Sentences with phrase «portrait of the hard life»

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A portrait of a hard rocking band known for their live performances on their evolutionary journey to becoming one of the greatest cult rock bands of our time.

From a simple story of personal struggle, Zhao coaxes forth a stirring ode to a little - seen, hard - scrabble way of life and a sobering portrait of masculinity in crisis.

Red Desert (Criterion) The DVD debut of Michelangelo Antonioni's color debut is accompanied by two early Antonioni documentary shorts: his debut film «Gente del Po» (1947), a portrait of the hard loves of the people living on the Po River, and «N.U.» (1948), about the street cleaners of Rome.

A moving and deftly told portrait of the hard - scrabble life.

The fact that he was anti-social and struggled to deal with the world in itself isn't a reason to declare him weird and abnormal — these days there are many people who find it hard to deal with the trials and tribulations of the world with live in -, yet it certainly is one of many things that paint a portrait of someone with serious problems that was slowly but surely heading down a dark path.

The cozy NEWD Art Show, on Johnson Avenue, featured the Lower East Side gallery Regina Rex, which displayed several of Hannah Barrett's playfully deviant folk - arty takes on the traditional portrait and still life; Greenpoint's 106 Green, an artist - run space showing gently noirish figurative paintings by Beijing - raised Xinyi Cheng; and Greenpoint Terminal, offering Eric Shaw's meticulous but sardonically wobbly hard - edge abstractions.

«Looking at his exhibition of a dozen paintings of bouquets, a hard maple tree and a life - size, nude self - portrait, «Poseidon»... read more... «Carl Plansky: «The more I see contemporary painting distrust feeling, the more feeling I put into my painting»»

Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).

STANDING AT THE THRESHOLD of «Blues for Smoke,» one could see the following, reading from foreground to background: a video monitor playing Richard Pryor Live in Concert (1979); a painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat; portraits of Jean Genet, Charlie Parker, and James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney; a row of fifty - one old - fashioned hard - top blue suitcases arranged by Zoe Leonard; a black - and - maroonish abstraction by Jack Whitten; a wall drawing by Kira Lynn Harris; and, hovering off to the left, a wall of Glenn Ligon's black - on - gold Richard Pryor paintings, all inscribed with the same joke: «I was a

«It would be hard to think of another contemporary painter whose self - portraits are so steeped in meditation and yet so quick with live touch.»

«Looking at his exhibition of a dozen paintings of bouquets, a hard maple tree and a life - size, nude self - portrait, «Poseidon» (all 2009), is to be immersed in a colorful garden, as well as a pit of writhing snakes.