Sentences with phrase «such banal»

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART March 6 - June 1 Curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin These days, biennials around the world come and go with such banal frequency that one is tempted...

Partly a reaction against the gestural excesses of Abstract Expressionism, the new movement hymned such banal American subjects as diners, house trailers, shops, and chrome - laden automobiles.

This artist is also known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the bombing of German cities in the Second World War, and for machined graphite sculptures of such banal objects as a water cooler or an air conditioner.

McBride's White Elephant sculpture suggests HVAC ductwork from an imaginary building, but is crafted in copper, a material too precious to be used for such a banal industrial application.

Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity.

Given the fact that Hilary Duff is a performer who appears to be very cognizant of her career (as she made a smooth transition from a TV show to a singing career to movies), one would have to wonder why she would be involved in such a banal film.

It's just such a shame it's wrapped up in such a banal story.

No viewer will be offended by Moms» Night Out, but they should feel insulted by such banal gags as a broken car stereo blaring a kids» CD and a police stop plagued by miscommunication.

Such a banal cue isn't inherently problematic, but Schirman's deployment of it, as well as the use of a slew of static - y, white - noise cuts, intimates a filmmaker content to employ post-production effects without locating them within the diegesis itself.

Correct Cunty — what a brilliantly appropriate name for someone who makes such a banal comment by the way.

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

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That this was done in the most banal way — such as asking black people to name the 67 high court judges in the state before allowing them to register to vote — makes it all the more shameful.

It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

Such calculation is all done in a cold corporate office environment with each window, glassy surface, and video screen reflecting the banal, if ruthless, maneuvers of well educated women.

It is natural and appropriate to be scandalized that such claims should be made of just these all - too - well - known groups, faithless to their self - descriptions, thoroughly assimilated to the value system of the larger culture in which they live, complacent and at ease, often trivial and banal, subtly using the rhetoric of the faith to sanction their privileges and to obscure society's injustices.

It's hard to understand how something so banal, even, stirs up such heated debate... That said, I wonder how many of the people insisting that women leave the room, or even cover up completely, would think it's ok to ask women on the street to cover up?

Rather people laughed at banal phrases such as «I'll see you guys later!»

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and company have mastered their banal stretch - the - tale - out template to such a degree that it's guaranteed few will question why the previously elusive Infinity Stones — which have been teased in just about every prior movie installment, as well as in some of Marvel's TV offshoots — are collected with ridiculous ease by purple people - squashing supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin).

Banal background that leads inexorably to a repetitive gameplay, combined with the simplification or the absence of some key aspects of this genre of games, such as the growth of the Pokemon, makes Pokemon Rumble a disappointing WiiWare.

For such accomplished actors in the action and thriller genres, it's amazing how banal this action thriller is.

Even when featuing in some of the most banal of tv drama's, such as Consuming Passion, she herself never fails to deliver.

Such conclusions may look obvious, even banal, but in fact it was unprecedented for the federal education research agency to treat teachers, principals, and parents as key clients, rather than targeting its products at academics and policymakers.

Instead, she repeats reasonable but banal slogans such as, «When we give children the chance to succeed, they can» and «I do believe that schools and teachers can make a tremendous difference in the lives of [poor] kids who face these challenges every day.»

I always find myself asking, do we really have to go through the motions of pledging our commitment to banal slogans such as «put children first,» «every child has unique needs,» and «schools should be organized to serve children, not adults»?

As the narrator moves from married woman to the mother of six children, she struggles to find her identity even in the most banal things, such as the daily wash for example: There was a young woman from Moscow Who bought laundry detergent at Costco.

That we yearn for neat, book - sized solutions to the problem of being human is understandable, but strip away the packaging, and you'll find that the messages of such works are frequently banal.

In addition to excruciating voice - overs and a banal narrative, the mission design is such that any new objective requires trial and error to accomplish.

His earliest works implanted mystical totems such as the tooth fairy and Jesus Christ into banal interiors, summoning divine intervention that acquires humor from its proximity to reality.

In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.

They were asking basic questions: why an artist's actions must be in service to a physical thing; why poetry, music, and theater were such separate worlds; and why the studio and everything that happened in it (whether wild or banal) couldn't be fodder.

Bochner captures the darker side of language using sources as disparate as websites inciting hate - speech, books such as The Joys of Yiddish, or banal shop window signage, resulting in a rhythmic flow of speech not unlike hip - hop.

Creed has become particularly renowned for his aggressive deployment of a range of seemingly banal materials such as a blob of blu - tak stuck in the center of a wall, sheets of letter paper that are filled in with highlighter or ballpoint pen, collections of an enormous variety of balls, stacks of lumber, or neon spelling out simple words or phrases such as «Things», «Feelings» or «Everything is going to be alright».

Having garnered an international reputation as one of the leading artists to emerge from the New York Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons has thoughtfully and methodically moved through her various photographic series, such as Early Black and White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and other banal props; and Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a series of black - and - white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human legs.

In his paintings, the banal is reduced to geometric segments where he then abandons references to the tangible world in favor of a visual experience that is more akin to digital imagery — such as a painting of Palermo as seen through Google Street View.

Such cuttings, representing topics both historical and banal — politics, natural disaster, celebrity, space exploration, sports — place Kawara's work in a context of current events, although any logic of selection is difficult to discern.

Although the work created by the Castelli circle — a group that included figures such as Richard Serra (b. 1938), Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), and Robert Morris (b. 1931)-- varied widely, all of those artists shared an interest in process, impermanence, variability, and the subversive potential of banal or industrial materials.

Many of her portraits are drawn from her own photographs and media images, such as «Evil is Banal» (1984) and «Martha — Sigmund's Wife» (1984).

[8] Tuymans» subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal: wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects.

Even more astonishing was to see that such sophisticated patterns of design and color were made out of the most banal of materials: plastic — or, more specifically, polyester resin.

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

The Austrian sculptor would likely approve of such unexpected usage of his work, invested as he is in using the banal forms of everyday life to ask comical yet probing philosophical questions.

Rachel Howard asks us to consider how memory can fix on banal imagery as a reference point for a dramatic or traumatic occurrences such as war.

Working with seductive commercial materials such as the high chromium stainless steel of his «Balloon Dog» sculptures or his vinyl «Inflatables», shifts of scale, and an elaborate studio system involving many technicians, Koons turns banal objects into high art icons.

sculpture has assumed a central position in contemporary art and has followed the patterns of the various postmodern art movements, for example, the three - dimensional pop icons of Claes Oldenburg, Koons's purposely banal, often erotic figures, and the minimalist constructions of such artists as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris.

The artist often photographs banal items of the mundane such as packages of goods, processed foods, cookware, and household items.

Takahiro Iwasaki (b. Hiroshima, 1975) transforms everyday banal materials such as toothbrushes, towels, bookmarks, and duct tapes into steel towers, cranes, and delicate nature landscapes.

Bound by the most banal relationship to music and by an attempt to avoid all interpretation, elaboration or creativity as such, the performers anticipate the music in order to do the sounds.

Even if Prince privileges the banal, such as car hoods, he nevertheless succeeds in placing them in a state of suspension that is equally anchored in the trivial and the auratic.

Objects can be glimpses into or our inner emotional lives or, in the case of exalted objects such as talismans or heirlooms, inspire magical thinking that is an escape from the banal and gives us a sense of control.

Similar to crimes of passion, these makeshift weapons are banal objects, such as a hammer, bat or skillet.