Sentences with phrase «portraits as poems»

As art critic Laura Cumming has described, «Paul's paintings aren't so much portraits as poems based on an intensely empathetic observation.

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There were other acts of piety too: the affecting long essay Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, first published in the New Yorker (as were many of his later poems), and the memoir, «Portrait of a Father,» which first appeared in the Southern Review only two years ago.

When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.

The screenplay honor was presented to South Korean director Lee Chang - dong for «Poetry,» his gentle portrait of a grandmother (Yun Junghee) struggling to write a poem as she copes with the onset of Alzheimer's and her troublesome grandson.

Resources included are as follows: 3 0 P D F files for you to print: Key word cards, chapter 2 to read, chapter 2 writing task about finding the key, Story elements, Story board to complete, writing pages, A 4 topic title to introduce the book, retell the story from another point of view, write a diary entry task, write a postcard, acrostic poem to complete, make words from letters, photo pack, flashcards of character names, character descriptions, my favourite part of the story is — drawing page, I like this story because writing task, design a new book cover, draw a garden scene, hand puppet template to draw, draw a family portrait, writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together, large display items door to the garden and large key, long banner to head wall display, large letters to spell out book title, display border to edge wall display, story sack tag to keep resources together.

A glowing, substantive picture - book biography in verse, this follows the reggae legend from birth to death, with the mostly chronological poems revealing a full portrait of the musician as Medina moves from personal details to wider themes.

The selection includes works by the foremost practitioners of the art of miniature painting in England, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, and portraits of writers, such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, who wove miniatures into contemporary culture through references in their plays and poems.

Drawing for me by this time had become the same as and of parallel importance to the writing of poetry, and I had already published two volumes of poems, one of which, Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra, had won the Carl Sandburg Award for best American poet.

The exhibition opened with the residency as a meeting point between the self and the other, on foreign land, in an unknown context; an environment negotiated through perception and intuition by artists Wanja Kimani in her video poem Fleuve Wouri, and Mavis Tauzeni in her printed impressions blending self - portraits and landscapes.

He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets and poetry, including most recently Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz) and Goods and Services, as well as an epistolary collaboration by Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time?

Karma Publishing will be releasing a book this spring combining the images from Imaginary Portraits with Vladimir Nabokov's 1960 translation of «The Song of Igor's Campaign,» the epic poem that Borodin used as the basis for the opera Prince Igor.

Combining one of Schulyer's poems with a portrait produced a piece that looks like a journal entry, the soul of this supine canine shines through as he basks on the sunny porch of a house.

Taking Gertrude Stein's reading of her poem If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso as a starting point, the programme considers rhythmicality of language, cadence of speech, and images as musical scores.