Sentences with phrase «obvious affinities»

This positioning respectably keeps Solomon's new work at arm's length from the historic period represented by the paintings in the larger show but, because his work shares obvious affinities with those paintings, it belongs there.

There are obvious affinities between Mr. Close's tightly cropped head shots and those done around the same time by Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein.

Despite a tech guy's obvious affinity for data and the information - centric nature of his company's product, Zambonini thinks most startups take their obsession with numbers too far.

The shapes of the sculptures of Arp, Miro and Moore show obvious affinities with natural forms, such as bones, shells and pebbles.

Although there are obvious affinities between my reasoning and the thought of Teilhard de Chardin, his discussion of the body of Christ focuses rather upon the individual Christian's incorporation within Christ as the Omega point toward which all creation moves.

The rocky and industrial materials have obvious affinities with Minimalism and earthworks.

Sure, cataloging the film's copious references and antecedents will make critics feel smart — but does that just make First Reformed fan service for those who share Schrader's obvious affinity for Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Ingmar Bergman?

Street Fighter II, the series» biggest hit and the game that comes up the most, doesn't share any obvious affinity with hip - hop.

But on closer inspection, the justification of Jinchi's achievement by reference to the New York School seems superficial, indeed serving only to state the obvious affinities between any cursive calligraphy and gestural abstraction.

They have obvious affinities with abstraction or color studies, like squares for Josef Albers, and Kim did appear a decade ago in «Color Chart» at the Museum of Modern Art.

Surprise us with 16 different editorial selections of mostly unpublished pictures, made by artists and writers with diverse points of view but obvious affinity for their maker and their topics.

There's an obvious affinity to California artist Wayne Thiebaud's whimsy and affection for the stuff of everyday life, particularly in the paintings of wagons and campers and the wood sculptures of pies, ice cream cones, steaks and hammers.

As in late Monet or Giacometti, gridded and criss - crossed complexities create an almost opaque screen against recessional depth, and thus space seems flattened and schematized: the play of white within vertical and diagonal striations brings to mind a late water lily canvas by the impressionist master, while a light - infused landscape by Giacometti demonstrates an obvious affinity with Richter's cascading, prismatic chromatic affects.

Aside from our obvious affinity for (and desire to hug) the leafy brethren of this table's design inspiration, the Tree Stump Coffee Table from the designers at Because We Can is a nice piece of sustainable design.