Sentences with phrase «of surrealism in»

In 1947 her work was included in an international exhibition of surrealism in New York, where she was the only female British artist featured, establishing her pivotal role within the surrealist movement.

Matta was an exponent of surrealism in the group around André Breton in the late 1930s.

The photographs in the «Érotique voile» series (1934), in which Man Ray posed his model, are now among the most outstanding works of surrealism in the Parisian circles of which Oppenheim was highly acknowledged.

This move proved to be a rather big step in his career, as it helped Matta to establish the European ideas of surrealism in America.

An oversized fabric sculpture, a rigid scaffolding, and everyday objects, enhance the conception of surrealism in the installation.

It also shows the legacy of surrealism in contemporary art, and the ongoing potency of the Narcissus myth to artists.

Featuring new and recent work by six artists from the UK, US, and France — Jonathan Baldock, Genesis Belanger, Matthew Hansel, Matt Lipps, Theo Mercier, and Adam Parker Smith — the exhibition reflects on the legacy of surrealism in contemporary art while investigating the notion of the uncanny in reference to the history of art.

Artist masters of surrealism in the show include Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, Joan Miró and others.

The broad scope of this group show enables the exhibition to explore the rich and seemingly divergent manifestations of surrealism in American art.

The Pyes» artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video, and installation while acknowledging the profound influences of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches to subject matter.

To find out more about the game, the story behind the plot and the growth of surrealism in the games industry, we talked to Vander Cabellero, founder and Creative Director of Minority in an exclusive first interview.

The many pans and tracking shots in The Boys in the Band and the touches of surrealism in The Birthday Party give them a unique aesthetic foundation.

Not exact matches

Salvador Dalì had a profound impact on the art world as one of the most recognized figures in the surrealism movement in the mid-20th century.

To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.

But there is also a meticulously realistic modernism that carefully reproduces pieces of the world out there, but in such fashion as either to tell a story that is impossible in the world, as in surrealism, or to alienate the depicted reality altogether from our quest for coherence.

It all was in the daylight, with the mesquite outside and no sign of snow in the rolling desert, a scene of rattling surrealism.

Blessed with an eye for the surrealism of reality and the oddity of humanity and nature, Sikka's photography often casts the world in an otherworldly light.

Blood, guts, and offbeat surrealism in another crackpot classick from «The Wizard of Gore» himself, director Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Heralding back to Medieval Ages and tracing the origin of the transformers to the days of Merlin, Bay dips his artistic vision in the realm of magic, surrounding his audiences with a silly and convoluted story of redemption and surrealism.

Gomes plays some tricky games with sound and voiceover, and an understated sense of surrealism lurks around the edges of the film, most notably in the form of the many animals that populate the film.

The camera sinuously glides through Sampha's life, connecting people and spaces with moments of cinematic surrealism, like the troupe of still dancers that haunt an abandoned swimming pool in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

That's the sort of action that many teen movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.

Despite the film's claims towards realism the excessive violence in Gangs of Wasseypur borders on surrealism.

Directed by Federico Fellini in 1980, City of Women contains touches of surrealism and often harsh portraits of women.

In one of the movie's few moments of casual surrealism, Bjornsen gobbles a tray of marijuana like a cartoon bear.»

The manner in which Connie knocks across Ray is genuinely hilarious and the increasing absurdity and surrealism of the night's events sometimes call to mind Scorsese's After Hours.

«Directed from Jon Raymond's fact - based script, this suggestively allegorical, discreetly trippy Western recalls Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and even Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest - destiny madness; the Reichardt approach is, however, more stringent and pointed in its weirdness.»

There are also moments of magical realism and startling surrealism (with a drum - based score that can be distracting) that are so in - your - face, I often wished the bombardment of style would shut up so I could hear the characters.

Ignored by most audiences, this is a subtle, sublime work that merges the best of Villeneue's craft — his arch, noir tendencies from Prisoners, his level of detail exhibited with Polytechnique, his sense of complexity beautifullly realized in Incendies, and even some of the morose surrealism of Enemy.

This kind of surrealism is what «Sherlock Gnomes» is largely lacking in terms of personality.

