Sentences with phrase «lyricism which»

His work is stringently conceptual, but with an elegant lyricism which belies its formal underpinnings.

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Christian Dietrich Grabbe, in 1829, produced Don Juan und Faust, a vast, seething swamp of large ideas, exaggerated passions, incoherent action, crushing monologues, deranged lyricism, and adolescent moral nihilism, which is somehow made even more unbearable by its numerous moments of poetic brilliance.

But there are moments of astonishing lyricism; particularly that death sequence, in which a nearly feral Dickinson sees — and lets us see — a terrifying, exquisite vision.

Narrative drive is hardly her strong point - what she achieves in this episodic study of a dirt - poor Glaswegian upbringing is tenderness, lyricism and unpatronising humour, which successfully lifts a story inspired by tragedy into something universally appealing.

Infused with the lyricism and take - no - prisoners storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous, this is a surprisingly rich, allusive, and non-sentimental look at the ideals of the 60's generation and their impact on today's radically transformed world.

Above all, it is a novel infused with the lyricism and take - no - prisoners storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous.

Poet Lee's harrowing family history, which begins in China and winds its way across oceans and much of the U.S., is a galvanizing story in its own right, but in his breathtaking prose, it attains the lyricism and universal significance of myth.

Alexandra Fuller's hardscrabble African lyricism returns in her third memoir, which focuses on the push - pull of her...

Influenced equally by music, storytelling, and individual history, McArthur Binion has described his approach to painting from the position of a «rural Modernist» and one through which he «abridges the lyricism of colour with a Black rural sensibility.»

Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.

Spanning work made between the 1960s and 1990s, this concise survey traces the evolution of Tanaka's style from his dark and intense early paintings, which demonstrate abstract experiments with nihon - ga materials, to the refinement of his later works that display a fresh and profound lyricism through the use of color.

The crumpled and ragged - edged sculptures convey a euphoric sense of spontaneity and lyricism that contrasts with the base industrial materials from which they are made.

In many ways, a tree's inherent structure is analogous to the way in which Mitchell composes her paintings: beginning from an anchored core, her physical gestures create an armature of rhythmic potential, allowing for an expressive lyricism that attempts to, as she says, «define a feeling.»

Olivier fuses painting and the moving image in tiny animated films which invest small events with magical lyricism and at the same time illuminate the narrative process of painting.

For co-curator Chris Darke, who frequently corresponded and also worked with Marker, the show reveals the ways in which the artist's «central subject was intelligence, a very particular, astute intelligence that's also full of political acuity, humour and lyricism».

While each artist avoids a lyrical title, there is an inherent lyricism in the final outcome which speaks outwardly on the history of the use of the tapestry in art.

Yet, Kahn's pointed concentration on hue and luminescence moves beyond the constraints of abstract expressionism, in which his teacher worked, to a kind of representation that artfully transcends overt description or narrative, even while maintaining a kind of painterly lyricism hinged entirely on color and its unique application.

The sculptures that constituted «BODY PARTS & ORACLES,» Chuck Nanney's first solo exhibition in more than a decade, abide by a lurid color scheme of lime green, neon pink, scarlet, and cerulean, which cumulatively generated an electric lyricism.

With more than 45 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition examines the ways in which Eastern traditions from Chinese and Japanese calligraphy to Zen Buddhism helped advance Abstract Expressionism's aesthetic agenda — its understated lyricism, its compositional balance, its subtle awareness of place — regardless of the artist.

Situated neither within Constructivist nor Minimalist movements, his pared - down vocabulary of lines and squares, refined colour palette and precise measurements nevertheless positioned Calderara closely with other minimalist painters at the time, including Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers, both of whom the artist admired greatly.Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.

If the pictorial lyricism of abstract expressionism continues to dominate the Los Angeles art scene, numerous artists have also decided to tread the path of a form of minimalism in which light is an inseparable part of their practice.

The elegant ephemeral lyricism of Gonzalez - Torres» reductive aesthetic combined with the expression of emotion produces a profoundly beautiful artwork which is not simply autobiographical but ultimately universal.

The elegant lyricism of Gonzalez - Torres» reductive aesthetic combined with the expression of emotion produces a profoundly beautiful artwork which is only remotely autobiographical.

It includes his first abstract paintings, which combine a Cubist - influenced aesthetic and geometric decomposition, alongside his mature abstract style in which lyricism and geometrical abstraction merge.