His exquisitely rendered drawings and paintings draw
on dream imagery, where the surface of his work relates to both the mind and the body, and becomes a skin on which to create layers of marks, volumes of text, leading the viewer into another world.
Not exact matches
Both of us had watched probably every popular home birth video
on youtube that had powerful
imagery of that special event and thought it would be a
dream to have somebody capture ours.
Dr. Barrett has published dozens of academic articles and chapters
on dreams, hypnosis, and
imagery.
I sampled three of them, and the best by far was «
Dreams of «O»», which showcases various performers from Cirque du Soleil portraying characters from their popular aquatic show, «O.» Watching this surrealistic, wordless
imagery devoid of context while having it surround me
on all sides was as close to a waking
dream as anything I've ever experienced.
Linklater's
imagery is too ordinary
on its own to qualify as
dream time.
Compare this to other French noir like Jean Renoir's superlative Night at the Crossroads (1932)-- Renoir compensated for his more leisurely pacing with a hypnagogic atmosphere and
dream - like
imagery like a dolled - up woman putting out her cigarettes
on a live turtle shell.
Sparked around the artist's
dream about a boy stuck
on an island, this group of paintings see a revision to some of Yanai's most recognizable motifs, such as plants and boats, as well as the introduction of new
imagery.
Gorky was both a forefather to and a seminal figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement years before Pollock and Motherwell, he found ways to extend Surrealist
dream imagery into a uniquely American abstraction, simply by pursuing Surrealism's insistence
on the authenticity of interior experience freely transcribed
on canvas — also the logic of much New York Abstract Expressionism.
The uncanny «creatures» who haunt his abstractions of the mid-1940s bear witness to a burgeoning interest in Surrealist principles of revealing the invisible, tapping into
dreams and the collective unconscious as sources of
imagery, rather than reporting
on what could be seen.
The camera has gone from being an instrument of the European colonialist, to that of the studio «
dream factory» in African cities into the current era where contemporary
imagery depict a complex view
on the continent.
Fresh Blood - A
Dream Morphology (1981 - 7), also on view at P • P • O • W, began with a dream dominated by imagery of a bouquet of dried leaves and an umbr
Dream Morphology (1981 - 7), also
on view at P • P • O • W, began with a
dream dominated by imagery of a bouquet of dried leaves and an umbr
dream dominated by
imagery of a bouquet of dried leaves and an umbrella.
Rejecting the non-objective materiality of abstraction, the Symbolists focused
on dreams, visions, moods, spiritulaity, and feelings, mining landscape
imagery for its infinite metaphorical possibilities.
In this new take, subjects were deliberately selected to represent psychic states and the random
dream imagery favored by European Surrealists gave way to something more akin to lucid
dreaming that carefully reflects
on the interaction between physical and mental landscapes.
The hallucinatory
dream sequences represented by these two rooms complement the fanciful, street - savvy urban
imagery of many of the large panel paintings
on view elsewhere in the show.
Given how such
imagery has become so commonplace, I found myself wondering this week whether such views of Earth have retained the ability to inspire and meaningfully engage people back
on the surface with the reality that all of our triumphs and tragedies,
dreams and defeats are limited to a tiny «pale blue dot,» as Carl Sagan so eloquently put things two decades ago (it was this phrase that inspired the name of this blog back in 2007).