Sentences with phrase «on outsider figures»

Denis Côté is a Québécois filmmaker whose films focus on outsider figures and communities, the violence that can exist between the two and the blending of genres and styles.

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lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

The figure of the outsider is used to put the spotlight on our everyday dealings, common behaviour, accepted standards and relationships.

Zaino said the New York battle is the latest between party outsiders who are more liberal (think Barack Obama and Sanders) against establishment figures who are more pragmatic (Clinton, Cuomo), playing out on a state level.

It will return to the single - protagonist format of Dishonored, focusing on Lurk alone as she works with her old mentor, Daud, to kill the godlike figure known as the Outsider.

Writer / Director Ian Power wears the film's Spielberg heart on its sleeve, in particular the very strong E.T. - vibe (missing father figure, crash landing outsider, construction of something to help him return home), and the strong cast help bring the drama and comedy when and where it's needed.

Mark, used to living in the shadow of more gregarious sibling, seized on du Pont as a benevolent father figure and fellow outsider.

Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

David Lewis, who oversees a large, pristine and hip gallery on the Lower East Side, is working with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation on a show of the work of Thornton Dial, a towering figure among outsiders of the South, known for his startlingly rough - hewed paintings whose surfaces can include basically anything: rugs, tree branches and wire.

Whether shea butter piled on Persian carpets; collages featuring printed tropical foliage and African masks which have been splattered with slicks of melted oil - stick; or a stylised falling figure rendered in ceramic, much of this work reverberates with notions of escapism, being an outsider and the whys and wherefores of using stereotypically «African» imagery.

The exhibition aims to question the problematic distinction between Insider and Outsider Art by exploring the parallels between them as well as the impact of some Outsider artists on major figures of twentieth century art.

Ed van der Elsken's shot street scenes, sensuous nudes, jazz musicians, outsiders and bohemian figures like Vali Myers, his most legendary subject and the pivotal character in his pioneering semi-fictional photobook, Love on the Left Bank.