Sentences with phrase «series of allusions»

The series Quint has in mind is the series of allusions in Milton's epic to the flight and fall of Icarus.

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all that we then have is a series of historical allusions in some of the events recorded in the gospel, especially in the passion narrative, with little or no teaching material involved.

It's an ensemble drama — more precisely, a series of linked monologues with point of view passed from character to character on a journey that begins with an allusion to a coming birth and ends under the pall of a tragic death.

The series is steeped in so much lowbrow video game arcana that you'd need a microfiche collection of Nintendo Power to catch all the allusions.

Educational psychologist Valerie Shute developed a popular series of computer modules in 1994 that used an allusion to the «Church Lady» from the popular Dana Carvey skit on NBC's Saturday Night Live television show to teach introductory statistics.

FFXIV includes a great deal of allusions to the previous FF titles (for some, they might feel like an homage to the series as a whole).

Players on the Skyrim forums have pulled out a series of strings hidden within a recent Skyrim patch that makes allusions to a crossbow, a snow elf prince and new vampire feeding animations.

The show's title, Warp and Weft is an allusion to the weaving, the ancient craft of making fabric by «interweaving» material into a series of right angles.

Like Jennifer Bartlett (MATRIX 73), who spent a soggy winter in the South of France, obsessively drawing and redrawing a garden scene in a multitude of modern art styles, Steir systematically explored line and color while making explicit allusions to admired artists in her intaglio prints, the Drawing Lesson series (1978).

But, by including a series of enigmatic, variously discernable words, including «WINE,» «CONCERNS,» and «weeps,» Twombly moves beyond the pure abstraction of the Abstract Expressionists to embrace the communicative possibilities of poetic allusion.

Wesselmann began this celebrated series in 1961, imbuing his depictions of the female Nude with symbols of American culture alongside art historical allusions to modern masters such as Picasso and Matisse.

Now, as part of CAM's Perspectives series, the Chicago - based artist displays a trio of installations dating from the last four years that expand on feminine / domestic notions to include allusions to sex and death, the organic and the electronic.

He called this work The Drain, and it is a piece emblematic of a «cinematographic» style that he developed across many series, which are overly allegorical, full of suggested narrative and allusions to both history painting and scenes from early modern painting.

In a new series of abstract paintings, Schoultz distills some of his familiar stylistic elements into a more formal language with subtler allusions.

On the first floor the series Bibliotecas presents photographies of book spines that are covered by images of forests and serve as an allusion to the memory of the preservable forest.

In the series entitled «Tramada,» meaning hatching, Silveira references the works» intricate sets of intersecting lines, an allusion to the history of Brazilian design and architecture.

After the «Cyborgs» (1997 — 2011) and «Anagrams» series, Lee Bul turned to making complex, model - like landscapes, whose reference to utopia lies mostly in their details: in allusions to or reproductions of utopian architectures, in concrete reference to the German architect Bruno Taut and his idea of star structures, or in pointing to postmodern ideas on the metanarrative («Mon grand récit» series, 2005 ---RRB-.

Also, Laura Owens» evocative figural painting and Franz West's expressive abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series of works that preserve the presence of the present with images of his own physicality.

Is there an allusion, perhaps, to the all - black abstract paintings of Ad Reinhardt or even the early abstractions of Malevich in the series of black rectangles to be seen in the painting called Barn Window with White Square (1991)?

By referencing specific sections of the Bible, their insistence as Jewish works goes beyond their use of typography — and as the series progressed I found that these paintings, with their opaque Hebrew texts, acquiesced, out of trust, to their allusions.