One of the leading painters of 17th - century Holland and a contemporary of Johannes Vermeer, Gabriel Metsu was a gifted visual storyteller who infused
his narrative paintings with suspense, drama, and emotion.
High and low merged in
narrative paintings with influences ranging from devotional aesthetics and street culture to European painting and pop art.
Not exact matches
Most of the
paintings were
narratives with mythological themes, illustrating stories from hindu epics and literature.
Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow
with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own
narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of
painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.
The media
narrative surrounding the match
painted this as the first time that Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola had faced one another
with something approaching similar squads.
And the
narrative not only resonated
with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were
painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.
The dominant
narratives in our society
paint a picture of happiness and ease, and fashion, beauty, weight loss, and pharmaceutical industries make a lot of money telling you there's something wrong
with you if you're not calm and / or happy all the time.
A lazy,
paint - by - numbers thriller, Confidence follows professional grifter Jake Vig (Edward Burns) as he and his team prepare to fleece a mob - backed banker (Robert Forster's Morgan Price) of $ 5 million -
with complications and double - crosses naturally ensuing as the frenetic
narrative unfolds.
It is, in the end, not difficult to see why V.I. Warshawsky was unable to kickstart a series of movies involving the central character,
with the film's profound failure due almost equally to Turner's nails - on - a-chalkboard performance and the
narrative's
paint - by - numbers execution.
In both features, Altman is familiarly
painted as an adventurous man given to trusting his intuition, whether advising Keith Carradine to cut his hair, or sticking
with a handful of Leonard Cohen songs for the soundtrack, despite the anachronism of their presence in a
narrative set in 1900.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (April 25, 2018)-- Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., today announces a collaboration
with world famous Aardman Animation Studios and DigixArt to create 11 - 11: MEMORIES RETOLD, a story - driven
narrative adventure, presented within a breathtaking art style reminiscent of
paintings, that will deliver a wholly unique experience.
There are some nice
narrative thrusts — the bit involving literally
painting the town red — but Eastwood,
with editor Ferris Webster and director of photography Bruce Surtees in tow, would direct a far superior Western, The Outlaw Josey Wales, three years later.
But in Nightwatching this is not merely a stylistic device but intrinsic to the
narrative, which is concerned
with the creation, interpretation and impact of Rembrandt's famously theatrical Night Watch
painting.
The game is reportedly set during World War 1 period and the game will be a «story - driven
narrative adventure set during World War I
with a unique
painted style that plans to deliver an entertaining experience unlike anything before.»
Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and
narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but
with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement
with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like
paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves
with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.
Special effects are asked to behave like character, motivation, and
narrative while the actors paid exorbitant amounts to caper by themselves before a blue screen do their best not to cackle like Snidely Whiplash making off
with burlap bags that have dollar signs
painted on them.
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With: Bobby Canavale, directorial debut, dwarf,
narrative,
painting, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage, trains
With powerful prose and poetry, his
narrative as student and then later, NYC teacher leader, loving father (and husband), and advocate for children
paints a portrait of what public education can and must be for American society.
Whether students represent their thinking
with paint, pencil, collage, sculpture, or clay, the medium is not as important as the
narrative students create.
For those
with an additional interest in art, QR codes showing actual
paintings mentioned in the
narrative are included.
In this powerful view of African American history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page
paintings with the fictionalized, informal
narrative of an African American elder.
Here, the poems often originate in a
painting or in the details of an artist's or a writer's life Vermeer, Marie Curie, Andrew Wyeth, Zelda Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka and they are alive
with the
narrative imagery that Beirds is so good at evoking.
Salient facts and intriguing details combine effectively
with period portraits,
narrative paintings, engravings, and maps.
Beyond simply the multiplayer framework, the
narrative framework - gritty «realism»
painted with browns and grays and hoorahs - has permeated further than I'd prefer to acknowledge.
Richmond, UK — April 25th, 2018 — BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe today announce a collaboration
with the world famous Aardman Studios and DigixArt to create 11 - 11: MEMORIES RETOLD, a story - driven
narrative adventure set during World War I,
with a unique
painted style that plans to deliver an entertaining experience unlike anything before.
It's this fusion of a retro - inspired aesthetic following suit
with its inspiration, and the possibilities present
with improved technology like
painted backgrounds and detailed particle effects, all accompanied by a gentle and melodic soundtrack, that creates a captivating aesthetic suited to the
narrative.
