Sentences with phrase «overt symbolism»

During this period, Frank Stella was associated with Minimalism, a style that employed geometric shapes and surfaces to call attention to the materials in the works rather than to emotional expression or overt symbolism.

Constructing the architecture from her childhood, the dense claustrophobic interiors are laden with overt symbolism.

Stockholder employs quotidian goods such as plastic bags and containers, extension cords, lumber, plywood, carpets and furniture, drawing attention to the aesthetic and formal qualities of these often overlooked items while avoiding overt symbolism and narrative storytelling.

Atkins picks up on this and comments how these things — due to their overt symbolism — also become «hyperreal or sort of excessive in their appearance and therefore a bit grotesque, but also somehow truthful in either their erotic aspect or their tangibility... their viscosity.»

First and foremost a visualist, Scott allows Kingdom of Heaven to be a movie of ideas, with William Monahan's garrulous script matching Scott's love for grandness and overt symbolism.

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.