Sentences with phrase «often grotesque»

There, he fell under the influence of the enigmatic, often grotesque work of Diane Arbus and soon relocated to New York City to get his MFA at the School of Visual Arts, graduating in 2006.

A post-war style of German expressionist painting which was detailed, highly realistic, often grotesque satires, often conveying disillusionment with «official» values.

Groups like the Hairy Who and Destroy All Monsters placed more stock in comic books than in critical theory, which had no place for the raw, figurative, often grotesque kind of art they admired.

This unfashionable and often grotesque aspect of human deformities provides a platform to access and probe the resultant physiological and psychological effects within the arena of social interaction and communication.

«Through a variety of surreal, often grotesque sculptures he examines the rapid rise of consumerism in modern - day China and the fraught relationship with its more austere Communist past.»

The exhibition promises a reclamation of the often grotesque historical image of femininity in order to imagine the ups and downs of our relationship to our bodies in a cybernetic world.

A cast of characters, sometimes cartoon - like and often grotesque, enact a variety of nonsensical actions and poses.

In her work, the body — as a whole or in parts — becomes a dynamic point of sensation and convergence as materials collide, swell, and mutate into powerful, often grotesque, associations.

These often grotesque images and styles harbor an undercurrent of disgust and ridicule, an attempt to humiliate the grandiosity of the portrait with a «thinking» stupidity which takes the place of good intentions, visual mimesis and human empathy.

Comparatively, Mandy El - Sayegh (b. 1985) explores the dichotomy of the human body, using biology as a base for her often grotesque artworks, which become fake, living documents.

What follows is an often grotesque and always entertaining adventure that, while much smaller in scale than Deadly Premonition «s sprawling Pacific Northwest setting of Greenvale, is equally engrossing with its varied cast of eccentric characters, exciting motion - controlled action, and bizarre but ultimately compelling story.

(The Maid Who Came From the Demon World) By Chima Sakuraebi The «sweet yet often grotesque» four - panel comedy that gained popularity on the Niconico Seiga site.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

But while an arms race for spectacle has engorged Hollywood action pictures to often grotesque proportions, «little» movies like this one become almost their own kind of unintentional criticism.

These are the deeper issues that are supposed to form the relatable ground layer to what is otherwise a frantic, often grotesque, farce.

A director like this (all the money in the world, answering only to himself as executive producer) can't help but imprint his material with a highly eccentric, often grotesque sensibility — one that I sometimes find pretty appealing.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

There had been a shift in focus to romance, valor and happy endings as opposed to the often grotesque scenarios and flawed characters that populated the original stories.

Not exact matches

Some might find Lamagna's «Crispy Pata» creation a bit grotesque, with its menacing curved claw, pool of macerated fruit, and often a hefty knife pinning the limb in place — but one bite of the crisped, salty skin mingling with tart, pickled peppers will set your taste buds reeling.

GLAAD takes action against Ticked Off Trannies with Knives: «The film, its title and its marketing misrepresent the lives of transgender women and use grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face.»

So don't be concerned that you will end up looking like one of those grotesque «freaky» women that you often see in the bodybuilding magazines or in the wrestling TV shows.

Throughout their journey, Caddoc and E'lara will hack and skewer their way through wave after wave of these grotesque beasties, with often quite some time between rousing boss battles and encounters with new enemy types.

Scream at the grotesque and often well done make - up special effects by Stan Winston!

Blood and violence, surprisingly, provide dashes of the kind of grisly and grotesque tendencies often scrubbed clean from Anderson's oft - sanitized predecessors.

The director's talent for devising grotesque zombie encounters remains sharp and often witty, but his cast is short on charisma, and veteran Canadian character actor Kenneth Welsh, playing one of the islanders now in exile, is so aggressively colorful you'll want to throw water on him.

A person's face on a horror cover is often frightened or grotesque.

Mafia III revels in violence, and often veers off into grotesque territory — especially with regards to melee executions.

If you're a completionist than you'll no doubt be overjoyed that Little Nightmares has its own little collectables scattered throughout, however don't expect to be told how many, how often or what exactly it is you're looking for until you stumble across something a bit out of the ordinary, which as you can imagine in a game such as this is not that noticeable early on; again this lack of guidance proves to be nuisance as finding these collectables will reward you with beautiful and grotesque artwork that are a tremendous shame to miss out on.

Her work often explores contemporary discourse on the body, feminism, sexuality, the grotesque, and the domestic sphere.

Often tending towards the grotesque, Bhabha's sculptural works and photo - based drawings feature bodies that appear dissected and dismembered, but one can likewise view them as monuments to human life reclaimed from the detritus of a post-apocalyptic landscape.

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.

These psychologically charged works depict figures, often females, caught in grotesque or surreal scenes — from a hand holding a decapitated head to a man lying next to what appears to be his own skeleton.

For the exhibition, Stoller uses clay and the grotesque as a vehicle to explore the constructed, often idealized world...

Keeping the classy feel of vintage photography, Gokita rarely shows the faces of his subjects, and often exaggerates their features all the way to absurdity or grotesque.

These different fascinations are often combined in the same work, highlighting a predilection for unconventional forms of knowledge - production as well as a sense of the absurd and the grotesque.

Expressionists like Edvard Munch sought to convey the grotesque and horror in everyday life, often with hyper - stylized brushwork and horrific images like his painting «The Scream.»

Eschewing any conventional notions of beauty, or in many cases even taste, these works privilege instead a form of the grotesque, where identity often approximates a kind of caricature or mask: an exaggeration and amplification of reality.

Los Angeles - based photographer Ilona Szwarc creates works that often employ a surrogate for her own likeness to stage serial moments in a clinical transition from youthful beauty into the grotesque.

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.

The figurative painting of George Condo is often described as grotesque, bizarre, yet captivating and original.

Volker Stelzmann - the quintessential German Artist Grotesque figurative forms are often rejected by the society as it attempts to turn its face away...

Her paintings often depict scenes that are absurd, goofy, or grotesque: things seen in the mind's eye.

These paintings were often populated by grotesque and damaged figures in scenes that seemed so full as to almost burst from the frame.

Often drawing from popular science - fiction imagery and narrative, Atherton challenges the ambiguous separation between the natural and the fantastic, creating a theater through which to experience the grotesque side of nature.

The brothers often use plastic models or fibreglass mannequins in their work, exploring the theme of the anatomical and pornographic grotesque.

The grotesque, anatomical quality of the figures, often fully or partially nude, recalls depictions by painter John Currin, with features brought so sharply into focus by mannerist tendencies as to seem overly fleshy and slightly repulsive.

Depicting the grotesque characters that are often a critique of capitalism, the artist creates metaphors of society through various mediums and resourceful materials.

Confronted by an art scene dominated by the Abstract Expressionists, and having no truck with abstract painting, he just kept doing what he'd always done: painting narrative and acerbically observant scenes of life keyed to the human figure, often his own, sometimes as an element of remarkably assured and phlegmatically grotesque allegory.

With stylized rolls of fat and melting body parts, Grant's obese male nudes offer a grotesque aesthetic that is often seen in modern art.

Often employing the comic or the grotesque, my work is a reflection of societal overload, the complexities of modern life, and the excesses and addictions that surround us.»