Sentences with phrase «laconic work»

Another figure to wonder about is Mary Heilmann, the great California painter — a phenomenal colorist, whose laconic work fizzes with ideas.

His fiercely laconic work destroyed the boundaries between furniture and sculpture, between private delectation and public use and radically altered the way we see many 20th - century masters, including Gerrit Rietveld and Brâncuși.

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The McAllans» neighbors, the Jacksons, have been there longer: Their patriarch, Hap (Rob Morgan), is a laconic, knowing descendant of enslaved laborers who for generations have «worked this land that would never be theirs.»

There's a strong feeling that could change this year in the wake of his impressive work as laconic Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified's pitch - perfect second season.

Led by Michael Shannon, who has appeared in all of Nichols» films, the large cast is fantastic; although Joel Edgerton has received acclaim for his role in Nichols» Loving (also released this year), his laconic supporting performance here is arguably his finest work.

Still, for much of the running time this is a work of almost astonishing restraint, as laconic and homespun as many of the president's storytelling sessions.

Cage's laconic voiceover work (he has two speeds, laconic and manic) is over-writing at its most obvious and patronizing: nothing goes uncommented - upon and so this picture about subterranean discomfort has no subtext at all.

The series, which features flying cars and shape - shifting exotic dancers, should go some way to satisfying those longing for a second «Blade Runner» sequel, but best of all is the return of the lanky, laconic Kinnaman — Holder on «The Killing» — to detective work.

In her installation Quarry (all works 2007), Helen Mirra uses her laconic touch to map a phenomenal expedition across time.

My work in mixed media is accumulative and additive, and has required using found materials, for their laconic potential, as well as being «stand ins» for all who came into contact with said material.

Typically laconic, Johns has always been reticent about explaining his work, leaving that to scholars and art historians.

Byrne's work is characterised by a laconic humour.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.

«For someone who had worked so hard for so long to achieve his breakthrough as an artist, Roy Lichtenstein, even late in life, always remained laconic about the way his famous comic book images actually started.

So he belongs in the pool of postwar figurative painters whose works are, to one degree or another, conceptual or «abstract»: painters like Gerhard Richter and Malcolm Morley, who, like him, use photographs, or, among Americans, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and even Wayne Thiebaud, specialists at a certain laconic registration.

JAPAN SOCIETY GALLERY While the title of this show refers to one of Yoko Ono's early works, the «YES» must also be taken as a laconic riposte to that confused and sometimes hostile...

Campins» works, laconic in style, are similar to those of Polish artist Joseph Schulz, whose Form 14 (archetypal of Schulz's style) exhibits architecture without detail.

In his laconic way, he then confirmed that he was as fascinated by Bram's work as he was by his persona.

In the landmark — if decidedly laconic — Zambrano case, the Court held that the Colombian parents of two Belgian children — born and raised in Belgium and who had never exercised free movement rights — could not be denied residence and work permits where it would have the effect of depriving the Union citizens the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights conferred by their status as EU citizens.