Sentences with phrase «on allegorical»

Eric Brown's mostly small canvasses reflect a new reductivism in a pictorial vocabulary that has often focused on allegorical form, ecstatic color sequences and cartoony arabesques, knobs and nodules.

Featuring a libretto to a musical score, created with fellow artist and poet Heather Phillipson, Edwin Burdis» installation and performance centres on an allegorical painting which depicts, with great absurdity, how we use and abuse our fruits and resources on this planet to fulfil our own desires.

Afterwards, due to the encouragement he received from Turner as well as the English artist John Martin (1789 - 1854), he began to concentrate less on the portrayal of natural scenery and more on allegorical and historical themes, notably in two major series of paintings: The Course of Empire (1836, New York Historical Society) and The Voyage of Life (1839 - 40, Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute, Utica).

Modeling her CG animations on the allegorical paintings of Casper David Fredrich, Fu continues her aspirations in the sublime from her painting background into experimental digital media, exploring the nature of physical and metaphysical limits, as the work also mirrors the fundamental aspect of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting, which often presents a type of virtual space where the significance of the individual and linear perspective is blurred into a voluminous landscape.

The Cleanse» embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.

This was a derivative fantasy story based on allegorical and heroic formulas that conveniently foreordained a person to be a «legend» and «destined» things for him.

But why should Muslims care if Catholics wanted them to be a bit more «Sufi,» keener on allegorical interpretation of the Koran and the Hadith, and cooler on taking words like «jihad» literally?

Not exact matches

It's an allegorical tale written by Paulo Coelho about a young boy on a quest to fulfill his destiny.

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

We find that what we can not do through human efforts, can be done by Christ, if we're humble enough to accept it (Remember, the — I believe allegorical — story of the «The Fall» in Genesis was about mankind wanting to do things on its own and be «like God»).

I'm with you on the historical / allegorical front, but what's this strange teaching about the Holy Spirit?

Firstly, on the normal outworking of nature rather than any allegorical use.

A more pictorial and naturalistic but no less conceptualized variation on this approach is the popular painting by William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World (1851 - 1853), in which Christ knocks at the allegorical door of the heart, waiting to enlighten it with his lamp of truth.

All this brings us on neatly to Collins» allegorical target.

The Song of Solomon made the canon on the merits of the oldest orthodox view: these poems (which are in reality songs of erotic love) are allegorical of the love of God for the congregation of Judaism.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Reading it may give you a good allegorical perspective on early Christian theology.

On that note, did the events in the bible really happen or were they just allegorical?

surely a Christian can focus on the Gospels and only consider the old testament as allegorical — in the vein of containing «truths» without the requirement to be literally true?

Thanks to the admirable work of de Lubac on the «four meanings» of Scripture — historical, allegorical, moral, anagogical — the breadth of this mutual interpretation of Scripture and existence is known.

And it remains an absolute norm as long as its literal meaning serves as an indisputable basis on which all the other levels of meaning — the allegorical, moral, and anagogical — are constructed.

Either way, the myths had such strong allegorical ties to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, that they became a common symbol associated with Christianity.

So, let us get on with the Women's Equality Agenda; just not in the NYS Assembly, where the membership surely understands Kristen Gillibrand's allegorical «slap in the a $ $» comment.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

The simple love story set on a pastoral landscape becomes a profound allegorical tale of harmony and discontinuity, love and hate, hopes and fears, and good and evil.

Though written too broadly to serve as the powerful allegorical tale writer / director Christina Yao intends, this historical epic is just compelling enough to be taken on its own terms.

The allegorical stories that comprise the movie's fantasy world are also laid on a bit thick, and it doesn't do enough with its characters to maximize the emotional payoff.

It is the kind of allegorical, even spiritual, science fiction found in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker, or, more recently, in Natasha Kermani's Imitation Girl, in which characters are on a quest to find their identity in alterity, their self in otherness, and their innermost being in the alien.

She has published on Iranian and German cinema and is the author of Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter (Intellect, 2006).

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated natioOn the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated natioon the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

Lewis» allegorical lectures on living rightly are here, but their weight is missing.

Through the allegorical traditions of werewolf mythology, the message of White's sacrifice is shown to fall on unlistening ears and unseeing eyes.

He literally underscores the allegorical basis of Paul and Peter's funny games by linking some potent, pleasurably raucous music to the killers» mind - sets (when Paul puts on a CD) and to his own as the filmmaker (by using the same music as ambience).

It's an allegorical painterly Kabuki comedy that makes you laugh as you're gasping at the visual brilliance, each frame a new surprise while moved by the plight of canine exiles on an island garbage dump off the coast of Japan.

His best scripts — The Verdict, Vanya on 42nd Street, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables — were all for directors who understood that Mamet's peculiar vocal cadences and stylized narratives are best treated as slightly allegorical, anachronistic, and absurdist parables.

It's easy to read allegorical meaning and a lot of viewers chose to see it as a statement on casual sex and STDs.

Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.

Not only does the narrative assuredly work on face value as a commentary on modern society (and all our foibles and failings), it completely functions in all of its Mobius strip - like allegorical connections (religious and whatnot).

But it is her presence, along with that of Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort and now Jeff Daniels, that makes us wonder what drew such an impressive cast to this ambitious but rather routine allegorical series based on Veronica Roth's best - sellers.

by Walter Chaw I believe the title is meant to indicate the arrested protagonist more than it is the baby he tries to sell on the black market, thus The Child (L'Enfant)-- another of Belgian filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne's mild, allegorical subversions of Robert Bresson and incrementally more violent subversions of the French New Wave — takes on Pickpocket via Breathless.

Yorgos Lanthimos's allegorical rumination on finding a mate is witty, cruel, and deeply unsettling.

Departing from the oblique allegorical style of his earlier films, he makes an important and impressive attack on state corruption, violence and censorship in contemporary Iran.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

Just like the allegorical touches of the previous movies, this last entry introduces its most potentially potent concepts without following through on them in any significant way.

The zombie films capitalise on the rich allegorical capacity of the genre to build on themes of sexual repression and alienation in modern capitalist society.

Consistently hinting at powerful men, evil that's pulling the rods behind the curtains and other allegorical bad men, «The Commuter» never really fulfills on what should be a promising solution to the puzzle.

Roz Morris shares tips on how to blend a parallel, allegorical fantasy plot into your novel.

He has completed his first novel, a work of allegorical science fiction, and is currently working on the second.

Allegorical tones of climate change can be found here as the game portrays a universe on the brink of disaster, but it's never in your face about it.

On the surface, the Super Robot Wars games look more allegorical than Gundam Musou above.