Sentences with phrase «of narrative paintings»

The first, in 2008, was comprised of a cycle of narrative paintings loosely based on a cold war era post-apocalyptic novel, On the Beach...
Anyways, some of my favorite parts of narrative paintings are the things that are in that are not the subject.
The liberal beliefs, social tolerance, and general promiscuity that characterize popular images of the city likewise distinguish the Los Angeles — based artist's own permissive practice, which swings from abstract paintings to collages and from haunted - house sculptures to a series of narrative paintings depicting sexually ambiguous men whom Hawkins refers to as «hallucinations from a Viagra overdose.»
It starts with the subject of his narrative paintings, much as for a pre-Romantic like Jean - Baptiste Greuze.
Ever since he was a student in the early 1980s, Dexter Dalwood has been interested in producing a kind of narrative painting — art that tells a story.
He upends the conventions of narrative painting by sweeping away his content through brush and color.
Throughout a career spanning nearly sixty years, Mernet Larsen has developed a painting practice that reconsiders the spatial conventions of narrative painting.
For Larsen, the «essence» of narrative painting is how the figure inhabits a physical space.
He also reacted away from European Modernist fashions, towards the kind of narrative painting that had long existed in India, for example in the miniature paintings made for both Mughal and Hindu courts.
Recently I started to see quite a lot of narrative painting going on, in addition to narrative print media.
Past Times reimagines art history, taking as his point of departure Western masterworks of narrative painting such as Giorgione's The Tempest, Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe and Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World examines the forces that inspired the relegation of narrative painting, and especially the art of illustration, to a lesser status by mid-century.
The exhibition examines the forces that inspired the relegation of narrative painting, and especially the art of illustration, to a lesser status by midcentury.

Not exact matches

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.
Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.
U nder the influence of western painters who settled in Bali in the 1930s - Balinese artist started painting single scenes instead of narratives tales, using images from everyday life as their theme,
Most of the paintings were narratives with mythological themes, illustrating stories from hindu epics and literature.
Matthew's story of the transfiguration becomes a luminous narrative icon, a painting in words that points beyond the text to the true reality of Christ, the light of the world.
They are no more historical than the set and scenery of a play are part of the narrative of the drama, or than the order in which an artist fills in the pigment and detail of a painting is part of the significance of the painting.
In any case, these words about painting are a fitting description of Davies's own narrative art, provocative in its «farcing out» of Christian tradition and powerful in its evocation of our human depth and variety.
Wilson claims to have surmounted these difficulties: he elaborates the known facts of Holbein's life into a vivid narrative encompassing the events of the Reformation, and he attempts to reveal the «real man» through a close and imaginative (indeed, often fanciful) interpretation of his paintings.
That does underscore the power of the media and political rhetoric that day in and day out paints a narrative of Muslims in a certain way, that Muslims themselves are not immune to adopting that idea.»
Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.
I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.
And the narrative not only resonated with journalists but also citizens who suddenly started googling for fake news (see Fig. 1) and found dozens of news articles that were painting a dark picture: not only are we living in a post-truth world, but our society is also fragmented into numerous echo chambers in which fake news is shared freely, thus eroding our society's basis.
Primarily, Cuomo tried to paint a narrative of what he considers an astonishing turnaround for the state since he took office.
In 1997 Labour successfully painted the narrative of Conservative years of boom and bust and chronic underfunding of public services.
The Conservatives will want to paint their own narrative of the last Labour government, of reckless spending pushing the country to the verge of bankrupcy, and have had some success in doing so: 60 % think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % that if Labour returned to government they'd put the country into even more debt.
In general, the group's lyrics are distinctly naturalist — painting pictures of wildlife and untouched ecosystems — but birds tend to appear in these narratives more often than other animals.
This narrative privileges scientific knowledge and definitions, and paint a picture of the «hero - scientist,» which ignores the crucial contributions of community members.
The dominant narratives in our society paint a picture of happiness and ease, and fashion, beauty, weight loss, and pharmaceutical industries make a lot of money telling you there's something wrong with you if you're not calm and / or happy all the time.
Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.
Rather than the typical inciting incident of a film's typical narrative structure, Yang's screenplay builds its story organically, painting a portrait of flawed, tender humans.
A lazy, paint - by - numbers thriller, Confidence follows professional grifter Jake Vig (Edward Burns) as he and his team prepare to fleece a mob - backed banker (Robert Forster's Morgan Price) of $ 5 million - with complications and double - crosses naturally ensuing as the frenetic narrative unfolds.
Where the 1998 movie, also directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett, painted a compelling portrait while also telling a riveting narrative, the sequel simply takes a chunk out of Elizabeth's life and says, «Here's what happened during these years,» without bothering to shape it into a story.
It is, in the end, not difficult to see why V.I. Warshawsky was unable to kickstart a series of movies involving the central character, with the film's profound failure due almost equally to Turner's nails - on - a-chalkboard performance and the narrative's paint - by - numbers execution.
No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.
The story's told through brief cutscenes and stage transitions, and though there are some zones without these, there was enough substance to paint an idea of both the narrative and the journey itself.
In both features, Altman is familiarly painted as an adventurous man given to trusting his intuition, whether advising Keith Carradine to cut his hair, or sticking with a handful of Leonard Cohen songs for the soundtrack, despite the anachronism of their presence in a narrative set in 1900.
But it offers a one - sided narrative of what once was, painting Susan in a broad and negative light.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (April 25, 2018)-- Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., today announces a collaboration with world famous Aardman Animation Studios and DigixArt to create 11 - 11: MEMORIES RETOLD, a story - driven narrative adventure, presented within a breathtaking art style reminiscent of paintings, that will deliver a wholly unique experience.
The challenge might as handily have been provoked by numerous interpersonal events of a more explicitly private nature (but these lack the cachet of apparent social comment); for the most compelling relationships in the film and the narrative turns they generate are satisfyingly free of 1:1, paint - by - the - numbers cause and effect.
They're both great actors, and they're backed up by some truly outstanding ones: Anne - Marie Duff plays Edward's brain - damaged mother, whose narrative function is to work up a discourse around Uccello's Hunt in the Forest, a painting of perfect technical execution and also roiling, deep darkness.
There are some nice narrative thrusts — the bit involving literally painting the town red — but Eastwood, with editor Ferris Webster and director of photography Bruce Surtees in tow, would direct a far superior Western, The Outlaw Josey Wales, three years later.
For a film that's success hinged on comic book accuracy as well as the simplicity of its narrative, Deadpool painted itself in a corner during the post-credits scene by promising the time traveling mutant from the future, Cable (Josh Brolin), for the sequel.
But in Nightwatching this is not merely a stylistic device but intrinsic to the narrative, which is concerned with the creation, interpretation and impact of Rembrandt's famously theatrical Night Watch painting.
Whilst the minutia of the modern - day Robin Hood - style caper is more detailed, the narrative is a paint - by - numbers affair.
Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.
I will continue to speak up and challenge narratives that paint false stereotypes, caricatures, and myths of Black and Brown bodies.
With powerful prose and poetry, his narrative as student and then later, NYC teacher leader, loving father (and husband), and advocate for children paints a portrait of what public education can and must be for American society.
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