Sentences with phrase «phantasmagoria of»

The painting fuses iconographies as divergent as those of Slayer album covers, the gilded art history of Caspar David Friedrich and the factory - made phantasmagoria of the Disney studios.

Sigmar Polke, daring visionary lord of the alchemical phantasmagoria of painting, died this morning at 69.

We're a long way from the paintings that Ofili was making in the 1990s, when he had a studio in King's Cross and translated the surrounding sleaze into an urban phantasmagoria of larger - than - life innocents and villains in paintings such as Foxy Roxy and Pimpin» Ain't Easy (But It Sure Is Fun).

She dresses in conservative black pants suits and speaks in a quiet, frank tone — qualities that might render her one of the least noticeable presences in the flashy phantasmagoria of the Frieze Art Fair.

Influenced by Joseph Beuys, the American «bad painting» movement, punk rock and popular culture, tattoos, advertising, trash aesthetic, and more, Bouthillette has created a mischievous and irreverent phantasmagoria of sights and sounds.

True to its title, the Musée d'Orsay show this autumn will draw not just on painting, but also on photography, sculpture, architecture, and the applied arts, to conjure up the phantasmagoria of imperial France in all its many guises.

This story reveals — behind the glamour and dark phantasmagoria of Barney's work — the picture of a Renaissance artist physically engaged in the chemistry, labor, and construction of his creations.

Following in the noble tradition of Killer 7 and No More Heroes, Suda 51's latest video game phantasmagoria of crazy characters, intense action, and blood spray galore is Killer is Dead: An unhinged story set in the near - future where cybernetic implants are the norm and assassin work is quite the lucrative business.

But even as more people choose the phantasmagoria of the screen over the contemplative pleasures of the page, there's a parallel phenomenon sweeping the country: collective graphomania.

The trappings of one and the phantasmagoria of the other are arts — appealing to the æsthetic sense, hence all the more dangerous.

It is a phantasmagoria of extraordinary action sequences and beautifully poignant moments that nevertheless leaves one cold in the end.

Columbus continues to delight in the phantasmagoria of the magical details (like the Whomping Willow) but, sadly, this film marks the final appearance of the late great Richard Harris as the paternal Headmaster Dumbledore.

Yates stages some eye - catching set - pieces, enhanced by a wonderful production design (take a bow, Stuart Craig) mingling Mervyn Peake, Lewis Carroll and the spindly phantasmagoria of Ronald Searle.

An «ocean» composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long - distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first - place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

His sprawling, hyper - detailed works are cartoonish phantasmagorias of various types of personal and civil aggression, representing a personal and national psyche affected by violence.

Not exact matches

And, even on the brink of damnation, amid a roiling phantasmagoria — ghosts of his victims, devils, the living statue, hell's fire — he expresses neither fear nor remorse but goes to his perdition proudly affirming his unshakable loyalty to himself, with a courage so insane it almost deprives hell of any significance.

The film undermines the unity of its characterizations, redirecting into garish phantasmagoria.

Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.

But, lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen.

Images of Congressional hearings earn their snickers and their perception of impotence, though the film in its phantasmagoria is so completely in the here and now that it has feet of clay despite its fleet execution.

Just last week Steam added a bunch of classic Sierra games — everything from Gabriel Knight to Phantasmagoria to Caesar III.

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

The seventh book in author J.K. Rowling's wizard phantasmagoria, Deathly Hallows has been chopped into two feature films to capture the full lung capacity of the material, and perhaps yank some additional box office coin along the way.

ParaNorman loses steam in the predictably extended climactic swirl of CGI phantasmagoria and preachy peacemaking, but for the most part, its winningly cockeyed grasp of the macabre makes it ideal scare - fare for families.Hide

It parallels Jaromil Jireš's Valerie and her Week of Wonders in its tale of budding sex and the surreal phantasmagoria that explodes in the imagination around such a thing.

It is, in any analysis, a visually - striking phantasmagoria that doesn't shirk from a sense of danger in the occasional murder or noble sacrifice.

And while the cinematic phantasmagoria is more interesting than any psychological reading or narrative understanding, it's like mainlining decades of giallo highlights in a single screening.

Ferrer's conjuring of romantic Indochine is a journey that lures, stirring up ghosts in a wild phantasmagoria, reckoning with forces both entwined and eternal.»

But in its newest edition, there was a good deal of the former and less and less phantasmagoria.

So in this novel, a girl named Olivia is born in 1956 «to a nun in an old auto parts store turned convent in rural Mississippi...» — and that's just the beginning of this strange American phantasmagoria.

