Sentences with phrase «something uncanny»

There's something uncanny about walking into a corner of the past and finding it almost indistinguishable from the present.

The nude body, and its potential to morph into something uncanny or grotesque, is a continual subject of Yamashita Kikuji's phantasmagorical paintings.

A combination of sculpture, painting, printmaking, video and installation bringing about various overlapping conversations and exploring the way we interpret cultural, religious and personal narrative in a way that gives the viewer a glimpse into something uncanny.

There was something uncanny about the timing of «Barbara Kruger,» which opened at the National Gallery of Art this past September.

To get into the topic at hand — his big survey show at the New Museum, «Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work,» through April 9 — you have to go sideways, since this artist always has something uncanny in his peripheral vision.

There's no denying that there's something uncanny about the stuff's rubbery smoothness, and for plenty of people, the irregularity of normal cheese is one of its most delectable and charming qualities; aging, a bacteria - driven process that cheese food bypasses entirely, results in an incredible array of textures, flavors, and scents.

There's something uncanny about a lawsuit in which Woody Allen pillories the defendant as «sleazy» and «infantile,» prompting said defendant to argue «that it can't have damaged his reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined....

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He had an uncanny sixth sense about what consumers wanted, an unmatched ability to adapt existing technology and turn it into something new, and a commitment to quality that turned ordinary Apple customers into fans for life.

Popsicles have the uncanny ability to turn even an excruciating (ly hot) day into something delicious.

It's something at least for Yids to be able to say, «We have a more annoying and opinionated fan than you...» Though Jamie is not a guy I'd want to be sat next to at the Lane every other weekend, I have to admire his enthusiasm and his uncanny ability to get «right up» the noses of Arsenal fans.

If he continues the procedure for about 20 or 30 seconds, something quite spooky will happen: you will have an uncanny feeling that you are actually being stroked on the fake hand.

The study «pushes forward work on the uncanny valley» by showing that «it's not simply how [something] moves and how it looks, but also what you think it represents,» says Jonathan Gratch, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who was not involved with the work.

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

Though she's received plenty of well - deserved accolades for her work on «Mad Men» and «Top Of The Lake,» she has an uncanny ability to elevate seemingly ordinary parts into something really special, and we hope to see her getting more roles like this in the future.

The story of a fragile community stranded in the desert by a fear - mongering charlatan could have been settled for facile political allegory, yet Reichardt is after something more uncanny and mysterious.

The film again features Lin Shaye (There's Something about Mary) as Elise Rainier, the gifted psychic with an uncanny ability to commune with the afterlife.

The result is something slightly uncanny, as initially shocking as the notably CGI aliens (a far cry from the hulking suit of the original film), but thrilling and hard - hitting all the same.

I feel like I should be more excited about Uncanny X-Men than I am; I love Chris Bachalo's art, and I liked Bendis» All - New X-Men more than expected, but something isn't clicking.

• And there is something strange going on with one of the other members of the UNCANNY X-MEN.

The editors «want something odd, adventurous, and with a hint of the uncanny.»

Regardless of their size, cats racing down the hall (often in mad pursuit of something that only they can see) have the uncanny ability to sound like a herd of rampaging elephants.

I have always known dogs have an uncanny ability to help people whether it be rescue, overcoming fears, or something as simple as companionship.

It's an absolute magnet for swell and has the uncanny ability to turn any ripple the Pacific Ocean throws at it into something overhead and rippable for all skill levels.

Final Fantasy VII burst onto the PS1 with graphics that amazed and a story that overwhelmed gamers everywhere, but in its earnest attempt at creating a connection to the player, something happened that allowed the genre to slowly spiral out of control into a never - ending battle against goofy dialogue, uncanny graphics, and an over-abundance of drama played up for the sake of drama.

I like the idea that has tried to be created here, I am someone who loves to see developers trying something a little different to what the masses are doing and if I was scoring Uncanny Valley solely on trying to be different then it would get an 8 straight away, but the problem here is that this alternative survival horror is a good idea that has been done badly and it has ended up being a broken, head scratching anti climax.

There is something... uncanny about this whole thing.

One problem with random levels has been that often the levels are broken or are not challenging, but the generator within this game is uncanny in knowing what to place and where to make something feel both impossible and completely doable with just the right move made by the player.

You're discouraged from circling, so you can't determine if they transform into something more abstract and uncanny — as I think the monkey - snake might, if seen on its own.