A customisable
paint and decal system, along
with a full singleplayer story mode (Zoids features highly detailed lore
narratives known as Battle Stories) would be the icing on the roaring robotic cake,
with everything culminating together to create an incredible gaming experience for both Eastern and Western audiences.
Bandai Namco, Aardman Studios and DigixArt have announced that they have teamed up to develop 11 - 11: Memories Retold, a story - driven
narrative adventure set during World War I
with a unique
painted style that plans to deliver an entertaining experience unlike anything before.
The game trailers we've seen so far have
painted a dark picture of the types of decisions players will be faced
with throughout the
narrative, as moral ethics seem like they will play a large part in the proceedings.
Like its spiritual predecessor (Planescape: Torment), the game will feature a great emphasis on storytelling,
with a rich personal
narrative and complex character interaction that will
paint a vivid image of the complex world created by Monte Cook.
The annualization and inconsistent naming structure of Assassin's Creed titles, coupled
with the abandonment of the one major through - line
narrative of the games,
painted an ugly and confusing picture of the series which once dominated the video games industry.
(In this regard, he is closer in spirit to an experimental, non-
narrative poet than a conventional,
narrative one)... Whereas de Kooning famously equated oil
paint and flesh, Thiebaud seems to equate oil
paint with nature — from impassive stone to ephemeral cloud, and from warm glowing light to portentous back lighting.
When you delve into the stories behind your
paintings and share
with your audience a
narrative which includes your motivations and emotional reactions to the world you're sharing
with them a meaningful experience.
With a world so full of serious questions, I'm just trying to let viewers laugh as they construct their own
narrative from some new oil
paint humorously added to some old, neglected bit of Americana.»
Taipei - based artist Shih Yung - Chun
paints scenes from everyday life, taking inspiration from hundreds of photographs, but there's an element of the bizarre in all his crafted
narratives — his subjects always seem to occupy themselves
with strange activities.
The Painter's Room is a new series of
paintings, following his signature style of blurred lines
with a now - you - see - it, now - you - don't type
narrative.
PT: Every artist faces the challenge of what to
paint and how, but many also concern themselves
with how their work engages the «
narrative» of contemporary art.
I'll make a figure
painting, a little figure
painting, then I'll think, «oh, well that one would look like something possible if I could put it
with this other figure
painting that I've also done from observation, and then some grouping and / or
narrative might emerge in pairing the two».
With a deep and vivid palette and dynamic interchanges of light and dark, these
paintings — always executed in oil on wooden panels — collapse the usual binary distinctions between abstraction and representation,
narrative and pure sensation, past and present.
Keyser's canvases are open books, flayed, stained, and / or augmented compositions imbued
with visual
narrative and reinventions of
painting itself.
Curated by Fairfax Dorn, Comic Future features
paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists who combine abstraction, formalism and
narrative with political satire as well as cultural and biographical commentary to explore both comedic and apocalyptic visions of the future.
Much of Corrigan's work until now has been charged
with narrative, her
paintings often episodes from untold tales she invited viewers to invent and complete.
HP: I started out
with narrative paintings from photographs.
The L.A. - based artist's tiny, nearly miniature
paintings are filled
with enigmatic
narratives — the gaping red mouth of what might be a small dog; a girl in an opulent bedroom lined
with lush jungle - like wallpaper; seven small horses that gradually rise on their hind legs, the last one jumping onto a form resembling a fleshy nose.
Since the early 1960s, Dorothy Iannone has been making vibrant
paintings, drawings, prints, films, objects and books, all
with a markedly
narrative and overtly autobiographical visual feel.
The cast of characters in these discussions of Reinhardt's legacy has been largely consistent —
with Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Joseph Kosuth being the most frequently mentioned — and neatly tracks the prevailing historical
narrative of the sixties, progressing from (or out of)
painting to object - and conceptually - based practices.
In the years since then, he has worked consistently in series, pioneering new approaches to form, color,
narrative, and abstraction
with innovative
paintings, prints, sculptures, and architectural installations.
If you're unfamiliar
with Kiel Johnson's work, his work, he creates transmorphic drawings,
paintings and sculpture that seem to synthesize the ever - expanding media explosion through a kind of personal
narrative.
The
narratives in the
paintings are stories taking place over a period of geological time,
with references both topographic and tectonic, alluding to simultaneous multiple histories.
The resulting compositions are packed to the brim
with beautiful details, but much like their characters» sexualities, the
paintings»
narratives remain ambiguously beyond reach.