Sentences with phrase «pathos of»

And the pathos of the reduction or fragility of the self within a culture that becomes increasingly organized through industry, economy and the state intensifies the desire of the artist to create forms that will manifest his liberty in this striking way — a liberty that, in the best works, is associated with a sentiment of harmony, and the opposite stability, and even impersonality through the power of painting to universalize itself in the perfection of its form and to reach out into common life.

Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

The latter recall work by Mike Kelley, though without the pathos of his sutured stuffed animals.

In Foreclosed, Alison Elizabeth Taylor turns to architecture and interior space to reveal the pathos of lives dispossessed by the recent economic disaster and to explore the human impact of the short - sighted policies and greed that triggered millions of foreclosures.

Before he was twenty years old, Lawrence had developed a powerful, concise style that expressed all of the vibrancy and pathos of the neighborhood and its occupants.

Posing next to the company logo for her all - natural baby products, The Honest Company, Alba symbolizes the pathos of far - reaching materialist history (as objects are imbued with virulent sociability) that render our caretakers as ephemeral agents.

You can't imagine him going in for the pompous transcendentalism of a Barnett Newman, the «sublime» posturings of a Clyfford Still, or even the dilute, wide - screen pathos of the Rothko Chapel.

Life and landscape are fleeting, and these works invoke that contemporary pathos of dread, exploring modern anxiety through the awe and terror of the sublime, both technological and environmental.

The apparent pathos of this group of artists striking.

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The artist is like a shamanic puppet master that infuses American cartoons with the pathos of archaic myths and eerie semi-religious energy.

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Though working with video, repetition and pattern remain a hallmark of Thomas's practice: she multiplies Kitt's image, closes in on her eyes and lips as if to increase the pathos of the song.

Discussing Sibony with regard to Postminimalism accounts for neither his pathos of degeneration in terms of material identity and function, nor his pseudo-preservationalist stance vis - à - vis what is sometimes plainly garbage.

«If you add funny puppy dogs over an image of someone being tortured, then in a sense what we're doing is that we're asking whether the pathos of the Goya work can be taken seriously,» says Jake Chapman about their approach to Francisco Goya to whose surreal and dark paintings, brim - full of pathos, they add unexpected elements.

The brothers argue that by «rectifying» works by such a revered artist they also «convert the pathos of Goya into something much more pessimistic and cynical, and much more brutally undermining.»

Landon Bailey Higgins is a New York based artist whose masterful paintings are infused with a sense of humor balanced by the pathos of maneuvering life as an overachieving gay southern transplant in the big city.

I'm interested in mystic profundity, primitive utterance and the whole pathos of the history of painting.

Kerlidou writes: «Bonnefoi's strategies seem to condense a few aspects of the work of his American contemporaries: the objectification and theatricalization of a gesture devoid of pathos of David Reed; the deconstructing strategies of Jonathan Lasker — even if Lasker's use of exaggeratedly thick brushstrokes seems closer to Dunoyer; the collaged elements in Philip Taaffe's paintings; and the interplay between the front and back in the work of Craig Fisher.

The temptation to read Marshall's work art historically is inescapable — you encounter the mirrored service economy of Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies — Bergère, vernacular riffs on the elite confections of Florine Stettheimer, and the pathos of Cy Twombly's roses — but these grand citations can sometimes blind audiences to more subtle operations.

His works bar pathos of any kind and his rejection of the notion of the canvas as a holy place could not be more resolute.

While Andy Warhol supplies another starting point, she does not share the pathos of Warhol's obsession with surface.

Inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts, the works he created during and after World War II capture the savagery of Nazism, the dangers of totalitarianism, and the pathos of American racism.

How successfully did Léger exclude the pathos of the imagination?

Hahn has appropriated these images documenting the pathos of a criminalised youth and the works are part of her latest exhibition Notre Corps est Une Arme, on view until 30 April at Gallery Jousse Entreprise, 7 Rue Saint Claude, Paris.

Exhibitions in 2015 include a four - person show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art called El Lissitzky: the Artist and the State; Sarah Pierce: Pathos of Distance, a collaborative research based exhibition with the ESB CSIA at the National Gallery of Ireland; and a presentation of new work for Positions # 2, curated by Annie Fletcher at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

The pathos of these works on paper is poignantly close to that elicited by CROSSROADS.

With acerbic humor and strangely profound insights, the artist lays bare the ambiguities, comedy and pathos of everyday life.

Baselitz's approach to the pathos of the body and the oppressed sexual impulses are expressed through the early male heroic - appearing, yet disjoined and mutilated, figures of the 1960s (such as Ökonomie, 1965 on display in the present show) and a bit later on, when he began presenting these images upside down.

From the gaze of a young Susan Atkins standing trial for the Tate - LaBianca murders, to the martyr - like pathos of an injured United States gymnast, the portraits in White's new series create an arresting tension between the fictional and the recognizable.

Lucy Hughes - Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in.

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

Like Senna, however, the pathos of a brilliant life cut so wretchedly short makes for nostalgic affair laced with glory.

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I have always loved the short - story genre because good writers like Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, and William Trevor illustrate the complexities, contradictions, and pathos of human relationships with poignant dialogue.

The joy of transforming seventh graders» deadpan stares into unbridled glee as an active learning experience helps them «get» a difficult concept; the pathos of witnessing the reluctant learner struggle with concepts that others readily grasp; the satisfaction derived from heartfelt appreciation expressed by a former student in a letter or during an impromptu conversation at the local grocery — I derive energy from those situations.

It is here that the full human pathos of those dark days hits home.

Anaya gives the brunt on the pathos of this film, never giving away too much no matter how over-the-top or exaggerated the story gets.

In fact, it only adds to the pathos of watching heroic men fight nobly to the bitter, bloody end.

Pic's late - reel conceit of filming the meeting between Mancini and the son of the man he beat to death in the ring may sound contrived on paper, but it plays beautifully on screen, adding to the pathos of a film whose heart is in the right place throughout.

The raunch remains, but set against the pathos of Simmons» declining life as it intersects with wannabe comedian Ira Wright (Seth Rogan) and his aspiring show biz roommates (Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill).

He writes of any famous artist's possible «distance between his true self and his public persona,» but distinguishes the pathos of the actor in terms of the extent of fame and relative lack of control over the artistic product itself.

As part of the 16th annual «Animation Show of Shows» Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow (2015) sees Hertzfeldt's genius for pathos of cosmic proportions ascend to hitherto unscaled levels of hilarity and invention.

If only two or three were used, rather than fifteen or twenty, the film would have been better off, and the balance would have aided the true pathos of the film.

The pathos of Rance's sadness now that he's out of the spotlight, and the similar threat looming over Burt — now that he and Anton have «broken up» and Steve Gray's newfangled schtick seems to be more enticing to audiences — works because the film doesn't belabor it.

His stable of repertory player get some youth injected in the form of Chris Dowd (The IT Crowd), Zach Woods (Silicon Valley) and Sarah Baker (Louie), but the film lacks the sweet - pathos of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara who are conspicuously absent here.

Affleck turns in an Oscar - worthy performance as Bob Ford, masterfully capturing the wormy vulnerability and pathos of this wannabe - turned - traitor.

Sadly, attempts to rekindle the pathos of T2 fall universally flat.

But I never felt that the zombie gore infringed upon the pathos of the trailer as a whole.

Amongst 2011's other raunchy comedies it lacks the pathos of Bridesmaids or a go - for - broke central performance like Bad Teacher.