This week Carly (@PoisonPinkFluff) from MammothGamers joins Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: PS Vita, Switch, Breathe of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Ether1, Death Road to Canada, Anthem, Destiny, Struggle for Catan, Catan Jr., Ticket to Ride, Dragon's Wood, Secret Hitler, God of War, WestWorld, #GameStruck4, Doom, Monster Hunter, City of Heroes, Over the Top, Great Philadelphia ComiCon, Super Mario World, River Raid, WCW / NWO Revenge, Hero's Quest, E.T., Zork, Carmen San Diego, Fade to Black, Willie Beamish, Quest for Glory 2, Phantasmagoria, King's Quest, Roberta Williams, Prince of Persia, Karaketka, Jordan Mechner, One Must Fall, EverQuest, Custer's Revenge, Virtual Valerie, Danger Mouse, Isle of Dogs, Lenovo Explorer, Nintendo Labo, Far Cry 5, Burly Men at Sea, Oxenfree, Virginia, Nino Kuni 2, Sea of Thieves, Gangs of London, Overwatch: Retribution, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, I Hope, Minit, The Swords at Ditto, Immortal Redneck, DragoDino, Light Fall, Ori and the Blind Forest, Door Kickers: Action Squad, Raging Justice, Way of the Passive Fist, Pato Box, City of Brass, Avengers Infinity War, Venom, Universal Fancon, Discord, The Witcher and more.

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Barlow says more indie games should use video, as independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV) game genre on computers in the 1990s — games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that game with them.

Launched with a lot of surrounding hype, Phantasmagoria proved to be a best - seller.

In Phantasmagoria, the two artists develop this accidental aesthetic of the night club photography, replacing it with conscious decision - making and the stylistic precision identifiable in high - concept fashion editorial.

In a film studies class, my professor Tom Gunning was talking about the pre-cinematic «phantasmagoria,» a form of spook show with distant voices and magic - lantern slides projected onto moving surfaces.

In many of my installations I have strived for the immersive experience that I imagine the phantasmagoria performances offered.

Swiss Institute and ARTBOOK invite you to join us for the launch of Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler, Since the late 1990s, artist Tony Oursler has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology.

At least if you think of the power of advertising and promotion, what Walter Benjamin calls «phantasmagoria» — a world of illusions created by the mass media, in which modern people find models for their everyday behaviour but also their attitudes and prejudices, and even their deepest beliefs.

Characterized by sentiments of fear, violence, and pain; representations of fragmented, mutated, or distorted bodies; the appearance of monsters, phantasmagoria, and demons; and otherwise disquieting mise - en - scènes, this style represents a counter-impulse to traditionalism, classicism, and idealism.

For over twenty five years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has championed the work of Alma Thomas, mounting two solo exhibitions: Alma Thomas: Phantasmagoria, Major Paintings from the 1970s (2001) and Alma Thomas: Moving Heaven & Earth, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1958 - 1978 (2015).

Huey sources her paintings from historic images, advertisements, postcards and photographs, and curator Jess Frost has included a selection of both found and created materials as well as collages that reference the process Huey uses in creating her phantasmagorias.

The 12 artists in Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence — Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Muñoz, Julie Nord, Rosângela Rennó and Regina Silveira — draw on forms of representation associated with phantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, miPhantasmagoria: Specters of Absence — Christian Boltanski, Jim Campbell, Michel Delacroix, Laurent Grasso, Jeppe Hein, William Kentridge, Rafael Lozano - Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Muñoz, Julie Nord, Rosângela Rennó and Regina Silveira — draw on forms of representation associated with phantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, miphantasmagoria and reframe them around contemporary notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial media such as shadows, fog, mist and breath.

Mark Dean Veca: Phantasmagoria (2009) / $ 25 / Available on Amazon.com and in Gallery Softcover / 64 pages / 37 color plates / 10 x 7.75 inches ISBN 978 -0-930209-17-9 Produced by: OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition curated by: Meg Linton Exhibition dates: October 11 - December 6, 2008 Essays by: Meg Linton Description: Solo Exhibition of site - specific painting installation by Los Angeles based artist Mark Dean Veca

The second presentation of Blackbox will be an exhibition entitled Phantasmagoria, an immersive video experience of «hybrid films» by Ranu Mukherjee.

In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.

While this main installation recalls an ongoing body of research into the 18th - century phantasmagoria shows of Jean - Gaspard Robertson — as first seen in Oursler's iconic piece, The Influence Machine (2002) commissioned by Artangel and restaged at Tate Modern in 2013 — another new series situates these reconfigured faces squarely in the context of the 21st century.

Headlined «How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,» the dense, scabrous cartoon phantasmagoria features floating heads of the various players, from a leering Joannou and a grinning Koons, to dealer Gavin Brown (pictured saying «OK, I admit that the New Museum does look a little bit like my bitch, but it is all based on merit»), as well as bloggers like James Wagner and Green, and a saintly caricature of New Museum founder Marcia Tucker.