Sentences with phrase «poignant portrait»

Both books are honest, poignant portraits of young women on the brink of tumultuous change, facing the harsh reality of a world that may not be too thrilled with who they are.

(Chinese art's absorption of western influence is, incidentally, the subject of an exhibition of paintings by Yan Pei - Ming at Massimo De Carlo's new Hong Kong space: the artist presents poignant portraits after photographs, each a snapshot of an artist — Freud, Warhol and others — as a young man).

Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors

As Allen's execution date closes in, the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator David Presson.

The blurred and poignant portraits evoked a sense of loss, and the futility of representing the scope of personality through still images.

Along with her moving paintings of women in exposed and vulnerable positions, Dumas exhibits poignant portraits of prominent male homosexuals, and Eisenman shows work about the dreary daily lives of inhabitants of an imaginary American city.

When author Hilton Als set out to gather Neel's most poignant portraits of American minorities in his book Alice Neel, Uptown, it was in his words «an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity of her seeing.»

That's Laura (Carey Mulligan) in Mudbound, a superb, poignant portrait of race and prejudice.

Produced by Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, & Nick Offerman and directed by Laura Dunn (The Unforeseen), this documentary is «a beautiful and poignant portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the eye of American novelist, poet, and activist, Wendell Berry».

I would like to commend Lee Jenkins for his poignant portrait of LeBron James (Promise Keeper).

Created in partnership with DOVE ® Chocolate and Refinery29's Shatterbox Anthology, «Khethiwe & The Leopard» is a poignant portrait of creativity's ability to empower girls everywhere.

Leading up to the now - legendary show that launched Jeff's own brilliant career, Greetings from Tim Buckley is a poignant portrait of a father and son who were each among the most beloved singer / songwriters of their respective generations.

While promoting her poignant portrait of adolescence, Lady Bird, writer - director Greta Gerwig dropped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to talk about the making of her movie.

If Milk were alive today, he'd still be campaigning and this is a poignant portrait of the man and his understanding of social injustice.

Rich camerawork of track life; poignant portraits of the never - say - die racers.

Bill Condon brings to the screen the life of James Whale, the famed director of the old Frankenstein movies, in this poignant portrait of a man and artist in the winter of his life.

Director Nicholas Hytner («The History Boys») serves up a poignant portrait of a disillusioned elderly British bag lady marching to the beat of her own distinctive drum in the uplifting and quirky dramedy The Lady in the Van.

Presenting a poignant portrait of childhood as lovingly glimpsed through the eyes of Moonee (Brooklynn Prince, stunning), a smart - alecky six - year - old being raised by her unruly young mother, Halley (Bria Vinai, also brilliant) during summer vacation.

Brian Dennehy brings a moving world - weariness to the aged, infirm Sorin, while Mare Winningham's Polina, yet another character in love with someone she can not have, crafts a poignant portrait of quiet desperation.

It would be unfair to spoil further any of the details of this poignant portrait painting a plausible picture of where any of us might be, but for fortune.

From his poignant portrait of a cowboy wrestling with feelings for another man in the groundbreaking 2005 «Brokeback Mountain» (the only role to net him an Oscar nod), to his twitchy transformation into a sleazy, crime - scene videographer in 2014's «Nightcrawler,» Gyllenhaal has been a fearlessly committed chameleon.

British author Emma Healey may be only 29 years old, but she has created a poignant portrait of a woman with dementia in her luminous debut novel, which contains a double mystery.

The museum, housed in the former Methodist Mission Church on Buitenkant Street, celebrates the former neighbourhood with photographs, recordings and testimonials that present a poignant portrait.

Opening: «Brassaï: Language of the Wall: The Tapestries, 1968» at Higher Pictures One of the important players in the modernist movement in Paris between WWI and WWII, the Hungarian photographer, sculptor, writer and filmmaker Brassaï (the pseudonym of Gyula Halász) is best known for his salacious photographs of Paris at night and his poignant portraits of the famous artists and writers of his time.

On the other hand, Diane Arbus is famous for her poignant portraits of individuals on the margins of society, such as street people, transvestites, nudists, and carnival performers.

5) Chris Verene: In his December show at Postmasters, the photographer translated his poignant portraits of poor white America into literal and figurative moving images.

In My Mother's Clothes, Montgomery Barron created a poignant portrait of her late mother through still life images of her cherished clothing, shoes, and personal possessions.

From picturesque landscapes to poignant portraits, Harris presents the interconnections of our global culture.

Dr Kronn is the Chief of Medical Genetics at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, New York, a fact which underlies the many images of children in the collection — Diane Arbus's Loser at a Diaper Derby (1967) for instance; or Martine Franck's images of children from Tory Island (1994 - 97), and Irina Davis's poignant portraits of children in a Russian state orphanage (2006 - 2007).

At once a poignant portrait of his hometown and an expression of Kelley's characteristic investigation of potential childhood trauma, the composition intriguingly juxtaposes the clean modern lines of the mobile house in the foreground with the classical columns, aging stonework, and broken windows of the abandoned buildings in the background.

He is best as a portraitist with a poignant Portrait of a Woman (Portrait of Lady Anne Tree) of 1950.

Also dating from this period are many of his seminal canvases, along with ten poignant portraits of the ailing human body and Gaskamer and Schwarzheide (both 1986), which were part of the artist's first solo exhibition in 1988, to Die Zeit (1988), a four - part work shown in his critically acclaimed Documenta presentation in 1992.

In Henry Taylor's work, the autobiographical collides with historical narratives and popular mythologies to forge a poignant portrait of the complexities of the here and now.

Also dating from this period are many of his seminal canvases, including Gaskamer and Schwarzheide (both 1986), which were part of the artist's first gallery solo exhibition in 1988; Die Zeit (1988), a four - part work shown in his critically acclaimed Documenta presentation in 1992; along with Der diagnostische Blick (1992), a group of ten poignant portraits of the ailing human body.

Installed on the occasion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I want a president renders a poignant portrait of the cultural and political climate in the early 1990s in New York City with words that still resonate today.