Sentences with phrase «stark images of»

Intertwining remoteness and immediacy in his self - contained, almost stark images of the body would remain a constant throughout his career, regardless of the identity of the sitter or model.

This is an active space where alluring kinetics and a sumptuous materiality give way to stark images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack.

The idea for this exhibition sprang from Donald Judd's great interest in Dürer (Judd owned several woodcuts and etchings) and the wish to see the stark images of two such different artists, who lived five centuries apart, while simultaneously considering the motivation for one's interest in the other.

Climate change also threatens roads, pipelines, power lines and rail lines in ways that may not be quite as in - your - face as the stark images of homes washed away on a hurricane - eroded beach.

As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts — not to mention the film's stark images of drowning polar bears, crumbling ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.

Qualifying in Australia paints a stark image of Lewis Hamilton in a league of his own, but the chasing pack will be aware that his one lap advantage is much greater than any long run advantage.

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In stark contrast to the popular image of the constantly job - hunting Millennial, 85 % of Millennial front - line employees and 89 % of Millennial managers at the Best Workplaces said they intend to stay with their companies for a long time.

The NASA Earth Observatory has released an astonishing set of images that show the stark contrast between what islands in the Caribbean looked like before and after Hurricane Irma struck.

In the reading from Luke we confront stark and conflictual sayings of Jesus that sit poorly with contemporary images of God.

In the closing section, Tallis ponders the fate of the artist who would keep working and being true to his faith, predicting the time «When Beauty in itself will be destroyed, Its imaged world stark nature to the mind» and the soul «nothing but a light Phantasmal spray.»

A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.

I gasp at how our modern society has very stark images and opinions of what is normal or proper.

They have gone from seeing the world through shades of grey and blur to vivid images and stark colours.

The images of the burnt out building has brought into stark relief the terrible human cost of failing housing policy.

-- It takes the form of an installation representing a bleak room in a hospital, with the social and stark installation based on the power of surveillance (the monitor reminds the viewer of CCTV cameras in public spaces) and indoctrination (the patient cured by the image of the leader).

Here, the image shows the stark effects of hand trauma: no blood flows to the fourth finger, whereas small vessels are clearly visible in the other digits.

The Red Planet's icy polar region can be seen in the lower section of the image, shining in stark contrast to the surrounding landscape.

The image on the left shows a stark example of this: the woman in the top right ate a primitive, whole - food, high - fat diet while the other women ate more modernized diet that contained grains and agricultural foods.

The fact that the theater I saw it in just had the 16:9 image, with the edges of the projector gate very obvious in the middle of the larger screen without closing the curtains to frame it — assuming they even can — probably made it more stark.

Like Ex Machina, it's a study of ordinary people trying to make sense of an extraordinary situation, driven by thoughtful performances and stark, striking images.

There are images destined to be as indelible as the two suns of Tatooine — one comes with a silence so stark it sears into the mind, proof of how sound, and the lack of it, impacts cinema — and there are heroes and villains that will fuel the imagination of fans for years to come.

You never feel it's out of the control of the Coens, whose methodical deliberateness tracks every detail of the story, and Roger Deakins delivers simple and stark images, a desert that sometimes feels like it's lawless frontier.

The images of «Baran» are stark and not easily forgotten.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

But there's honestly no beating the stark, terrible image of those three billboards rising into the sky, red as sirens and radiating rage even before they're literally set ablaze.

Although the film is almost counterintuitively diffuse and earth - toned, eschewing the stark, poppy hues of a «Glee» or a High School Musical to deliver something that suggests high - end «Dawson's Creek», the image on this disc yields strong definition, exquisite shadow detail, and warm colours, however muted.

I involuntarily flinched, but still couldn't avert my eyes: it's an image of stark provocation yet savagely compelling.

Images in newspapers and on TV of angry teachers in the streets of Chicago and New York with placards demanding higher wages while their students are locked out of their schoolrooms for days stand in stark contrast to the well - dressed, soft - spoken teachers of our childhood.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

The stark white garage door is a kind of idyllic white - picket - fence that contrasts with the feeling of loneliness in the image that comes from the separation we feel between husband and wife.

With cantilevered perspectives and dark inky splotches speckling the corners, the spooky images of stark forests, gaping caves, bloodshot eyes, and ominous shadows are brilliantly married to the text printed in manic handwritten fonts, some crazed and swirling, others coldly deadpan.

For every stark and cruel social more, every image of a harsh and unforgiving land there is a one of peace and beauty, of hope and tenderness.

This is a haunting story, filled with the stark, striking images of Castle's memory: faceless teachers with whom he was unable to communicate; children who taunted him; the view from the open door of the attic, where he was often forced to stay as a child; and much more.

There is a touch of Hemingway in the story's structure, more of Cormac McCarthy as it turns a cold eye toward the violence, all laced with spare stark sentences shaping images from our history too often obscured by myth.

These manages to add a colorful image to the e-reader while most other e-reader continues to be stark white in their appearance or at most, of a single color.

The book opens with an upside - down image of a beautifully stark cliff in...

Words are minimal, and the images live in a stark white world slowly being encroached upon by smudges of shadow.

The colour, contrast, even fidelity and smoothness of the image is a very stark contrast for a game that was done up in what must have been less than a year or so.

This image is in stark contrast to most of those in Greek mythology, but things are usually bigger and badder in the Kratos - verse, so this is hardly any surprise.

The black and white spectacle of his stark compositions belies the uneasy and fraught allusions of appropriated images and forms reconstructed as vessels of oblivion.

Local art collector Adrienne Davis said Thomas» images of black women stand in stark contrast to those of Kelley Walker, a white male artist whose Sept. 2016 exhibition outraged many visitors.

The stark and startling images of their lives, poignantly opened to Goldin, remain as shocking today as they were when she first showed them.

At the end of the Cold War and the beginning of reunification, he created a series of paintings that feature stark, stenciled images of wooden turrets typical of the guard stations found in concentration camps or along the walls that separated east from west for so long.

«Working in a studio is actually a bit isolating; this is a chance to meet and interact with artists and art appreciators in my area,» said Scally, whose paintings include stark, wild landscapes emblazoned with vivid images of man - made things and people.

His stark and honest images followed urban society through depiction of the literal underground — in his Subway series — impoverished neighborhoods and subculture essays.

Moth's iconic images are featured on art gallery walls and trendy t - shirts alike, famed for their stark, smoky portrayals of landscapes and creatures, of both the human and non-human variety.

Ottersbach deconstructs and reassembles photographic images to create dramatic paintings composed of stark contrasting shapes.

Many of Snow's models are presented against a stark unending black background which draws attention to every curve of the body, drawing pose and content to the forefront of each image.

His works are stark and clear images which confront the medium of photography and consciously consider the way it can or can not tell stories, provoke reactions, and document contemporary realities.

At Lehmann Maupin, the menacing message of «you will always love me» in Another love story (2011 — 2015) is in a stark contrast to the Wanting to be with you (2015), in which the demure message is scrawled beneath an image of a female figure gazing at an enormous rock (Lehmann Maupin will also open a new show of Emin's work in New York on May 5).