Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic»

One of the great exponents of Romanticism, the 19th century English painter, illustrator and mezzotint engraver John Martin, achieved huge popular acclaim with his history painting (more accurately, historical landscape painting) featuring melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources.

However, Zajac's interest in exploring such imagery in the 1950s and1960s was not for religious reasons, but more as a metaphor for the turbulent post-war world that feared nuclear escalation and the possibility of an apocalyptic ending.

She describes how Pompeii seized hold of her imagination «because of its apocalyptic destruction it was both a memory and a mirror, a condensation of our possible destruction by a nuclear holocaust.

They were all aware of it: Rauschenberg, Cage, Newman, and others talked about the flash of white light and black light as being ecstatic, a sort of apocalyptic light that linked to a tradition of Protestant Evangelical ecstasy.

Garnett's rendering of apocalyptic fireworks and cryptic explosions celebrate what paint can do.

Song for Coal is based around the flamboyant tracery of the apocalyptic rose window of Sainte Chapelle, Paris: 152 separate panels form a rose window of film, each containing its own individual piece, creating kaleidoscopic imagery that is rich, meditative and slowly evolves through viewing coal as a mineral, economic driver and a source of iconography.

In juxtaposing the constructed facsimile with discarded items, Hirschhorn offers viewers the space to project their own specific fantasy of apocalyptic desire onto the artwork.

This year's acclaimed performance festival Prototype: Opera / Theater / Now, known for producing some of the most cutting - edge musical theater in the city, brings the world premier of «Angel's Bone,» an opera about human trafficking from the eclectic composer Du Yun, and «Dog Days,» a moving opera from David T. Little and Royce Vavrek about how one family survives in the aftermath of an apocalyptic catastrophe.

And Pierre Huyghe phenomenally transformed an indoor ice skating rink into the set of an apocalyptic science fiction film.

Ensor might well have nodded in approval at BHQF's brilliant contemporary «translation» of his apocalyptic nineteenth - century vision of a society on the verge of a total collapse.

Large and richly textured, their pictures explore the possibilities of an apocalyptic future environment, in where people try desperately but still with faith to control the nature.

It is only available as loss, distorted by the manifestations of an apocalyptic culture which leaves the artist no alternative but to travel through all of them.»

In 2012, the artist Loretta Fahrenholz convened with a dance crew on the streets of the Rockaways and East New York to improvise a film collaboration, and they hit upon the idea of an apocalyptic disaster movie.

These mundane places are instantly transformed through the violent power of a climatic or terrestrial force, into dreamscapes of apocalyptic proportions.

Where there has always been an engagement with the sociological in his work, Current Events provides a platform for Tomaselli to inject new «tendrils of the apocalyptic and pathological» into what he sees as the profuse, ornate and beautiful shape of nature.

Ms. Kolpy's work, presents visual interpretations of apocalyptic mythoi — past, present, and future.

Occasionally the artist embeds hints of apocalyptic visions in the numerical data and imagery his drawings depict.

His fearless and intellectually bracing work points to the connectivity of all points in the universe and is a welcome respite from popular culture's relentless consumerism and the siren calls of apocalyptic thinking.

Bunkley designs his work using digital 3D modeling, video, and image editing program emphasizing majestic landscapes, human revelry, and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony.

9 Works such as these of course lent themselves perfectly to satire: both Musset and Balzac made fun of the ambitions of the apocalyptic and Fourierist painters, probably basing their caricatures on that learned and mystical pasticheur of universal panaceas, Paul - Joseph Chenavard.10

I really love this type of apocalyptic setting.

Players will take on the role of Randall Wayne who is a survivor of an apocalyptic world which is set in an alternate 1980's.

Though, unlike Limbo, Inside does make sparing use of color, and its visuals showcase a grim and dark atmosphere of an apocalyptic world.

Thankfully, Kirkman chose to spare the world another generic zombie shooter, instead teaming up with adventure studio Telltale Games to deliver an emotional and story - focused version of his apocalyptic tale of survival.

