Sentences with phrase «of sublime landscape»

«Combining the aesthetics of beauty and decay, The Majesty is a glorious celebration of the sublime landscape experience for the digital age,» says Tony Heywood.

Adams» oeuvre marks a transition in the representation of the American landscape, shifting from an attempt to capture the beauty of the sublime landscape to more complex investigations into the environmental, social and political changes wrought on the land during the last century.

A number of the paintings update the tradition of sublime landscape painting: think the Hudson River School rendered in neon colors or a Caspar David Friedrich painting re-conceptualized as a psychedelic experience.

This is a country of sublime landscapes ranging from sparkling glaciers to bubbling volcanic mud pools, and from mountain - ringed fjords to colourful cities such as exciting Reykjavík, the world's northernmost capital city.

Dorf's digital manipulations of photographs taken while working in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory explore the concept of sublime landscapes and highlight the ways we measure and categorize our world through scientific means.

With the new «Mr Turner» biopic out soon in cinemas, this display reaches back to the roots of why Turner is so beloved by reminding us of the sublime landscapes that established him as one of the greatest artists of the 19th century.

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For the Hebrews, weather and landscape were intermingled as in actuality they are, and both were transfused with a sense of the sublime.

It's amazing to see just how far Pixar have come as a studio when you look back a the lifeless eyes and odd - looking faces of Toy Story to the «you - won't - believe - it's - animated» waterfalls and landscapes here.The designs of our lead characters are sublime too, and really do help carry some of the emotional weight.

Evoking both the indie rep of Portland and Oregon's sublime natural landscape, Kelly Reichardt's hiking drama treks a path into the space that grows between two friends.

A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.

In accordance with its episodic, elliptical structure and minimal snippets of dialogue, its essence is elusive, as befits its enigmatic, poetic style, illuminated by Emmanuel Lubezki's spectacular landscape / cityscape cinematography, Jack Fisk's sprawling production design and Alexandre Desplat's sublime, requiem - filled score.

I'm one of the Wrangler faithful myself, and after driving the new JL through some of New Zealand's most spectacular wilds — the same mountainous, river - crossed landscapes that served as the backdrop for «The Lord of the Rings» movies and the forthcoming «Mission: Impossible 6» — I'm here to tell you: The JL is a sublime piece of work, an upgrade over the JK in almost every way.

«To read Vera Nazarian's Lords of Rainbow is to be immersed in a dream, wandering through a wondrous, shifting landscape where the sun shines silver and the world is rendered in an infinite palette of subtle grays, filled with glimpses of sublime loveliness and glorious color.»

Evoking The Shipping News, Michael Crummey — one of Canada's finest novelists — conjures up the mythical, sublime world of Sweetland's past amid a stormbattered landscape haunted by local lore.

Let us lead you into a land of traditions... Indonesia is a land of escape with its sublime white sandy beaches and stunning landscapes... But this dream destination also offers its visitors many cultural riches, where local crafts and age - old art blend

The sublime, monumental and colourful landscapes of the Dolomites have also long attracted hosts of travellers and a history of scientific and artistic interpretations of its values.

Again, he writes about the hospitality, the sublime landscape and the general elation of experiencing something bigger than one's self.

Home to some of the most stunning views on Earth, the sublime landscapes offer so many unimaginably unique views that dozens of our favourite Hollywood science - fiction alien worlds have been inspired by and even filmed here!

Austria is a destination of sublime beauty and elegance all year round, the grandeur and spectacle of its mountainous landscapes rivalled only by the richness of its cultural and musical heritage.

Whilst the route is noted for its diverse, ever - changing and often spectacular landscapes, the scenery of Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world, is sublime.

Passing some of the most sublime landscapes of Scotland, Belmond «Royal Scotsman» skirts past shimmering Loch Lomond, and on to Bridge of Orchy, where she wends and weaves her way through the vast and wild Rannoch Moor.

The property has only 11 suites, and each dazzles with sublime views of the dramatic landscapes.

And take in the fantastic beach views and the sublime landscape of mainland Lombok, just across the sea.

Sublime natural landscapes aside though, Switzerland is of particular interest in 2018 thanks to the opening of the Stoosbahn, also known as the Schwyz funicular railway.

This sublime property, which sits on over an acre of beachfront land, was originally the home of long - time Bali resident and Australian artist Donald Friend who, in 1970, invited Sri Lankan «tropical modernism» architect Geoffrey Bawa — celebrated for breaking down barriers and creating harmonious relationships between buildings and landscape — to collaborate in developing the beachfront estate.

