Sentences with phrase «idyllic scenes»

It was after 1900 that his most characteristic works were created — idyllic scenes of elegant nude figures and mythological creatures gracefully grouped in frieze compositions before stark Romantic landscapes — e.g., «Crescendo» (1910; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City).

Yet these wall decorations and panels bear 1960s and»70s antiwar iconography — veterans» helmets, daisies, discarded medals — juxtaposed with idyllic scenes of pre-French-occupation Vietnamese pastoral and spiritual life, all rendered in camouflage hues of forest green and golden brown.

Paired with idyllic scenes of grassy planes and endless forests, her paintings are shockingly interrupted by man's influence.

Ged Quinn specializes in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

It somehow manages to have green hills, sandy shores, snowy mountain tops and a dozen other idyllic scenes.

Follow her for colorful vegetables, idyllic scenes, poetic farm learnings, and healthy recipes.

Then the fields of Esdraelon slope up toward Galilee in an immense checkerboard of green and brown, while through a break in the hills distant Hermon looks down from its snows upon the idyllic scene.

Yet this idyllic scene has its dark side.

The film opens with the meteorite crashing into an idyllic scene — a lighthouse situated on the coast of a swampy national park.

HBO's Big Little Lies ended Sunday with an idyllic scene: the show's gorgeous stars Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, and Zoë Kravitz relaxing on a beach, recently fused in sisterhood — surrounded by sun, cavorting children, and lapping waves.

In an idyllic scene, students and parents could be seen walking shady, tree - lined sidewalks toward the school, the children dressed up for the event.

Guests of those hotels in between may have to cross Karon Beach Road, but they are still no more than a short and easy walk away from an idyllic scene straight out of a postcard or travel brochure.

Enveloped by magnificent gardens, the Beach Garden Villa is also situated just steps away from the resort's kilometre - long private beach - it is hard to envisage a more idyllic scene.

It's a natural, idyllic scene that you'd likely find broadcast in 4K on a new season of Planet Earth, narrated by the docile tones of David Attenborough.

But as you make your way through the game, you start realizing that the idyllic scene that you saw at the beginning might have had some cracks in it.

Although the toile pattern is associated with joy and portrays an idyllic scene, its meaning is abruptly altered in Shooting Wallpaper as a shepherdess emerges at different moments from several sections of the wallpaper, to aim and shoot a gun in the direction of the viewer.

Like many of Isca Greenfield - Sanders» paintings, this photogravure and aquatint print, which borders on abstraction, depicts a serene, idyllic scene — a woman wading out into a florescent blue body of water.

Influenced by the troubling and not - too - distant practice of foot binding in China, Stoller's resulting work presents an idyllic scene of a darkened pond fitted with multi-piece sculptures of lily pads, lotus flowers and «golden lotus» feet, rising from within like deformed pistils.

This idyllic scene has been a wallpaper many, many times before, as it is one of the original Android wallpapers back during its preview days.

Bistro chairs, fabric runners and pots of freshly cut flowers contribute to the idyllic scene.

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Superficialities, taking refuge in familiarity, idyllic playing around with Nativity scenes, and so forth, have displaced our view from the tremendous event this holy day represents... One must take care to celebrate Christmas with a great realism... One should bear in mind that we are celebrating the feast of God becoming man... That is how man must understand it.

The Spanish influence in both architecture and wine is strong at Masia de la Vinya, while Cougar Vineyard & Winery (which features 100 % Estate, award - winning Italian varietals including Primitivo, Pinot Grigio, and Pulciano), Robert Renzoni Vineyards & Winery, and Danza del Sol Winery all evoke the idyllic Italian wine scene.

GAZE out over a tropical rainforest and the scene looks idyllic — a kaleidoscope of trees festooned with colourful vines, orchids, ferns and lichens.

The scene couldn't be more idyllic: an isolated beach, a pair of young lovers, nothing but them and the sea.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), Sam Peckinpah's personal favorite of his films, opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

The scene is pretty idyllic, before the inevitable danger strikes.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), one of Sam Peckinpah's personal favorites of his films (and the rare Peckinpah film not to get reworked by the studio), opens on an idyllic river scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current with a beatific smile on her face.

For fans of the human verses nature thriller, the film offers an idyllic location, ominous music, plenty of intense attack scenes and gallons and gallons of blood.

A later scene, which has Eilis and Tony overlooking a plot of land on Long Island, is so perfectly idyllic that we can feel an impending marriage between Eilis» old life and what could be her new one.

But somehow they find each other and strike up a romance, which we see play out in a number of flashback scenes that are idyllic, playful, tense and loving.

A few weeks back, we had the chance to go behind the scenes at Land Rover's sprawling design studio in idyllic Gaydon, about two hours outside London.

In addition to the independently produced events that dot the idyllic valley at wineries, museums and galleries, the county will host several central city events that celebrate each town's unique scene.

There is a thriving food scene in the idyllic town of nearby Puerto Vallarta, or PV, as it is affectionately known by those who live there.

In the Norman Rockwell Museum, just outside the town centre and also home to his studio, his painting of Main Street Stockbridge hangs in full glory, showing a scene so impossibly idyllic that had I not just come from there I would have thought he had painted a fictional place.

And the magic of the day continues as you travel to Oberammergau, an idyllic village known for its once - a-decade performance of the Passion Play, and its typical Bavarian houses painted with scenes from fairytales.

Named the top beach in the Caribbean by USA Today, Eagle Beach is an idyllic Caribbean scene: miles of powdery sand lapped by gentle surf.

Wrapped in a lush green carpet, surrounded by sprawling tea hills & dotted with welcoming palms, Kerala packages a trip of a lifetime, made heady with the scent of cardamom and cloves punctuated with dreamy morning strolls, memorable sunsets, and idyllic village life scenes.

Imagine fine sands, swaying palms and deep azure waters and you're half way to picturing the idyllic coastal scenes of Mozambique.

Take an idyllic cruise to the Gladstone Harbour islands or a fascinating behind the scenes industry tour.

Enjoy the lively café scene, markets and nightlife of the capital, Maputo, sail on a dhow through the idyllic islands of the Archipelago das Quirimbas and the Archipelago de Bazaruto, visit the UNESCO World Heritage listed Ilha de Mocambique with its cobbled streets lined with colonial buildings, trek the cool forests and secluded valleys of Montes Chimanimani, where you'll also find rich traditional cultures, and the verdant hills and tea plantations of Gurue or take a safari in the wilds of Gorongosa National Park.

A Thailand holiday in 2019 will transport you to the stunning region of Southeast Asia, into a mystic country blessed with captivating culture and history, golden beaches on idyllic islands, and a fascinating culinary scene.

But because Farmville is also a platform for socialization and expression, there is also an incredible variety of farms that reject progression entirely; from eclectic need - one - of - everything collections, to idyllic pastoral scenes where some kind of virtual Feng Shui reigns.

Opulent scenes of beastly anthropomorphic figures amidst fantastical worlds of idyllic skies and classical ruins fills Shaw's first exhibition at three venues at Pace.

Scenes from Western Culture (2015), comprised of nine «cinematic paintings» depicting idyllic visions of Western civilization, plus a series of new paintings made en plein air in the West Bank, are on view in the Chelsea space, while in Bushwick, he presents the four - channel video installation World Light - The Life and Death of an Artist (2015), the artist's interpretation of Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness's novel World Light (1937 — 40).

While Gueorguieva's does not depict any female nudes in an idyllic riverside scene, hers does evoke the same palette as the Renoir version.

The level of trust between Davey and all her subjects is reflected in the intimacy and honesty of the photographs, which range from idyllic pastoral scenes to an interior shot of a hungry moment eating pizza in a late night kebab shop.

His series of ten flags consists of generic photos of idyllic beach scenes overlaid with abstract monochrome shapes and patterns.

Atypical works in color, such as Untitled (PI3)(2013), an idyllic tropical scene, still carry a sense of being in black and white, or «touched up,» as if shaded by history.

A photographer who started out as a fantasist — staging scenes of young girls escaping together into idyllic landscapes — has turned into one of our most talented realists.

Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.