fuller, Canadian artist Tristram Lansdowne (interviewed), known for finding hidden beauty in the broken down, has reinvented his work with an idealized flair for his upcoming exhibition, Archimancy.

It explores the aesthetics of Albinism in contrast with the idealized perception of beauty.

By engaging with the classic but historically problematic motif of the nymph or bather, he raises the question of who can represent idealized female beauty while reframing the absurdities and conventions of the male gaze.

Inspired by such European masters as Claude Lorrain, John Constable and Turner, Hudson River School paintings are characterized by a realistic, but idealized view of nature and reflect the idea that the beauty of the American landscape was a manifestation of the divine.

She unashamedly reveled in the beauty of the human body while challenging the tradition in which male artists depicted anonymous, idealized, and often eroticized female models.

Likewise, her meticulously rendered drawings of women's hair — isolated from the the bodies and faces of their owners — tangle with mass - media images of female beauty and the precarious projection of the self onto idealized and unrealistic models.