Sentences with phrase «perceptive portraits»

In a new take on his hallmark three - dimensional constructions, which compound painting and sculpture, Grooms incorporates an element of collage into the works in this exhibition, integrating pages from magazines with watercolor, acrylic, ink and other media, creating perceptive portraits of other artists and placing them within the enviornment of their own works.

That installation appeared with perceptive portraits of the poet painted by Billy Sullivan, Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, and Elizabeth Peyton.

The nearly 30 black - and - white photographs in the exhibition, made between the years 1967 and 1986, include men depicted in the highest pitch of orgasm, as well as perceptive portraits of fellow artists such as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, David Wojnarowicz and Lynn Davis.

By comparison to other medieval Western portrayals of Islam, Riccoldo's Book of Pilgrimage is a fresh, realistic, and perceptive portrait of Islam as it was practiced in the lands of its birth.

Charting the exploits of a thirty - something ex-prom queen returning to her home town, their acerbic and amusing movie served up a perceptive portrait of arrested development.

In five sections ranging back and forth from the 1940s into the 1990s, Clear Springs beautifully paints a loving and perceptive portrait of a family's personalities and fortunes.

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Though salvaged in parts by Lindon's impassioned performance and a few perceptive asides that hint at a better version of the events, At War is mostly a redundant portrait of working - class struggles that does more to belittle the efforts of its subjects than position them in galvanizing terms.

«Drew Tobia's awesomely cynical portrait of a pregnant single Brooklynite alienated from her lesbian sister and mean - spirited mother has a liberating quality embedded in its snide dialogue and perceptive look at urban eccentrics.

The Portrait of a Lady UK / USA, 1996, 35 mm, 144m As early as its opening credit sequence, this interpretation of Henry James's masterwork insinuates a modern, tactile, and perceptive vision that is entirely Campion's.

She continues in that same perceptive vein with her second novel, Sing Them Home — a compelling portrait of three adult siblings struggling to come to terms with their father's sudden death from a lightning strike.