Sentences with phrase «on symbolic imagery»

The artist usually relied on symbolic imagery to get the message across to the viewers, utilizing this type of communicating through carefully established motifs much rather than standard representation.

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Recurring imagery that surrounds these moments is perhaps symbolic: Georges frequently closes windows; he deals with a pigeon trapped in the apartment; and paintings on the wall depict increasingly bleak landscapes with fewer people.

With Lifeforce, Hooper parodies the sexual panic that informs the classic vampire tale, which is often famously preoccupied with the fear that giving in to what truly turns you on could upset your carefully governed symbiosis with the rest of society — a subtext that Hooper immediately elevates to text with a series of opening moments that follow Tom's crew as they enter a collection of alien chambers that must surely constitute some of the most vaginally symbolic imagery in all of American cinema.

Filmed in aqueous greens and blues, its period design dripping with kitschy nostalgia and retro - futurism, «The Shape of Water» takes its cues from Golden Age Hollywood, including musicals, Bible epics and 1950s creature features, as well as the sleekly optimistic advertising imagery of the early 1960s: Elisa's best friend and next - door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is a commercial artist working on a campaign for Jell - O, the shaky symbolic repository for the time period's most uncertain hopes and anxieties.

The intricate decoration of the items on view includes religious imagery as well as people, animals, birds, insects, plants, and landscapes that tell stories or have symbolic meaning.

Britain focused on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American pop culture as powerful, manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole patterns of life, while simultaneously improving the prosperity of a society.

Chiefly recognized for his grand - scale meticulously blurred chalk drawings of referential and symbolic cultural motifs, the Wall Street Journal reports on Gary Simmons «s new presentations of boxing imagery in Miami and New York, as well as his participation in Prospect New Orleans.

In Griffa's observations, metaphorical and symbolic imagery exist as an overlay functioning on top of the canvas, superimposed rather than prevailing as integral to the material itself.

Primes of nations as attachment figures, including imagery that personify nations as symbolic caregivers, can be employed to investigate several avenues, including the effect on the acculturation orientations of both heritage and mainstream samples, endorsement of multicultural ideology, and patriotic and nationalistic attitudes.