Lluís Barba reworks iconic artworks to comment on contemporary society,
introducing modern characters into Hyeronimus Bosch's or Pieter Brueghel's medieval scenes.
Not exact matches
The Colleens fit a comically exaggerated stereotype of
modern teenagers by remaining glued to their phones, constantly texting, tweeting and
introducing the other
characters in the movie via photos and hashtags that they've uploaded to Instagram — or, as it's known in these Canuck parts, Insta - Can.
It kicked off in 2008 with Iron Man, which gave birth to one of the most popular franchises in
modern movie history and
introduced a new generation of fans to classic comic book
characters.
«Astonishing... The Sensation of Sight
introduces a rare and touching
character practically nonexistent in
modern movies — a
character who resists with dignity our current slide into cultural decadence and who provokes our nerves and curiosity... The great actor David Strathairn and all the brilliant cast of this unique movie made the right decision to invest their talents in this project... Wiederspahn is surely a new hope in American independent cinema.»
The new game in the 11 year long series is simply titled Medal of Honor, and will be leaving the world war II theatre for the first time in it's history with a
modern day setting of Afghanistan where we will be
introduced to a small band of fictional
characters.
Players will notice in levels that
modern Sonic will join the custom hero as a playable and switchable
character, and while that's exciting, this option lends even more credit to what could be done with Forces if an online co-op or multiplayer mode was
introduced.
The game, which
introduced two
characters known as Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel — because the creators REALLY had no idea where they wanted to take this series — was never released outside of arcades due to using a track ball that would've made it difficult to port to a console, either for the time or for
modern consoles as part of a collection.
Rareware debuted the familiar
modern - day design of Donkey Kong with the game, which included his trademark red necktie (though this was actually
introduced in the aforementioned Game Boy Donkey Kong), and
introduced a full supporting cast of side -
characters and enemies that were owned by Rareware themselves during their affiliation with Nintendo.
Taking the classic Call of Duty first - person shooter series in a new direction,
Modern Warfare puts the player in control of a number of different
characters in its single - player campaign, as well as
introducing new features to multiplayer games.
In discussing the place of painting and sculpture in the culture of our time, I shall refer only to those kinds which, whether abstract or not, have a fresh inventive
character, that art which is called «
modern» not simply because it is of our century, but because it is the work of artists who take seriously the challenge of new possibilities and wish to
introduce into their work perceptions, ideas and experiences which have come about only within our time.