Sentences with phrase «into mythic»

Perhaps now the contemporary art world needs a big jolt of magical faith to lift those bits of fat, felt, copper, and cultural rubble, vitrines, drawings, blackboards and olive presses out of the reliquary graveyard and put them back into the mythic realm of the artist as shaman.

A fully realized, almost Gothic setting breathes life into the mythic underpinnings of this coming - of - age novel.

In a novel whose title invokes the grand sweep of an epic, there shouldn't be any surprise when the domestic tale leaps into mythic territory: bouts of hubris, betrayal and thwarted power that spring from the pages of classical tragedies.

A salesman from Ashland, Alabama, who, by his own confession, just wanted to be a great man, Edward is revealed in a series of amusing, backward glances as a man quick with a rib - splitting joke as well as full of wise if improbable tales of his heroic past that blend into the mythic, even fairy - tale - like material of transcendence.

Great westerns, almost by definition, have a largeness of spirit, a fullness in which the quotidian morphs inexorably into the mythic.

That's what I feel like watching Jauja — like I'm looking through a window into some mythic realm so unfamiliar it's spooky.

«I, Tonya» ventures past an empathetic portrait of this woman into transforming her into a mythic anti-heroine, whose warrior spirit can not be vanquished.

But if we are to come to the roots of the problem, we have to go deeper into the mythic, theological, and scientific ways of thinking upon which our anthropocentrism is erected.

Choosing as his subject the biblical account of the marriage at Cana, he takes the Scripture's «sustaining myth» and transforms it (in the style of the 15th - century Old Masters) into a mythic self - portrait.

Believing there was an actual «Adam», «Eve» and / or «Noah» goes beyond the realm of history to me and into the mythic (again from my point of view).

And it elevated what was really a fairly simple track into mythic status.

Not exact matches

In fact, experience is inchoate even to the subject until it is captured first at the level of mythic expression, much of which is nonverbal, then in mythologies which cast myth into the form of narrative, then in fully conceptualized systems.

In the end, modernity would achieve its inevitable revision of our understanding of ourselves and our world, and the mythic Juan — personifying the irresoluble tension between what was passing away and what was coming into being — would at the last quietly melt away.

And in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.

A diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific — as beautiful as it is treacherous — unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda / Scarlet Witch exhibits a similar connection between personality and superpowers: Although much (too much) of her screen time consists of hovering over her wounded lover, Vision, while her raccoon eyes squeeze out tears, when she strides into the fray, waving her arms and emitting cracking scarlet beams, she suggests mythic power.

These sequels trade directly on the emotional legacy of the originals (The Last Jedi makes some leaps into sentimental hyperspace, particularly in the way that it handles Fisher on - screen), and the more of the aged Luke and Leia we see, the more we chip away at the mythic power of characters as Lucas left them: Young, strong, immortal.

In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific — as beautiful as it is treacherous — unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

Its storyline taps into primal themes - flawed gods, monsters run amuck and children seeking desperately for their lost parents — that girds the sound and light show with mythic power.

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is the same sort of serio - mythic sun - dappled hagiography as The Legend of Bagger Vance or The Natural, an unquiet mishmash of genres that includes the perfunctory heatless marriage to the perfunctory long - suffering wife and a series of context - free sports intrigues that segue into a series of shrug - worthy trophy ceremonies.

It finally took a mainland setting with a Taiwanese transplant director and an American writer, who endowed the romantic stars with a mythic glow, and blended the action into the love story rather than vice versa.

The mood is what's important though, as Peckinpaugh turns the romantic, mythic Western into a chaotic, bloody hell, and that's always fun.

Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker who has been weaving horror, gothic romance, comic books, demonic superheroes, mythic tales, and creatures into the DNA of his films since his debut, Cronos, which premiered almost exactly 25 years ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

As Mitch Cullin weaves together Holmes's hidden past, his poignant struggle to retain mental acuity, and his unlikely relationship with Roger, Holmes is transformed from the machine - like, mythic figure into an ordinary man, confronting and acquiescing to emotions he has resisted his entire life.

Still it rose to an improbable height, the antlers seven feet beyond the eight - foot crossbar of the truck's pole rack — fifteen feet of animal stretched vertically, climbing into the heavens, and the humans working below, so tiny — but as they continued to carve away at it, it slowly came to seem less mythic and more steerlike; and the two old men working steadily upon it began to seem closer to its equal.

