Sentences with phrase «more autobiographical»

In the 1970s he experimented with crosshatching designs in his painting - after the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)- while in the 1980s he became more autobiographical (Racing Thoughts 1983, Whitney Museum) and also included numerous optical illusions in his works.

Galleries — Chelsea Juergen Teller Teller, who made his name as a fashion photographer, has filled his recent gallery shows with more autobiographical work.

Well, they overlap in certain ways, but I think my collages tend to be um, just because I can incorporate writing and letterpress, and things like that, I think they tend to be more autobiographical.

Weinberger is best known for her silhouetted female forms; invisible fruit delivers a new era of these personas diving into a more autobiographical series.

Pushing back against the traumatic amnesia that followed a 1979 car accident, her work became more autobiographical.

«The grandfather is a fictional character, but the book is much more autobiographical than a memoir of my grandfather.

It should come as no particular surprise that Ginty will one day grow up to become the very P.L. Travers we are watching butt heads with Disney in the present day sections of the story, and that many of the aspects of the Mary Poppins character and story are more autobiographical than we may realize.

It's more autobiographical.

I suppose I should have made it a bit more autobiographical.

Or I could have taken a more autobiographical tack, relating some of my own teenage experiences as a preacher's son in the 1950s.

Not exact matches

This effect «provides more evidence that the brain's ability to integrate various sensory stimuli plays a key role in locating the self in the body» and of the way it «puts together our autobiographical self».

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

There may well be good autobiographical reasons as to why one or more of these options appeal to one, but such reasons are not to be mistaken for metaphysical principles.

In «Jonas,» another story with autobiographical elements written around the same time, the title character, a painter, is described with a little more sympathy: He «believed in his star.

Young children tend to forget events more rapidly than adults do because they lack the strong neural processes required to bring together all the pieces of information that go into a complex autobiographical memory, she explains.

For example, total vegetable consumption had the strongest positive associations with executive function, perceptual speed, global cognition, and semantic, or fact - based memory, whereas total fruit intake was more consistently associated with visuospatial skills and autobiographical memory.

With a site that is more philosophical than autobiographical, his viewpoint will make you think as much as they will make you laugh.

Best bits of a packed commentary go to Perkins, however, revealing the parts of the flick (more than comfortable) that are actually autobiographical for either Perkins or Thom.

The richness of invention, densely layered imagery, and autobiographical resonance that run throughout Confessionmake the ultimate failure of his lifetime dream to realize this project all the more regrettable (p. 162).

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

What's more fascinating than any autobiographical elements, however, is Gerwig's ability to balance the emotional chemistry inherent in the premise.

He seemed to be moving towards a more personal cinema (there were autobiographical elements in The Hairdress's Husband), but now with Tango (15) he has done something of a U-turn, with a selfconsciously outrageous black comedy about what used to be called «the sex war», before anybody had given the subject much thought.

Beatty is painted as an artist at a crossroads, too, in an attempt to trump up the mythology of the picture as a Misfits - like (or Night of the Iguana - like, more to the point) autobiographical sketch for all involved when, if we're being honest with ourselves, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is more along the lines of a carnival - mirror grotesquerie.

Anyway, maybe it's more fun to glean something autobiographical in the sight of Krasinski and Blunt, who are married and have two kids in real life, playing parents trying to protect their children from a menace that hounds them day and night, arriving at the smallest sign of their presence.

His autobiographical «8 1/2,» made three years after «La Dolce Vita,» is a companion - piece, but more knowing: There the hero is already a filmmaker, but here he is a young newspaperman on the make.

But Desiree Akhavan's autobiographical debut about a twenty - something's aimless drive into adulthood is looser and more easygoing than the HBO show, and it encompasses the daily grind of being not white and not straight.

This film attempts slightly more than Ghost World, however, as the comic itself was autobiographical.

The first, with Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lem me, is easily the stronger of the pair, namely because they have more to talk about with Heffernan having directed the movie and Lem me's character being partly autobiographical.

Fortunately, the comparison is more than superficial, and according to most, the film only shares the strengths of Dunham's work — sharp, acerbic humor, painful autobiographical situations and a fresh, unique voice.

If there's a dealbreaker for audiences or commercially minded critics, it's the fact that the narrative tends to grow unwieldy and wanders non-linearly from a coming - of - age story to something much more complex and wider (and no doubt autobiographical) about how the post-war generation's social upheaval and radical thinking damaged the children of this era (of which Potter was clearly one).

At his best, his films strike a perfect balance between fantasy and reality — and nowhere is this more evident than in his autobiographical classic, 8 1/2

But more than just the autobiographical details, Lady Bird feels most like a Greta Gerwig movie in the way that it loves its characters even while they're at their most ridiculous.

She describes her style as cinécriture (writing on film), and it can be seen in formally audacious fictions like Le bonheur and Vagabond as well as more ragged and revealing autobiographical documentaries like The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnès.

The criminal eluding capture for just over one year, trying to disappear by making himself unmemorable; the writer tracking him years later, erasing himself to follow another person's journey, physical and emotional — a fascinating premise made all the more intriguing by the autobiographical elements of the novel.

This autobiographical story just keeps getting more bizarre; as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction.

Jane was embarrassed when Alice referred to herself as an artist rather than a writer, and thought her books strove to appear more highbrow than they were; Alice found Jane's work rather formless, and at times bleatingly autobiographical.

More of a horror / comedy, the manga is a single 120 - page book, following the «autobiographical» tale of the author's girlfriend, and the two cats that move in along with her.

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Ann Patchett has said that her book Commonwealth, more than any of her others, is autobiographical.

What is more, some of the books are autobiographical, that is why maybe, you will be able to parallel the fate of the author and those of his characters.

The early ones especially, and Short Circuit most definitely, are loaded with personal, autobiographical, and even private esoteric references, which critic Yve - Alain Bois derided as «semantic traps,» good for little more than «keeping art historians busy for generations to come.»

Remaining faithful to the materiality and autobiographical nature of her more intimately sized works, here the artist pushes into larger canvases, incorporating found materials into allegorical, albeit elusive constructions.

During the»30s, though, he spent more time demonstrating than painting, he would later admit in his autobiographical writings.

Art historian Lucy Lippard wrote at the time: «Certain elements — a central focus (often «empty,» often circular or oval), parabolic baglike forms, obsessive line and detail, veiled strata, tactile or sensuous surfaces and forms, associative fragmentation, autobiographical emphasis, and so forth — are found far more often in the work of women than of men.»

Comprehensive in scope, the exhibition traces the evolution of Weems's career from her early documentary and autobiographical photographic series to the more conceptual and philosophically complex works that have placed her in the forefront of contemporary art.

Other autobiographical «cells,» or enclosed installations Bourgeois made in the 1990s, are more nuanced.

The artist's new photographs are more explicitly autobiographical than ever.

While she shares many similarities with other contemporary artists through her use of materials, Orly uses a lighter touch than is found in the political commentaries of Laura Splan and Ghada Amer, and more closely resembles the autobiographical work of Tracey Emin.