Sentences with phrase «ordinariness through»

She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.

Not exact matches

Filmed and played in a low - key, naturalistic style, the movie draws us in through its sheer ordinariness.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

The film's famed chase sequence through the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn and onto an elevated train remains one of the most visceral and just plain terrifying action sequences ever filmed, made all the more suspenseful by the sheer ordinariness of the urban landscape.

This affords different perspectives and insights that have the capacity to transfigure the ordinariness of life, offering deeper meaning through the unification of the intellect with our emotions and imaginations.

In his paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvas.

In this way we can be afforded insights that have the capacity to transfigure the ordinariness of life and offer us deeper meaning through the unification of the intellect with our emotions and imaginations.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

★ Museum of Modern Art: «Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store» and «Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum, Ray Gun Wing» (through to Aug. 5) Pop Art is based on two things: ordinariness and eating.