Sentences with phrase «tableaux for»

Jake and Dinos Chapman are also likely candidates for their concentration camp tableaux for the Apocalypse show at the Royal Academy, and Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Sarah Lucas - whose stuffed - underpants dummies having sex on Sigmund Freud's dining table was the highlight of many critics» year - may also be in the reckoning, although Lucas has turned down at least one nomination in the past.

Not exact matches

Raf Simons set up his own interpretation of a Flemish still - life painting — an opulent tableaux of fruits, red wine, loaves of bread and impressive flower arrangements — as the backdrop for his fall collection, titled «Youth in Motion.»

But it's doubtful that any of this matters much to Kapur, whose primary attention is sweeping overhead shots, massive CGI tableaux, and the distinctive warp and weave of Lizzy's wigs for all occasions.

Frances McDormand, who won the best actress award for playing a grieving, furious mother in Three Billboards, created one of the night's most memorable tableaux by asking all the female nominees in the Dolby theatre to stand up.

A series of set - ups without punchlines that compensate for the deficiency by featuring a truly impressive number of random de-pantsings, people caught in unlikely tableaux that are inevitably mistaken for some sort of sexual deviancy, and a stable of stock characters so locked into their exploitative roles that existential questions of predestination and choice tickle at making the picture interesting.

Find in that explanation for a wildfire metaphor that looms throughout the picture, coming to a head in a few surreal tableaux of Abel framed against a blood red sky.

There's room for nuance aplenty in Lincoln, and Tony Kushner's screenplay manages to draw ambiguity from a number of situations (the Lincolns» marriage, Mary Todd's sanity, Lincoln's political tactics, the toll of the War in its last days), but Spielberg steamrolls opportunities for resonance in favour of ossified gallery tableaux meant to buff a story already polished to a blinding sheen.

Forrest Gump also inserts a simpleton (or simpletons) into various historical tableaux without any demonstrable evidence of knowledge of or empathy for said tableaux.

Despite the repugnant malice he has to relay, McQueen gift for composing unforgettable tableaux shimmers through the horror of it all — the tender sun - soaked portrait of a young woman creating handmade dolls out of corn husks; the sick ritual of hanging being carried out with a casual slouch in the woods; the wind sifting through willow trees that dance in the breeze as they innocently drape shade over a plantation mansion.

She choreographs various exercises and drills for Galoup and his comrades to act out; some of these are normal workouts, but in a kind of hallucination or noonday mirage, they seem to become dance sequences and exotic tableaux.

Lubezki's win from the latter body was shared with War Horse's Janusz Kamiński, who, despite being dissed by the American Society of Cinematographers (they shrewdly gave his spot to Hoyte van Hoytema for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), will likely see his throwback tableaux and battles royal compete in the big race.

Roger Deakins's cinematography is a marvel, with a number of tableaux (note the final rape inside a projection booth, for instance) lit so subtly and skillfully that it doesn't seem as if there's any light at all but for some mysterious glow emanating from the sides of the actors» faces.

The picture's chiaroscuro tableaux brazenly paraphrase Edward Hopper, for instance, and lest there be any doubt about artistic intentionality, the two lost souls at the centre of this chamber piece arrange to meet at Nighthawks Diner.

Held in the camera for an uncomfortable length, one static tableaux is reminiscent of Bergman, although it lacks Bergman's sense of the mystical.

And when everyone decides to head for the desert - the otherworldly Joshua Tree - the parched tableaux evoke John Ford and Howard Hawks, too.

Tableaux vivants, curated by Valentine Robert for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

Veteran television director Salkow isn't very good, it's true, but DP Franco Delli Colli (Strip Nude For Your Killer), on one of his first films, provides beautiful, empty tableaux littered with car husks and burning pits fed with the corpses of the baddies Morgan stakes in the daytime.

While credit is due for the clarity of the battle scenes in and of themselves, Gods and Generals washes out as a stultifying tribute to the pathological meticulousness of (largely Southern) Civil War recreationists — glossing over the ideology and blood sacrifice in favour of a series of almost static tableaux.

Titles for primary in are Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010, PG), South African animated adventure Khumba (2013, U) and inventive computer - animated caper Wreck - It Ralph (2012, PG); related activities include watching and discussing a short film about bullying made by young people, mind - mapping and writing techniques to define what bullying is, creating a series of tableaux and planning a two - minute campaign to counter bullying.

The play runs for approximately 50 minutes, has a cast of 30 - 40 young actors and provides opportunities to include songs, mime, tableaux and actors in non-speaking roles.

AP style prescribes «tableaux» for the plural of «tableau,» for instance, but it doesn't make a ruling on «portmanteau.»

Best known for her «plastic portraits» of dolls and dollhouses, the photographer Laurie Simmons has been making psychologically probing tableaux since moving to New York as a young artist in the late 1970s.

Eve Sussman has been acclaimed for her lavishly produced video tableaux, and this month her crowning achievement, the breathtaking 2004 piece Rape of the Sabine Women, will form the centerpiece of a new show at Miami's Bass Museum of Art (April 12 — August 11).

