Sentences with phrase «of symbolic imagery»

The three never - before - seen sculptures revisit the classic icons of Scharf's repertoire of symbolic imagery developed over thirty years.

Sabin's well - honed technique and use of symbolic imagery explores themes of fecundity and fragility as well as strength and protection and emulation of the sublime.

Here, in her first solo exhibition at The Lodge Gallery, Falci continues to explore the development of insight and intuition through the arrangement of symbolic imagery.

Marc Chagall is generally associated with colorful paintings full of symbolic imagery and themes.

There's the occasional piece of symbolic imagery, but mostly this is a very straightforward story told through a very visual style.

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Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

Yet to this prophetic or «immanental» point of view the apocalyptic passages in the Bible are a blend of first century thinking with symbolic imagery.

Using the healing power of imagery through the medium of Sand Play Therapy to safely facilitate symbolic expression and transformation of painful experiences, and also provide ways of creating healing images in order to help children, youth, and adults face the challenges of their daily lives.

November 16, 2017 • With angry synths, religious imagery and a symbolic music video, the New Zealand singer provides the empowering song we need at this time of year.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

Filmed in aqueous greens and blues, its period design dripping with kitschy nostalgia and retro - futurism, «The Shape of Water» takes its cues from Golden Age Hollywood, including musicals, Bible epics and 1950s creature features, as well as the sleekly optimistic advertising imagery of the early 1960s: Elisa's best friend and next - door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is a commercial artist working on a campaign for Jell - O, the shaky symbolic repository for the time period's most uncertain hopes and anxieties.

The intricate decoration of the items on view includes religious imagery as well as people, animals, birds, insects, plants, and landscapes that tell stories or have symbolic meaning.

Johns» use of his own imagery in Drawing Over continues his process of re-considering symbolic forms, but within his own canon.

Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.

Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline Students deconstruct how artists use color, line, and symbolic imagery to convey meaning and impact the viewer.

Offerings in Zheng's Chinese Style Blessing series include the characters for «good luck,» «prosperity,» «longevity,» and «happiness» and, in the same spirit, the symbolic imagery of roosters, flowers, dragons, phoenixes, babies and Mao Zedong.

Through imagery that combines painting with woodcut, drawing, silkscreen and intaglio methods, she builds series of works in which different symbolic elements encounter and interact with one another in altered, fictionalized landscapes.

A picture of a «spectral bride» is relatively light in approach and benefits from the symbolic specificity of its imagery.

Alongside this traditional imagery, everyday textiles from the uniforms of park wardens, policemen and refuse collectors created colourful «paintings» that formed part of the artist's exploration of the symbolic use of fabric in both Italian religious art as well as in its contemporary secular forms.

Woodman's practice is often discussed in terms of its surreal and symbolic imagery, but her work was grounded in a sophisticated understanding of form.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

In each video the disparate and highly symbolic imagery hover and rotate over a black background, creating a hypnotic effect and beckoning a contemplative study of the artist's fastidious working method.

Without the distraction of recognizable imagery, Fox pursued his preoccupation with figure - ground ambiguity and moved through abstract impressionism to collage - inspired symbolic abstraction.

Powerful, culturally symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.

The actual paint or ink falling down the substrate and forming a recognizable subject (the waterfall) is, in itself, a combination of real and symbolic imagery.

The artist usually relied on symbolic imagery to get the message across to the viewers, utilizing this type of communicating through carefully established motifs much rather than standard representation.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

Her richly colored paintings convey a mixture of symbolic, expressionistic imagery depicting dancers, waterfalls, forests, animals, fish, masks and mythical beings.

«Speaking of People» examines the ways in which contemporary artists including Jeremy Okai Davis, Margaret Gallagher, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms and Purvis Young are developing concepts around the influential publications and incorporating their symbolic imagery in their work.

In Griffa's observations, metaphorical and symbolic imagery exist as an overlay functioning on top of the canvas, superimposed rather than prevailing as integral to the material itself.

Often taking the form of landscapes, the Canadian - born, Newcastle, England - based artist's presentations - containing combinations of real and constructed imagery - are symbolic of the multiple realities we perceive when we engage contemporary media culture.

This exhibition will include not only the iconic color paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, but also works from the 1930s and 40s when Rothko employed more representational and symbolic imagery.

Presenting an evolution of his long - time preoccupations with symbolic representations of fleeting states — imagery of flickering flames, melting candles, urns and spider webs — Chaos and Wild Again advances Willmont's inquiry into the ephemeral nature of our human condition, particularly by addressing the experience of what it means to live in a digital world.

The highly polished surfaces of the twist sculptures create fleeting, fluid reflections that dissipate or disrupt any stable imagery, denying viewers the certainty of either the form's pre-twisted state — which may also be symbolic, scientific or spiritual in origin — or their own, familiar and fixed likeness beaming back at them.

In the jumble of styles, viewers will find echoes of Jasper Johns» precise patterns of color and the painterliness and symbolic imagery of Philip Guston.

Emerging from her regular practice of daily reflection, they share the charged emotional atmosphere of her photographs, but their symbolic imagery, handwritten texts, and complex surfaces, made with a variety of mediums, introduce an expressive element that is new to her work.

The combined effect of vaguely symbolic imagery surrounded by associated hue climates lends the overall show a smoldering, hallucinogenic quality.

They also speak of history and culture through overlapping layers of seemingly worn or tattered paper, unraveling threads of ancient textiles, and scattered symbolic imagery juxtaposed with timeless pattern.

They use varying kinds of imagery appropriated from popular culture and abstract interpretations of nature, used as a symbolic vocabulary to express a mystical, ephemeral and kaleidoscopic viewpoint.

The exhibition seeks to demonstrate Scharf's unique vision that makes use of a visual language that includes organic and geometric forms, vibrant color and recurring symbolic imagery alluding to hidden narratives.

Two etchings made shortly after her return demonstrate how Nevelson synthesized a surrealist interest in dream imagery, her experience of Maya art, and her own preoccupations with royalty (she considered herself to have queenly qualities), marriage (to her work), and death (real and symbolic).

The point, in any case, is about populations and ecosystems, not somebody's idea of a poor dear sweet bear — though no doubt the imagery would be powerful in symbolic ways quite beyond ecological ones.

This workshop will help attendees understand the practical differences between Sandplay, Sand Tray, and Symbolic Imagery and ways of including sand and miniatures in clinical practice.

Nation imagery, such as that of the Vatan as a dying mother that has been failed by her children [41], and the symbolic fatherland which ethnically Hungarian groups, separated following the 1920 Treaty of Trianon from Hungary, construct [45], is created to elicit emotion [1].

Primes of nations as attachment figures, including imagery that personify nations as symbolic caregivers, can be employed to investigate several avenues, including the effect on the acculturation orientations of both heritage and mainstream samples, endorsement of multicultural ideology, and patriotic and nationalistic attitudes.