Sentences with phrase «powerful emotional charge»

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever - deepening marriage.

[37] Robert Motherwell in his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series also painted powerful black and white paintings using gesture, surface and symbol evoking powerful emotional charges.

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Gooding writes: «For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.

Here are these really bright, optimistic landscapes, and here are these really powerful, emotional and politically charged pieces of writing.

Some — like Carrie Mae Weems and Gary Simmons — mount powerful explorations of racism, employing such deeply charged images as archival photographs of slaves and the recreated nooses and hoods of the Ku Klux Klan to tap into an emotional well of past injustice and persecution.

For Hoyland, as for Newman (and Rothko), it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.