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Just as 19th century American Realists shunned romanticized views of their world, the artists included in this exhibition have abandoned conventional ideals of scenic beauty to depict, in detail, unremarkable scenes of the rural landscape as they encounter it or AS IS.

Portraits of domesticated animals and their humans from the series «On the Sixth Day» document the ordinary labor of a small working farm — raising, caring, naming, killing — while excerpts from «The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams» capture ten years of play, improvisation, boredom, and friendship between two cousins, with the farm and rural landscape as stage.

Not exact matches

It's a mixture of urban and rural landscapes, as well as close up shots of objects and growing things.

Produced by Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, & Nick Offerman and directed by Laura Dunn (The Unforeseen), this documentary is «a beautiful and poignant portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the eye of American novelist, poet, and activist, Wendell Berry».

The Quest offers a very smooth and relaxing ride in the city as well as rural landscapes.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate study of character and landscape.

Even though it ends in violence, Days of Heaven plays out not as a rural thriller but as a delicate landscape and character study.

The only personal touch would seem to be Green's goofy sanctimoniousness and lyrical feel for derelict rural landscapes, although it's a bit uncanny that his first movie, the 2000 indie production George Washington, would have as its hero a silent, self - contained black kid with a justified sense of destiny, nicknamed for the first president of the United States and thus a corrective of sorts for Rufus Jones.

Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) is popularly credited with beginning the trend and establishing many of the recurrent features of the genre, such as its basis in literature, its pictorial treatment of the rural landscape and its thematic emphasis on institutions and education, and how they are often inimical to personal individuality and positive self - identity (see, in particular, the female experience as charted in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career [1979] or Bruce Beresford's The Getting of Wisdom [1977]-RRB-.

While the best horror films have mined anonymous rural landscapes for maximum disturbing impact for over four decades now, including greats such as The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and, to a lesser extent, Nightmare Circus (1974), Downrange places its carefree young ones in a vast open space facing unknown terror but the stakes never feel like much beyond an exercise in style.

Inspired by the landscape of rural Nigeria, Post Imperial «s collections draw on a similar color palette as the beautiful vibrant Afro - futuristic Wakanda.

Local rural and urban communities, small enough for all members to take part in face - to - face decision - making, as the fundamental unit of governance, linked with each other at bioregional, ecoregional and cultural levels into landscape / seascape institutions that are answerable to these basic units.

But to close followers of the education landscape, Anderson is equally as well known, and admired, for her success at improving achievement and closing achievement gaps for disadvantaged and marginalized students in rural, urban, and suburban public school districts.

City Government: Rooted in the rural landscape of east Pasco County, the community of Wesley Chapel has, in recent years, established itself as a desirable place to live, work, shop and play.

These magnificent rural landscapes are every bit as diverse and unforgettable as the historical, cultural and natural experiences you'll enjoy on an independent rail tour of Russia.

Rolling green hills and mountain peaks dominate the landscape on all sides, but as the train zig - zags its way down it also encounters the occasional rural village and open farmland.

By contrast, as your train leaves the bright lights and busy streets behind, rural China reveals a diversity of naturally beautiful landscapes ranging from traditional stepped rice - paddies to the soaring peaks of the Himalayas and to the untouched white - sand beaches of Hainan.

Known as the «White Island» due to a white clay landscape and its sea of whitewashed houses, it oozes rural charm and tranquillity.

From stunning coastlines and picturesque rural landscapes to bustling towns and cities, we've got much of England, Scotland and Wales covered as well as enchanting breaks to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Rail travel is the ideal way to do this as not only are there connections between major cities and towns, there are also incredibly scenic routes available through some of the most spectacular rural landscapes.

Enjoy the rural landscapes of Maharashtra as the train chugs towards the next destination.

As guests gently travel through Malaysia, passing rural landscapes, temples and ancient villages, they can spend time with the chef and get a personalised signed copy of his latest book «Salt Grill: Fine Dining for the Whole Family» after his clean and contemporary three - course dinner has been served.

However, as Hotaling points out, viewers can still feel human presence in his landscapes because agricultural farming has given character to even the remote fields of the rural Ohio that he paints.

Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how it will alter — the physical and social landscape of the country (in particular, the socioeconomic divide between urban and rural areas).

With a nod to horror movies, hippie counterculture, and the rural Southern landscape of his youth, Dorn's distinct landscape paintings are not as concerned with an idyllic representation of nature...» See full article here.