Our dragon in question happens to be of the apocalyptic variety, happily threatening to destroy the realm of Gransys and all within it.

Many of the zombie games tell a story of an apocalyptic event and the players need to survive and fight the mutated humans that turned into zombies.

Bastion's story follows the Kid as he collects special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic Calamity.

An action packed, comical (albeit short), animated graphical adventure set in the backdrop of an apocalyptic future, Full Throttle touches on the subculture of motorcycle gangs and their steel horses.

If Kinect isn't the «revolution» we were promised, however, its early success and just as sudden decline have been thrilling to behold: a tale of commercial and creative ambition scuttled by inattention to practicalities, of hubris and inertia elevated to a kind of apocalyptic cinema by the PR misfires of an industry juggernaut.

To the untrained eye, this atom bomb baby could easily be mistaken for a pixelated maelstrom of apocalyptic chaos.

Deadlight carries the three - dimensional graphical sheen of an Unreal Engine game, with a shadowy blanket silhouetting any detail or colour within the foreground, and it looks fantastic, a suitably dreary aesthetic that fits the macabre sense of desolation of the apocalyptic world around you.

When you're in this game, you can feel the story, the characters, and to a certain extent even believe that you are a part of this apocalyptic wasteland.

With addictive progression elements that let you customize every aspect of your apocalyptic survival, State of Decay is one of the best ways to explore a zombie - infested world.

Most of the script suits the mood of an apocalyptic story, but there are a few places in the script that could definitely do with a rewrite, as they feel decidedly out of place or rush the story forward without a plausible explanation.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron transports you to the final days of the planet Cybertron where you will experience the darkest hours of the apocalyptic war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

In a bid to fit into the timeline established by the G1 (Generation One) cartoons from the mid-to-late Eighties, Fall of Cybertron picks up from where War for Cybertron left off — it follows both Autobots and Decepticons in the last hours of the apocalyptic war on their home planet — and while the game didn't garner a lot of love in the GOTY lists, I found the storyline, combat variety and pacing to be a fantastic immersion into their world.

Players will need to climb, jump and shoot their way through the chaos of an apocalyptic world, escaping with your fellow apes in a bid to return home to Caesar.

The premise is a bit thrown together, with the world being in some sort of apocalyptic scenario.

The story continues that of the apocalyptic orphan Clementine battling elements of the ever terrifying zombie infested planet, and as always, your decisions affect the outcome of the game.

Take for example the Winter Solstice, or the Toutatis Asteroid that was scheduled to hit Earth on the same day, or Terence McKenna's prediction in 1992 regarding the «Time Wave Zero» theory that the Earth will be in oblivion on 12.21.12, or that epic «rescheduling» of the apocalyptic end of our existence on September 3, 2015 because of an error in the doomsday countdown.

This list of apocalyptic eBooks changes quite often, so be sure to check back every day for new selections of highly - rated authors of the ends times and doom.

What's the appeal of these apocalyptic fantasies?

They have the credentials to back it up: Adams is the Hugo Award - winning editor of the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy series, as well as of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare; Howey is the bestselling author of the apocalyptic Silo Series, which began with Wool, a self - publishing phenomenon.

However, This Plague of Days fits neatly in the sci - fi subcategory of apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic.

Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction.

One of their most successful is a property entitled «Dreadtime Stories,» a collection of original horror stories, and a series of apocalyptic zombie stories.

My first three novels, a series of apocalyptic thrillers known as the Plague Year trilogy, were published by Ace / Penguin Group USA.

A map detailing the zombie outbreaks depicted in films, a timeline of apocalyptic movies and an illustrated analysis of Judd Apatow's secret for success — these and more make this fun book a visual feast for movie lovers of all kinds.

I've spent months writing a series of apocalyptic science fiction novelettes and novellas that I planned to begin publishing in September, in order to try to succeed with what was the hottest new way to sell books: series!

With the manyproblems facing the world, a strong undercurrent of apocalyptic anxiety runs The Road, Film more