Sentences with phrase «often macabre»

The gallery writes that «each artist participating in «Pandora's Box» shapes their own unique and often macabre universe.

In another gallery, a collection of Dezsö's illustrations for an edition of fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm underscore the often macabre elements of the stories while still foregrounding their essential narrative simplicity.

The result is an eerie and often macabre scene of hypersexualized overconsumption.

From what I have seen to far of Silent Hill 2, the kinds of images and scenes in the game appear graphically intense, often macabre, even violent in nature.

What follows is an often macabre and sporadically funny attempt at conjuring a laugh from a ghastly slice of history, with a talented cast wasted on a thankless script by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft (St. Trinians), and the poor direction of Landis who can't find the balance between grizzly murder and comedic slapstick.

Shin Megami Tensei is a polarizing franchise that attracts as many new fans as it repels, with bizarre tales and often macabre setpieces that go all - in on anime aesthetics.

Not exact matches

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

Edison favoured direct current and Westinghouse alternative current, and it was a titanic war of personalities and ideas, which incidentally involved a gruesome minor battle, which this film tactfully passes over: Edison tried to get the rival AC approach identified (and stigmatised) in the public mind with the death penalty and the electric chair, whose frazzling executions were macabre and often bungled.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

Filomeno's iconography, in contrast to the allure of his work, often incorporates and explores the allegorical and the macabre, including insects, fish, human body parts, skeletons, and reptiles.

Ranging from the festive to the ironic, they show a fascination with perceptual ambiguities and the macabre, often with visual trickery inspired by the 18th — and 19th - century stage spectacle known as the «phantasmagoria.»

As is characteristic of Cattelan's best work, this tableau is more than mere macabre spectacle, and goes beyond the institutional critique so often ascribed to him as the art world's arch jester or Shakespearean fool.

Evolving from visions of macabre hospital scenes depicting human wreckage and paintings of bloody, butchered meat to portraits of stoic, sophisticated figures clad in Western suits and often wearing white masks, Zeng's art often reflects his concentrated exploration of the unconscious.

You have to scroll through his site to appreciate what he can do, which is often funny and sometimes a trifle dark or macabre.