Sentences with phrase «recurring motif»

I would prefer more focused exhibitions devoted to an individual artist's work — or better yet, specific periods or recurring motifs in that artist's oeuvre.

It serves as a rich metaphor for the movie's recurring motif of working for feeling versus settling into it.

Despite the wide range of media and styles, the paintings share such characteristics as recurring motifs, bold design, bright color and the use of both imagery and text.

Along with works on paper, she makes sculptures, ceramics, and textiles, which often incorporate recurring motifs such as artifacts from classical and ancient cultures.

Through recurring motifs he attempts to take the experience of the individual and frame it as universal.

His choice of materials and recurring motifs like animal imagery reveal his connection with the natural world.

For these painters, the canvas is not so much an arena in which to act, but a stage upon which recurring motifs enter and exit.

Visual clues about the presence and role of the artist are scattered throughout the works, from self - portraits to recurring motifs of the artist's hands and eyes.

Invisibility, fear, abandonment, levels of despair and street survival are brought to light by recurring motifs such as a woman's hunched body, a cross, a cup, a cardboard sign and a stained glass window.

# 8 LEXICON Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg A recurring motif throughout the Marieluise Hessel Collection is art's ongoing and complex relationship with language: a century - long entanglement between word and image.

Introduced through his early drawings, they became recurring motifs, each attached with certain roles and characteristics.

Various recurring motifs from Kusaka's practice, including stripes, dots, squares, and grids, overlay the pots, stretching or compressing with the form.

Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon.

The paint drip is also found in a series of tapestries that he produced in the late 1980s, combined with numerous other recurring motifs and literal objects that he felt were signifiers of contemporary culture, such as puzzle pieces, mirrors, zippers and condoms.

But there are also recurring motifs across the series, which suggest the imposition of an alternative, if obscure, continuity or meaning.

Floral printed dresses got revamped with hand - embroidered details, which are one of the line - up's most recurring motifs (should we extrapolate a metaphorical meaning behind such a motif?).

Yet they ended up being a sort of recurring motif for the remainder of the book, even making their way into the ton, and I had a ton of fun «playing» with them.

In addition to the inclusion of recurring motifs within her compositions — such as the chevron, the chequerboard reversal and numerous, varying triangular and quadrangular forms — Herrera continues to introduce novel conjunctions of form and line while further exploring the role of color in her work.

In the process, it also consolidates Stiller's recurring motifs into a deeper, more melancholic version.

Using recurring motifs, she celebrates the female spirituality and African womanhood in a glorious fashion commonly found in contemporary African art.

These are familiar themes in the works of Robert Penn Warren who died on September 15, 1989 — these and the frequently recurring motif that «nothing is ever lost.»

Here then is a list of some of the major recurring motifs that have always haunted M. Night Shyamalan's work and continue to do so, and ensure he remains an interesting auteur — if not a good one.

The music was enjoyable, with one recurring motif playing through a lot of tracks and a lot of returning ones receiving more techno or industrial styled flair to highlight the game's theme.

But across this impressive diversity of styles, media, and techniques remain certain recurring motifs, including an interest in three - dimensionality, an emphasis on juxtaposition, the stylistic influence of jazz, a bright color palette, and the spiral, which he used as a symbol of constant growth.

The first plinth has a black and white recurring motif carved into its five visible surfaces.

His alchemy of materials and recurring motifs connect the viewer to literature, dance, couture, and mythology.

De La Hoz's highly graphical style utilises recurring motifs in his work such as television static and ancient Greek imagery in commentary of how the past affects the future.

Alongside that tragic American antihero, the Marlboro Man, the car has become one of the artist's central recurring motifs, subverting popular iconography with an air of both nostalgia and cynicism.

Recurring motifs ricochet around the entire gallery space, tying together the disparate forms and materials into a buzzing, dynamic whole.

Metamorphosis and hybridism emerge as recurring motifs in the exhibition, from the grotesque actors in the drawings of Schröder - Sonnenstern to Enrico David's amorphous bodies.

Combining Old Master technique and postmodern humor, Cooke creates menacing environments populated by recurring motifs like pumpkins, graffiti, trees, and Kafka-esque characters.

Created with a new conceptual focus on recurring motifs, this body of work further develops Kirkeby's fascination with the intersection of abstraction and the natural world.

It features two recurring motifs from Dalí's oeuvre: a window looking in on an interior space and a protruding pole.

The artist's paintings inspired by Francis Bacon, created from 2012 through 2016, are dense compositions with recurring motifs, such as eyes and mushrooms, accentuated by multiple layers of color on platinum leaf.

When Laurent shows up at Pete's car garage, it's hard to deny the influence that found its way into Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, with its Hollywood Hills backdrop, blue - collar shop fronts and other recurring motifs.

Arranged thematically it will explore the evolution in his style across recurring motifs such as leisure, nature and architecture.

Through recurring motifs such as flat, featureless human bodies and slave ships, Evans investigates the legacy of colonialism addressing the themes of racial stereotyping, migration, diaspora and the transatlantic slave trade.

One of Ku's most recurring motifs is children, often girls, in combat.

Nail art and adornments for the fingers and hands, a significant and recurring motif for the artist, appear in many of Rolon's exhibitions and is celebrated in Nailed, a coffee - table volume that showcases outrageous, unique designs such as massively studded nails with clunky embellishments like pearls, gems, and money symbols, and entire hands covered in gold decorative shells.

In addition to the inclusion of recurring motifs within her compositions — such as the chevron, the chequerboard reversal and numerous, varying triangular and quadrangular forms — Herrera continues to introduce novel conjunctions of form and line while further innovating in terms of color.

Entry to the upper floors — which include rooms dedicated to vintage and modern renderings of the Gucci logo, items emblazoned with Gucci's recurring motifs (like the horsebit and the red - and - green stripes), and Gucci's exploration of the iconography of animals and gardens — costs 8 euros, with half of that donated to restoration projects around Florence.

The superscription reads: «a recurring motif in works commissioned by the wealthier patrons of Renaissance religious art,» while the Latin inscription on the window itself is «Dives Vincet,» or «Wealth Wins!»

In a tribute to Robert Penn Warren, the author traces some of the recurring motifs in the work of the late poet, novelist, critic and teacher.

Then again, lack of proof is kind of a recurring motif on the «belief blog».

Victory in the war recalled for church - going Americans one of the recurring motifs of American religion, the vision of «a Christian America.»

Even though not everything has gone right for the Orioles, they're still contending, and that's the recurring motif of their last few seasons.