Sentences with phrase «obsession with images»

It wouldn't be hard to say that an obsession with images was deeply embedded before they even graduated high school.

The portraits point to the definition of the self, through notions of self - image and self - perspective, in the context of the current generation's obsession with images.

In this sense alone, Parsons reveals the hidden truth of the Cameron government: they have a vulgar obsession with image.

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(ENTIRE BOOK) We are addicted to images, a wholesale abuse of language, a dangerous addiction to surface trivia, a fixation on the unimportant, an obsession with the insignificant.

On the heels of the US networks banning the controversial SECRET OBSESSION commercial, Calvin Klein is definitely pushing boundaries with this sexy advertising image.

But when a New York Times headline reads «A Precursor to Playboy: Graphic Images in Rock», and Discover magazine asserts that man's obsession with pornography dates back to «Cro - Magnon days» based on «the famous 26,000 - year - old Venus of Willendorf statuette... [with] GG - cup breasts and a hippopotamal butt», I think a line is crossed.

The saintly image derives from his ethereal achievements, certainly (his description of time and space literally displaced the old scientific concept of ether), but also from his modesty, his obsession with social justice, and his penchant for treating everyone the same, whether janitor or king.

The researchers also used EEGs to monitor electrical activity in the brain as the 13 people with OCD viewed images linked with their obsessions, such as cleaning toilets.

Whether that's Meghan Trainor singing about her booty, Gisele kickboxing, women kicking ass in Spartan Race, or even someone like Kimanzi Constable talking about how men struggle with body image, too, the cultural conversation has shifted from an obsession with flat abs to a commitment to loving what we've got and treating our bodies with care.

But at what point does a child's curiosity cross over into an unhealthy obsession with his or her image or appearance?

Taking into consideration the obesity epidemic that has taken control over America and our culture's obsession with body image, it's no wonder subcutaneous and visceral fat have become an integral part of our vocabulary.

It means that a lot of self - definition is done through over involvement in exercise activity or obsession with body image or obsession with the amount of exercise that's been done.

Weight has become an obsession in our culture, and many people have developed unhealthy habits and unhealthy body images associated with their weight.

Full of haunting images and provocative ideas, blending art world immersion with detective noir, offering the curious plenty to sift through as reality bends and obsessions graduate into horror.

In an age of high media objectification and an obsession with body image, a movie like «Tully» prefers to portray individuals as humans.

Based on a cult novel by Walter Kirn, Thumbsucker works when its obsession with flight and freedom from dependency is carried in images and song (its soundtrack by Polyphonic Spree and the last new recordings by the late Elliott Smith will be the chief reasons for the picture's nominal success) as opposed to all the dark musings meant to underscore each character's own obvious dependencies.

It's a reference that reveals Argento's self - consciousness — you could say pretentiousness (he'll do it again when Det. Gianna Brezzi introduces herself taking snapshots)-- and paints in no uncertain strokes the film's obsessions with paintings and graven images as catalysts for (if not replacements of, or phantoms of) memory.

Thematically, the novel is preoccupied with relics, the physical reminders of emotion — for Miles, the abandoned possessions of hundreds of evicted tenants; for Bing, the beaten - up antiques he has pledged to save; for Ellen, the dangerously erotic images she is finally able to cultivate from the ephemera of her mind and put onto paper; and for Alice, an obsession with a World War II film which she believes captures the simultaneous hope and despair of a generation.

While casting a script he's written, Clay falls for a young, untalented actress named Rain Turner, and his obsession and affair with her powers him through an alcoholic haze that swirls with images of death, mysterious text messages, and cars lurking outside his apartment.

In a similar vein to Instagram's obsession with symmetry and grids, Koivula's black and white images are appealing to the eye.

This year, the shortlist for the Professional competition includes stylish images of humanity's obsession with wealth to raw images of the Rohingya refugee crisis, through to quirky portraits of dogs and their owners.

McElheny's installation uses translucent projection cloth, mirrors and film to present a very contemporary take on abstraction, while Rodriguez's depiction of a tongue, with an acupuncturist's diagnoses scrawled over the image, explores society's obsession with health, and the competing claims of traditional and modern medicine.

March 5March 23: Gavin Turk Turk reworks his own image disguised as a more famous person, with ambiguity and self - obsession as key features.

Turk reworks his own image disguised as a more famous person, with ambiguity and self - obsession as key features.

«Experimenting with non-conventional paint — lipstick, nail polish, and mascara — I question our obsession with body image and standards of beauty by playing along with women's beauty rituals, performing them in exaggerated ways.»

