Sentences with phrase «mythological narratives»

Ralph Kenna and Pádraig Mac Carron, physicists at Coventry University in the United Kingdom, wondered if reality leaves its mark on mythological narratives through the relationships between characters.

She creates mythological narratives featuring humans and hybrid animals that she describes through a recurring vocabulary of symbols, including sadomasochist masks, hoods, laces, hats, bows, and tattoos.

The Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Mami Kataoka has written, «With watercolor on paper, she creates abstract landscapes that reference mythological narrative alongside traditions of pattern and decoration.

Her work draws upon mythological narratives that center feminine bodies as reaffirming, empowering resistance figures.

Bas» practice has always been intrinsically linked to an exploration of history and literature and stems from the artist's interest in figuring historical and mythological narratives within the imagery and iconography of popular culture, fashion, queer culture and mysticism.

Each artist was selected for creating inventive mixed media, with unusual forms or edgy mythological narratives, and for having a unique voice with a strong focus on craftsmanship.

I also enjoyed the work of Dirk Lange (Galerie Michael Haas), surreal and strange figuration, possessing mythological narrative, painted at times with incredible detail.

The forms his works take tend towards the fantastical; he builds up complex characters who occupy unfamiliar mythological narratives, all the while alluding to the inevitable destruction and decay of all biological matter.

Hundley's titles are imbued with historic references and mythological narratives.

The wide array of sources that underlie her large - scale forms include Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

The handcrafted and vibrantly colorful works of Brooklyn - based sculptor Matthew Ronay (born 1976) evoke biological processes and organic forms as much as they draw on spiritual and mythological narratives.

Underlying her large - scale, baroque forms are a wide array of influences, including ancient Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic church construction, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

«Using a crude aesthetic to merge ideas of race, landscape, and Americana, my work creates a mythological narrative that explores a black perspective from my many years growing up in suburbia painting graffiti.»

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If we think of identity in the usual terms of religion or nationalism, some examples of these mythological narratives include the King James Bible or the story of George Washington cutting down a cherry tree.

The exhibition focuses on artists who worked primarily in their native lands, rather than those whose careers took them to France, Italy, or elsewhere abroad, and highlights the broad spectrum of subjects — portraiture, marine views, landscapes, biblical and mythological narratives, genre scenes, and the natural world — that fueled their creative imaginations.

Wilson sublimates these traditions into a mythological narrative that is uniquely hers, often conflating decoration with partial, androgynous female figures.

The colors feel radioactive — like Superman's kryptonite — and drive home the sense of near - or post-apocalypse introduced by the mythological narrative.

Emma Kohlmann's drawings and paintings retrace the subconscious through a symbolism drawn from erotica, ancient statues and figurines, or mythological narratives.

Referencing African and Afro - Caribbean art in her work, she often alludes to mythological narratives or rituals that fuel notions of history and identity.

This is reflected in the particular notion of the plural term histórias, in the Portuguese language (much like in Spanish)-- as may encompass both history and fiction, the personal, political, cultural and even the mythological narrative, and therefore has a provisional, processual, and open quality, as opposed to the more monolithic, single master narrative of the traditional term History.

Emma Kohlmann's drawings and paintings retrace the subconsciousness through a symbolism drawn from erotica, ancient statues and figurines, or mythological narratives.

Christian Rex van Minnen's work is visceral and grotesque, playing on his viewers» gag reflexes, while Chet Zar's subject matter is outright diabolical and Erik Thor Sandberg's mythological narratives have a brutal quality.

Here, mythological narratives or stories seemingly made up of indubitable facts are edited through a personal filter.

Athene was a signature painting from Tworkov's Odyssey canvases, which were championed for their successful combination of gestural brushwork with mythological narrative.