Sentences with phrase «in fictional portraits»

Bestselling author Melanie Benjamin's passion for history and biography animates the lives of the iconic women she depicts in fictional portraits that explore their inner lives and unknown stories.

Though Tóibín has reservations about some scholarly speculations regarding the master's private life, he exploits these interpretations in his fictional portrait.

Not exact matches

These days, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore's fictional marriage is more likely to be mocked for its separate beds than heralded for its portrait of a progressive marriage in the 1960s.

An example would be the fictional sermon on hell that James Joyce recounts in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This kind of preaching fosters an image of God as an unloving and cruel tyrant, and in some cases leads to a complete denial of hell or even to atheism.

Jauja takes Alonso's contemplative portraits of men on the outskirts of civilization and adds professional actors (Viggo Mortensen in the Viggo Mortensen role, a multilingual yet taciturn historical military man), a period setting, a fully fictional story, and maybe even some magic to achieve his biggest minimalist movie yet.

Right from the start, it's clear that this will be an ultra-close-range portrait of the drug war — a popular topic in recent movies both fictional («Miss Bala,» «Heli») and not («Narco Cultura,» «Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty»).

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, a portrait of a fictional fashion designer in the couture scene of 1955 London, indulges in similar revels, placing the film firmly in the tradition of the melodramatic women's pictures of the 1940s: it's filled with achingly vivid close - ups (Anderson also shot the film) of shining colored threads, needles piercing thick fabric, rough - edged hand - sewn labels, intricate lace patterns, and rich cloth falling in sculptural folds.

Portuguese director Joao Canijo returns with his eighth feature, Blood of My Blood, (his first fictional outing since 2007's Misbegotten) a sprawling, all consuming portrait of one week in the life a matriarchal run familial unit in the slums outside Lisbon, and may indeed be his masterpiece.

As Tony Kuehn writes in his BookPage review, «This book is a living, breathing testament to Evison's singular talent for creating portraits of people who may be fictional, but nevertheless are so vital that one is certain their names must be in a historic register somewhere.»

Like Clockers (1992) and his two other books set in fictional Dempsey, N.J. - Freedomland (1998) and Samaritan (2002)- Lush Life paints a richly textured portrait of city dwellers that would make Balzac and Dickens proud: The novel is populated with quick - witted cops, underprivileged teenage criminals, ethically challenged officials, and overworked and long - suffering average joes.

Because the fictional portraits seem so real, it is impossible not to become caught up in Dan and Claudette's lives and read eagerly — and anxiously - to see how their story will be resolved.

From the gaze of a young Susan Atkins standing trial for the Tate - LaBianca murders, to the martyr - like pathos of an injured United States gymnast, the portraits in White's new series create an arresting tension between the fictional and the recognizable.

In 2015 Kagami presented an «intimate portrait session» performance as part of the Live section of Frieze London; the performance drew an audience of more than 2000 visitors over the course of four days and involved the artist creating fictional portraits of each visitor's penis or breasts.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

In a series of colorful portraits, the exhibition chronicles the lives of two fictional, aristocratic Nigerian families.

To Wander Determined by Toyin Ojih Odutola, Whitney Museum, New York, NY For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

A series of portraits depicting both friends and fictional women in their wedding dresses, the show seeks to interrogate why women still partake in this «antiquated ceremony.»

In her exhibition The Firmament, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

She envisions a pair of fictional aristocratic families in a new series of life - sized charcoal, pastel, and pencil portraits.

Wantee, which Prouvost was commissioned to create for Schwitters in Britain, was a collection of works by her fictional grandfather, while Yiadom - Boakye's Chisenhale Gallery exhibition Extracts and Verses featured portraits of imagined sitters with invented backstories.

TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA In her first solo New York museum show, the young Nigerian artist presents fictional portraits of two aristocratic families.

His previous works have portrayed rock stars and fictional characters in energetic portraits that relay the artist's painterly skill.

For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag artist José Pérez Ocaña, among others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano, whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.

They're not portraits, but representations of fictional characters, their arresting postures, the style in which each is painted, suggest different works by old and 19th - century masters: Caravaggio, Velázquez, Degas.

After 20 years of taking photographs of herself in private, June Calypso began a series of self portraits in which she stages herself as a fictional character named Joyce.

For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Ojih Odutola has created a series of fictional portraits depicting two well - to - do Nigerian families.

A few years ago, Kroeger shifted again from graphic design and public murals to canvas and contemporary art, creating «fictional portraits» composed of data fragments and machine parts, exploring what it means to be human in a digital world.

His fictional portraits amalgamate a range of sources, from classical sculpture to observed individuals in London's British Caribbean communities.

The early paintings of Chicago - based artist Jim Nutt place figures in a theatrical setting, while in his later fictional portraits, characters seem to exist in a different space — that of the portrait studio.

These include his 2001 «Shopkeeper Series,» simulacra of small business signs spelling out messages of quiet desperation in short word limits (like «SUE, I AM SORRY / PLEASE COME BACK» beneath a sign for «Jim & Susan's Motel»); several photographic portraits of real and fictional characters from the «Historical, Youth and Attribute Portraits» series from the early 1990s; as well as the now - iconic furniture sculpture Lum has been making since the laportraits of real and fictional characters from the «Historical, Youth and Attribute Portraits» series from the early 1990s; as well as the now - iconic furniture sculpture Lum has been making since the laPortraits» series from the early 1990s; as well as the now - iconic furniture sculpture Lum has been making since the late 1970s.

It includes one of Manders» defining works Inhabited for a Survey, (First Floor Plan from Self Portrait of a Building), 1986, part of a fictional architectural plan, Self Portrait of a Building, which has had a central place in his work since he began his career as an artist at the age of eighteen.

«Fictional Portraits painted in a style verging on magic realism create a haunting impression in Odutola's NYC museum debut.»

Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.

That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existencIn the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existencin our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.