Sentences with phrase «mythic landscapes»

However, Radio Imagination not only illuminates Butler's studied understanding of southern California's mythic landscapes and sun - bleached climate, but also clarifies Butler's universal commitment to creative labor in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, highlighting the generative strain of Afrofuturist thinking.

People like to mention Pollock with his spattered canvas, Johns with his flag, Robert Rauschenberg with his combine paintings, Julian Schnabel with his Neo-Expressionism and smashed china, Anselm Kiefer with his mythic landscapes and broken branches, Radcliffe Bailey with the slave trade, or Jean - Michel Basquiat if one needs to invoke a black artist with a spray can.

The new photographic works explore these dynamics of motion and space inside the genre of abstraction and within filmic, almost mythic landscapes.

They began as horses charging over a mythic landscape, but they never lost their associations with what Kandinsky called «the spiritual in art.»

This creates haunting, mythic landscape images that are in fact three - dimensional objects.

The Sundarbans: a near - mythic landscape of forest and swamp, byzantine river channels and tidal mud flats, one of the last strongholds of the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

Not exact matches

Tom Troeger focuses on the mythic worlds created by metaphor, which he terms «landscapes of the heart,» and demonstrates how communal, poetic idiom can speak to an individualistic, technological culture.

These mythic - poetic realities constitute the «landscape of the heart,» the nexus of meanings that filters our interpretation of the world and shapes our patterns of response and creativity.

Director Kevin Macdonald sets a suitably mythic mood with forbidding landscapes and a native population that is operating in a different, alien reality to the one Marcus had always assumed to be not the only operative one.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

The landscape becomes mythic, the actors heroic, and the gods have little else to do but look on in wonder at the small pleasures of human life.

His borderline - mythic male loners — often framed against blank expanses of sea or sky — collide against a dense landscape of supporting characters, relationships, technologies, and information.

WalkingStick, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.

A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she has portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.

Well, maybe not entirely, for each work entails actual photography, from a mythic American landscape.

Given the mythic qualities of Switzerland's topography, it is surprising that the works included — videos by both young, lesser - known artists like Judith Albert, Nicolás Fernández, and Laurence Huber, and firmly established ones like Sylvie Fleury, Roman Signer, and Beat Streuli — do not necessarily reflect on a sense of place or on the history of landscape as an artistic genre but rather

This new edition expands on the scope of the old, adding new acquisitions and featuring 150 master works by artists from Asia, Europe and the Americas — from delicate Song - dynasty handscrolls to jewel - like images of medieval piety, scenes of mythic drama, austere still lifes, sensitive portraits, grand landscapes and jarring Modern visions.

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.

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is perhaps best known for majestic paintings from the 1980s and early 1990s that evoked Germany's contested history through charred landscapes and mythic symbolism.This exhibition, drawn from the Manilow collection, used a few choice works to call attention to other aspects of Kiefer's practice.

Whether or not he was aware of Williams's injunction, Diebenkorn moved to New Mexico for graduate study in 1950, into an American landscape whose mythic space inspired artists from Marsden Hartley to Agnes Martin, and which released an exuberant exploration of new American sources.