Sentences with phrase «themes of mortality»

Paintings of Venice by Monet and Turner will be contrasted with boat sculptures and paintings by Twombly, revealing themes of mortality and mourning.

Instead, focus gravitates to art that engages with themes of mortality and identity; art that is concerned with the profound, the not - easily - understood or that which is not fully knowable.

Please RSVP to join us for the Opening Reception of a survey of works by British sculptor Michael Sandle, exploring the enduring themes of mortality, memorialisation, and remembrance.

Much of the work dealt with themes of mortality.

A loose selection of work from 1998 to now, the show, titled «Changing Subjects,» supposedly in reference to how the word «subject» can be a noun or a verb, will focus on the Berlin - based duo's interest in themes of mortality and sexuality.

Buckman presented a selection of four large - scale photographs from the series Present Life, which explores time and life's transient nature, investigating themes of mortality and examining the fleeting moment when something living begins to perish.

The eternal themes of mortality and faith, combined with the fascination with science, technology and consumption, have been in the center of...

«Using the precise detail of an engraver or a miniaturist, his depictions of worlds within worlds are embedded with themes of mortality, regeneration, and technological artifice,» the gallery continues.

She later explored themes of mortality and spirituality before her tragic death in 2016.

So rarely do films for kids explore themes of mortality and isolation with such delicacy and depth.

The result is a multipart variation on the theme of mortality that feels assured, centered, sagely alive.

Not exact matches

It might seem fitting, then, that the oratorio is bound together by a shared source material and a few shared themes (identified as «mortality, identity, the hunt»), but not by a shared understanding of Moby Dick as such.

The intersection between the nonprofit donor milk movement and this year's themes for World Breastfeeding Week, National Breastfeeding Month, and Black Breastfeeding Week centers around equity while clearly touching on other themes, such as ecology, economy, data collection, improving infant mortality rates in communities of color, and more.

Both touch on timeless mythic themes: destruction and redemption, death and resurrection, mortality and immortality, individual liberty and group unity, national sovereignty and global community, and, of course, scientists playing God and technology run amok.

With a strong Guy Pearce performance, and supporting characters that are surprisingly rounded given what little screen time they have, it's a good drama that hits upon themes of accepting one's mortality, living without fear of the inevitable, and treating those around you as if your existence on this plane were about to expire at any time.

of the same name, this relentlessly - witty film features some of the funniest repartee around as it simultaneously explores a laundry list of sobering themes ranging from religion and mortality to love and betrayal.

The pic follows a bittersweet bromance and centers on themes of friendship, mortality, and made - up sports.

Notionally, it's about an ageing Solid Snake coming to terms with his own mortality — an obvious cipher for what Kojima (falsely) claimed was his last MGS game — and a vainglorious attempt to tie up the series» themes of information control, genetic legacy and the relativity of virtue (plus Jonny Sasaki's irritable bowels).

«The Royal Tenenbaums» (2001)-- In some ways, Anderson's «Fantastic Mr. Fox» plays like a lighthearted re-visitation of many of the issues and themes broached in his familial magnum opus: from a deceitful, thrill - seeking father concerned about his mortality and legacy, to children living in the shadows of their relatives and each other and dealing with the jealousy and turmoil that results.

Themes of retirement and aging might seem an odd fit for a children's film — and they are — but there's something uniquely universal therein, allowing screenwriters Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich to tell a classically Disney tale of mortality without getting into the guts of what it means to get old and die.

As a director, Braff touches on lots of Big Themes: mortality, marriage, fatherhood, the disillusion of dreams.

In any event mortality and hedonism are two big themes here: 120 BPM is a portrait of young lives experienced in a blur of urgency.

The Casual Vacancy clearly echoes many of the themes of Harry Potter; as Rowling has put it in interviews this week, as a writer she's concerned with mortality and morality.

Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages.

His sense of humor plays lightly on themes of literature, mortality, and nostalgia, as if he were composing jazz riffs on an old banjo.

The theme of existential mortality of lives that continue is incredibly underdeveloped.

