Sentences with phrase «muted by the object»

It's too bad so much work that went into the layers of the film's beauty is muted by the object that's intended to enhance it.

Not exact matches

A new film by David Cronenberg is always reason to celebrate, but «A Dangerous Method» dampens expectations, offering up a curiously muted object, one to be admired rather than embraced, a fascinating academic discussion that remains resolutely distant from any sort of easy interaction.

Matt Ager treats all materials as equal, drawing inspiration from the composition of everyday objects — he explains, for example, how he was intrigued by the muted colour and proportion of an ice - cream he saw his friend eating.

The myth of these divisions is based on the notion that artists are dumb mute expressionists who use innate talent to make objects that are interpreted by critics, bought by collectors and arranged by curators.

Relations between objects are complicated by their imagined and therefore suggested utility, which is often exaggerated or muted.

«The singular nature of this jug,» said Dr. Susan J. Rawles, VMFA's associate curator of American painting and decorative art, «both as a work of art and as a lens on a world largely muted by bondage — makes it one of the most compelling objects in VMFA's collection.»

Some depicting mute, abstracted phones, like still lifes, they ponder how an individual can trick his own memory by diverting attention to a meaningful object.

(un) heard, 2016 is an immense wall installation of 100 + noise making objects of protest which have been significantly altered by the artist through her use of plaster bandaging, thereby both muting & preserving their function and potential, implying a kind of ad hoc archive and archeology.