Sentences with phrase «symbolic objects like»

Those dumb one - eyed potato - heads and hooded Ku Klux Klan figures are both self - portraits of sorts; tragicomic figures in a schematic universe filled with symbolic objects like any Renaissance painting.

Not exact matches

The Light Between Oceans paints Tom and Isabel's romance in elliptical glances — a seductive strategy, but also one that leaves them feeling less like fully fleshed human beings than objects as symbolic as that lighthouse, the broken piano in their seaside home, or a metal rattle that becomes integral to the plot.

Her use of minimal shapes, like the sphere, is often tampered with by a playful take, replacing soul-less, symbolic objects with pop - infused, less alien ones.

Consistent with his past work, Haggerty maintains in these paintings a focus on the dynamic gesture of line that embodies not actual objects, but rather, actions or occurrences, like letters or other symbolic abstractions.