Sentences with phrase «one's technical virtuosity»

, by contrast, are clearly products of a post-musical era, in which the genre itself is treated like a joke, where musical numbers are less displays of technical virtuosity than extended gags, sometimes at the expense of the performers themselves (in Hairspray, John Travolta's pseudo-drag performance becomes a running punchline; Mamma Mia!

With technical virtuosity, Glenn Brown's practice copies and modifies reproductions of works of art, imitating the painted surface in a perfect illusion, while being completely devoid of texture and further manipulating the image through variation of colours.

His medley of Mobius Christs (2006), for instance, are torqued beyond any Biblical canon or eschatology yet, in technical virtuosity, could stand alongside masterpieces by artists such as the noted 17th - century Dutch engraver Jan Luykens.

They were rendered with amazing technical virtuosity by Mr. Longo's team of expert illustrators.

Nonetheless, these diminutive objects have an impact for which the viewer who expects merely to marvel at technical virtuosity will be unprepared.»

The overused adjective awesome is utterly appropriate for Link's 1950s — 1960s photographs, mostly taken at night by means of astonishing technical virtuosity, of a small Appalachian railway and the towns and the people it served.

Chen Wei's photographs are visually enigmatic, characterised by uncompromising technical virtuosity and the elaborate scenes he creates.

Neel's psychologically acute eye and technical virtuosity achieve something essential in the models and their environment.

Often no larger than a fingernail, Ham's fantastical sculptures display remarkable technical virtuosity.

Its naturalism, charm and technical virtuosity also make it exceptional within the broader context of 19th - century European sculpture.

What's more, the «untitled originals,» as they are called, possess the kind of classical art virtues that academic postmodernism typically abjures — things like technical virtuosity, sincerity, melodrama, and popular narrative.

So too did his interests diversify and expand; technical virtuosity characterized his last decade.

What Shirreff and his close collaborators over many years brought to their art and craft was not only technical virtuosity, inventiveness and versatility in the diverse processes of etching and lithography, but a quality of mind and spirit that was subtly attuned to the different conceptual and expressive requirements of each individual artist.

Why you won't: Almost no beauty or technical virtuosity on show here.

The Grammy - nominated Eroica Trio enraptures audiences with flawless technical virtuosity, irresistible enthusiasm and sensual elegance.

Even then, only a few years after graduating from her BFA program, she had great technical virtuosity.

During the past three decades, Currin has remained dedicated to exploring the medium, demonstrating unparalleled technical virtuosity while producing bold portraits, nudes, and genre scenes.

I sometimes suspect that the poetic style in Iranian filmmaking functions as a mask for its lack of technical virtuosity and storytelling skill.

Like Milton, who got so wrapped up in the delicious evil of his character Satan that he accidentally made him the hero of Paradise Lost, Scorsese takes so much pleasure in the glitz and swing and technical virtuosity of the filmmaking, that it's easy to see the movie's sympathies tipping in an unintended direction.

Aglow with canny scientific reasoning and a colorist's technical virtuosity, this view has provided a conceptual template for the assembly of the brain's myriad networks.

When you see the albino dragon in «Part 2,» you may marvel at the technical virtuosity of its creation and how the muscles on its flanks clench with palpable effort as it looks down at a cityscape much as King Kong once did.

Between Robert Zemeckis» technical virtuosity and Sony's digital prowess, you can bet The Walk looks exquisite on Blu - ray.

• Although I think No Country is among the most thematically rich of the Coens» film — owing in large part to the source material, Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name — what truly sets it apart is its technical virtuosity.

After the grandiose sweep and imagery of Metropolis, Spies was a return to such pulp entertainment, but with the technical virtuosity and exacting perfectionism he had developed in the intervening years.

Those who have praise for Spielberg tend to emphasise his technical virtuosity and natural directorial flair, but even this recognition has often been double - edged: implicitly or explicitly, the accompanying suggestion is that his films lack substance and maturity.

What works: Its technical virtuosity aside, director Matt Reeves» film gets much of its fuel from a well - crafted script, one that uses a familiar set - up to tell a story all its own, deftly blending action and emotion along the way.

By combining sweeping romance, technical virtuosity and wit, Powell and Pressburger create pure cinematic beauty.

Their ambition (50 + figures) reminds me of the technical virtuosity academic history painting placed on multi-figure compositions.

A new exhibition on Richard Estes — the first paintings show in the museum's history — greatly emphasizes his process and technical virtuosity.

Renowned for his flamboyant personality and technical virtuosity, Salvador Dali is best known for his painterly output, but he also explored sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock.

«Akunyili Crosby's technical virtuosity, as well as her deeply considered observations of art and life, make her paintings an extraordinary testament to the dynamic and generative outcomes of cultural confluence,» said BMA Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman.

Despite his lack of technical virtuosity, his work does explore, or at least play around with, the nature of painting.

With a rare combination of technical virtuosity, historical ambition, and genuine image innovation Reed's work is advancing in a world that's dissolving into total digital delusion.

The black - and - white photographs are astonishing as much for their technical virtuosity as for their sometimes controversial subject matter.

At the same time, they reflect a technical virtuosity that represents the highest achievements of printmaking in the 1980's.

She has gained international recognition for her technical virtuosity and brilliant interpretation of song, with her critically acclaimed pieces the motown project, The Five Fans, and BLEED.

Approximately 5,000 years old, the Korean ceramic tradition has produced an expansive body of stoneware that is renowned for its technical virtuosity and imaginative formal vocabulary — a formidable artistic legacy with which present - day Korean ceramists must grapple.

Milder's work has the raw emotional power and technical virtuosity that characterized the expressionists in their heyday, but his own generous verbal guidance to understanding his work reveals significant differences from other painters swept up in the movement.

in its technical virtuosity, Comic Strip looks forward to the dynamic abstract pencil drawings and paintings this fecund artist would produce in the late 1990s, a decade after the end of the cold war.

The exhibition highlights the artist's technical virtuosity, distinctive vision and unflinching depictions of the human figure.

In their technical virtuosity and unabashed, luxuriant beauty, they come closer to striking a celebratory tone.

Dürer's St Paul had been engraved the same year, maintaining the same level of technical virtuosity, imagination, and skill.

Foregoing any preparatory drawings, these works are a result of the artist's intuitive working method and technical virtuosity with the materials.

Moved by Jeffrey Deitch's statement at Art Basel 2015 — «installation art is dead» — gallery owner Heidi Leigh notes: «All technical virtuosity, albeit executed on a computer, by brush or with clay, comes from something.»