Sentences with phrase «idealized portrait»

«Randall's literary goal is to explode the romantic, idealized portrait of the antebellum South during and after the Civil War,» the appeals court wrote.

Each image juxtaposes a stark self - portrait in the foreground against a softer idealized portrait reflected in the mirror; a literal reminder of the divide between one's self and one's self - perception.

The Whitney can hardly resist opening with its own idealized portrait, understandably so.

The authentic feeling for the First Amendment and constitutional rights is expressed in a film that, first of all, also offers a highly idealized portrait of its central characters.

They don't need their spouse to be some idealized portrait of masculinity or femininity.

Adolphe Piot was a French artist best known for his paintings depicting often idealized portraits of women and girls.

They are deformed, obese, brutalized or mutilated, offering the perfect contrast to the conventional idealized portraits of women often used as references to the most beautiful artworks ever created.

Not exact matches

The Romans introduced to Egypt these 2 - D portraits of the dead after almost 3,000 years of idealized 3 - D images.

The resulting series of portraits — of an idealized, enigmatic female figure, dubbed «Lili» by a friend of the couple — jumpstarts Gerda's career and leads her husband to embrace a new identity as a woman.

And though these «portraits» (more like truncated busts) are different for each site - specific installation, the sculptures tend to look similar, with idealized facial features, closed eyes, and serene expressions.

Kawasaki's paintings are comprised of dreamy yet enigmatic portraits of women that exist in moments of tension between idealized innocence and sensuality.

From large - scale portraits of wooly buffalos to scenes of travelers traversing distant lands to images of Midwestern choir singers, Furnas's new paintings exude a sense of nostalgia that simultaneously feels at the brink of rupture — at any moment those idealized views will crack from the energy and emotion underneath.

Portraits of You are paintings that render the world metaphorically, in which scale is discontinuous, space is abstract, and form more idealized.

The exhibition juxtaposes this contemporary work with studio portrait work from the Camera Club Archives, fostering a discussion about the relationship between classical idealized studio portraiture and contemporary critical portraiture.

Bridging the aesthetics of the old regime and contemporary era, the «implied» portraits of Lerma's idealized figures are overtaken by a collage of chromatic strokes in the palette of 80s sportswear, that represent thrown flowers proceeding a performance.

Her portraits of historical figures like Napoleon, rock stars like David Bowie, and her own friends and lovers are linked through their depiction of celebrity and the artist's distinctive style of the idealized, feminized, androgynous male.

The studium is the expected, the archetypal, the idealized — landscape, portrait, figure.

Opening: Chantal Joffe at Cheim & Read Chantal Joffe's honest portraits of young women aren't at all idealized.

A long wall of small, close up self - portraits shows Ms. Semmel not as an idealized figure — as she stresses in the video interview that accompanies the exhibition — or a generic model of femininity, but as a «specific person» captured at different moments.