Sentences with phrase «mythic elements»

In the 1930s, at a time of upheaval and personal strife, Picasso began to create allusive narrative works ripe for Surrealist interpretation, infusing the theatrical combat of the corrida with mythic elements of antiquity.

Nesbø infuses the mythic elements of the tragedy with bold strokes of horrific, Don Winslow — like drug - war realism.

The filmmaker reveals his adaptation will offer a different take with mythic elements.

Not too surprisingly, then, Corman's (and Carver's) Capone is loosely related to Coppola's Don Corleone (Gazzara even stuffs his jowls with padding), but he might, in conception at least, bear a closer resemblance to Scorsese's Johnny Boy in Mean Streets — a «gangster» story that shares the traditionally mythic elements inherent in the genre while managing its own very personal working - out of the meanings of both violence and friendship.

Up to this point we have considered a number of the organizing symbols and mythic elements of American national consciousness as it developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Not exact matches

It's no surprise that these elements translated so beautifully to the distant planet of Tatooine, where a young man, stranded in a dead - end town and only hoping to head to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters, rises to a life of mythic grandeur.

Lee instead aims for something mythic, along the lines of Titanic, and fails to get at the basic, ground level human element.

Mythic fiction is literature that contains elements from mythology, fairytales, legends, and folklore.

For example, as the world awaits the still unknown consequences of the Brexit vote, many nervous investors may be tempted by the lure of gold — that mythic yellow element that has captured the psyche of mankind for millennia.

His work is influenced by religious art and metaphysics, and he blends the imaginative and phantasy elements of his artistic process with with Western religion and European folk traditions, a combination that aims to give a mythic dimension and an almost archetypal significance.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

By the late 1940s, Rothko had virtually eliminated all elements of surrealism or mythic imagery from his works, and nonobjective compositions of indeterminate shapes emerged.

By 1947 Rothko had eliminated all elements of surrealism or mythic imagery from his works, and nonobjective compositions of indeterminate shapes emerged.