Sentences with phrase «pictorial narrative»

The Baroque inspired paintings of Julie Heffernan reflect an abundant knowledge of art history and pictorial narrative.

In terms of the internal pictorial narrative, he attempts to tell a story by incorporating diverse geographical and historical subjects and themes, bringing together certain references in unprecedented ways.

They all have the same measurements and, upon first glance, the same pictorial narrative.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

Her own work challenges these boundaries, as seen in her solo show Revenge, featuring consecutive paintings of black women protagonists and memorials to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, at Rochdale Art Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, in 1992, which contested the pictorial narratives so frequently repeated in art history.

His pictorial narratives challenge us: garish, bright colors, wild forms coupled with stylistic originality, and always with a tendency toward exaggeration.

Realized in loud, garish hues partly informed by the artist's early exposure to Socialist Realism, Rauch's enigmatic pictorial narratives never vanish into explanation: «My paintings have something vital about them, like an animal, a living thing,» he says.

Clearly enamored of her subjects and committed to the development of an increasingly rich palette and voluptuous drawing style, Leveille is most interested in getting these formal qualities to serve pictorial narratives without disappearing into them.

Not exact matches

Even as it entertains increasingly far - fetched detours, the film's folkloric narrative offers an ideal vehicle for this pictorial play.

I've been sceptical about this film - maker's pictorial sense in the past, even in the widely admired Pan's Labyrinth from 2006, which called to my mind Tarantino's shrugging response to a certain kind of film infatuated with its own visuals: «Pretty pictures...» But Crimson Peak has more narrative sinew and black comic style than this.

Devoid of pictorial motifs, narratives and at times even color, the work of Texas - based artist Otis Jones is muted yet intensely physical, and stubbornly original.

These distinctive narratives reflect the artist's perception of the real world; her subjective philosophies are expressed via a unique and joyful pictorial language.

By his mid-twenties, where this exhibition begins, a dual sense for narrative mood and pictorial space already infused his work, with geometry often concealing and imprisoning the forms underneath.

Often they are cropped, cut, fold, pierced, stitched, sanded and manipulated, these works refer to many of painting's most long running concerns - genre and narrative, pictorial space and illusion, and color and texture.

In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.

The exhibition includes three narrative series — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- along with numerous individual works that underline Walker's use of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

They resist the pictorial like a dancer who denies the narrative of dance.

Haines actively examines his position as an artist who makes pictorial and textual narratives in the wake of abstraction, conceptual art and photography.

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

[24] In 1978 he worked on the monumental historical ensemble Fifty Days at Iliam, a ten - part cycle inspired by Homer's Iliad; since then Twombly continued to draw on literature and myth, deploying cryptic pictorial metaphors that situate individual experience within the grand narratives of Western tradition, as in the Gaeta canvases and the monumental Four Seasons concluded in 1994.

Her ambivalent pictorial language can not be deciphered on a linear path, since in her colorful shining paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements, narrative references suddenly emerge.

In this exhibition organized by the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, we have decided with the artist to concentrate on his paintings and to explore and present the multiplicity of his pictorial language and narrative structures as they have evolved over the last two decades.

Narrative unfolds through a language of pictorial construction where objects within each painted or drawn interior are chosen for their potential for symbolic form — simultaneously loaded and banal.

These elegant, graphic, surrealist pictorials combine narrative references with geometric abstraction.

Simen Johan continues his ongoing series of narrative pictorials exploring the psychological complexities of childhood.

Taylor's influences are as diverse as Henri Matisse and Carroll Dunham, Joan Mitchell, and Peter Saul, all of whom provide a context for the gestures and marks that coalesce and fragment in these paintings, forming and reconstituting moments of pictorial and narrative legibility.

Taking his cues from artists as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Henri Michaux, and Christopher Wool, Feaster seeks to advance the language of abstract painting through the use of an ever - expanding lexicon of material effects, marks, and erasures, entreating the viewer to participate in a disjointed narrative that warps the experience of pictorial space, light and action.

Bowling abandoned the political narratives found in his early works such as the Martyrdom of Patrice Lumumba, 1961, and began to focus on purely pictorial issues of colour and composition.

The collection attests to the persistent vigour of Baselitz» distinctive pictorial style and is a fascinating exploration of the juncture between personal and collective narratives, via motifs which recur throughout gesturing towards the stores of art history and Baselitz own oeuvre.

It defends aesthetic ideals transmitted since the eighteenth century, a master's narrative: The pictorial arts are an element of pacification, a breath of the serene.

Film emerges as an organizing principle that constantly structures the narratives and pictorial range of his painting.

It seems difficult to even say that there is a narrative language in place because there is so much information with what seems to lack any coherence in pictorial space.

By deft patterning he has done something image - makers have aspired to since Cubism - made pictorial space itself read like narrative.

Taaffe's paintings teem with activity, he is constantly developing languages that he brings to different pictorial situations, in order to conclude the narrative, making certain unprecedented juxtapositions in the work.

Since the early 1980's he sought to create paintings informed — on a meta - narrative level — by his personal experience, while also reflecting the fundamental rules of his pictorial vocabulary.

The exhibition Emancipating the Past presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

The exhibition presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation, Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters.

Since his Times Square Show debut, his pictorial universe has been incredibly consistent and meticulously staged: a cinematic landscape often flattened into eerie planes and characterized by classic foreign sports cars, French pop singers, camouflaged Spitfires and troop ships, icons of European cinema and snowy Alpine peaks — a series of very particular, rhapsodic infatuations, through which he has conjured a fully - realized, unironic, modern - day narrative mythology.

The exhibition presents three of KARA WALKER's narrative portfolio series, «The Emancipation Approximation» (1999 — 2000), «Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated» (2005), and «An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters» (2010).

The exhibition Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery & Power presents three narrative portfolio series, executed in print — The Emancipation Approximation (1999 — 2000), Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), and An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters (2010)-- accompanied by single works that underline Walker's employment of Antebellum and Reconstruction - era imagery and themes.

Love, death, and war are the subjects of the nine large canvases here, all of which brim with narrative and pictorial action.

This oeuvre, far too rarely seen in Europe, is precious, for it seems to condense in itself the vitality of a moment, a time that saw the pictorial practice change space and narrative systems, feeding itself particularly from raw energy coming from the street and comics.

These works are cropped, cut, folded, pierced, stitched, and manipulated; they refer to many of painting's long - running concerns with genre and narrative, pictorial space and illusion, color and texture.

A woman painting during a period when realist art - dependent on narrative and pictorial illusion - was seen in modernist circles as retrograde, she had her work drowned under a welter of high - minded, essentially male, abstraction.

Nothing coheres in a way that could be said to have substantive narrative dimension or pictorial legibility, except for visible stops and starts that prod the limits of content.