Sentences with phrase «mythic imagery»
By 1947 Rothko had eliminated all elements of surrealism or mythic imagery from his works, and nonobjective compositions of indeterminate shapes emerged.
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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.
The only son of the Surrealist painter, Max Ernst, Jimmy Ernst united abstraction and representation and formal invention and mythic imagery, creating dynamic surfaces filled with geometric armatures often evoking medieval stained glass.
The artists, such as Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino, revived symbolism and figurative painting, as well as mythic imagery, rediscovered during the height of the movement.
In his latest exhibition, the Savannah artist continues his exploration of the mythic imagery of the contemporary American South.
Weber taught him about Cubism and non-representational painting; Gorky taught him about Surrealism, the imagination, and mythic imagery; and Milton Avery, with whom he was good friends for many years, taught him about using thin layers of flat color to create depth through color relationships.
The Bible, even though oriented to a different culture, provides resources for communicating its ideas because of its unusual use of poetic and mythic imagery and of the unexpected twists of logic.
Not exact matches
The more prosaic minds have not been happy with it, and some of the philosophers of language, in spite of their use of stories, have difficulty with the rich, mythic, paradoxical imagery.
Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.
This ancient, mythic concept is central to the narrative of our game: a universal story told purely through imagery and sound.
During the»50s his involvement with specific imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation.
All of this combined with Thornton's penchant for imagery, which is at once streetwise and mythic, and you end up with some impressive, collector - enticing paintings.
Rabbithole is a short animation presenting hand drawn imagery with fragments of vintage comics to narrate the story of bodily trangressions, dissolution and ultimate transformation in cyclical, mythic time.
As the galleries spiral inward, the artwork seems to shed outside references — from the text - laden political paintings of Chéri Samba and Jenny Holzer, to the La Jetée - inflected proto - film installation by Emily Jacir, to the mythic, duskily luminous reverse paintings on acrylic sheets by Nalini Malani, whose umbilical cord imagery segues curiously but seamlessly into the antic zigzags of Elizabeth Murray's unchained «Wild Style.»
Throughout his career, he has employed various media to cite and subtly parody the visual and verbal clichés of American popular culture — whether in the «Cowboys» series in which he «re - photographed» the mythic cowboy imagery of Marlboro adverts, or the celebrated series of «Nurse» paintings based on the covers of pulp fiction novels which these nudes can be seen to relate to.