Sentences with phrase «master of allusion»

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The adherents of John the Baptist had their special prayer, as we know from an allusion in Luke 11:1; similarly the early Christian community had its prayer, the Lord's prayer, which was attributed to Jesus, as the sect of John ascribed their prayer to their master.

A charming panel by the «Master of the Winking Eyes» (Ferrara, c. 1450) shows the mother playing with her child as her veil slips over his head, an allusion to the way in which the flesh Christ took from Mary «veils» the Godhead.

Though the influence of Hong Kong director Wong Kar - wai on Barry Jenkins» Moonlight has been well documented, the Best Picture winner's most direct allusion to the master of exquisitely stylised melancholy comes via its brief use of Caetano Veloso's rendition of «Cucurrucucú paloma» by Mexican composer Tomás Méndez, a lovesick piece also features in the soundtrack of Wong's own mood - drenched classic of gay cinema, 1997's Happy Together.

While Pirates (1986) lacks much of what marks Polanski's best films in style and content, it does continue a career - long fascination with the balance of power, with master / slave allusions to The Fat and the Lean andVampire Killers.

Haynes has previously tried constructing Chinese boxes of allusion, quotation, and pastiche in Superstar and Velvet Goldmine but he masters this strategy in I'm Not There.

Her scripts are densely woven with complex multi-lingual word play, literary and artistic allusions, and lascivious puns that burlesque the master narratives and gender politics of war and myth, giving them a grotesquely comic feminist twist.

The painting is peppered with subtle allusions: a book on Chardin sat on the bottom shelf of the wheeled cabinet hints at the French master's domestic scenes, while Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ is seen reflected in the small mirror.

Wesselmann began this celebrated series in 1961, imbuing his depictions of the female Nude with symbols of American culture alongside art historical allusions to modern masters such as Picasso and Matisse.