Inspired by urban surroundings of the big city, a landscape of his home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy, the artist transfused these motifs into the recognizable large black - and - white paintings which helped establishment of Gestural Abstraction as an important segment within Abstract Expressionism.

These shapes resonate with cultural history and personal memories of a childhood spent in the northern, urban environments of New York as well as the southern landscapes of rural North Carolina.

Other prints in the show depict factories invading the rural landscape, emitting black clouds of smoke as workers approach, dwarfed by the smokestacks.

He has painted a wide range of subject matter from the landscape of the rural west to the cityscape of Brooklyn, NY as well as the still life.

Krišs Salmanis» Long Day, 2012, a 35 mm film (sound by Steve Roden), appears to be a single shot of a rural landscape, speeded up as we observe a day from sunrise to sunset.

Youngsuk Suh's stunning photographs magnify the complex interdependency of our relationship with the natural world through contemporary rural landscapes using the smoke created by wildfires as a reference of the luminous effects of 19th Century Romantic landscape paintings.

In each of the exhibited works, rather than presenting the landscape — whether it be rural, urban, or natural — as a mere visual backdrop, the artist mobilizes and fully integrates this component into the activity of the piece.

A landscape painting trip to Cooper Union's Green Camp in rural New Jersey, brought him to the realization that he could pursue painting, rather than cartooning, as a career.

Opie is an artist of contemporary life, using urban and rural landscapes, as well as moving figures, to bring time - honoured artistic genres into the twenty - first century.

The selection of artists is suitably eclectic, ranging from the political and canonical (Bruce Nauman; Georg Baselitz), to the modish and predictable (Oscar Murillo), while also delving back in time to singular figures such as Aboriginal landscape painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye or that other great chronicler of the modern rural, Walker Evans.

The eighty works in the exhibition by artists such as Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, and Jean - François Millet, represent both a celebration of the pre-industrial conditions of rural life, labor and landscape, and an artistic primitivism of deliberately crude print - making techniques and styles.

Exploring how artists interpret urban and rural landscape through the lens of their own cultural, political or spiritual ideologies, the exhibition reveals the inherent tensions between landscape represented as a transcendental or spiritual place, and one rooted in social and political histories.

MOSTYN's location in North Wales, famous for its rural and mountain landscapes, functions as a fitting backdrop to the artefacts, myths and objects upon which Antufiev's work focuses.

It brings together a large body of photographic and video work focussing on Finnemore's continuing investigation of the private familial landscape of his garden in rural Wales, which he transforms «into poetic symbol as home, territory, burial ground, [and] paradise.»

Photographed against rural, desolate backdrops depleted of their mineral resources, this body of work represents a series of narratives, exploring her encounters with both the people and landscape of a region that serves as home for the more neglected of the country's population.

New York — Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth - century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) is best known as a painter.

Along with Kiefer's earliest book, The Heavens, the exhibition includes Cauterization of the Rural District of Buchen, 1975, seven books made from charred remnants of paintings, indicating Kiefer's longstanding interest in alchemy and his exploration into the possibility of metaphorically healing a wounded German landscape; and Twenty Years of Solitude, 1971 — 91, which uses unbound lead pages as a foundation for a series of white, semen - stained ledgers.

For example, a wide light box depicting a mirror image of a rural landscape with a spider web - like vulva as its center seduces the viewer into penetrating an imaginary world.

And as an adult living off and on in the countryside of France, as well as in the Hamptons, she also developed a great love for rural landscapes.

This is a neat, domesticated landscape as far from Caspar David Friedrich as one could imagine: a rural idyll on an industrial scale — and yet the very contrast forces the comparison with what we know of the wilder, more romantic aspects of German culture.

Other prints show factories invading the rural landscape, emitting black clouds of smoke as workers approach, dwarfed by the smokestacks.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

His works include a wide variety of waterscapes, seascapes, and rural landscapes, as well as townscapes such as his recent outstanding views of Venice.

Influenced by the textures, colors and landscapes of her Chicago milieu as well as the more rural environment of the small town in Nigeria where she was raised, Okore's new fiber and paper works explore the fluidity of life, finding beauty in the inevitable processes of aging and decay.

The selection of works depicts subjects as diverse as urban and rural landscapes, scenes of industry, still - life compositions, and portraiture, and is organized thematically, with visual connections trumping strict chronology.