Sentences with phrase «macabre works»

Toward the end of life they were drawn to more edgy, more emotional, more macabre works.»

Her macabre works are black - humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth, and kitsch.

Inspired by the modern - day macabre works of video artist Chris Cunningham and the lo - fi / high - cry films of David Cronenberg (specifically Videodrome), these hybrid images utilize both practical and digital effects.

It was acquired for the Tate collection in 2008, shortly after a retrospective of Bourgeois's macabre work.

Not exact matches

Part of his time was spent with other prisoners quarrying a large cutting for the railway, which would earn the macabre name «Hellfire Pass», so called because the sight of emaciated prisoners working by torchlight resembled a scene from hell.

Unlike much modern art that revels in the macabre and the bizarre — self - referential, solipsistic, nihilistic — the fantastical work of these two Catholics is not such a sorry project.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

There is a mad intensity in Erdem's work, a singular vision which infects beauty with an appreciation of the macabre.

Why does stop - motion animation work so well as a medium for the macabre, from The Nightmare Before Christmas to Tim Burton's Corpse Bride to Coraline?

Now he's returned with another low - budget genre film: the macabre, deviously pulpy, and very entertaining Split, an unapologetic B - movie that simultaneously finds Shyamalan returning to the territory of his most acclaimed and popular work.

The grim view accentuates the macabre story, and while Ritchie can not help from giving into the intermittent stylistic flashes, they work and are occasionally exhilarating, like a slow - motion run through a series of explosions that leaves a main character's outcome in question, if only briefly.

Having turned in a couple of ill - received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to Britain and, practically at the very end of his career, made another great film on the trail of the works that had given him the title of the master of suspense and the macabre.

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.

These included the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and Walt Disney, as well surrealist painting, the macabre literary works of Edgar Allen Poe and the delirious writings of Thomas De Quincy.

Sorry to Bother You, which had its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition categoryat the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, is a genre - defying work, taking place in a modern day alternate reality version of Oakland, CA where telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre new universe.

Oh, and Steve Niles sent me this massive stack of Criminal Macabre so I'm working my way through that, and it's awesome.

Put a horde of spooklings to work gathering bones, brimstone and ectoplasm in this macabre, amusing, night - time, graveyard kingdom!

Crawl is a grim, macabre title that's wrought with murder, treachery, and secrets — but it's also one of the most raucously fun multiplayer experiences available on Switch.

You will need to work together as a squad to survive, and this trip into the macabre will haunt your nightmares for months.

Explore a Devastated, Darkly Beautiful Planet: Revion Prime is an alien world, with environments inspired by the work of macabre artists like H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft, that challenges you to unearth its dark history by connecting fragments of the past.

What we said: «Wildlands is that familiar glossy contradiction, the «gritty» quasi-realistic open world blockbuster - a work of great craft and care that's also a work of macabre war tourism, wowing you with its geography even as it casually up - sells the bankrupt fantasy of playing global policeman.»

Graveyard Enter the graveyard: a playfully macabre land where Zombie and Skeleton Keflings work to build a ghoulish town.

His works have such expressive range, vacillating between humor and the macabre.

Like the preceding work Carousel (1988)-- where dismembered taxidermy forms hang and drag from a steel axis that turns in an agonizing danse macabre — Animal Pyramid disturbs with its vision of carnage submitted to an artificial and bloodless geometric order.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

Amy Gartrell is a New York - based artist whose work can be described as simultaneously macabre and sentimental, reflecting the complexities, confusion and drama of adolescence.

Filomeno's iconography, in contrast to the allure of his work, often incorporates and explores the allegorical and the macabre, including insects, fish, human body parts, skeletons, and reptiles.

Dorota Jurczak's macabre and fantastical works combine influences from folklore and mythology, along with inventions of her own imagination.

His macabre series of work is brought together for the first time in more than 30 years (to 18 October).

A streak of playful wit and winning charm runs through the 2013 Turner prize shortlist — not least from what the chair of the jury, the Tate Britain director, Penelope Curtis, called the «black humour» and «macabre quality» of the work of David Shrigley.

His motto: «We work with the macabre and applied sciences because the most futuristic idea we can experience is death.

This can be seen in the sinister skeletons of Jackson Pollock's series Untitled Panels A — D (1934 — 38), the architecture depicted by Mark Rothko in Interior (1936), and the Philip Guston work The Porch (1946 — 47), where the human figure seems to be threatened and takes on a macabre tone clearly influenced by the Holocaust.

The exhibit features lesser - known work by Meatyard — not just his macabre, blurred images of children in lonely landscapes — and a host of his lesser - known contemporaries such as Guy Mendes, Charles Traub, Cranston Ritchie, Robert C. May and poets Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams (who are associated with Black Mountain College).

Although his work covers a broad range, it is unified by an ever - present sense of theatricality, the macabre, and a touch of the fantastical.

As such, Kienholz» work is more appropriately related to that of the «beat» artists of the Bay Area, such as Wallace Berman, Jess, Wally Hedrick and Bruce Conner, and their macabre, surrealistic «proto - pop» imagery.

This publication is conceived as a platform to present the wider scope of her work and at its core is a compendium of her writings, which oscillate between lyrical poems and fable - like macabre short stories, including three new texts: The Half - Smile, Problems With The Moon, and An Inquisition To Divine The Necessary Things.

Born in 1961 in Mangalore, India, Sudarshan Shetty makes monumental and charming work that pairs the macabre with the delightful.

The aim of the exhibition is to show through these bodies of work how macabre stories, unseen forces, and fear of the...

Harsh and rough with heightened expressive power in material and theme, de Jong's figures embody a grotesque horror and macabre humor reminiscent of the work of the 20th century European artists Georges Grosz and James Ensor.

His dimensional works are a macabre reflection that mirrors our own (ultimately futile) quest for accumulation and prowess.

Good friend and 2x former cover artist Camille Rose Garcia just opened a new body of work, «La Danse Macabre» at Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery this past weekend.

The Complete Spot Paintings instead feels more like a scientific experiment, one of Hirst's macabre vitrine works spun out into real - life testing grounds, intended to divide the camps into those who follow and those who resist.

Black's still - life photographs — the genre here a macabre pun for her subject — are among the most arresting realist works in this exhibition.

The mood in the work of both, however, is melancholy and poignant rather than desperate or macabre.

Ever since working with McQueen in the early stages of his career, he has been inspired by the fashion icon that once stressed to him that he loved the macabre.

«The Dead Are Not Quiet: A Group Exhibition of Macabre Art» features work by artists living and working in the Southern California / Baja Norte region selected through an open call.

The tableaux of the new works on view include the macabre and fractured figures the artists are known for, mounted to inky black color fields with baroque furniture centerpieces.

While the technique that produced these works may have been far from new — several members of the then just - emerging New York School had already experimented successfully with it — Donati added something that gave this manner of working a uniquely personal touch: a Surrealist's predilection for the macabre and mysterious coupled with a draftsman's ability to use line for maximum effect.

The new body of work showing at the Shooting Gallery in SF explores the «immediacy of the human experience through the examination of macabre themes such as death and the eternal passage of time.»

Many of his works deal directly with morose themes worthy of memento mori, yet rather than expected macabre subject matter, they appear visually playful, rendered in seductive color palettes and a distinctive minimal visual language.