Featuring a series of new paintings, Egan's figurative still - lifes swallow the viewer into vivid, kitsch scenes wherein
a melancholic nostalgia grows unbridled.
While a mention of their moniker ushers in
melancholic nostalgia, there's also a bit of lamentation for all the input devices lost to the later stages of Shadow of the Beast, Assault Rigs, G - Police.
The wistful «
melancholic nostalgia» I described about being adopted is gone.
Not exact matches
Slant notes the film is a «canny balance of
nostalgia with hindsight» and «ends on a beautifully
melancholic grace note.»
If, in the United States, the vogue for landscape painting in the 19th century was in part a
nostalgia for a lost wilderness — something one might associate with Benning today — for these artists, any sense of
melancholic compensation gives way to a material reckoning with a damaged planet and the economies of extraction and industrialization that populate it.
A mixture of
nostalgia and bittersweet sorrow permeate the gallery space as the videos are paired with the
melancholic rhythms of classical Arabic music.
Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their
melancholic tone and characterized by isolation,
nostalgia and emotional desperation.
The effect is a composition that is simultaneously energetic and
melancholic — indeed, Gorky stated after completing the Nighttime, Enigma and
Nostalgia series that his inspiration came from «wounded birds, poverty, and one whole week of rain.»