Sentences with phrase «often banal»

From the stockpile of collective experience, he digs out a few nuggets which are often the banal conveyors of the traces of those large systems of belief.

Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway) is a Los Angeles - based photographer known for portraits, still lives and landscapes that transcend their often banal settings and motifs and move into the otherworldly.

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Johns and Rauschenberg, and soon Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others, complicated modernism's claims of artistic authorship and authenticity by turning to popular and often banal subjects drawn from mass culture and producing works that mimicked — and often exploited — commercial modes of production.

Andrew Fish's paintings use gesture and color to embellish snapshots of often banal in - between spaces — a bridge or a crosswalk — with an atmospheric sense of light and space.

Warhol's repetitiveness and often banal subjects were only part of his immense and significant impact on contemporary art.

TORBJØRN RØDLAND (b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway) is a Los Angeles - based photographer known for portraits, still lives and landscapes that transcend their often banal settings and motifs and move into the otherworldly.

Here at Great Rail Journeys we're all incredibly excited about this new venture - perhaps I should say adventure - a complete round the world trip by rail, very much in the spirit of the golden age of travel before the advent of the predictable and often banal package holiday.

Brooks builds eight neat instrumentals from gradually layer guitar, playing in a closed circle with himself, a dialogue that is sometimes affecting but more often banal.

It must be admitted, however, that the dialogue is often banal and something of a bore.

Your freelancing is often banal, even silly.

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It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

The plots seem banal, the characters undeveloped, the prose often slipshod.

I have often said that the Christian's vocation in the world, and especially in politics, is that of dialogue, not merely the dialogue of Christian and unbeliever, which is banal, but the dialogue of enemies and of those who do not understand one another, in which the Christian can play the role of bridge or interpreter, helping them to understand one another.

More «business as usual» when it comes to the banal double standards that gynocentrists so often traffic in?

Many of my generation received their upbringing surrounded by bland, ugly, and often downright counter-mystical modern church architecture, hidden tabernacles, and banal modern liturgical music more suitable to failed off - Broadway theater.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

The discovery that laughter is more often produced at banal comments than jokes prompts the question, what did it evolve for?

We're very repetitive, conditioned creatures and that often can lead to a feeling of stagnancy, like life is banal, patterns repeat, a waking sleep.

Often, Ukrainian online dating means banal sex tourism for many foreign men because a romance with a Ukrainian woman may be cheaper for them, in their opinion.

It combines high - minded postmodern philosophising with very generic, often very banal, thriller elements

It's also frequently silly, only fitfully involving and often surprisingly banal despite its outré premise: Two women meet and decide to have sex every hour for 24 hours.

Shocking violence has become so yawningly common, so eye - rollingly banal that its flippant depiction onscreen is often just par for the course.

«Leaf Observer» badge, Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson's films often use banal items to unexpected ends — like the Adidas tracksuits that serve as Chas Tenenbaum's family uniform in The Royal Tenenbaums — but in many cases, the ephemera of the real world aren't distinctive enough for the director.

The Fox show's banal humor hides the sad truth that our children are too often deprived of the experience of immersing themselves, losing themselves in creations of complexity, imagination, and beauty.

In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.

One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

Apparently driven by the DIY sensibility, Pruitt often produces works which are banal and almost dilettante, yet the message he inscribes in them does not leave the observer restless.

Snapshots of domestic personal scenes — a family at a picnic or banal living room interiors — are layered over items that circulate in public and private contexts — books without titles, UN treaty maps, magazine pages, or letters — that often show the signs of time and handling.

As a painter of political ideas — and, often, the grotesque and cruel — Luc Tuymans is a historian of images that appear banal but reveal sinister workings: colored blobs are actually disembodied eyeballs; a bare room with flattened perspective is the site of uncountable murders; a limp cloth turns out to be the emblem of a growing nationalist movement.

January 17 - March 9, 2014 Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

In the same year Ossorio made Offering, he participated in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition The Art of Assemblage, which introduced his work to a wider public along with the broader concept of assemblage, where «banal, often tawdry materials retain their individual physical and functional identity, despite artistic manipulation.»

I find that whenever I am having what I think of as a «transcendent» experience, it is often associated with the most banal activities.»

Figures are often fixated on various iterations of screens, which are like peekaboo windows into potentially infinite art diaries, the banal motion of the screen - scroll captured for posterity in a vibrantly serene revery.

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly...

Taking his aesthetic inspiration from vintage movie posters and advertisements, Brannon's prints often feature banal items that hint at upper - middle - class notions of elegance — martini glasses, theater tickets, cigarettes, party invitations — rendered neatly and elegantly in retro 1950s colors.

With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture subjects and often creates reproductions of banal objects, elevating their status to becoming works of art.

As in Sasnal's short films, the influences of music video and poststructuralist cinema combine to evoke «personal cinema» — the privately produced short films which proliferated among Polish artists during the Communist regime, and which often overlaid the banal details of life with whimsical fantasies.

sculpture has assumed a central position in contemporary art and has followed the patterns of the various postmodern art movements, for example, the three - dimensional pop icons of Claes Oldenburg, Koons's purposely banal, often erotic figures, and the minimalist constructions of such artists as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris.

The artist often photographs banal items of the mundane such as packages of goods, processed foods, cookware, and household items.

Ester Partegàs often addresses the most banal aspects of the urban landscape with a keen eye for telling details that otherwise would be overlooked or dismissed.

His selection of imagery, which often requires wall text and titles to properly identify (a Holocaust gas chamber, portraits of Condoleezza Rice, Albert Speer, and Mwana Kitoko), makes him a provocateur, but it also includes the benign and banal of the everyday (rabbits, floral patterns, pillows, table still lifes).

She told us how people visiting her rarely notice them, but these are among her most treasured works: Woodman used her own body as subject, often blurred, awkward and contorted in banal domestic interiors.

Its names is inspired by the banal titling of skate videos and it carries through the same scratchy close - ups of metal hitting metal that these videos often show, the silhouette of the film maker only sometimes being seen.

Gary Hume This unpredictable and often brilliant painter continues his explorations of the banal and the beautiful.

Bechtle spent many of his early years in Alameda, and he captures this community and landscape through incisive, square - format drawings that glimpse more deeply into the banal and the all too often overlooked.

In some of my art, as seen in this exhibition, I attempt to bring together disparate references, often taken from banal or common - place social artifacts, behaviours, or codes of meaning that are considered so unglamorous or boringly functional as to be unworthy of notice.

It is this distinctive artistic alchemy that is central to the exhibition, in which she reforms the banal — hairnets, balloons, wires and cling film — into the graceful, ephemeral and opulent, often bringing ambiguous and sinister undertones to otherwise pretty pieces.

He is often incorrectly associated with American Pop art because of his many images of banal objects.

Other artists hijack banal domestic objects for their own (often feminist) ends - Mona Hatoum's series of menacing kitchen appliances springs to mind - but Lucas, now 41, does it with more venom and energy, more dirty - mouthed humour, more gall.