Sentences with phrase «symbolic imagery»

There's the occasional piece of symbolic imagery, but mostly this is a very straightforward story told through a very visual style.

A series of vessels are painted entirely, inside and out, with symbolic imagery of figures reacting physically to the emotional angst that accompanies failed relationships.

The artist usually relied on symbolic imagery to get the message across to the viewers, utilizing this type of communicating through carefully established motifs much rather than standard representation.

His poetic works often employ recurring symbolic imagery, such as birds and flowers.

Most works are often issue - charged environments, employing symbolic imagery that works in harmony to engage our innate concern for humanity's well - being.

Often, it's a useful technique to render an abstract idea into symbolic imagery to give it punch or make it easily understood and memorable.

The sculptures and installations illustrate these intimate moments through symbolic imagery that is figurative in nature, but often expresses the human subject through absence.

Powerful, culturally symbolic imagery which is recurring in Erizku's oeuvre, such as the Black Panther, the bust of Nefertiti, and Erizku's iconic hand and rose are combined with potent phrases in Chinese characters such as «Black Panther», «Black Power» and «Black Love», respectively.

Dadaism, Surrealism and Pop Art have all incorporated toys in some manner or another, either as symbolic imagery or physical form.

In each video the disparate and highly symbolic imagery hover and rotate over a black background, creating a hypnotic effect and beckoning a contemplative study of the artist's fastidious working method.

Parillo's narrative paintings cluster symbolic imagery that reference archetypal stories of success and pitfalls.

The filmmaking is reminiscent of Bunuel, especially the upfront symbolic imagery, yet the style is distinctly playful, both camera work and acting.

Riffing on the motto, «blood, money, and oil,» 9.11.01 utilizes the pyramid from the U.S. dollar bill as its primary compositional element and incorporates a wide range of found symbolic imagery made from plaster molds and cast in acrylic paint to construct a collage.

The films lean toward the macabre and melodramatic, with narratives rooted in local symbolic imagery and traditional storytelling.

As a painter of eye - bogglingly intricate skeins of overlaid symbolic imagery pulled from pop culture, world religion, finance, and the occult, among other places, Taaffe displays a brand of virtuosity that would seem out of place amid the mosaics of Cordoba, or the pages of the Book of Hours.

In Griffa's observations, metaphorical and symbolic imagery exist as an overlay functioning on top of the canvas, superimposed rather than prevailing as integral to the material itself.

In her turn here, Coates synthesizes the modernist will to invent symbolic imagery (from an abstract self - consciousness) with the spiritual implications of a human encounter with a somatically resonant, organic environment.

The combined effect of vaguely symbolic imagery surrounded by associated hue climates lends the overall show a smoldering, hallucinogenic quality.

They also speak of history and culture through overlapping layers of seemingly worn or tattered paper, unraveling threads of ancient textiles, and scattered symbolic imagery juxtaposed with timeless pattern.

Early in his career Haro created statues with realistic imagery, eventually turning to predominantly symbolic imagery in his work.

Sabin's well - honed technique and use of symbolic imagery explores themes of fecundity and fragility as well as strength and protection and emulation of the sublime.

The exhibition seeks to demonstrate Scharf's unique vision that makes use of a visual language that includes organic and geometric forms, vibrant color and recurring symbolic imagery alluding to hidden narratives.

The three never - before - seen sculptures revisit the classic icons of Scharf's repertoire of symbolic imagery developed over thirty years.

Bleckner usually relies on recurring, highly symbolic imagery, such as doves and flowers, as well as glowing, blurred light effects [1].

The artists narrative paintings cluster symbolic imagery that reference archetypal stories of success and pitfalls.

Less consumed by behavioral details than many of his filmmaking compatriots, Mr. Rasoulof makes bold use of symbolic imagery - a satellite television is confiscated and tossed overboard - suggesting that utopias inevitably come at the price of isolation and authoritarianism.

These possibilities are addressed to our situation by becoming incarnate in our living religious traditions, which clothe abstract divine aims with the symbolic imagery which speaks to our concrete needs.

Sure, some of the special effects are a little dated when watched nowadays, and I personally can't help but feel that it tends to overdo things a little on the symbolic imagery front, but there's no denying that director William Friedkin has come up with an emphatically accomplished piece of work.

The camerawork here is top notch, as well as the symbolic imagery that is littered throughout the film.

The Unrated Version features Rings (an short film looking at the connection between The Ring and The Ring Two), Fear on Film: Special Effects (a behind - the - scenes peek at the special effects and the team that created them) and The Power of Symbols (an exploration of the symbolic imagery used in the move).

The Colonial Revival was national in its scope, but as a state rich in historic resources, Connecticut became inextricably linked with the movement, supplying both symbolic imagery and active adherents.

From the six - pointed star to eagles and lions, symbolic imagery can convey personal, cultural, and historic meaning.

Offerings in Zheng's Chinese Style Blessing series include the characters for «good luck,» «prosperity,» «longevity,» and «happiness» and, in the same spirit, the symbolic imagery of roosters, flowers, dragons, phoenixes, babies and Mao Zedong.

Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline Students deconstruct how artists use color, line, and symbolic imagery to convey meaning and impact the viewer.

Using the city and some of its most expressive components — both as subject matter and as prime materials — with the objective of examining the essence of contemporary urban societies, VHILS artistic practice has sought to dissect and juxtapose the symbolic imagery and visual tropes of the city with the identity of its citizens in order to form a reflection on how individuals are both shaped by and help shape their surrounding environment.

Woodman's practice is often discussed in terms of its surreal and symbolic imagery, but her work was grounded in a sophisticated understanding of form.

The actual paint or ink falling down the substrate and forming a recognizable subject (the waterfall) is, in itself, a combination of real and symbolic imagery.

Pink is instead presented to embody strength through bold and often confrontational aesthetics, whether through abstraction with aggressive textures and brushwork, or through conceptual, humorous, ironic, or subversive and symbolic imagery.

Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.

Her first solo show, Ontology at 36 (1981), however, marked a shift that would continue, toward experimentation with mixed materials, representational elements such as the figure, landscape or symbolic imagery, and more emphatic themes.

Marc Chagall is generally associated with colorful paintings full of symbolic imagery and themes.

Anne takes subjective experiences as a starting point for her work and often applies cliché and symbolic imagery of female figures.

Here, in her first solo exhibition at The Lodge Gallery, Falci continues to explore the development of insight and intuition through the arrangement of symbolic imagery.

Eventually, she made a decisive turn to more explicitly representational and symbolic imagery that was highly autobiographical and later, very spiritual.

Symbolic imagery of double profiles, bust - like heads, pointing hands, female breasts are pulled from distant and recent histories and reorganized as totems in McDermott's works to impart new meaning and further expand his unique visual language.

This exhibition will include not only the iconic color paintings of the 1950s and 1960s, but also works from the 1930s and 40s when Rothko employed more representational and symbolic imagery.