Employing the old technique of «layer painting», Fomenko applies the practice in a modernized way and injects bright primary shades of acrylic paint onto the canvas, before awakening his subjects
of surrealism with oils by using broad brushstrokes.
Passuntino's dynamic color palette is reminiscent of the Fauves, while he blends the automatism
of surrealism with the emotive force of expressionism.
There's a strong element
of surrealism with Broken Age that we've come to expect from Double Fine games, but it's taken even further through brilliant art design and excellent fully voiced dialogue.
Not exact matches
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.
Or you're going artsy
with a print
of surrealism.
Mostly unfunny satire that tries to cover up its lack
of ideas and humor
with cheap irony and dimestore
surrealism; probably should have been titled BILL & TED»S HOMOEROTIC HALLUCINATION.
As the movie rambles along
with its own brand
of quasi-magical
surrealism, the links to real experience grow scarcer and more frayed.
I really hate comparing to other films, but the easiest way to describe it is the dark
surrealism of Naked Lunch with the dark humor of The King Of Comed
of Naked Lunch
with the dark humor
of The King Of Comed
of The King
Of Comed
Of Comedy.
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.
The picture is savage, intense,
with a top note
of surrealism; Kafka's greatest hits, as sung by Tom Waits.
A Gentle Creature is savage, intense,
with a top note
of surrealism; Kafka's greatest hits, as sung by Tom Waits
Classical tragedy mixed
with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish
surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test
of audience endurance plays like «Sophie's Choice» by way
of «The Burbs».
While Anderson's usual traits are accounted for — a conspicuous, often discordant soundtrack; cracks at consumerism; strokes
of surrealism — Punch - Drunk Love is Anderson's first feature - length dance
with romance.
The film feels like a purring blend
of Hitchcock and Lynch,
with constant touches
of black humour, dark tension and bizarre
surrealism.
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.
Classical tragedy mixed
with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish
surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test
of audience endurance plays like Sophie's Choice by way
of the «burbs.
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.
I never really got over the
surrealism of the experience: sitting down for dinner and making awkward eye contact
with Greta Gerwig, just a table away; heading up a gondola to explore Mountain Village and seeing Ethan Hawke on his way down the mountain.
Ivey's assured novel brims
with adventure, history and a little bit
of surrealism — a great combination for any book group.
- The Telegraph (UK) «Mixes the small - town
surrealism of Twin Peaks
with the clandestine - society theme
of Donna Tartt's The Secret History.»
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.
Double Fine's modern re-imagining
of classic adventure gaming logically involves a talking cave, but we're perfectly fine
with a spot
of surrealism from the mind who brought us the Monkey Island series.
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.
It's delightfully weird
with hints
of surrealism which is what some might expect when a thoroughly Japanese development studio sets a game within a thoroughly American location.
This goofiness can be traced through the rest
of the series,
with the horror shlock
of Bloodlines to the fun house
surrealism of Super Castlevania IV to the playable little girl in a pink dress in Dracula X and so forth.
Written
with a laid back tone, while maintaining an undercurrent
of mystery and
surrealism, Broken Age juggles multiple themes
of adolescence, seclusion, and conformity deftly without being overbearing or heavy handed.
-- Pixel Related (9/10) All clearly inspired by the nightmarish flesh - stretching
surrealism of HR Giger
with occasional hellscapes in the style
of Hieronymus Bosch, Tormentumis never less than amazing to look at and the push to see the next piece
of f *** ed - up artwork is what drove me on through the game the most.
Moscow illustrator Julia Petrova crafts intimate and dark portraits and landscapes, often
with an element
of surrealism to her artworks.
Motherwell took the haptic magic
of the best
of dada /
surrealism and the cool hedonism
of late Matisse and mixed it up
with the high velocity and headstrong lunge for originality that he had absorbed from his New York painter peers
of the 1940s.
New oil paintings on view are filled
with dynamic figures that span reality (an upside down figure on a roller coaster) and a sense
of surrealism (a figure lounging on the beach in red flips flops, atop clouds,
with some body parts replaced by shapes).
Saul is often associated
with the Chicago Imagists, a group
of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition
of fantasy - based art - making rooted in
surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists
of the San Francisco Bay Area.
«The new series
of paintings comprising «Nowhere» continue Esao's haunted and lonely landscapes, portraits and scenes that merge
surrealism with real world emotion along
with inanimate objects and anthropomorphized animals -LSB-...]
The aim
of surrealism was to reveal the unconscious and reconcile it
with rational life
At the close
of the 1920s and into the 1930s he experimented
with cubism, eventually moving to
surrealism.
FLUX focused on the reflection
of the conscious and unconscious mind,
with French's paintings skilfully combining academic realism and
surrealism.
Despite his growing fascination
with the unconscious, Gottlieb had difficulty committing exclusively to a surrealist approach, nor could he entirely abandon
surrealism in favor
of pure abstraction.
Anachronistically frozen in space, his mythological taxidermy hybrids insinuate elements
of surrealism, drawing from an ancient register that collides
with futuristic settings.
Like Pablo Picasso's innovative reinventions
of painting and sculpture near the turn
of the century via Cubism and constructed sculpture,
with influences as disparate as Navaho sand paintings,
surrealism, Jungian analysis, and Mexican mural art, [26] Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.
Don Van Vliet injects those legacies
with his own unique vision, a kind
of homespun
surrealism born
of the lore
of the American desert and the artist's own inspired visions, alternately whimsical and nightmarish.
In the late 1930s, through a friendship
with artist John Graham, Gottlieb became interested in
surrealism and the theories
of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Despite the work's dizzying
surrealism, Castator has distilled a contemporary notion
of reality, where societal collapse is suddenly plausible and an entire generation
of young people, faced
with an uncertain future, have retreated into humanity's most simplistic pursuit: unadulterated, hedonistic pleasure.