Best of all, you get to take in this sublime sight at sunrise, just as the first rays of the morning light touch the landscape with rosy shades of orange and pink.

Sprawled over ten acres of sublime gardens, in close proximity to the greatest of the surfing spots, Mal Pais Surf Camp and Resort greets the guests with its ambience of luscious landscapes, silver beaches and a lot superb surf breaks.

With romanticism and the concept of the sublime, landscape came into its own.

While its sublime vista recalls those of Romantic painter Casper David Friedrich, Richter's landscapes are diffused and void of human presence.

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

If anything, her art becomes sparer while reaching for the sublime, with her landscapes as little more than a trace of silver, like the incomplete geometry of Robert Motherwell.

Truth in today's surreal landscape By Ashley Jonas Photo: «Silver Lake Operations # 1» by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -Lsublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-...]

In the 1980s, a decade when artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became known for beautifully crafted natural and urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.

Reap the Whirlwind is a show wrapped in the language of seduction, beauty and the sublime, set against a backdrop of a classic American landscape.

His work is often concerned with narratives of exploration and the sublime landscape, in which he focuses on the validity of Romantic clichés in the 21st century.

He believed that landscapes should capture not only the beauty of nature but also its threat and terror in order to render an authentic representation of the sublime, evoking feelings of awe and human insignificance.

Continuing this legacy with a view to the poetic and the sublime in art, Dean explores landscape in its very broadest sense through the prism of her wide - ranging mediums.

A Hudson River School landscape hangs right behind the woman, linking the female body to the course of human life and to the sublime.

LYB: The idea of the sublime, the overwhelming feeling of stepping into a vast landscape and feeling so small and powerless in it, yes.

From now on, right down to echoes of the sublime in American landscape painting or Abstraction Expressionism, Western art will have to grapple with whether people or spirituality can ever feel at home in this world.

In this way she created what were modern incarnations of pastoral or sublime landscape.

Through these works McGinley had discovered new grounds for his artistic practice, placing his naked subjects in vast and breathtaking landscapes to roam and cavort freely as they please, thereby capturing a sublime and mystical view of the world.

Don't Look Back, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Nomadic Images, 16th International Vilnius Painting Triennial, organized by the Lithuanian Artists» Association, Museum of Applied Art and Design in Vilnius, Lithuania «Various are the lines of life...», Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Windhof, Luxemborg The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany Sammlung Viehof: Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, curated by Joel Sternfeld, The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT [cat.]

These new structures create a sublime landscape from afar, while simultaneously creating a position of challenge for the viewer to interact with the quantity and diversity of images at close proximity.

Through abstract paintings, such as Abstract Painting No. 20 (1942), many of which use forms from landscape, he sought to portray a binding and healing conception of the universe and to make the sublime visual.

2018 Solo Exhibitions Christiane Baumgartner: Liquid Light, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 21.03.2018 — 21.04.2018 2018 Group Exhibitions Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 17.04.2018 — 07.07.2018 Powerful Tides — 400 Years of Chatham and the Sea, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, 23.03.2018 — 17.06.2018 The Long Now — Reflexionen von Zeit und Vergänglichkeit, Museum Goch, 18.03.2018 — 10.06.2018 Journeys with «The Waste Land», Turner Contemporary, Margate, 03.02.2018 — 07.05.2018 Print Project Space: David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and more, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, 10.01.2018 — 10.02.2018

With a knowing nod to this fascination with animals as both forces of nature and metaphors for human behavior, Stingel replaces the sublime vistas of the alpine landscape with colossal vignettes of the species that inhabit it.

Transcendence flows through his sublime waterfalls and fills the landscape of canyons and cliffs, in a series of new works that are unveiled especially for the local audience.»

Taking in the legacies of American landscape painting and reductive modernism, as well as tourist photography, fashion advertising, generic stock photography and the aesthetics of clearance sales and shop - window display, the work looks to where one finds the sublime and the utopic in the experience of the everyday, be it in a temple, on a treadmill, at a designer clothing sale, or at the bottom of a whiskey - bottle — complex plays of crafted and consumed desire, scrambled and stripped.

Their miniature fake landscapes and interiors reflect a love of science fiction and dystopian entertainment, an appreciation for great architecture, and an affinity with the Sublime painters of the Hudson River School.