Sentences with phrase «powerful portrait»

The features beautiful stories that paint powerful portraits of the adoption experience.

We want to create powerful portraits of the many places where students are engaged in deep learning.

We have comprised a list of 10 powerful portraits of women ready to collect, inspired by various historical periods, styles, and political messages.

Joffe paints powerful portraits, mostly of women and children, which have astonishing insight, integrity and humour.

From Jean Renoir (The Southerner) to Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas), from Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) to Antonio Mendez Esparza (the shattering recent festival hit Life and Nothing More), some of the most powerful portraits of the American Dream's scrappier, more fragmented reality have come from outsiders — their perspective perhaps inflected with their own sense of alienation, and their sympathies duly directed toward those US cultures and classes on society's fringes.

The traveling survey brought renewed attention to Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 - 2017), the artist and photographer whose powerful portraits dating from the 1960s and 70s masterfully capture the individuality, attitude and style of his subjects, nearly all of them African American.

Such subtlety is not all that common in today's movies, and The Guardians can seem so discreet and episodic that it takes on the guise of a telefilm whereas it's really something much stronger: a serious - minded and, in its closing reels, rather powerful portrait of women getting by in a world where all the men are either gone or gone mad.

Madame Mao, a chameleon and a major instigator of the Cultural Revolution in China, emerges in Min's stunning, powerful portrait as a woman with too much power in an unstable world.

Mickalene Thomas Thomas's practice primarily focuses on powerful portraits of black women realized through photography and enormous embellished mixed - media paintings.

Scarlett knew she had found her calling after several experiences of seeing people moved to tears in the presence of her simple yet powerful portraits of young monks and nuns inspired by the Buddhist traditions.

Among the works on display are evocative watercolors by Winslow Homer and Édouard Manet, powerful portrait drawings by Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres and Edgar Degas, sporting lithographs by George Bellows, a pen landscape by Vincent van Gogh, and cubist compositions by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

A moving exhibition is scheduled to open at New York City's Flowers Gallery next month featuring the incredibly veristic and emotionally powerful portraits of...

Rineke Dijkstra is represented by several powerful portraits, as well as her video I See A Woman Crying / Weeping Woman (2009).

Photographs make up 30 % of the collection, with many of these works made in the late 1980s and early 90s, a period in which some artists used the documentary form of photography and related mediums to develop powerful portraits of themselves and their communities, while others highlighted the violence done to such communities.

For the series Persons Unknown, Hunter created powerful portraits of squatters who formed a community by settling in the abandoned warehouses of Hackney, in east London.

The icebreaker is The Artist and His Mother, one of the most powerful portraits of the 20th century: heart - rending, irreducibly beautiful.

A survey of the works by German artist Frank Auerbach, whose powerful portraits have given this genre a new meaning.

His most recognised work is his The Artist and His Mother (1926 - 9, Whitney Museum, New York), one of the most powerful portraits of the 20th century.

Writer / director Kat Candler's HELLION paints the powerful portrait of a family on the brink of dissolution set against the haunting backdrop of the refineries of Southeast Texas.

With an intuitive insight into the survival instincts of women, Chilean director Sebastian Lelio builds a powerful portrait of a secret, struggling relationship, fleshed out by two fine performances.

Powerful portrait of an officer and his soldiers facing up to what it means to serve in an army of a fallible, democratic country that spins an explosive pyrrhic victory

Little Woods is a bleak, powerful portrait of middle America that never veers on cloying, and handles difficult current - day issues like opioid abuse and abortion with grace.

Some films simply tell a story, whilst others paint a powerful portrait of a world the audience may not have otherwise seen.

While the film occasionally borders on pretentious, it crafts a powerful portrait of socioeconomic despair without turning heavy - handed.

A kind of Chinese Pulp Fiction with a political pulse, it adds up to a powerful portrait of desperate individuals driven to extremes by official corruption and runaway commercial development.

Irish emigrant saga «Brooklyn» was named best British film, a distinct category, while the documentary prize went to «Amy,» a powerful portrait of the rise and fall of singer Amy Winehouse.

Jackie is a heavy and powerful portrait and will hopefully give moviegoers a different perspective as to what it must have been like to be Jackie Kennedy.

Taking a meaningful as well as metaphorical approach, the film paints a powerful portrait of the stress of contemporary society, with pitch - perfect performances from Shannon and his co-star Jessica Chastian (The Tree Of Life) adding an extra layer of resonance.

With a lot of Disney films, audiences have to suspend their disbelief and when you do that here (forgetting about all of the real - life sour feelings Travers felt about the film), the movie works like a magical and powerful portrait of a woman coming to terms with her painful past.

Roberts, who is definitely the lead of the film, regardless of the opinions of AMPAS, gives one of her best performances in recent memory, presenting us with a powerful portrait of a woman coming back to a home that offers no comfort, supporting a crumbling marriage and a rebellious daughter while simultaneously and reluctantly finding herself in a leadership role as her mother's mental acuity deteriorates.

She utilizes b - roll footage, outtakes, and home movies to build, as if like free - form lego, a powerful portrait of not just herself, but the world we live in.

It's both an immersive depiction of humanity in all its messiness and a powerful portrait that regards its director as an empathetic, trusting, and ultimately, wildly creative individual hungry for adventure.

Part of it may be in the film's powerful portrait of the dissolution and evolution of a best friendship.

Whilst the topic has featured in many movies prior — as has the apocalyptic scenario, the film takes a meaningful as well as metaphorical approach, painting a powerful portrait of the stress of contemporary society.

Of all these films — powerful portraits, all — Heaven is a Traffic Jam most seamlessly fuses film to subject, illuminating the overwhelming pain and sadness of Alper's life, but also the artistic outlet and unlikely support system that has led her to professional success and a degree of peace, however carefully controlled.

Exarchopoulos gives us such a powerful portrait of a young woman looking for love, sex and anything else she can get her hands on as she makes her way through her formative years.

EW's Jeff Jensen called it «a powerful portrait of love in action,» which was one of 53 glowing reviews logged to RT..

Poetically shot by a dozen DoPs, including Christopher Doyle, a powerful portrait of horror, hope and humanity emerges.

Russell Crowe has created a powerful portrait of loss and redemption with fine performances, not least his own as lead.

Sentimental looks at the beautifully complex relationship between mothers and daughters, these powerful portraits of love and loss will have you dialing mom before the credits roll.

Krisha — Trey Edward Shults» emotionally charged directorial debut is a powerful portrait of a person crippled by addiction.

Meticulously researched and eloquently written, this is a powerful portrait of the «far country» from which many students commute to class every day.

Padel's empathy with Darwin along with her literary gifts result in a powerful portrait of a man whose ideas have revolutionized the way that we view the world.

The most acclaimed Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and struggles of its heroine, Chris Guthrie.

Told in a chorus of women's voices, the book provides a powerful portrait of life in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the years of the fateful Manhattan Project.

Whether it is or isn't, it's a powerful portrait of love and marriage, of a bond that transcends death and of the eerie world some writers inhabit.

Whether it is or isn't, it's a powerful portrait of love and marriage, of a bond that transcends death and of the eerie world some...