Sentences with phrase «pictures of familiar places»

I come to each piece differently, sometimes by looking at my things, or out the window, or at pictures of familiar places, or old drawings, or other times by reading a string of words I've copied down somewhere.

After you get the hang of using your mind to build pictures of familiar places, it's time for some action.

Not exact matches

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

Together with the Guston, these present a rare picture of the US at mid-20th century: not the familiar macho assertiveness, but an art of meditative subtlety and melancholy, resonant with an America that currently seems uncertain of its place in the world.

The primary subject of Kurland's pictures, however, are the adolescent girls who inhabit these places, both familiar and uncanny, captured by the artist's camera.