Sentences with word «leitmotif»

By the mid-1970s, piles of limbs and shoes, as featured in Monument, had become leitmotifs in his work.

He was known to render certain themes several times over, which repeat themselves as leitmotifs throughout his body of work.

Indeed, the sweeping leitmotif for this work would appear that searing maverick - conscience of society, often located, in Igbo Nollywood movies, in some lowly drunkard, or even a lunatic — a societal nobody, that nevertheless exposes, with relish, the folly of the high - and - mighty!

This is what Filmfest Munich, the eclectic, hyperactive little sister of the Berlinale, is about: Focused mainly on being an audience - pleaser, it provides no real leitmotif or focus, leaving plenty of room for personal interpretation, and sometimes wonder.

Visitors are confronted with leitmotifs of capital, transmigration, and asylum.

Often our dependence on these tools and the despair that results from their failure to properly operate is a recurring leitmotif in his work.

Rather, it resides in the relationship with God which such existence may and does enjoy, whether this is realized or actualized in a vivid manner or is present only as a kind of Leitmotif which runs through the whole history of the human race and the personal history of each and every human person as a member of the society of men and women.

The sound design is good if not stellar; each hero is accompanied by their own leitmotif, changing the music every time you switch over.

The principle leitmotif informing the book is, as the title suggests, the all - pervasive lack of solitude (variously defined) in contemporary society.

In Dzama's art, personification has always been the main leitmotif — imagined characters and trees and beasts assume base human characteristics.

Even touch - to - focus is broken, focusing only briefly where you point but then returning to that continuous focus leitmotif before you even have a chance to snap the picture.

Bolder political leadership would surely help to shape our culture, but mobilization of the nonpolitical sphere to make downstream political changes possible remains the dominant leitmotif in American public life.

Hence St. Paul's call for awakening, the great leitmotif of Advent.

Aspersions on his eyesight are a game - day leitmotif.

The government leitmotif was a blind copy of ready - made anti-crisis recipes, in which the lived Bulgarian reality and the needs of the Bulgarian society and economy were not taken into consideration.

Tony Blair made adaptation to globalisation a Labour leitmotif.

This time around, we focused on three completely different fall 2018 collections, namely the ones by Prada, Etro, and Roberto Cavalli, as they all showcased a strong penchant for unpredicted leitmotifs, yet transmuting, at the same time, them to uncannily unusual aesthetics.

Fashion critic Alexander Fury at T Magazine called leopard print a «house leitmotif» at Dior, noting that the designer's muse Mitzah Bricard often wore the pattern.

Cold Case is not only operatic, with a different bloody libretto and a different leitmotif each week, but has ambitions on the grander scale of Gesamtkunstwerk, of total Wagnerian theater - including a jukebox time machine.

Notably, both characters provide their own musical leitmotifs: Powell announces himself by singing «Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,» Joe by rhythmically flicking his Zippo.

Legendary film composer John Williams, the man behind the music for all six Star Wars films and master of the science fictional leitmotif, will return to score Star Wars: Episode VII!

His back pain prompted a change of venue for a rendezvous, but as a writer — and a negotiator — Donovan doesn't use it as a comical leitmotif, the way Hanks uses his sniffles while complaining that he just wants to go home and go to bed.

The actors and director also discuss some of the veteran character actors in bit roles — John Carradine being the best - known — and some of the in - jokes (like the Smiley Face, which serves as a twisted leitmotif for the film's serial killer).

In making use of the premise — a thief who can change size — Reed retains the scope of a Marvel movie, with apocalyptic set - pieces and soaring orchestral leitmotifs, while literally keeping it small.

The three gills and «targa» lettering on the sides of the bar are a subtle leitmotif inspired by the original 1965 Targa model.

Dick and Jane, fragmented and reassembled, becomes a ghoulish leitmotif when we meet the young black protagonists whose sense of self - worth is warped by the white standards of beauty exemplified by Shirley Temple and Dick and Jane.

Kirkhope has a tremendous amount of fun with the classic leitmotifs of the Mario universe, concocting a sonic style that blends the childlike joy of Mario with the unhinged anarchy the Rabbids embody.

And the character leitmotifs are catchy too...

[8] Certain songs were ported from the score of Radical Dreamers, while other entries in the soundtrack contain leitmotifs from both Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers.

Undulating waves run up and down the canvas, slicing through or weaving behind solid circles of colour, interconnected rings and the artist's archetypal rosette and arabesque leitmotifs.

A constant leitmotif of his, the head - like sculptures are held on stands and plinths, some ripped open to reveal their crystalline interiors, others the grotesque combinations of two inverted profiles.

In his installation, Storm at Sea, Bailey utilizes objects such as piano keys, an African sculpture, and a glitter - covered ship to suggest leitmotifs associated with the black experience of the transatlantic slave trade.

«All The World's Futures» might be the overarching leitmotif of the 56th Venice Biennale, but Iran's national pavilion, its largest ever at the prestigious contemporary art event, has chosen to frame its future through its past.

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: «Freelance Artist — Poet and Sculptor — Inovator — Arrow maker and Plant man — Bone artifacts constructor — Photographer and Architect — Philosopher»» focuses on the formal leitmotifs of leaves and floral patterns as organizing principles in Von Bruenchenhein's multidisciplinary oeuvre.

These prints demonstrate one of the earliest uses of a favorite leitmotif, sunflowers, which grew in Mitchell's gardens at Vétheuil where she had settled a few years prior.

These lives of art works and objects, and the trans - national, trans - cultural and trans - historical conditions they interconnect is an important leitmotif in an exhibition dedicated to unfolding less anthropocentric, less Eurocentric and more ecologically minded forms of agency and intelligence.

The exhibition moves beyond its Italian leitmotif to a more general survey of the diversity, originality and indeed brilliance of Ileana Sonnabend's career as a promoter and collector of emerging art.

Like a Wagnerian opera painted in mist and fire, the late works of JMW Turner rise from silence to throbbing power, wheel out their visionary leitmotifs, and crash in apocalyptic frenzy.

Misha Nonoo was inspired in a recent visit to the Venice Biennale by the work of German artist Gerard Richter and created for her spring / summer collection a series of fabulous patterns that evoke the blurred leitmotifs of the famous painter.

Naves notes: «Continuity is the abiding leitmotif.

A reoccurring leitmotif in Jonas's practice, cones have often served multiple functions as sound device, sculptural object, stage prop and allusion to elements of the natural world such as trees and volcanoes.

The casual back and forth of the horizontal swimmers in Floaters (2015) provides a humorous leitmotif to the show; in Couples Swim (2015) they underscore the oblivion of these hedonistic pleasure seekers to the sublime heavenly display just over the horizon.

The Greek architect and former Bauhaus student Ioannis Despotopoulos designed the cavernous Athens Conservatoire in 1959, but as a musical institution it has existed since 1871, and accordingly, the transformative capacity of sound provides a welcome leitmotif.

Throughout the exhibition, according to curator Rachael Thomas, Emily Jacir «unveils to us intermittent leitmotifs of archiving, writing, video, film, interventions, photography and performance.