Sentences with phrase «on blankness»

Seizing on the blankness as the very thing to see, he joins the poet Wallace Stevens in voyaging through the God-less realms where it is left to the hapless twentieth - century self, embarked on its own idiotic quest, to discern the difference between the «Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.»

But the film's restraint verges on blankness; a mood of desolation builds in this story of the West Memphis Three, but not an involving drama.

Not exact matches

Without putting too fine a point on it, Holmer occasionally shows us the concrete - covered blankness of the outside world, the hard - edged reality through which Toni must move.

While «Farewell, My Queen» does boast admirable elements (more on those below) overall, despite some showy trappings it is a frustratingly empty experience, built around a character whose blankness is supposed to be a virtue, but ends up costing the film dearly in terms of identification and interest.

Her blankness as a character made it all the easier to insert yourself in her place as a reader, but when you're charged with bringing her to life on screen, that vagueness of personality is a huge, maybe insurmountable challenge.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other textures blasted out to snowy blankness.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other texture blasted out to snowy blankness.

Scott Campbell's broken egg sculpture from Blankness is Not a Void, on view until 4 June at Marc Jancou, 524 West 24th Street, New York.

In this show the serenely sphinx - like faces are a template through which the artist can systematically explore the concerns of painting and drawing, not ignoring the sentimental implications of rendering a human likeness, but by their blankness and repetition allowing the viewer to move on to other aspects of the work besides «who is this» or «what can I learn about this person.»

When the head rolls over we see the dark blankness of its interior: who can ever know what is going on inside another person's mind?

Wagenknecht's latest body of work puts a new spin on Klein's act, laying her own nude body on blank canvases while a Roomba saturated with IKB shuffles around her, creating a confused pattern of blue streaks outlining the large patches of blankness where she reclined.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, November 10, 2012 - February 9, 2013 «Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists,» Los Angeles, CA, September 22 - October 27, 2012 «Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art,» Jack Rutberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, November 17 - December 22, 2012 2011 «The Lord & The New Creatures,» Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA, September 10, 2011 - TBD «Arsenale: Graphics from the Museion Collection,» Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, July 1 - November 6, 2011 «Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg,» Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, June 24 — August 21, 2011; catalogue «The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, November 5, 2011 - February 20, 2012 «Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981,» The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 2011 - February 13, 2012 «For a Long Time...» Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 — August 6, 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Elllipse Foundation, Portugal, April 3 — December 18, 2011 «Blankness Is Not a Void: Scott Campbell, Steven Parrino and Raymond Pettibon,» Marc Jancou Contemporary, April 29 - June 4, 2011 «CLAP,» Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard College, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY, March 27 — May 22 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28.

Reviewing the latter exhibition in Artforum's October 2003 issue, art historian Michael Lobel noted that «the large scale of much of Rosenquist's work was initially intended to offer the viewer some critical perspective on commercial imagery by calling attention to its numbing blankness,» and that «the hallmarks of Rosenquist's mature style — the slick rendering, the vibrant Pop colors, the sustained attention to the surfaces of commodity objects ---- are brought together to imbue [his smaller] works with an uncanny psychological resonance.»

His photographed scenes initially look real, but on closer inspection reveal a lack of detail that conveys a certain tension between the institutional blankness of each photograph and the loaded cultural background that informs them.