Sentences with phrase «obsession with mortality»

Amongst the mastery of brand is the glowering ghost - like portraits of Joseph Beuys — haunting, enigmatic, and seemingly rather personal — the work feels like it has the personal touch of the artist, rather than the work of that factory mass production — this is the catholic Pop Art master's true obsession with mortality floating to the surface, as Beuys stares out of the work; hollow and implacable.

In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.

She goes on to present a historical view of the allure of the dead girl (Poe, the Pre-Raphaelites) before concluding that in this instance, it's teen girls» own obsession with mortality that is driving this trend.

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An obsession with temporality and mortality lies just beneath the surface of Wang's yellow abstractions.