Sentences with phrase «pieces as allegories»
Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.
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The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).
With their crew, they rewrite Shakespeare's play as an allegory for the conditions permeating their daily lives, a spoken word theater piece by and about local youth.
Making reference to the reaper who appears in everyday lives in Hans Holbein's 16th - century series «The Dance of Death,» as well as to the shadows that enthrall the fictional prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave (a recurring theme in Kentridge's work), the piece also conjures a modern - day New Orleans funeral march.
His pieces, frequently considered as a modern - day allegory and a riddle to be solved, helped to merge painting and sculpture and to highlight the idea that art can be made out of anything.
Among his monumental pieces is a 200 - kilogram tornado made from barbed wire and another of a gigantic wave, both of which serve as allegories for a void, political unrest and change.
A political allegory that wanders into the surreal, the piece is a collective experience for actors and audiences alike as they take part in an endurance - testing performance drama that travels through the Bath's heated rooms and interior spaces, each conveying a shift in physical sensation and emotional atmosphere.