Not exact matches
The live action human actors may all be supporting artists, but they are
key to the story
as each one adds to the
elements of human
nature.
Biology and difference are also a
key element in Fsision, a 2015 film by Brazilian - born, New York - based Felipe Meres, in which he analyzes the life of microscopic planarians
as a means to reconsider the boundaries of gender forms and sexualized matters in
nature.
The choice of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a
key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet
as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the
elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic
nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.
While his works have often been compared to those from other
key figures of the pop art movement, such
as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed
elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming
nature of ads.