Sentences with phrase «of mythic»

The Migration of the Mythic Lesbian.

Hamilton, in turn, argues that geoengineering research is fraught with dangers of mythic proportions.

His distinctive melding of these influences coalesces into a folk - driven, utopian vision of the mythic American West and of lush gardens as sites of contemplation, loss, and possible redemption.

The Ruc paintings show a further development of these mythic or symbolic forms in a more graphic style and include what the artist himself has described as some of his most powerful images.

Baumgarten became a student of the mythic artist Joseph Beuys in Dusseldorf and for the last 15 years, he has shared his unique brew of artistry with students in Berlin.

These break up pages of poetic text, exploring the phenomenon of meaning - making through narrative fiction and the vague approximations of mythic archetypes.

Russell's advice to a fellow artist to «sinch your saddle on romance» defined his work, where vivid subjects culled from his own youthful experiences were fused with the power of his artistic imagination to create unforgettable images of the mythic American frontier.

It's trying to get beyond that... make it kind of mythic in some way.»

All through these galleries you sense invigorating confrontations between modernist dreams and urban realities, the clash of mythic hopes and quotidian experiences that gave art in midcentury New York its matter - of - fact grandiosity.

In fact, during the final years of Matta's tenure in New York his work is exemplary of the mythic spontaneity found in Abstract Expressionism.

Using various techniques of drawing and perforating industrial sandpaper, Yaron Berent presents motifs of mythic animals in a complex relationship of projections and recurrences.

Though there is no indication that she saw its forms as having individual identities, such an idea of a mythic narrative may also be identified in Fallen Images.

Work dealt with the shadowy, mysterious realm of mythic subject matter and the unconscious, later marked by a poetic feel, with abstracted figures against a timeless, mottled ground.

At THE BREEDER, Stef Driesen presents a series of new paintings that illustrate theatrical compositions and elicit a sense of mythic romanticism from environments that are at once beautiful and strange.

The work incarnates a team of mythic personages, their heads rising above a stylized frieze of the sea, whose curling waves seemingly allude to Poseidon and riff on the Pergamon Altar, which depicts the battle of the giants against the Olympian deities.

You could say that those paintings are a kind of mythic image of the painter.

Her New York Times obituary reads, «[Mary's] works... combined a sense of mythic power with a sensitivity to shape that was all their own, achieving a subtlety of expression that belied their monumental scale.»

Hadzi thinks of art in clear, formalist terms, but with nuances of mythic meaning drawn from his Greek heritage.

All the way from Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska (Booth 3E11) will bring on a Kabinett showcase of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam — whose depictions of mythic creatures was said to be appropriated by the likes of Pablo Picasso and André Breton — in anticipation of a wider show in its gallery later in the year.

I think for many of them, like Vito Acconci and Dan Graham, writing was a way to demystify art making and take it outside of the mythic realm of genius and inspiration.

WE DONE ALL WE COULD AND NONE OF IT»S GOOD is one of a handful of chapters in Hancock's ongoing narrative that follows the lives of «Mounds» and «Vegans» toiling in an ideological grudge match of mythic proportions.

Marshall reminds us that artists of color have historically endured a conditional access that reinforces the narrative of their own exclusion: «So it's like all of the black folks who achieve this sort of mythic status as artists are always people who were working as naives, untrained, kind of natural artists.»

Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being — her subversive masculine alter - ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art.

This new edition expands on the scope of the old, adding new acquisitions and featuring 150 master works by artists from Asia, Europe and the Americas — from delicate Song - dynasty handscrolls to jewel - like images of medieval piety, scenes of mythic drama, austere still lifes, sensitive portraits, grand landscapes and jarring Modern visions.

The American Century During the 20th century, while American artists did not generally take the country's integrity for granted, they did tap the rich vein of its mythic virtue with a tacit understanding that it was not all illusory.

In the mythic 1940s England seen from the cockpit of a mythic air ace, there would surely be a white horse on the hill above the village pub, which might well be called The White Horse.

Suggestive of mythic battle scenes, Wilson's paintings shake the foundation of the context that they appear to mimic, questioning the validity of any man - made system of ideology.

Her recent paintings and photographs bring the exhibition full circle, highlighting the continuity of the mythic, elemental worlds that she has been creating in several different mediums over the course of more than six decades.

In his latest exhibition, the Savannah artist continues his exploration of the mythic imagery of the contemporary American South.

He has long been a figure of mythic dimensions, as are many of the artists associated with the New York School, and it's easy to ascertain why.

In 1943, Gottlieb, together with Rothko and Barnett Newman wrote a letter to one of their most vocal detractors, New York Times critic Edward Alden Jewell, outlining the use of mythic themes and abstract forms that were hallmarks of the New York School.

These street actions formed the basis of The Mythic Being, an influential work of performance art that helped establish Piper's reputation as provocateur and philosopher.

A now - retired Nathan Drake will have to tackle the mystery of mythic pirate colony Libertatia with his older brother Sam, who was long thought to be dead.

Typically, he's drawn out of retirement by the thrill of the chase, with him and his long lost brother Sam Drake attempting to solve the mystery of the mythic pirate colony Libertalia.

What we have here is a rant written by an employee of Mythic Entertainment — now known as «BioWare Mythic.»

The guy's pissed because he heard he was being fired soon, decided to write a scathing blog entry exposing the incompetency of Mythic and BioWare's upper management figures.

The Fairfax, VA branch of Mythic Entertainment has recently been shut down by EA.

In addition to the co-founders, we have one of the earliest members of Mythic Entertainment, effects artist Mike Crossmire, who was a key contributor to all of Mythic's earliest games and Dark Age of Camelot, plus a young group of talented artists and programmers, for some of whom this is their first industry gig.

Also of mythic proportions is its endurance in subfreezing weather.

But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic - materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable - loving, primitive ages of humanity.

- Robert Jordan «Reminiscent of T. H. White's The Once and Future King, this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.»

A group for people to discuss and recommend works of mythic fiction.

The first titles from the publisher include The Cat's Pajamas (Nov. 14, 2014), a children's book by Daniel Wallace, also the author of Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, and Slim and The Beast (Feb. 3, 2015), by debut novelist Samuel L. Barrantes.

This monumental, fictionalized version of the life of the mythic abolitionist John Brown is told by his son Owen, who survives the raid at Harpers Ferry with equal measures of anger and guilt.

Shooting on Brett Ratner's forthcoming sword n» sandals reboot of the mythic greek god has now officially been completed.

It's not the only change in this handsomely mounted retelling of the mythic tale of the Trojan War.

Set in the summer of 1983, in a land of leisurely alfresco lunches and spontaneous all - day bike rides under the northern Italian sun, the romantic idyll «Call Me by Your Name» is enough to make you move to the town of Crema, even if your rational self realizes the director Luca Guadagnino trades in a heightened, miragelike state of mythic yearning.

This band of ronin must seek help from Kai (Reeves)-- an enslaved half - breed they once rejected — in their ultimate fight for redemption in a savage world of mythic and wondrous terrors.

In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific — as beautiful as it is treacherous — unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

But a fee - ass - scoe, a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.