Sentences with phrase «literary themes»

There are many graphic novels that touch on historic events and serious literary themes.

This permanent collection exhibition juxtaposes American illustration work from the 19th and early 20th centuries with contemporary art based on literary themes in MAM's Shelby Gallery.

Best known as the creator of The Lady of Shalott, one of England's great masterpieces of Romanticism, John William Waterhouse started painting in a manner close to Lawrence Alma - Tadema (1836 - 1912) and Frederic Leighton (1830 - 96), depicting classical and historical scenes, but then turned to the depiction of literary themes executed in a dreamy, romantic manner.

If you fancy something more lively, they also run regular literary themed parties, and huge lavish balls for Valentines, Halloween, and Christmas.

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they are currently calling for drawings, paintings, photography, and cartoons with literary themes.

«This was a unifying act that allows the entire body to participate,» he said, alluding to the universal literary themes in the song's lyrics.

If you look at the humanities and much of the creative arts — especially the dramatic stories of war, alliance, and love — many literary themes describe the conflict between group and individual selection.

It was easily last year's most corrosive Hollywood movie about the American way of life, and it was especially good at showing the claustrophobic desperation of living in a small midwestern town and slowly going insane — a potent literary theme at least since Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

Helen Oyeyemi draws on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme: the existence of «doubles,» both real and spiritual, who play havoc with our perceptions and our lives.

Filmed in the 1970s, The Deadly Tower of Monsters is an action - packed adventure, full of time - honored literary themes.

In the medium - scale drawings on view, the artist uses ink, gold leaf, crayon, pastel and pencil on paper to explore historical depictions of wings and flying, while her large - scale collages employ mapping to smartly reinterpret aesthetic and literary themes from the past.

Romanticism Late 18th - and early 19th - century antithesis to classicism; the imagination of the artist and the choice of literary themes predominated.

The Atlantic article pokes fun at the idea of a literary theme park, which only means that the writer has not been to Prince Edward Island.

These are literary themes that have existed through all of written history.

While we were visiting the library, they had cakes on display from the baking and pastry arts students that were all literary themed.

In keeping with the literary theme, the film's screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is adapted from the novel «A Slight Trick Of The Mind» by Mitch Cullin, which recounts Holmes» final years living with his housekeeper Ms. Munro and her young son in the Sussex countryside - where he keeps bees and documents the memories of his most famous cases (many of which he says Watson got wrong or wildly embellished).

But more important than the sales or the traffic was the perception that consumers came away with, the knowledge that their local stores are meeting vital needs in their communities and are gathering places of interest in a literary themed mindset.

Do you intend on visiting a bookstore, library or have a literary themed date today?

Beginning in the Renaissance with representations of mythological, religious, and literary themes, the most famous artists of the time were commissioned to commemorate pivotal historical events that defined national identities.

Prince's podiums comprise Anglo - American editions of books, including Edna O'Brien's August Is a Wicked Month (1965) and J. G. Ballard's Crash (1973), and serve as a reminder of the show's literary theme.

His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large - scale formats.