For their first collaborative project, the Sausage Photographs, the pair constructed and photographed playful tableaux — including a car crash and a fashion show — featuring various kinds of sausage as the central figures.

She is best known for her room - size tableaux of black cut - paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions.

Concentrations 56: Stephen Lapthisophon — coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables, and «Selected Poems For his first U.S. museum show, the artist has created a series of tableaux incorporating anachronistic objects with more recent works on paper.

Barnett Newman relaxes with a cigarette in a chair before a few tableaux, contemporary artist Steve DeFrank considers his containers of Lite - Brites, and a sickly Matisse snips colored paper for the collages as he lies propped - up in bed.

Exhibited together for the first time, these extraordinary paintings and arrangements (or tableaux) of objects reference and echo each other, as combined reflections on landscape, heritage, religion, history, life, and death.

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

Burton, an advocate for making art personal and social, once said of the experience he desired for the seated audiences of his Behavior Tableaux works, ``... what I want people to become aware of is the emotional nature of the number of inches between them.»

Churches, porches, pine trees, lakes, and fields provide the setting for imaginary tableaux that bring to mind both the dream - like images of Sally Mann and the psychologically tense portraits of Diane Arbus.

This year's pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati's 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, not only for the main events, but for the many other surprises, some in unconventional venues like Tableaux Parisiens, an exhibition of art from and about Paris in an old church called The Do Right Hall, Patrick Keesey at the Marfa Country Clinic, Valerie Arber at the Thunderbird Lodge, and Charles Mary Kubricht at The Marfa Book Company.

Notable exhibitions include his large - scale overlapping line drawings of nudes for his series Water Paintings shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale, and his 2006 solo show Cave Paintings at White Cube, which featured marble tableaux of collaged stones set together like tectonic plates.

The ceramic work serves as a repository for an elaborate sculptural tableaux whose assembled detritus creates a string of hieroglyphs, a kind of archaeological anagram: encrypted sequences present short bursts of personality and internal logic.

For more than a century, photographers have dealt with the spaces of their studios in strikingly diverse and inventive ways: from using composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to putting their subjects against neutral backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to chemical procedures conducted within the darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton) to playful, amateurish experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss).

Painting walls, floor and most of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage black - and - white photographs of actors and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each of her works.

Wilkes was nominated for the Turner prize in 2008, exhibiting a tableaux featuring two supermarket checkouts, glass bowls, jam jars, burnt wood, hair and leftover food.

For his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site - specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of aFor his debut at Blaffer Art Museum, the artist's first solo museum exhibition, Coolquitt will recombine 60 discrete sculptures and tableaux made between 2006 and 2011 into a site - specific installation which, in its singularity and temporariness, reflects on the condition of the gallery space as a codified place of encounter for people and works of afor people and works of art.

Taylor McKimens has been known for years as a painter of «American Life», making large and narrative paintings that feature rural tableaux, economically marginalized people, overlooked and often beautiful details of the natural world and cultural debris.

The upbeat optimistic colors defy the underlying tension, as organisms appear to vie for survival in tableaux with underpinnings in the natural selection process.

With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.

Given the immersive scale of Patton's tableaux, viewers participate as mourners, both for those who have died and for our own movement toward death.

Folkert de Jong is best known for his theatrical, narrative tableaux that address themes of war, greed and power.

A selection of works from the past two years goes on view in Zurich, including the first photograph from her 1995 four - part Five Revolutionary Seconds, in which interiors shot with a 360 - degree panoramic lens serve as the backdrop for tableaux fraught with psychological and sexual tension.

David Levinthal, a central figure in the history of American postmodern photography, has staged uncanny tableaux using toys and miniature dioramas for nearly 40 years.

First getting attention for his ballet - informed performances, he won plaudits when he transformed Elizabeth Dee Gallery into a photo studio in 2011, where he invited visitors off the street to pose in a variety of colorful, costume - enhanced tableaux, and then further bowled over the critics with his 2013 Performa commission «MEEM: A Ballet for the Internet,» a dance performance translating the visuality of the Internet into three dimensions that McNamara restaged during the last Art Basel Miami Beach.

With these works — razor - sharp depictions of abstract, brushily painted, sculptural tableaux, for the most part — not only does one struggle to identify the medium, but the compositions traffic in shadowy illusion and spatial ambiguity, making it hard at times to know exactly what is being portrayed.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

Turbeville is known for her iconoclastic fashion photographs, elaborate tableaux that depict brooding, introspective models wearing haute - couture clothing and posed in barren, desolate settings.

The title of these two works is Orgon Doors and — while signalling a relationship to the work of Edward Kienholz, an American artist famous for his «70s Concept Tableaux Series — Cornaro's sculptures also bring to mind a geographical site in the South of France, Orgon, a village on the shores of the Rhône known for its Templar ruin.