Sentences with phrase «painted backdrop»

The other kids (a few of whom feel like they've been recast, but it hardly matters) come across as painted backdrops for what little time they get — exception being Duff, of course, who Tobey Maguire saddles up and inspirationally rides around the track a few times.

Kobayashi shot the film entirely in a studio built in an airplane hanger with painted backdrops (in «The Woman in the Snow,» the clouds of the hand - painted sky become eyes watching the woodcutter) and sets pared to their essence, like an ancient scroll painting.

Keïta delvelops a rich aesthetic vocabulary through his portraits staged against painted backdrops juxtaposing the distinctively vibrant and boldly - patterned African fabrics with Western props like cars, radios, and sunglasses.

With him, there is a feeling of landscape as painted backdrop and he's the one who made me realize that you could paint on the highest level and do shorthand for a landscape.

Unlike games of today which are totally rendered by computers, Cuphead uses hand painted backdrops and animation as you become immersed in this crazy game that is definitely a much needed title in a market flooded by first person shooters.

A Rolling Stones song kicked in, three ladies in overalls started painting the backdrop from behind, and the first model emerged.

Painted backdrops on movie sets are older than Hollywood.

Those are the dynamics painting the backdrop as key players descend on Albany this week.

This pivotal time in 18th Century China paints the backdrop for the intrigue and machinations at the Emperor's far outpost and adds to our appreciation of Chinese porcelains, books, and silks today.

Key scenes feature beautiful painted backdrops to let you see from Shawn's perspective.

This face - effacing technique, combined with an abstractly painted backdrop, had been mastered earlier, and less self - consciously, as in her massive painting, «Fairfield Porter» (1954).

In addition to work from the past 10 years — including Shaw's large painted backdrops, drawings, and sculpture — Entertaining Doubts, features a new site - specific installation.

For the booth of Gagosian Gallery, Murakami is showing never before seen sketches for his first freestanding sculpture, which he would fax to Hudson for feedback - as well as the series of sculptures that grew out of those plans, and a dramatic painted backdrop.

«The stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake,» Sugimoto has said before of the Dioramas photographs.

Was it in the press release that Simmons painted the backdrops in the photos?

The piece was catalogued as a joint work by Brueghel and Joos de Momper, the Flemish landscape artist, who painted the backdrop.

For the opening weeks, it holds a solo exhibition by L.A. artist Jim Shaw that makes ingenious use of the giant painted backdrops the Masons used for ceremonial stage productions.

But if it's a B - movie by definition — it runs a mere 65 minutes and makes the most of minimal resources: New York is a stock street set surrounded by stock footage, hobo camps and rail - side meadows are tiny studio sets with painted backdrops, and the few location shots are surely just down the street from the studio lot — it's a B - movie with ambition.

The photographic series Skizzen zum Projekt Grosses Theater (1980) consisting of stiff action figures against painted backdrops is the earliest work in the exhibition.

His scores tend towards being stark and sparse, utilizing a modern tonal palette to paint the backdrop for films that are often dark, psychological stories like PUMP UP THE VOLUME (1990), THE LIMEY (2009) WONDERLAND (2003), WICKER PARK (2004), and DRIVE (2011).

Unlike games of today which are totally rendered by computers, Cuphead uses hand painted backdrops and animation as you become immersed in this crazy game that is definitely a much needed title in a market flooded by first person shooters.

«Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens» Review: Painting a Backdrop for an Educated Ruler

Binx poses outdoors for the shoot complete with marching band members and a painted backdrop.

Love the backrounds, the puzzle pieces column, and the way you are standing in the frame with the painted figure, head down, like he is, the pattern of your scarf mirroring parts of the painted backdrop!

The recreations aren't particularly realistic (lots of painted backdrops and such) and the dialogue is poorly dubbed regardless of what language you watch it in (I chose English because that's apparently what the actors were using), but none of that really matters.

Set in the far future of 1997, this sci - fi show tracks the oversaturated adventures of the space family Robinson as they journey from painted backdrop to painted backdrop on their... Read more

With jerky animation movement by live actors, lacquered hair, oversized ears and painted backdrops, this visually brilliant film draws inspiration from Blue Velvet and Superstar.»

The period setting is sketched in broad strokes (fittingly, the only real - life filmmaker name - checked here is Norman Taurog, director of Elvis vehicles and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies), giving the Coens a chance to play with dated and outmoded film techniques: wipes, bird's - eye - view matte paintings, painted backdrops, unconvincing model submarines, and, in the movie's most perverse act of homage, a very long driving scene of questionable urgency.

Many of the landscapes are painted backdrops with moving figures, as in a»30s film, and some of the outdoor action, especially a chase down a ski hill, looks accomplished with models.

But the film has faults and seems stagy at times, especially near the end when the area they find themselves stranded in jarringly resembles a painted backdrop.

«Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens» Review: Painting a Backdrop for an Educated Ruler

Bali, a tropical island in the Indonesian archipelago, is so picturesque and immaculate it could almost be a painted backdrop.

Bali, Maldives, Mentawais, Nias & Hinako, Sri Lanka Bali, a tropical island in the Indonesian archipelago, is so picturesque and immaculate it could almost be a painted backdrop.

It's overwhelming to realize that planet Mira is not just a painted backdrop, but a fully accessible environment filled with things you need to do.

He took great care in staging his portraits, using ornate furniture, props, and painted backdrops (many of his own design), and posing each sitter ``... in such a way that the picture would tell a story.»

These stare fixedly across the room at a quartet of black - and - white photographs wherein Pfeiffer has staged situations in her studio with wet clay, painted backdrops and found objects: still lifes composed of boots, pots, a smartphone, a ketchup bottle, pipes, painted spectacles... Primarily, though, in these (as in her 2011 show here, Hope Creeping out the Jar, which referred to the myth of Pandora's box), she employs the motif of a tipped and spilling jug.

Moving in front of the paintings, we see their potential motion - iconic performances by George Balanchine, Yvonne Rainer, Bronislava Nijinska lie latent within, or a landscape appears: a painted backdrop, awaiting stage directions.

My painted Backdrop then became the background for Kehinde Wiley's work, which was the next exhibition in the gallery.

James Casebere's 2016 photograph, Yellow Overhang with Patio, also expresses a sense of objecthood, but in this case the built space looks fake, like a painted backdrop of a movie set.

The process of affixing each hook to the painted backdrop was so laborious that he started paying volunteers by the square meter, with up to a dozen people hammering simultaneously.

His color photos with painted backdrops of office cubicles or beach scenes let the client choose what image to project, but the curved painted backdrops flatten out the space and create a surreal effect, in contrast to the elegance of Keita's large - format portraits.

The photographs are staged in the artist's studio and incorporate the remains and evidence of the process of making ceramics, often against a painted backdrop that creates a fictitious depth and architectural space.

In the photographs the painted backdrops define the setting, the objects in the foreground are wrestling for realness with the sovereignty of the painted picture.

Lau will cover the length of the walls with a hand painted backdrop, following the Shan Shui painting tradition.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company visits UC Berkeley for two performances, including tonight's presentation of «Biped,» a 1999 mixed - media piece co-commissioned by Cal Performances, and Saturday's show of «Interscape,» which is performed against a painted backdrop by Robert Rauschenberg.

From 1949 to 1951, the Jennerjahns founded the so - called Light Sound Movement Workshop, in which they developed short theater pieces using projected slides, painted backdrops, music, dance and verbal texts, aiming to create a non-verbal, structural relationship of light, sound and movement.

And I am with you on the pop of a painted backdrop.