Sentences with phrase «like war paint»

Not exact matches

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«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.

Kids love the interactive resort activities like paint wars and Wii tournaments.

Crafted and hand painted to look like a Stormtrooper ™ helmet, this pendant is the perfect accent to any Star Wars ™ fan room.

It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

Much like his other epic films about war, Spielberg paints a picture words can never portray.

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

Disco and Atomic War (In Russian, English, Estonian and Finnish with subtitles) Cold War Era mockumentary painting a humorous picture of what life was like behind the Iron Curtain for citizens of Estonia being constantly subjected to Communist propaganda.

Next, the reveal that Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie is going to wear war - paint along with her armor much like a Native American.

A visually wonderful animation made with gorgeous colors and a simple design in watercolor like the style of Chinese painting, and in addition to a great score it finds a most delicate balance between refreshing humor and themes like war, honor and the bravery of women.

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

There's a certain paint - by - numbers approach that makes «Infinity War» feel like the latest model off the assembly line, especially for casual moviegoers who don't really know or care about the characters in the first place.

Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as «one of the great films in motion picture history,» Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary - like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair.

If you are fortunate, you had a few creative teachers — ones like those who challenge students to write long division raps, choreograph geometry dances, perform World War II radio commercials, and paint literary quotes on ceiling tiles.»

Whether clicking like on a Facebook page, wearing a wristband, placing a sticker on a car, painting a suburban garage in Southern California etc. none had any relation to capturing and imprisoning war criminals Joseph Kony or Omar Al - Bashir.

Just about every surface viewable to the naked eye was touched: the front of the car has a beautifully fabricated cockpit made to look like the Falcon's, while custom body work and a detailed paint job mimic the wear and tear the ship has taken across its time in the Star Wars universe.

(I think what most comics fans find most distasteful about his comics paintings is that he didn't paint more superheroes instead of stealing from «lower» forms, like romance & war comics.)

At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only.

Games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War have painted Sony as somewhat of a golden - child for offering AAA single - player experiences to its players, a move that has only strengthened its position and reputation.

While the title looked mighty impressive, it certainly didn't look like a «painting,» but more like God of War on a next - generation console.

Guild Wars 2 has always had a fantastic art style, and there are times in the Crystal Oasis it feels like you've walked into some beautiful old oil painting.

I was surprised by how much I liked the series of four Weeping Willow Trees that were homage's to France's fallen soldiers painted in the wake of World War I. (View Weeping Willow, 1921)

The «triumph of American painting» has taken a lot of hits over the years, like much else from the Cold War.

With over 100 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, this definitive survey brings together the work of American artists like Joseph Cornell, Peter Blume, Kay Sage, Isamu Noguchi, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollock — with that of Europeans in exile during World War II, including Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, André Masson and Max Ernst.

With cultural epicenters like Paris and London in ruins after the war, New York City moved into the limelight as the new center of the art world, fortified by the establishment of The Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later known as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.)

Pioneering and critically lauded works of Spero's career include the frieze - like scroll installations such as Cri du Coeur and Azur; large panels such as the Codex Artaud series and Notes in Time on Women, and the stark, impulsive War Series and Artaud Paintings.

The contrast between his early visionary depictions of mystical trees and beings, and the paintings that stand as some of the most memorable images of war ever made, is emphatic, underlining perhaps that Nash was not a «natural» artist in the way that contemporaries like Stanley Spencer certainly were.

Like many works by these practitioners, Mallary's reliefs, paintings and assemblages oscillate between visions of destruction and recuperation, registering the impact of World War II and the threat of the Cold War, but also expressing a desire for reparation.

Begun before 9/11, Undertones of War looks like nothing so much as the underpainting of a Frank Auerbach: a thin jumble of bad - tempered brushy scribbles on unprimed wood veneer, the painting continuing on to the rough pine frame.

They also squabble over how to photograph the striking scenery and sunsets (projected into the movie at odd moments, the photographs seem like old - master Dutch paintings), hone their depression and fear of illness, discuss the folly of the war in Iraq and watch a group of machos at target practice.

With her Amazonas, Sánchez embraces feminine forms by imagining each geometric painting as a body with nipple - like protrusions, their titles perhaps referencing the Greek myth of the Amazons as a group of warring women who chopped off their own breasts to better wield bows and arrows.

Mitchell - Innes & Nash (booth C09) will present a selection of horizontal Stripe abstractions from the 1960's by a seminal Post War American artist and one of the central figures of Color Field painting — Kenneth Noland (probably better known for his circular, target - like paintings).

AB: When I look at Guernica, I can relate to the political climate in which Picasso made that painting better than I could with literature written about that time, because I can see how war felt like from his sole perspective.

From the tortured bodies in Francisco Goya's seminal Disasters Of War series to his surreal Black Paintings, daubed directly on to the walls of his house, the Spanish great depicted the darkness of the soul like no other artist.

This is one of her war paintings; she was responding to the horrors of the Vietnam war and this particular one [looks] like a rocket, going up with these bloodied bodies.

In the 1950s and»60s, reacting against Abstract Expressionism's seriousness and influenced by Surrealist Roberto Matta, Saul began to paint everyday objects like iceboxes, steaks, and toilets in bright colors, along with political works like his series of graphic, cartoonish «Vietnam» paintings (1960s), which though had no clear moral message or political agenda, were evidently anti-Vietnam War.

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

Maggi Hambling grapples with war, Jo Baer's dream - like paintings and a rethinking of classical art

In previous days I have highlighted a few, like the handsome show Danh Vo has organized at billionaire Francois Pinault's Punta della Dogana, and the «War Paintings» of Jenny Holzer at Museo Correr.

The paintings serve as a continuation of the sculptural, war - like figurations which are part of a new series of work entitled «The Dawning of an Aspect.»

After the war I didn't feel like painting with color.

During the war years she would meet other painters like Lucian Freud and John Minton at the Mandrake or the Gargoyle club, or at the Colony Club in Soho, a favourite watering hole of Francis Bacon and the subject of a famous painting by Michael Andrews.

The intimacy, hopefulness and meditation of flower arranging is contrasted by the direct war reference in, Untitled 15 # 02, a depiction of a camouflaged helmeted solder whose face is mostly obscured by colorfully painted netting, which could be more like beekeeping than war making.

The international political scene at the time, characterised by the brutality of facts and events such as the Vietnam War, the apartheid regime in South Africa and the consequences of imperialism, constantly reverberates in Golub's painting, like an ever - present murmur that can not be silenced.

Krieg (War), 1981 It is alleged that Richter did not like the painting, and felt the name was too explicit.

At the beginning of the 1950s you made poignant paintings like Terre Brûlée (1951), which is an assimilation of the war and of such sights as you saw in Frankfurt.

After the war the area was still sufficiently undeveloped that an impecunious artist couple like Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner could afford to buy property, enabling Pollock to escape the pressures of the city, stop drinking and produce his breakthrough drip paintings.

These concerns and protests are nothing new, of course; art world outsiders and enfant terribles like the Guerrilla Girls and their irreverent posters, the anti-art of Dada, or Warhol's «Oxidation» paintings have long waged war with performance, protest, and art to challenge and change the otherwise impenetrable establishment.

He does not engage in a tug - of - war with the machine, like Wade Guyton, whose means of creating paintings centers on forcing a canvas past ink jets.