Besides the aforementioned Thompson ties, it fuses Dali surrealism, film noir (Beatty's corrupt mayor is modeled on John Huston's character in «Chinatown»), «Don Quixote» (for Alfred Molina's quixotic armadillo) «Star Wars» and «Apocalypse Now» (for a batty canyon chase set to «Ride of the Valkyries»), Peckinpah's «Ride the High Country» (for the dysfunctional family of mole varmints), and, most notably, Sergio Leone's famously over-the-top Westerns.

The film moves at an effectively erratic pace: action in the real world moves fairly swiftly, but once it's in the world of the mind, the pace becomes more languid, befitting the surrealism of dreams.

It's a Texas Gothic crime thriller sutured to a potboiler melodrama about the existential despair of L.A. socialites in a David Lynchian fashion — though with less surrealism and more coherence.

Both share a space with surrealism in the positioning of animals (artificial or deceased) in industrial spaces (London's Battersea Power Station is the iconic backdrop of the «Animals» cover) as mute commentary, perhaps, on man's destructive relationship with his environment — a read that jibes comfortably with the thrust of Children of Men, in which we're told that one day in the not - too - distant future, humans suddenly stop reproducing.

What's certain is that Bernard and Charlotte's scene together in the secret bunker filled with faceless hosts was the best part of the episode — full of the discomfiting sci - fi surrealism we come to Westworld for.

The horror on every character's face blends well with the grainy edit, adding a sort of nightmarish surrealism to a video that's already hard to watch in the best way possible.

Rudolph's underrated and visually inventive comedy Investigating Sex (2001)-- loosely inspired by José Pierre's study of the relationship between surrealism and sex — returns the director to a more salient concern with the connection between human desire and art; as its characters discuss their thoughts on sex, they sit among paintings and sculptures that would likely have also piqued the interest of Hilly Blue in Trouble in Mind.

In its man - against - impersonal - authority theme, its mild surrealism, its rat - a-tat scripting, and its razored wryness, «Arrested Development» is the inheritor of the postwar Ealing Comedies (whereas «Grey's Anatomy» is more foul excretia in the «Sex and the City» modeIn its man - against - impersonal - authority theme, its mild surrealism, its rat - a-tat scripting, and its razored wryness, «Arrested Development» is the inheritor of the postwar Ealing Comedies (whereas «Grey's Anatomy» is more foul excretia in the «Sex and the City» modein the «Sex and the City» mode).

The sense of disconnection is what's at play in The Big Lebowski — the total failure of communication, the feeling of being stuck in time, and an analysis of The Big Sleep that suggests that it's had its major influence not on the mainstream detective thriller, but on surrealism and post-modernism.

Behind «Holy Motors» — the strange, perverse and entertaining neo-noir film by Léos Carax — lies a near century of movie surrealism: of deliberately fantastic, illogical and sometimes pathological filmmaking in which the cineaste (whether it's Luis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau or Maya Deren or Carax) tries to dream on screen and carry us into the maddest of reveries.

Its wry sense of humor and surrealism reminded me of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, who used a checkpoint as a microcosm in his 2002 film, Divine Intervention.

His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».

A printable resource which has many examples of Photographers who use surrealism within their work in some way (either through theme, technique or idea)

Students collaborate in pairs to research any of these art styles: realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, or surrealism.

Research, Writing, and the «Isms» Paula Guhin Students collaborate in pairs to research any of these art styles: realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, or surrealism.

Research, Writing, and the «Isms» Submitted by Paula Guhin Students collaborate in pairs to research any of these art styles: realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, cubism, futurism, or surrealism.

The collection contains eight new stories that promise the same combination of surrealism and insight as those in her striking debut, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006).

Cirque du Soleil ® weaves an aquatic tapestry of artistry, surrealism and theatrical romance in the timeless production «O».

It's all portrayed in the game's unforgettable visuals, a dreamlike diorama of cardboard and sponge that blends the home - made aesthetic of Michel Gondry music videos with the heady surrealism and humour of stop - motion children's TV from decades ago, shows like The Clangers or The Magic Roundabout.

That's not to say that Sunshine is devoid of the series» indelible mark of surrealism, as the aforementioned platforming gauntlets that serve as the bonus stages — where Mario is robbed of F.L.U.D.D. and has to rely on his own abilities — seem to be housed in a bizarre, often pixelated dimension, with random shapes and objects suspended in space in such a way that they feel like a precursor to the Galaxy titles.