Sentences with phrase «narrative tableaux»

These range from the emotionally charged constructions of the early 1960s and his impeccably painted landscapes of the American West, to his deeply disturbing portraits from the late 1970s and his remarkable recent narrative tableaux, which seamlessly blend painting with found materials to create an extraordinary illusion of depth.

Casey demonstrates a similar technique, creating paintings that suggest still lifes but are more like narrative tableaux that play with the distinction between the living and the inanimate.

Abney continues to mine aspects of American culture to create compelling, narrative tableaux reminiscent of grand manner history painting.

It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.

The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.

Folkert de Jong is best known for his theatrical, narrative tableaux that address themes of war, greed and power.

Curated by Brussels - based collective Bunk Club, the installation consisted of four new figurative wall reliefs, cast from acrylic - modified gypsum and arranged in a narrative tableaux, reading across the gallery as a life - size frieze.

The allegories are not found in the narrative tableaux, they are found in the presence of the painting - stylistic mutations - the relation of smaller to larger forms - the swelling of a belly or the curve of a shoulder or a corner of a smile.

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But ultimately one comes away with the impression that far more thought has gone into creating impressive tableaux and evoking the patina of the past than working on a dynamic narrative or getting absorbing performances out of its young stars.

In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, «The Color of Pomegranates» revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the 18th - century troubadour Sayat - Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative.

Zanasi» film takes some getting used to as it's unashamedly strange and stylish, and doesn't mind bringing the narrative to a screeching halt to take musical interludes with slo - mo music video flourishes and some rather arresting tableaux.

Enigmatic outlines are drawn by the structures of Sæthre's environments (sculptural and reconstructed interiors, light, and soundscapes), but films and photographic tableaux tend to interject more personal narratives.

His commanding portraits and tableaux of recent years combine familiar representational forms, such as the portrait of the artist or the academic life - drawing class, with political references that frame deeply probing historical narratives.

Taylor McKimens has been known for years as a painter of «American Life», making large and narrative paintings that feature rural tableaux, economically marginalized people, overlooked and often beautiful details of the natural world and cultural debris.

Her narratives unfold in elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms: social documentary, tableaux, self - portrait, and oral history.

The New York - based artist draws portraits of people featured in old discarded photographs taken between Emancipation and the modern Civil Rights era and often creates a narrative «tableaux» by pairing the images with found objects.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

He draws their portraits on wood panels and creates a narrative «tableaux» by combining the images with found objects.

The artist explains her work as, «beginning with improvised tableaux vivant and ritualistic narrative - free performance.

They also appropriate characters and imagery of comic book illustrators and animators, which Juliano - Villani, composing with two projectors that allow her to build layered narratives from the stuff she has been geeking out over all her life, configures into chaotic tableaux that are part fan fiction, part self - exegesis.

The contrast between the lyrical nature of Lundqvist's figures and the economy of her landscapes illustrates her unique balance of the traditional, the folk - inspired, and the contemporary within succinct, narrative driven tableaux.

Beth Lilly explores memory, perception, and consciousness in Dream of the Red Elephant, a series of staged tableaux with related narratives.

Her narratives unfold throughout elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.