Sentences with phrase «psychological intensity»

«The rigor of the dialogue and the unexpected psychological intensity of the amount of studio visits could be overwhelming,» Frank continues.

He took up realism at the height of Abstract Expressionism, but a realism so charged with psychological intensity, personal symbolism and hallucinatory weirdness that to call it realism didn't fit quite right either.

Munch's paintings reveal increased psychological intensity as he moved from realism to symbolism.

Winslet brings a bristling psychological intensity to Mildred's need to please the horribly greedy and transparently pretentious Veda (a thankless and frankly ridiculous character, regardless of who's playing her).

What's so special about it is that Reichardt attains this bountiful subtextual depth and hardboiled psychological intensity with an absolute minimum of means.

Abstract faces as reflections of our soul — Belgian contemporary artist Johan Van Mullem creates monumental paintings and sculptures of a rare psychological intensity.

The other big portrait show in town promises just as much psychological intensity, with a group of 70 works that includes all the usual suspects (the Metropolitan Museum of Art's «Boy in Red» made the trip, as did many paintings from Spanish museums and collections) and some of the master's characteristically mordant self - portraits.

At a time when Abstract Expressionism placed a premium on psychological intensity and spontaneous mark - making, he coolly arranged color in precise, controlled patterns on the canvas.

Throughout his career he focused on the human figure, rendered in a realist manner and imbued with a stark and evocative psychological intensity.

The documentary style worked well at the beginning and offered a fresh take on the genre, but it wasn't really up to the task of capturing the spiritual threat and psychological intensity of the best possession movies.

His work is characterised by the use of expressive lines and imbued with psychological intensity.

In Munch's hands, the theme has a psychological intensity that is conveyed not merely by the conventional story, but by the visual impact of images as symbols.

The narrative rises in psychological intensity.

The noir style and Bergman's performance is what creates the psychological intensity necessary for the film's suspense to work.

Although he continued to be interested in relating a psychological intensity to bodily experience, he stopped using his own body in performances.

In video works in 1970 - 72, he portrayed a psychological intensity in interpersonal and physical relationships between people on screen.

The pose is one that could have been taken from any number of titillating, sexy advertisements, but the figure's psychological intensity — reinforced by the fiery orange shadows around the eyes — and the androgynous queering of gender defy prepackaged commercial messaging.

Segall was an influential artist who infused Brazilian modernism with the color, psychological intensity, and spatial distortion characteristic of the German tradition.

«The characteristics that our artists share are psychological intensity, technical innovation, imagery that does more than record reality — pushing the boundaries of the medium of photography,» Mr. Milo wrote in an e-mail message.

Eisenman's skill as a painter of imaginative compositions is evidenced not only through the array of social types represented but also through the bold contrasts of color that inject the work with emotional and psychological intensity.

Alix Pearlstein's The Drawing Lesson incorportates minimalism and dance to generate a psychological intensity in her hypnotic videos on view at On Stellar Rays.

Described as the painting that» encapsulates all of the drama and psychological intensity of an artist who became one of the most celebrated and influential artists of the twentieth century,» Mark Rothko's No. 17 is one of the most seminal works of the 1950s.

It is a work that captures Rothko's singular painterly powers, capturing the drama and psychological intensity of an artist who became among the most celebrated and influential of the twentieth century.