Sentences with phrase «often wry»

Inquisitive, empathic, often wry but never judgmental, Steffens's work is diaristic, psychedelic, and documentary — impulses that would be discrete in another photographer's work, yet are here merged into photographs that, in the words of his son Devon, «imagine a different America, one of strange beauty and mystic truth.»

The results are multifarious, provocative, and often wry outpourings in architecture, writing, performance, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, sculpture, and painting that interrogate the relationship between subjectivity, language, and power.

The art world typically gravitates to spectacle and sensation, so it isn't surprising that his understated and often wry approach to the show has left insiders nonplused.

Although often wry, quizzical and ironic, he never denigrates the achievements of those before him and in fact makes no secret of his emotional, even sentimental affection for the art and artists of this era.

With its fascinating, often wry content, diverse textures, and ingenious techniques, Polke's new work is as good as third - millennium painting has so far gotten.

Edward Lane McCartney presents the kind of politically charged, often wry wearable art and sculpture he's known for alongside colorful, optically kinetic cut - paper formations inspired by Carlos Cruz - Diez.

A master of bravura expressionism with a nod towards Soutine, Vitali uses slashing impasto and vivid hues to get at the often wry and visceral crux of people and things.

Like a Wes Anderson film, it is beautifully composed, occasionally laugh - out - loud funny, but more often wry and observant.

«The Walk» is worth seeing on a big screen for its final wire walk (intrusive voice - over notwithstanding), for its lovingly recreated images of the World Trade Center, for its often wry humor (including a marvelous running gag involving an elevator operator) and for some of the supporting performances (notably Kingsley's pitch - perfect mentor performance, and James Badge Dale's turn as a wise - ass Franco - American who joins the team infiltrating the towers).

Not exact matches

Her words are emblematic of so many of the posts in the synchroblog, sure, but it's also beautifully written, wise, wry, deep, beautiful, and honest about the mess and uncertainty that often accompanies our shifts.

Rosenthal often added a wry, comical element to any scene that he was in, and, because of his Broadway stage background, he was a favorite subject of columnists, far beyond the size of the parts he often played.

The swooning here is undercut by anxiety, rage, and disappointment, often as a punch line, as if delivered with a wry wink from off - camera.

Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey of life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: «Does the internet dream of itself?»

Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges offer a wry, low - key feature - length commentary with some fairly interesting / entertaining recollections, including the thinking behind the somewhat ballsy use of a corporeal David Beckham in the epilogue, the unblinking national reaction to the Sikh rituals depicted in the film, and Chadha's desire to exploit her male cast members by getting their shirts off as often as possible.

But more often, he's the least compelling character on screen — especially in comparison to May, who at 84 remains a wry comic presence.

Yes, some novel angles and fresh slants compliment the wry humour and often joyous special effects.

The dialogue in Aces Wild is a delight — sharp and insightful, often funny and wry.

«A wry black comedy drawing from British crime fiction and media, University of Life is a punchy and often - times very funny novel with a colorful cast.

Wry, informative, and often tender story... King gracefully reminds us about one of the best reasons to travel: to become a better person.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

And when Herrera talks about this work, it's often with a little bit of a smile, a wry sense of humor that she's created a very simple geometric, clean, spare painting but that it's a barbecue, as she says.

Taken from Paul Gagner's titular work, A Series of Moves references the practicality of creating a composition, with all three of the artists using a table, most often the studio table, as the setting for their wry take on the long history of still - life.

Hecker often masks a work's content with a sardonic wit, but selecting her «anomalies» as the constituents of her award exhibition may be Hecker's wryest joke yet.

Often, their skin reflects the ambient chroma of the background, glowing with acidic oranges or olive green while street signs and clothing logos offer wry internal commentary.

The Surrealists, informed by the psychoanalytical work of Sigmund Freud, also believed in the efficacy of powerful subconscious associations with objects, which gave their assemblages an added level of theoretical obfuscation that often translates into wry humor.

Often grouped with the «Pictures Generation,» the artist has also made wry conceptual art, erotic drawings, and cat toys.

His work is a wry, anarchic, and often unsettling reflection of a society with a self - destructive gene.

Michael Craig Martin first met him at this time and remembers him as serious, shy and quiet - «although his essential shyness is often taken for coldness, when in fact he has a very wry humour» - but always very well informed.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results — referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Often, their skin reflects the ambient chroma of the background, glowing with acidic orange or olive green while street signs and clothing logos offer wry internal commentary.

Known for his intelligent dismantling of cultural products and the wry and often humorous shifts and «misuses» to which he subjects his material, Bismuth's work constitutes a creative intervention into familiar codes, habits and objects.