The American artist served in the U.S. armed forces in World War II Italy, surviving to become a nearly
mythic figure in the art world.
Not exact matches
Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost
mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made
in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like
figure who provided much - needed services
in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.
In either case, moreover, the result was rather curious, since neither figure in his final form was so much a mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversio
In either case, moreover, the result was rather curious, since neither
figure in his final form was so much a mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversio
in his final form was so much a
mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversion.
As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use
mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish
in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.
And
in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a
mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.
In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential
mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.
Day - Lewis» folksy vocal choices — the relaxed pace, the self - deprecating tone — make the character of Lincoln seem more human and approachable, even as his
mythic figure and ability to hold a room showcase what made him a legend
in his time.
Instead of making the guy a
mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him
in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.
Apparently there is no end to the
mythic figures determined to wear a superhero's cape, and it's hoped there's no end to our interest
in seeing them try.
Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been:
in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that
mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public
figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.
Theodore Roosevelt is a
figure of fairly
mythic proportions
in American History.
This
mythic figure is mostly naked
in each scene with powerful thighs, sagging breasts, and protruding stomach — the very antithesis of the ideal female form
in Western culture.
In small groups, visitors climbed the tower and encountered two artworks articulating two
mythic and current
figures of resistance.
The artist Christopher D'Arcangelo — another
mythic figure that Garcia Torres has addressed
in earlier work — created another challenge
in this regard, opting
in 1978 to remove his name from the announcement and printed materials associated with an exhibition that he was asked to take part
in at Artists Space
in New York.
«Fresh, original voices
in L.A.: A deceptive look at a
mythic figures,» Los Angeles Times, October 28 Ammirati, Dominic.
Where there's little modeling
in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar
mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured
figures) but
in a more classical figurative style.
In her often mythic work, Schimert selects iconic figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and fil
In her often
mythic work, Schimert selects iconic
figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own
in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and fil
in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and film.
The
mythic American landscape — long held to subtend the movement's biomorphic shapes and totemic
figures floating or swirling
in dense tonalities of iconic color fields — assumed an Alexandrian cast
in the West.
Joseph Beuys is a controversial
figure in art history,
in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his
mythic stature.
For most of us, historic
figures like Picasso are destined to forever live
in that
mythic realm, and there are only a... Read More
It is the nude human
figure in both these paintings, truncated and at times
in violent motion that is «the starting point for Bacon's
mythic imagination.»
In more recent years, her deliciously recognizable painting style, with her Everyman and Everywoman
figures and occasional
mythic beast or bird has gained Applebroog enormous critical attention and success.
In the new paintings Texas Swing (2009), Hubris (2008), Thor (2008), and Blue Boyz (2008), Morley presents the figure of an athlete as a mythic hero, creating a kind of contemporary American mythology in pain
In the new paintings Texas Swing (2009), Hubris (2008), Thor (2008), and Blue Boyz (2008), Morley presents the
figure of an athlete as a
mythic hero, creating a kind of contemporary American mythology
in pain
in paint.
Throughout her career, her voracious spirit has manifested
in works that probe
mythic stories and heroic
figures with intimate and personal sensibilities.
Sometimes modeled
figures perch
in trees that grow out of the palm of a hand, adding a narrative,
mythic dimension.
For most of us, historic
figures like Picasso are destined to forever live
in that
mythic realm, and there are only a handful of people still alive who knew those
figures so intimately.
In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effec
In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the
mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central
figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture
in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effec
in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effect.
In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order... [read more»
In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the
mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central
figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture
in order... [read more»
in order... [read more»]
Berkson is right about Bischoff working
in a pastoral mode, but he fails to recognize that the dream - like worlds of «
Figure at Window with Boat» and the later
mythic paintings are obsessed.
The
mythic figures are too big and uncomfortable, not quite at ease
in the natural world, which is made up of slathers of paint.
In business, in electronics, you are unto a mythic figure striding above the horizon like Colossus, and $ 11 billion in influence sells you far shor
In business,
in electronics, you are unto a mythic figure striding above the horizon like Colossus, and $ 11 billion in influence sells you far shor
in electronics, you are unto a
mythic figure striding above the horizon like Colossus, and $ 11 billion
in influence sells you far shor
in influence sells you far short.