Sentences with phrase «jazz riffs on»

These paintings are more like playful jazz riffs on a famous melody, rather than a strategy of conscious art historical appropriation.

His sense of humor plays lightly on themes of literature, mortality, and nostalgia, as if he were composing jazz riffs on an old banjo.

By comparison, Caritas in Veritate is like jazz riffs on a familiar tune.

Not exact matches

Philip Clayton, a theologian at Claremont School of Theology, picks up on this dimension of evolutionary process and likens creaturely life to the unfolding of a jazz composition: God provides the motifs, but creatures (of various kinds, from the smallest to the largest) provide the original riffs.

This exploration of jazz innovator Miles Davis «riffs» on one incident in his life with flashbacks to fill in a few blanks.

The bebop idea of riffing on a melody to the extent that the melody becomes unrecognizable (with an attendant introduction of dozens of beats to the standard four - beat bar) carries through in the frenetic kineticism of series that also, by its format, mirrors jazz bebop's compact agility (generally carried by quartet and quintet arrangements)-- making a feature - length film, then, a strange place for the «Cowboy Bebop» franchise to go.

Here a love affair with God only knows how much karma behind it takes place and events follow a kind of dream logic; a jazz - like riffing on themes of love and disappointment.

Jazz musicians are known for working together to create new and exciting riffs or new variations on familiar themes.

PT: In his catalogue essay for Yearning Upwards, Neil Plotkin makes a case that painting a tree is akin to riffing on a jazz standard in that the «standard offers the opportunity to consider a familiar subject from a different point of view.»

Let me say this: One of the great jazz soloists of his time, Lester Young, would riff on the chorus, and he'd play endless variations on it.

The new painting is a double portrait that riffs on an image of the model turned actress and jazz musician attending a film premiere.

Al Loving was an artist who drew on sources as varied as free jazz, his family's quilting traditions and the history of Modern painting when creating abstracted works that riffed on color, form and flatness.

For More Sweetly, Mr. Kentridge enlisted the diverse sounds of a South African brass band and a team of sound and animation engineers in order to create a dizzying pastiche of cultural references for this unique version of the ancient dance, which riffs on Mardi Gras jazz and regalia, Mexican Dia de los Muertos imagery, Catholic funerary marches,»60s protest chants, traditional African dance, college marching band choreography, and military parades, just to name some of the influences present.