Sentences with phrase «of mythic figures»

The use of mythic figures to distinguish individual societies has continued, though many of the figures have long since lost any social or religious power.

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Robert Jewett has long pointed out the American infatuation with superhero figures with mythic powers whose sole purpose is to rid the world of evil, though they never seem to succeed completely.

In either case, moreover, the result was rather curious, since neither figure in his final form was so much a mythic aggrandizement of the literary model as an almost total inversion.

As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.

Although he retained a sense of impudent playfulness, he had also acquired a marmoreal aspect, transcending fame itself to become one of the century's mythic figures, his plump, sad face known throughout the world.

Captured indelibly by cinematographers Nestor Almendros and Haskell Wexler, Malick's film has a visual syntax so eloquent and graceful — its fields of gold cause its quiet characters to stand out like mythic figures — it would play powerfully as a silent film.

In «Regeneration Through Violence,» his classic study of the mythology of the frontier, from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War, the literary historian Richard Slotkin identifies two essential mythic figures: the captive, usually an innocent woman held against her will by ruthless and alien usurpers, and the hunter, who is obsessed with protecting her honor and, sometimes secondarily, securing her freedom.

Day - Lewis» folksy vocal choices — the relaxed pace, the self - deprecating tone — make the character of Lincoln seem more human and approachable, even as his mythic figure and ability to hold a room showcase what made him a legend in his time.

Instead of making the guy a mythic figure «of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire,» as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, McBride thinks it's scarier to have him be some weird dude who likes to murder people.

Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.

Theodore Roosevelt is a figure of fairly mythic proportions in American History.

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.

This mythic figure is mostly naked in each scene with powerful thighs, sagging breasts, and protruding stomach — the very antithesis of the ideal female form in Western culture.

In small groups, visitors climbed the tower and encountered two artworks articulating two mythic and current figures of resistance.

As a student of art and history, Saint Phalle would have been familiar with these and many other mythic representations of powerful female figures.

Richard Pousette - Dart, a member of the New York School and mainstay of American abstraction, employed a black and white color - scheme to render the mythic coupling of Hero and Leander as bold, heroic figures.

Romantic, nightmarish, and mythic, the Black Paintings» emphasis on the female figure as protagonist and the overriding emotions of pain and dissonance prefigure Spero's preoccupations for the next 40 years.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

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 her often mythic work, Schimert selects iconic figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and film.

The mythic figures and beasts merge various myths (Egyptian, Assyrian, Meso - American, Greco - Roman), sitting uneasily at the juncture of spectacle and satire, but their sheer detail and scale (one figure, Demon with Bowl, stands several storeys high) makes the jaw drop.

The mythic American landscape — long held to subtend the movement's biomorphic shapes and totemic figures floating or swirling in dense tonalities of iconic color fields — assumed an Alexandrian cast in the West.

Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies, contributing to his mythic stature.

For most of us, historic figures like Picasso are destined to forever live in that mythic realm, and there are only a... Read More

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.

As distinct from such mythic references, the upward thrust of Hepworth's works of the late 1950s takes on a combination of figurative and spiritual aspects, as suggested by Figure (Requiem) and Cantate Domino (Tate Gallery T00956).

Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.

In the new paintings Texas Swing (2009), Hubris (2008), Thor (2008), and Blue Boyz (2008), Morley presents the figure of an athlete as a mythic hero, creating a kind of contemporary American mythology in paint.

These dramatic, mythic tableaux present frieze - like configurations of semi-abstracted figures; two notable examples, Entombment I / The Entombment (1944) and Landscape (1945), will be on view, both of which Ferber selected for his personal collection from Rothko's studio.

There is mythic construction of Wróblewski as a self - destructive, melancholic figure who was encroached upon by tragedy from all sides, but this is too simplistic.

Sometimes modeled figures perch in trees that grow out of the palm of a hand, adding a narrative, mythic dimension.

For most of us, historic figures like Picasso are destined to forever live in that mythic realm, and there are only a handful of people still alive who knew those figures so intimately.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effect.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order... [read more»]

Berkson is right about Bischoff working in a pastoral mode, but he fails to recognize that the dream - like worlds of «Figure at Window with Boat» and the later mythic paintings are obsessed.

However, by including such figurative works as «Figure at Window with Boat» (1964) and the later mythic paintings, «Figure, Boat, Clouds» (1971) and «Figure with Tree» (1972), the exhibition suggests that there are more sides to Bischoff's figurative paintings than his urban scenes, and the full extent of what he did between 1952 and» 72, is still unknown, particularly on the East Coast.

The mythic figures are too big and uncomfortable, not quite at ease in the natural world, which is made up of slathers of paint.