And he went from there a film director able to address themes of fame, artistic insight, and mortality.

That year marks a significant shift in the ways the artist conceived of his work: He moved toward a poetical and animistic approach, suggesting more universal themes such as spirituality and mortality.

During the 1980s and 1990s Johns introduced a variety of images that engaged with the ambiguities of perception and ongoing themes involving memory, sexuality, and the contemplation of mortality.

Rigidly comparing and contrasting works drawn from the broad period of the 1950s through to the 1990s, the show explores such shared themes as social and political power; the acceptance of cultural differences; mortality; and the tumultuous realities of celebrity.

She wishes to create links through her work to elements of human experience, particularly by engaging with emotional experience and familiar physical objects which are related to themes of nostalgia, hope, pleasure, despair and mortality.

Each artist distinctively addresses themes of vulnerability, bereavement and mortality.

A leading member of the YBA (Young British Artists) group that gained notoriety in the late 1990s through their use of provocative forms and diverse materials, Chris Ofili creates paintings and collages which tackle themes around sexual and racial stereotypes, love, gender, and mortality.

With recurring themes of life and mortality, Australian painter Erin Smith's exhibition at Amy Li Projects, The Right Place At The Right Time, marks the progress she's made as an artist since the last time she was shown by gallerist Amy Li, who says Smith has been focusing on creating backgrounds first, and then adding images on the foreground.

Toying with ideas of permanence and mortality in traditional sculpture, Peterson subverts these themes with subtle shifts in scale and distance, mirroring and twinning, comic interplay, and urban camouflage.

A departure from previous works, Snow uses the female nude to support his themes of magic and mortality.

That led us to think about certain themes that run through the selection of works in the show including image and identity, patronage, mortality and celebrity.

Julie Tremblay's recent work pushes her investigation of the human form, which becomes a metaphor exploring existential themes of order and chaos, mortality and the universality of the human condition.

The 1970s were marked by «crosshatchings», an abstract pattern which dominated the paintings, while it was the variety of images that engaged with the ambiguities of perception and themes of memory, sexuality and contemplation of mortality which were introduced in the 1980s.

Covering a variety of themes including intimacy, war, mortality, mourning, delusion, illusion and time, no area of subject matter has ever been off - limits, opening her mind to the public and exposing a ground - breaking and undeterred vision.

Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and photography, exploring themes of Feminism, mortality, and equality.

The exhibition takes Van Dyck's self - portrait as a starting point for examining the development of the genre across a series of themes, from celebrity and collecting to history and mortality.

Multi-disciplinary London - based artist Zoë Buckman explores themes of feminism, mortality and equality in her sculptural, photographic and installation work.

A pioneer of body art and a leading performance artist and activist, Franko B uses his body as a tool to explore the themes of the personal, political, poetic, resistance, suffering and the reminder of our own mortality and vulnerability.

In Black Magic at Serieuze Zaken Studioos in Amsterdam, New York - based photographer Max Snow continues to pursue themes that have become the central preoccupations of his photography: beauty, fantasy, mortality.

In this interview, Soto tells Vandalog about the emotional journey this past year has taken him on, including the death of two of his grandparents, and how these events provoked his consideration of mortality; which would become a central theme of this show.

Utilizing imagery of flowers, fauna, fruits, and plants, the works included invoke themes of utility and ornament, preservation and mortality, collection and the Archive, arrangement and display.

Against the Infinite marks the third solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery for the Portland, Oregon based artist, and as the gallery notes, the new work explores themes of «mortality and invention with imagery such as skulls, exposed ribcages, tools and weaponry including sickles, swords, hammers and stakes.»

Inspired by these achievements, Passion for Art: 100 Treasures 100 Years presents one hundred of the Dallas Museum of Art's greatest treasures in a carefully choreographed sequence of universal themes: landscape, symmetry, masks, body, machine, luxury, home, music and dance, mortality, transcendence, and cosmos.

In this body of new work, which includes three groups of photographs and a large - scale film installation, Taylor - Wood continues to explore the themes of absence and mortality that gives her work such strength, pathos and resonance.