Sentences with phrase «surrealism which»

Elvic Steele was an Essex - based artist, inspired by Cedric Morris and with an interest in botany and surrealism which infused her work.

It's delightfully weird with hints of surrealism which is what some might expect when a thoroughly Japanese development studio sets a game within a thoroughly American location.

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Leary is working with a fabulous cast, which is why he and co-creator Peter Tolan can dance so nimbly between realism and surrealism, drama and comedy.

«Cemetery Man» (1994) is a quirky blend of romance, lust, surrealism, horror, and black comedy which transcends the work of better - known Italian horror maestros like Dario Argento thanks to its grotesquely humorous bent.

Wes Anderson's trademark ironic eccentricity and Roald Dahl's vaguely menacing but entirely lighthearted surrealism combine to form Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's first animated effort, which uses the same maddeningly traditional stop - motion techniques as Isle of Dogs.

The manner in which Connie knocks across Ray is genuinely hilarious and the increasing absurdity and surrealism of the night's events sometimes call to mind Scorsese's After Hours.

The illogic pays off through instances of idiot - savant surrealism, of which there are enough to make it hard to pick a favorite.

Both share a space with surrealism in the positioning of animals (artificial or deceased) in industrial spaces (London's Battersea Power Station is the iconic backdrop of the «Animals» cover) as mute commentary, perhaps, on man's destructive relationship with his environment — a read that jibes comfortably with the thrust of Children of Men, in which we're told that one day in the not - too - distant future, humans suddenly stop reproducing.

Behind «Holy Motors» — the strange, perverse and entertaining neo-noir film by Léos Carax — lies a near century of movie surrealism: of deliberately fantastic, illogical and sometimes pathological filmmaking in which the cineaste (whether it's Luis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau or Maya Deren or Carax) tries to dream on screen and carry us into the maddest of reveries.

His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».

A printable resource which has many examples of Photographers who use surrealism within their work in some way (either through theme, technique or idea)

In your education what was it (or which teachers) that encouraged you to place value on realism and surrealism?

While the works deal with surrealism, they also contain a «hugely sexual element», which Hirst describes as: «Pretty direct.

The rapid and breathtaking succession of avant - garde movements, which invented new ways of understanding space, are represented in groups of works devoted to dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism, surrealism and abstraction - création.

Vivianne Sassen counts surrealism as among her formative inspirations, and Hot Mirror has been immaculately timed to complement the second exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield which looks at Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain.

As he began creating metamorphic compositions — in which a particular image would be created out of thematically relevant forms (for example: clowns whose faces and bodies are comprised of circus figures)-- Tchelitchew's art became more closely associated with surrealism.

Mexican artists did not embrace surrealism in significant numbers, for which Breton never forgave them (or the country, for the assassination of Trotsky in August 1940).

Influenced by surrealism, the studies of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in which he applied paint.

A sense of familiarity and surrealism is all at once present in his work, which has, in most recent years received much praise from the art public.

The exhibition will particularly address the ways in which Lucas engages with the legacy of surrealism — from her clever transformations of everyday objects to her exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd.

«Expressionism and surrealism is always fake, art as something else is always fake,» Reinhardt wrote, but his abstract art is paradoxically and subliminally expressionistic and surrealistic, which doesn't make it fake.

Initially inspired by philosophy, Motherwell's commitment to painting was cemented following his move to New York in 1940, where he was influenced by the principles of surrealism and his friendship with Roberto Matta; among the highlights here is Mexican Window (1974) which references a trip Motherwell and Matta took to Mexico in 1941.

This will be a chance to consider Nash's iconic war paintings alongside his less famous experiments with abstraction and surrealism, from which he developed his distinctive yet elusive personal symbolism.

If these paintings, which generally tend to mash - up surrealism and humorous fantasy imagery, were considered «bad» in the 1970s, what would be considered «bad» today?»

The artists represented here worked in the tradition of surrealism and magic realism, which sought to convey unconscious yearnings.

In contrast with the artist's previous work, which addressed universal political concerns, this new series returns to the essence of the imagination, an exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by surrealism.

His friend Onslow Ford gave talks on surrealism at the New School of Social Research in which he commented extensively on Matta's works.

Simple motifs which are often rooted in surrealism, such as the umbrella or the bowler hat becomes a palm tree, or martini glass, or a woman's groin repeatedly feature in Frosts» paintings, drawings, prints and slide - shows.

There are the ones that establish you publicly as an artist respectful of art history and scholarship — in Brown's case, surrealism, appropriation, the mannerists — and then there are the ones you keep secret, which stained your imagination as a teenager staring at the covers of progressive rock records and science fiction paperbacks.

Which meant no Mondrian - like geometric tinkering, no nods to surrealism, and no compulsion to reinvestigate the human figure.

Returning to a well - trodden strategy of surrealism, displays that allude to conversations between objects and the systems which display and mediate them is a trait in a number of shows at the moment...

Alongside the paintings are small figurines, which Kvetny refers to as «fossils», excavated from her paintings as physical embodiments of the universe that she has created — a unique universe of contemporary surrealism for the Internet age.

In the mid-forties the artists of the New York School gradually stopped evoking classical myths (to which both surrealist artists and the existentialist writers made frequent recourse) and they looked beyond surrealism toward a subject matter of even more immediate and personal introspection.

The photographs in the «Érotique voile» series (1934), in which Man Ray posed his model, are now among the most outstanding works of surrealism in the Parisian circles of which Oppenheim was highly acknowledged.

In the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) Breton defined surrealism as «pure psychic automatism by which one intends to express verbally, in writing or by other method, the real functioning of the mind.»

This new mix of surrealism and exploration of personal feelings in an emotional language closer to music — which is inherently abstract — broke free from the centuries of figuration that preceded it.

She founded three of the most important avant - garde galleries of the 20th century: Guggenheim Jeune, in London's Cork Street, which brought surrealism to London before the second world war; Art of This Century, which opened in New York in 1942 after Peggy's return to the US; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice - which still houses her personal collection in the palazzo where she ended her life.

Those who have followed Graves» career are likely familiar with her more abstract work, which incorporates brightly colored oil paint on white backgrounds, and straddles the line between surrealism and abstract expressionism.

His work took on a singular style, which defies categorization but shows the influences of the dominant movements of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and surrealism, as well as the dominant movements of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.

But it was Andrea Grützner who shone with her series «Hive», which addressed notions of surrealism and a sinister side to architecture.

Santore also includes moments of transcription, which add a touch of surrealism to the otherwise purely perceptual works, as figures from Goya and Giotto appear in the skies.

The Columbian - born South American artist Fernando Botero is noted for his large - scale contemporary art - a unique blend of surrealism and figurative art comprising obese depictions of both humans and animals, some of which have been repeated as sculpture.

Each of these artists combined the predominant avant - garde influences of cubism and surrealism (imported to New York by European exiles from World War II) as well as the writings of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Jean - Paul Sartre with their own personal concerns to create the distinctive works for which they are best known.