Sentences with phrase «quotidian nature»

Searching for a visual language to capture the immediacy of everyday life and the quotidian nature of his subject matter, Andrews developed his «rough collage» technique, combining scraps of paper and cloth with oil paint on canvas.

It was a refuge from the pressures and quotidian nature of the city, and as such, a fragmenting of dense urban culture.

It was not banality as such but the quotidian nature of the Nazi dictatorship that made coming to terms with Nazism so difficult after as well as between 1933 and 1945.

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McEwan's theme, exquisitely celebrated in the adaptation by Stephen Butchard, the direction by Julian Farino and enviable performances by Cumberbatch, Macdonald and Moore, especially, is about the nature of childhood itself, about how it becomes subsumed in the quotidian routines of adulthood.

Selecting common hand saws, shovels, axes, baking pans, and cake servers, quotidian objects that are assigned along gender lines of domestic work and construction work are painted with titillating scenes of women frolicking about in a lake, or simply posing in nature.

Usually depictions of atmospheric effects in nature, or the quotidian setting of the studio, their fulcrum rests on an actual physical rip in the photographic print.

Some landscape painters convey reality in compellingly quotidian detail, reflecting or critiquing the complex relationship between humans and nature; others construct neo-byzantine visions of the future that may thrill or terrify; some work intuitively to give form to the ephemeral, conveying that which can not be spoken; and many bend or break accepted rules of vision, reminding us that perception itself is both a privilege and a discipline.

Through scenes that are quotidian and mundane in nature, a non-linear story emerges.

Antonia Pérez, born in New York City, is a visual artist who mines the detritus of everyday life for evidence of the nature of contemporary quotidian culture and transforms her finds into sculpture, assemblage and works on paper.

Referencing in his work «things the mind already knows», his imagery may be quotidian in nature, featuring familiar objects such as ale cans or the American flag, but they bring with them a whole host of associations that the artist can then manipulate and play with.

In these works, found everyday objects have been stripped of their commercial or symbolic value, negating their utility and concealing their identity to capture the surprisingly enigmatic nature of the quotidian.

Combining installation, video and sculpture, her work focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas about the quotidian sublime.

By the late Tang dynasty, landscape painting often embodied the universal longing of cultivated men to escape their quotidian world to commune with nature.