Bangsted's images have a sense of the uncanny; something isn't quite right.

His works manifest uncanny juxtapositions of the mundane and the phenomenal, evidence of something that can't be dreamed.

And while earlier portraits boasted an uncanny likeness to their subjects, Brooks» style has shifted into something that is simultaneously looser and richer.

Artist Charles Long comments, «My re-occurring interest in the uncanny over many years is in full effect here in the Pet Sounds project where something as familiar and literally grounding as a handrail morphs into an unnamable blob that has a very physical presence with some power to dialog with the viewer's own somatic sense.

It transported me to the space of the uncanny, and I thought, there's so many varieties of magic in painting, and this is something I want to explore.»

Da Corte skillfully manipulates the familiar to produce a sense of jamais vu, the uncanny feeling that something seen many times before is suddenly strange and unfamiliar.

In his essay, A Lawless Proposition, Paul Chan discusses the perpetual question of why (and how) art comes into being, and touches on a particular phenomenon that some artists engage in their work, at times against their will — when the process of making creates the work of art itself: «By following the contours of this internal reasoning, a work takes on an uncanny quality that comes from it being an outgrowth of the experience of something becoming aware of becoming itself.»

«The piece had an uncanny presence of being,» artist Jeff Wall remembers about the sculpture, «It's not something you see often.

Much like the other artists in the exhibition, Meckseper's incredibly considered selection and placement of objects has the effect of turning these common consumables into something strange and uncanny so that their values and hidden agendas are both revealed and undermined.

But by 1966, he had shifted his style, relying more on his photographs of cityscapes to create taut compositions of buildings and street scenes, transforming them into something quite uncanny.

In the first two knockout rooms of the Whitney's show, Haskell gives us O'Keeffe's early works on paper and her uncanny ability to conjure indivisible abstract wholes in which all parts are of equal interest and never decorative — something Donald Judd made good on decades later.

But Sammak also has a knack for finding the uncanny in the mundane and translating little bits of cultural detritus to something fun to look at.

In her work, Bunny Rogers threads together uncanny representations of cultural icons, revealing something intimate about herself in the process.

You know there's a time that it takes to make something and painting traditionally has to do with this kind of uncanny attempt at creating space out of a flat surface, but its's also an incredible pleasure that comes from it... I find it absolutely just human and essential - every time every time it happens.

From the closure of the market at Covent Garden and the last ever rag and bone man to the end of legal smoking in public places and the final days of Woolworths — O'Brien has an uncanny knack of photographing something before it's gone for good, never to be seen again.

Actual objects are something of a rarity for him, though he's recently been building sophisticated, uncanny fish tanks, and populating them with various kinds of underwater plants and sea creatures, such as a hermit crab that lives inside a model of Brancusi's 1910 sculpture Sleeping Muse.

In his influential essay «The «Uncanny» `, 1919, Freud saw there was a common thread to everything that arouses our sense of the uncanny: it «is that class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar&Uncanny» `, 1919, Freud saw there was a common thread to everything that arouses our sense of the uncanny: it «is that class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar&uncanny: it «is that class of terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar».

His skies take on a particularly uncanny sheen, rendered in this medium, when overcast they are like vast sheets of something leaden and seamless, when they are post-sunset skies they take on the glow of sheets of copper or zinc.

Focusing on a single captured moment in time — a group of people occupied by something and uncanny glass - like waters — it speaks to the history of photography and suspense.

In chapter two a quote from Mike Kelley suddenly appears, tells us something about the uncanny and vanishes.

Developing this idea, and combining it with Freud's concept of the fetish, Kelley concludes that an uncanny object is a substitute for something once feared or desired that has undergone repression, such as the Oedipal drama or the pagan practice of human sacrifice.

Traveled to Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome Twice Drawn, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2005 Heavenly or Slice of White, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York (catalogue) White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York (catalogue) 2004 Needful Things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool (catalogue) Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art (catalogue) Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue) 2003 Acts of Futility, Bellevue Art Museum, WA Skowhegan Faculty 2002 - 03, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME 2002 Something, Anything, (exhibition curator), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York AA Bronson Mirror Mirror, Bakalar Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Gardens of Violence, Swiss Expo 02, Murten - Morat, Switzerland 2001 Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (catalogue) Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Angst, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal.