Sentences with phrase «most powerful portraits»

His most recognised work is his The Artist and His Mother (1926 - 9, Whitney Museum, New York), one of the most powerful portraits of the 20th century.

From Jean Renoir (The Southerner) to Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), from Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) to Antonio Mendez Esparza (the shattering recent festival hit Life and Nothing More), some of the most powerful portraits of the American Dream's scrappier, more fragmented reality have come from outsiders — their perspective perhaps inflected with their own sense of alienation, and their sympathies duly directed toward those US cultures and classes on society's fringes.

Not exact matches

While many have praised the «Spotlight's» important championing of old - fashioned journalism, I found it most powerful as a damning portrait of how rape culture is allowed to thrive when good men do nothing to protect the most defenseless members of society.

It's not the most urgent subject matter (Dahmer was killed in prison in 1994), and 2002's «Dahmer,» featuring a breakout performance by Jeremy Renner, already offered a powerful cinematic portrait.

Of all these films — powerful portraits, all — Heaven is a Traffic Jam most seamlessly fuses film to subject, illuminating the overwhelming pain and sadness of Alper's life, but also the artistic outlet and unlikely support system that has led her to professional success and a degree of peace, however carefully controlled.

«Selma»: Despite a few flaws — the film's final act meanders briefly before finding its way to a powerful climax — director Ava DuVernay's all - too - timely portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.'s influential (and dangerous) civil rights march in Alabama contains some of the most powerful moments I saw in any movie this year.

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie.

Anchee Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history.

He told the story of meeting a German official at a party in New York who thanked him for reminding the world that Catherine the Great was, in fact, German — and revealed that Angela Merkel, the world's most powerful female leader, keeps a portrait of Catherine on her desk.

To me that's maybe the most powerful thing about looking at portraits.

The smallest and perhaps most powerful are the three based on Henry Raeburn's portraits of William Robertson, John Robison and John Playfair (all 2014).

Faingnaert's photographs are powerful and intimate portraits that highlight sustainable living, in the most intriguing of ways.

Noted for his forceful expressionism - exemplified by a bold use of colour in his landscape painting as well as his portrait art - his most significant contribution is probably his woodcuts, which are among the most powerful examples of Expressionist printmaking.

BILL VIOLA: THE ROAD TO ST PAUL»S is a powerful, moving portrait of the world's most influential video artist and his wife.

It was Rembrandt's portraits and landscapes that most attracted British collectors, and which had a particularly powerful impact on British artists.

Bronson's work since the 1994 AIDS - related deaths of Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, his two partners in GI, has become more personal and less sportive: The most powerful image in the 2002 Whitney Biennial was his deathbed portrait of Partz, and in an interview published this year ill arts journal Border Crossings, Bronson said, «There's no longer any irony in my work.

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.

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