That is normally the case, but when I was younger, I ran into a case with a micro-cap stock (Cerbco, aptly named for the mythic three - headed dog of hell) where the supervoting share class received a higher price in an asset sale.

Step into a rubber tube and float leisurely into the mysterious subterranean world of «Xibalba» - the mythic underworld of the ancient Maya.

EA recently sent the final nail into the coffin on Dawngate by Waystone Games last month, joining equally praised developers Westwood Studios, Mythic Entertainment, and Pandemic studios.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion drops players into Tamriel's Cyrodill province, where the fanatical Mythic Dawn cult are opening portals to the demonic realm of Oblivion.

The long - awaited Mythic Map Pack drops into Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

They are classified into normal, legendary, and mythic divisions, and all Pokemon types, including Fairy, Dark, and Steel are included.

Halo 3 Mythic Theme (Premium) Price: 250 Microsoft Points Size: 140 MB Description: Inspired by the Forger's paradise, Sandbox, with nods to Assembly and Orbital, the Halo 3 Mythic Theme takes custom content to a whole new level, transforming your Xbox 360 into a sand swept playground.

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Price: 800 Microsoft Points Size: 328 MB Description: The long - awaited Mythic Map Pack drops into Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

When «Radical Presence» opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, last year, it also included five works from Piper's 1975 series I am the Locus, collaged and painted Polaroids on which images of Piper as the Mythic Being are inserted into scenes of a crowded street.

See, in Denim Dress, how the tranquil American iconography of girl - sprawled - out - in - field jumps the frame when you realise the girl is a boy; and in Junction 2015, how the mythic forms and long shadows of the American west are worked into surreal compositions that speak as poignantly of human longing as has any sculpture or painting.

The legend of Arachne, the talented mortal weaver who was turned into a spider by the goddess Athena for daring to challenge her skill, further conjures mythic associations of female envy and jealousy.

Her stories are inspired by familial tales, poetry, and politics, which she translates into collective, surreal and mythic structures.

Adrian Piper's work Mythic Being (1973) and the work of Sara Greenberger Rafferty, an artist whose critique of social roles in stand - up comedy Grabner also curated into the Biennial, appear to have directly influenced Scanlan's choices.The problem with his project is that it functions by exploiting rather than critiquing the severely limited representation of minority artists at the Whitney, and in the art world more broadly.

Ultimately, like the mythic nymphs of The Odyssey who, through their songs, lured sailors into the sea and to their own destruction, Alloucherie's icebergs are sirens.

Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being — her subversive masculine alter - ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art.

Works from later volumes present changing preoccupations in Twombly's work and thinking, as he plunged further into poetic and mythic sources.

12/9 Joanna Malinowska Through 1/15, Canada Malinowska's room - filling sculptures evoke animal life - forms while swerving away from identification into more mythic territory.

Juxtaposing illustrations of historical events with familiar contemporary images, Henricksen's work invites you to step into a shamanistic world of non-linear narrative and mythic time.

Whether or not he was aware of Williams's injunction, Diebenkorn moved to New Mexico for graduate study in 1950, into an American landscape whose mythic space inspired artists from Marsden Hartley to Agnes Martin, and which released an exuberant exploration of new American sources.

As the galleries spiral inward, the artwork seems to shed outside references — from the text - laden political paintings of Chéri Samba and Jenny Holzer, to the La Jetée - inflected proto - film installation by Emily Jacir, to the mythic, duskily luminous reverse paintings on acrylic sheets by Nalini Malani, whose umbilical cord imagery segues curiously but seamlessly into the antic zigzags of Elizabeth Murray's unchained «Wild Style.»

Mythic creatures, part - man part - dog, children with exotic animal skins, medieval noble women, and monks, are brought together within the gallery walls, which they in turn transform into a post-modern version of a magical forest, worthy of a Brothers Grimm tale.

McCarthy's work does foreshadow the tendency of artists here to take mythic stuff into their own hands.

His distinctive melding of these influences coalesces into a folk - driven, utopian vision of the mythic American West and of lush gardens as sites of contemplation, loss, and possible redemption.

It was during this period of intense civil unrest and police brutality that Edwards's powerful welded steel sculptures, David Hammons's mythic body prints and John Outterbridge's constrained - yet - chaotic assemblages came into view.

As in his Legends paintings, small - scale works that employ legible symbols and graphic relationships as linguistic antecedent, Bosmans translates the mythic signification of these cultural relics into plastic materiality through facsimile and abstraction.