Sentences with phrase «poignant portraits of»

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Summer 1993 (Unrated) Poignant portrait of a traumatized, 6 year - old orphan's (Laia Artigas) adjustment to a new life in the country with her aunt (Bruna Cusi), uncle (David Verdaguer) and cousin (Paula Robles).

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.

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.

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.

[7] Hypnodreamdruff was a complex narrative of the «interior life» of one of three fictional people sharing an apartment and was described as a «rowdy yet poignant portrait of the alienation and fantasy of everyday life.»

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.

This poignant portrait of her mother is a tender look back at a lifetime's worth of hopes, regrets and redemption.

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.

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Belleville, NJ About Blog As a family photographer, specializing in maternity, newborn and child portraits, Melissa has the outstanding ability to capture meaningful and poignant images of priceless moments.

We can have these incredible, slow burning series such as The Americans up against the insidious and darkly timely portrait of toxic patriarchy in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale playing against the ridiculous but poignant romp that is SyFy's The Magicians.

Steven Soderbergh delivers a poignant psychological portrait of the late Spalding Gray in this deftly structured documentary.

The other three nominees are the colorful «La Femme et le TGV» (starring French New Wave icon Jane Birkin, mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the lead role), which will tug the heart strings of older Academy members, the poignant choir drama «Sing,» from London - based Hungarian director Kristof Deák, and Spanish director Juanjo Giménez's «Timecode,» an elegant portrait of loneliness and connection.

As it lays: Griffin Dunne's portrait of his aunt offers poignant insight into the writer's life and career

(Unrated) Poignant character portrait of a lonely cleaning lady (Shinobu Terajima) who travels from Tokyo to Southern California to search for the English teacher (Josh Hartnett) she has a crush on.

The result is an achingly poignant and startlingly immediate portrait of a man adapting to life with a disability, struggling to maintain his own academic work and intimate relationships while his experience of the world and existential, spiritual beliefs evolve into something completely new.

The Secret Scripture (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity and mature themes) Poignant character portrait of a mental patient (Rooney Mara) forced to vacate the psychiatric hospital she's called home for a half - century because it's slated to be flattened by a wrecking ball.

Michael Haneke's portrait of the twilight of a long marriage is poignant, haunting, and refreshingly original.

Though there isn't much of a message to glean from this inappropriately - titled homage to the dawn of female empowerment, one can easily appreciate its vivid triptych of poignant personal portraits.

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.

A poignant character portrait capable of catapulting Kyle Mooney from SNL support player to bona fide matinee idol!

It's one of the most effective, honest portraits of childhood you'll ever see, and a touching, poignant snapshot of American life in 2017.

Featuring an incredible breakout performance by Charlie Plummer and shot in mesmerising style, Lean on Pete is a poignant, compassionate and heart - rending portrait of love, loss and acceptance that resonates with profound humanity.

By deftly weaving together mindfulness theory, poignant personal portraits, and imminently practical advice regarding specific methods, the authors provide the antidote to the frenetic and oppressive toxins of contemporary education; they remind us that we should stop «Racing to the Top» and take the time instead to plumb the depths of our own hearts and souls.

In an unsentimental portrait of a vulnerable teenager, this poignant coming - of - age story tells of a black youth's discovery of his homosexual longings.

Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world.

An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never...

B.A. Shapiro's The Muralist is a portrait of a passionate, avant - garde artist in 1930s America, and actress Mary - Louise Parker pens letters to the men in her life in the accomplished and poignant Dear Mr.. You.

An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

Known for his haunting and poignant family portraits, Zhang's paintings highlight the emotional conflicts of his generation under the Cultural Revolution, where individual expression and traditional family ties were at explicit odds with the pressure to fit into the collectivist ideal.

Though the late painter is best known for portraits of pregnant women and fellow artists like Andy Warhol, Neel had another side to her work: an appreciation for the many diverse people around her, especially those outside of her own milieu, that has not only spoken to Als since he was a teen, but become increasingly poignant now, in Trump's America.

Brilliantly witty, shocking, poignant and nihilistic, his art presents a portrait of contemporary America and is, in part, an investigation into the act of producing and looking at art.

In the book 700 Nimes Road — named for Taylor's Los Angeles address — photographer Catherine Opie explores this connection between Elizabeth Taylor the star and Elizabeth Taylor the person through intimate and at times poignant «indirect portraits» of the icon's life at home, including shots of movingly personal items like a pair of Taylor's red baby shoes.

The 32 - year - old Norwegian photographer beat over 62,000 competitors from 170 countries in the professional competition with One Day in History, her poignant series of portraits of the young survivors of the massacre on the Norwegian island of Utøya on 22 July 2011.

As the recent exhibition at the National Gallery showed, his last portraits were unflinchingly honest and poignant images of old age.

The exhibition is based on the collection of images in their iconic photobooks — Brassaï's The Secret Paris of the 30's from 1976 comprised of iconic images of the nocturnal denizens of Paris, unsettling portraits from Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph from 1972, and Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency from 1986, a searingly poignant documentation of her life and those in it.

Continuing the art historical quest to locate the unknown within material form, his portraits and abstractions serve as poignant evocations of the sublime.

Her portraits of friends and colleagues — Mary Kelly, seen from the back with her beautiful hands fixing her hair in an iconic knot, or the soft, poignant face of John Baldessari, elder statesman of the Los Angeles art world — draw us in.

Each work illustrates a poignant subject or event that holds significance for the artist, from portraits of incarcerated family members and friends lost in acts of violence to fantastical scenarios incorporating historical figures, role models, and public icons.