Sentences with phrase «tension between the subject»

The tension between subject and content, the way the one reveals and conceals the other, is played out in the «Women» paintings (Woman as Landscape, 1965 - 66, pictured); the subject appears to be a woman composed of gestural brush marks, the content is ineffable and elusive.

Stark takes to the grid through obsessive codes of repetition and patterning to create an optical tension between the subject matter and materials.

The tension between the subject matter and the abstract element should be so tight that neither side wins the battle.

Not exact matches

The International Monetary Fund lit the touch paper this week on a subject that has inflamed tensions between Greece and its international lenders: debt relief.

That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.

The Synoptic Jesus» focus on the urgency of human readiness to receive God's promised basileia on earth is a subject of much scholarly debate regarding the tension between the signs of its arrival — the blind see, the crippled walk, as proleptic manifestations of Jesus» mediation of God's rule here and now — and the promise of a fullness of that reign yet to be consummated.

It is also glaringly obvious that — to put it mildly — there is a tension between the pope's words on subjects such as the death penalty, and the doctrine of the Church.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church warns that lust always threatens sexual love, also the love between husband and wife: «the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination» (no. 400).

Medieval Christendom was subject to a dualistic tension between the secular and the religious, the temporal and the eternal, which made itself evident at many points.

Tensions over the Christmas round of bank bonuses were to be the subject of today's planned talks between the chancellor, business secretary and the heads of Britain's biggest banks.

And it's this tension between north and south, left and right, Lowry's working class subjects and the lofty reflections of London's art world that has unfortunately come to define the opening of this exhibition.

Once T'Challa's true challenge is revealed, «Black Panther» becomes something deeper than the mere formation of one superhero, engaging such subjects as: the legacy of colonialism; collective memory and interior geography; the tension between autonomy and social conscience; and the need for solidarity within an African diaspora at political and cultural odds with itself.

Even though Petit's walk is a matter of historical fact — and the subject of an amazing documentary — Zemeckis makes his audience feel the weight of what Petit did so well that our hearts flutter with terror and we lean forward in our seats (maybe some of us even watch from between our barely parted fingers)-- the tension heightened even more by the knowledge that the building would soon be completed and any such attempt would become impossible.

Working from The Room star Greg Sestero's memoir of the same name (portrayed in the film by Franco's brother Dave, lending an added dimension of weirdness to the muted homoerotic tension between their characters), Franco has erected a monument to the lunatic business of filmmaking that never once condescends to its subjects.

s brother Dave, lending an added dimension of weirdness to the muted homoerotic tension between their characters), Franco has erected a monument to the lunatic business of filmmaking that never once condescends to its subjects.

I would like to characterize this period as a time when the tension between being the subject of politics and objects of anthropology (cultural other) was experienced most intensely in the history of Turkey's squatter neighborhoods.

The 2005 legislative session was relatively quiet on the subject of K - 12 education, despite tension over changes to the state's school accountability system between Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, and the Colorado legislature, which was controlled for the first time in 40 years by Democrats

In the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - tones.

The flat plane of the field, with its painted boundaries can be seen as a metaphor for the canvas — and in this way the painting becomes self - reflexive and the act of painting itself the true subject of the work, thus demonstrating a clear tension between the image and its reference point.

It explores the idea of pregnancy as an extreme form of selfhood, examining the tension between the expectant body as a subject and an object.

Greenberg took all that in stride, as part of the essential «tension» between subject matter and the two dimensions of painting, but Pollock and de Kooning both did their best to make the tension difficult to sustain.

Worth is preoccupied with the tensions between painting and photography, and feature symbolically charged subject matter such as hands, apples, shadows, and cameras.

Part of the phenomena of Moran's work is that it sends us on a daunting search and often there is a deliberate tension between the work's materiality and its subject.

Stark yet colorful works that fall somewhere between painting and sculpture, NYC - based artist Eli Ping's practice is a study of unexpected tension in form, subject and tone.

Tensions between the scale of the work and the apparent intimacy of the scene depicted heighten already complex narratives about connection, perception and representation that, implicit in the relationship between artist and subject, are extended to the viewer as a series of propositions and provocations.

Ranging from seemingly benevolent partnerships to those that appear to exploit their subjects, many of the works in the exhibition animate the tensions between exhibitionism and voyeurism, and raise challenging ethical questions around issues of authorship, power, and control.

Because she paints on industrial supports, aluminum panels or layers of plexiglas often bolted to the wall, Enteles» works contain an inherent tension between the organic subject matter depicted and the materials with which they are constructed.

A feminist as well as a committed artist, Lassnig also tackled darker subjects such as warrior children, the end of life in hospitals and gender equality, maintaining a tension between tragedy and humour.

Confronted with the tumultuous 2016 presidential election, Furnas began probing at a subject that has itself been built on the tension between the real and perceived: American identity.

Ling's paintings of East London streets, for example, are painted en plein air, but on a bright orange ground that shows through gaps in the paint, producing an unsettling tension between the familiar subject matter and what lies beneath.

Pretzer's surrealistic works always had a tension between narrative subject matter and formal compositional concerns.

By working in the medium of marquetry, typically associated with wealth and power, to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.

There is tension between Reidel's resplendent materials and foreboding subject matter.

The accompanying soundtrack further underscores the complex tensions and distortions that the artist establishes between reality and artificiality, subject and object, meaning and sense.

Tensions between color and history, perception and materiality, picture and painting, are the subject of the series that Yishai Jusidman devotes to an extremely thorny problem: How may we, how should we visualize the Holocaust?

Real or not, the episode points to a tension between conflicting values... In his solitude... Moroni seems to teeter on the brink of a modern age that increasingly prized the individual both as subject and maker.

It can be subtle or brash, creating tension between artist, subject, and viewer.

It's an unfashionable subject; we all have war fatigue — and there is a tension here between the self - soothing, meditative process of making the cranes and the fact of a mounting death toll, which speaks to the personal impulse of the artist to do something — however futile the gesture — in response.

It is a tradition of anxiety in which the tension and distance between the self and the other «I» defines the modern subject.

The work's incongruous accompanying soundtrack further underscores the complex tensions and distortions that the artist establishes between reality and artificiality, subject and object, meaning and sense.

He creates tension between presence and absence, emphasizing the dichotomy through his choice of disembodied subjects.

Typically her images rely on a tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a darker, sometimes disturbing subtext.

Ben Charles Weiner's respective depictions of these subjects - both in isolation and together in tableaux — pair a motif from classical Western painting with a synthetic beauty product — to address tension between the rapid technological innovation of our time and the persistent fact of our mortality.

Her works draw their strength from the tension between the human subject and the artistic object, the dancer as a performer and as a physical entity.

The opposing aspects of certainty and uncertainty are expressed in Howard's paintings through a tension that she creates between the subject matter and the physicality of her process.

The paintings of this series depict a continuous tension between two role players, leaving the viewer unsure if the subjects are expressing feelings of pain and / or joy.

Opie's portraits explore the tension between general and specific reality, transforming individual subjects into universal signs, interrogating the genre of portraiture itself.

At the same time, rather than «muscl [ing] painting back into three dimensions» while underscoring it as a purely visual experience, where forms such as Held's geometries could deny gravity, Plimack - Mangold made paintings that alluded to the viewer's presence, as well as recognized the tension between the painting's surface and the subject's depth.

«The erotic creates a tension between the artist, the subject, and the viewer,» she adds, as perhaps only a Frenchwoman could.

During the 1960s, Kelly played with color and form to tease out and celebrate the tension between a painting's subject and its background.