The search to capture just the right image often resulted in up to a hundred slightly varied pictures of each sitter — an approach that reveals Warhol's eye for detail and obsession with photography as an all - consuming process.

While closely observing the lives of VIPs has become a favorite national pastime and voyeurism almost an obsession, these images juxtapose familiarity with suspicious ambiguity.

Combining traditional figuration with Pop Art's obsession for disparate images, he rejuvenated postmodernism and Neo-expressionism by adding humor and theatricality.

[this quote needs a citation] Hirst has openly acknowledged his debt to Bacon, [45] absorbing the painter's visceral images and obsessions early on and giving them concrete existence in sculptural form with works like A Thousand Years.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

The images comprise my obsession with the boundaries between reality and imaginary, present experience and memory, isolation and belonging.

In a conversation via email, I spoke with Hickey about how our obsession with sharing images of art on social media platforms is changing creative culture.

The works presented in Secondhand resonate with the current state of our visual culture and our society's obsession with access, illustrating the creative potential intrinsic to the sharing and curating of images and ideas.

But his obsession with colour as the fount and origin of painting, and his preoccupation with the image of the sun, symmetrical, haloed, brightly pulsing, would lead to a reappraisal of his achievement in the 1940s and 1950s, resonating with the colour experimentation of Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, and through him on the young Kenneth Noland.

Drawing on media overstimulation and an obsession with eternal youth, Franco - Klein's images hold up a mirror to the anxieties inherent in the everyday.

Anna Kolod's sculptures, paintings and drawings are cocooning with erotic images, fantasies and obsessions, which grow out of their dual, Eros - Thanatos origin.

Lindquist's obsession with a Claude - like sense of view is magnified by his alienating sense of color (much like that produced using a Claude glass), use of multiple and layered identical images, and slightly off - kilter or literal frames painted into the picture plane.

Note: Hirst often acknowledges the impact of Francis Bacon on his works, not least the latter's obsession with visceral images and rotting corpses.

Images that at first seem to be ordinary vacation shots gradually reveal an eerie obsession with symmetry.

This exhibition features one of its most haunting stars, whose obsession with death is apparent here in images of electric chairs, a self - portrait next to a skull and another in which he seems to be strangling himself.

Similarly, Frances Goodman has explored the desires, compulsions, insecurities, and obsessions hidden in our use of language, saying that «After working with a number of media I eventually found that words and language had the uncanny ability to unnerve and get under people's skins, in a way that visual images and modes could not... sometimes [words] are simple and clear, and yet they are often full of innuendoes and subtexts».

The labor - intensive commitment with the hand drawn image is twofold: a serious deliberation with the subject and a personal obsession that causes anxiety.

The centerpiece is «Flag» of 1960 - 66, one of a series of images of the U.S. standard by Johns that transformed the art world - challenging the supremacy of Abstract Expressionism and paving the way for Pop Art's obsession with boldly colored found objects.

A beautiful pink butterfly on a black field, this iconic image takes its inspiration from the writings of Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the artist's recurrent central theme — his obsession with life's impermanence.

Lady Sings the Browns, Highways Performance Space, L.A. June 1 & 2, 2007 The Magnificent Obsession, ADM Projects, Los Angeles, 2006 A Baroque Prayer in Search of a Hearing Aid, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, 2006 The Heroine's Trip, Toronto Alternative Art Fair at the Gladstone Hotel, Oct 2, 2004 Gorgonie Time, The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, Mar 4, 2004 The Troubador, Los Angeles, Mar, 2004 Cinespace, Los Angleles, June, 2004 14 Songs of Love, Adobe Books, San Francisco, Valentine's Day, 2004 You Play the Fool this Time, REDCAT Gallery at Disney Hall, L.A., Dec, 2003 Mixture Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan, 2002 Filthy Witch, Smart Gals Speakeasy, Los Angeles, Oct, 2003 Western Witch, Season of the (with Thurston Moore), New Image Art, L.A., Aug, 2003 You Play the Beast This Time, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Oct 31, 2001

And of course, there's the Florida Bar's continued and unnatural obsession with preventing lawyers from using certain animal images, like pitbulls or sharks, in advertising.

Edward «Ed» Davis is slimmer than his Google images — the result, no doubt, of a recently acquired obsession with cycling.

Propelling my obsession with flower photography, the Galaxy Note 8 produces sharp and color - rich images with little need for multiple shots.

This video shows parents talking constructively about their daughter's obsession with body image.

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