Sentences with phrase «staid convention»

These founders were at the forefront of American Modernism especially in their openly expressed rejection of the staid conventions of traditional figurative art.

Touted as an early conceptualist along with the likes of Bruce Mclean and John Latham, challenging the staid conventions of sculpture — it was Michael Compton, while selecting works at the Hayward Gallery in 1969, who described the artist's work as something «paradoxically very cheap and yet unsaleable, a parable therefore of an ideal art».

Handler's faux naif style is in the tradition of 20th century artists such as Paul Klee, who reformed art's staid conventions of beauty by returning to supposed primal or elementary beginnings.

Not exact matches

The nominating convention was relatively staid.

Amiel makes an admirable stab at overcoming the staid, episodic conventions of the typical biopic, staging Darwin's mental and physical breakdown with startling moments of magical realism.

New York's Democrats and Republicans will descend upon two downstate venues Wednesday and Thursday, and thanks to former state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's sudden departure from the scene, these party conventions will prove anything but staid.

However, with an idiosyncratic, art - house cinema virtuoso at the helm, it is reasonable to expect that Vinterberg's aberration in directing Far From the Madding Crowd could transgress and alter the conventions of the traditional period drama by bringing a distinctive avant - garde style to a staid and stubborn genre.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

Part of the problem is that the rules of the online book world bear little resemblance to the conventions of the staid, gentlemanly publishing industry of the past.