Sentences with phrase «imaginary scenes from»

Linder's Bower of Bliss is an imaginary scene from the life of Mary Queen of Scots as if redone by Pipilotti Rist in the Scottish highlands.

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Drawn from the poetry of the lyrics, LOVE explores the content of the songs in a series of scenes inhabited by real and imaginary people.

Barbara Rossi was among the stars of that scene, and «Poor Traits,» in the New Museum's lobby gallery, is a captivating show of her zany, imaginary reverse paintings on Plexiglas and surrealistic graphite drawings from 1967 to 1975.

The former — an abstract collection of images created by inputting a series of numbers corresponding to frequencies, amplitudes, and color values into a custom - designed program — plays with the role technology plays in photographic representation; the latter, staged scenes from a imaginary emergency situation of power loss in New York City, explores what happens to human emotions in such scenarios.

«Contemporary African art has been present on the global art scene long enough for imaginary forms stemming from creative minds to be apprehended first and foremost through the intrinsic nature and the intricate relations between form, medium and space, before being loaded with the burden of history and cultural specificity.»

From Corcoran Gallery: For ten years, Los Angeles artist Alex Prager has staged imaginary scenes for her camera — dream worlds in Technicolor, rife with tension and melodramatic fictions.

Most Hudson River School paintings were based on plein - air drawings that were later worked up in the artist's studio, and - while they included some details of actual places - usually consisted of composite scenes taken from a number of real and imaginary locations.

«At the core of the show are examples of his most famous technique: seamlessly fabricating photographs from apparently unrelated negatives, creating scenes both imaginary and intensely real, with well - known works shown alongside never - before - seen recent images,» says Michener Director and CEO Lisa Tremper Hanover.

The exhibition, inspired by 18th century Fête Champêtre paintings and taking its title from Aldous Huxley's first novel, depicts scenes from an imaginary 1920s garden party in the English countryside into which Milbrath has inserted her main character, Poor Gray, who resembles a Baudelairean dandy with his wealth, melancholy and inactivity.

The video work was made by combining scenes from three Hollywood sci - fi films, Countdown (1968), Marooned (1969) and 2010 (1984), which reference various true and imaginary escapades in space.

Using photographic images from newspapers or snapshots as a starting point, Peter Doig recasts everyday imagery to make imaginary landscapes and figure scenes.

Through complex schemes, marked by several layers of symbolism, themes such as body image, sexuality, social turmoils and political convulsions are communicated in a vertiginous speed, forming a whirlwind of multiple anachronisms which combine autobiographical scenes from the artist's domestic life and public events belonging Brazilian history — both those stamped in the country's social imaginary as well as those programmatically neglected from it.