Sentences with phrase «through banal»

Consistent with this interesting propensity for channeling creativity through the banal, the exterior wall of the exhibition (lining UMOCA's hallway), contains a work entitled, «Bruce and Me.»

I can tell this story and it always seems to be more important or personal if it's through this banal woman, a generic kind of woman that is interchangeable.

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

If you've ever found yourself playing an RPG and thinking to yourself how much you enjoy moving a character around simple maps, winning battles by pushing the fight button, and skipping through a banal trope - laden story, but wishing that it didn't take so darned much time and thinking to beat, has Kemco got the game for you.

Tracy connects with one simpatico freshman, Tony (Matthew Shear), when he saves her from being caught sleeping through a banal discussion of Antigone.

Watching «The Room» on your own, and struggling through the banal dialogue and non sequiturs, the dreary sets, the elevator Muzak score, and the long, cringe - inducing sex scenes in which Wiseau bares his all for our appreciation isn't funny but sad.

This puts power into the hands of the State, «which can compel people to commit sin, tolerate it, or allow it to take place through banal conformism» (p. 59).

Not exact matches

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

John XXIII knew, as did his successor Paul VI, that along with goods the Church should welcome, much that was meaningless, banal, and distracting would come in through the open windows, and some that was truly evil.

The Teller's realization that there's no reliable evidence that any of the above is true led them to an understanding of divorce that's so simple as to be banal: everyone's situation is unique and there's no easy way through it for any individual or those individual's loved ones.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

While Brad may be in a constant battle against himself, an internal battle White reveals through near constant voiceover narration — a tricky device best - suited to the first - person novel and not a cinematic character study — White repeatedly opts for the mundane observation, the banal realization.

Little sustenance was provided by Park Kwang - su's To the Starry Island, a banal story of a Korean island's passage through the 1950s, including the war years.

Anderson has created for himself — and to some extent by himself (he directed it, wrote it and, though uncredited, shot it)-- a work through which he can freely exercise his gift for ecstatic cinema, never mind how banal or understated a scene might seem to be: Reynolds conducting his morning ablutions, for instance, shaving luxuriously, taming his hair with a pair of brushes, dressing to the nines just to have breakfast.

When we first see them, they're cruising through the country, boat in tow, playing banal name - that - composer» games with the Sony CD player.

I always find myself asking, do we really have to go through the motions of pledging our commitment to banal slogans such as «put children first,» «every child has unique needs,» and «schools should be organized to serve children, not adults»?

I stumbled through something less offensive, if not eloquent, about having my degree and working in my field or something equally banal.

Of course, the aforementioned Goat Simulator started off as a parody of banal simulator games before going into mocking other game genres through ragdoll goat physics.

His images rampaged through history, ranging from demure 18th - century prints of an aristocratic astronomer that slyly signaled his interest in optics to images of the watchtowers and barbed - wire fences of Hitler's concentration camps, stenciled onto banal printed fabric.

Through their interaction, a glimpse into their associative potential arises to challenge the banal categorization we sometimes assign to colors.

One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

Having garnered an international reputation as one of the leading artists to emerge from the New York Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s, Simmons has thoughtfully and methodically moved through her various photographic series, such as Early Black and White Interiors, 1976 — 78, in which pseudo-realities are created by staging miniature spaces with dollhouse furniture and other banal props; and Walking & Lying Objects, 1987 — 91, a series of black - and - white photographs of inanimate objects animated with human legs.

In his paintings, the banal is reduced to geometric segments where he then abandons references to the tangible world in favor of a visual experience that is more akin to digital imagery — such as a painting of Palermo as seen through Google Street View.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

Taking its name from the internet slang «catfish», or a person who takes on a false identity in social media, the show concerns the assemblage and dissemination of banal visual content through arbitrary and abstracted methods.

Ahearn creates imaginary environments through the inventive layering and juxtaposition of both banal and pop culture visual elements.

Narrative unfolds through a language of pictorial construction where objects within each painted or drawn interior are chosen for their potential for symbolic form — simultaneously loaded and banal.

The work's mass - reproduced aesthetic recalls minimalism's mode of industrial production, whilst Pop art's seriality, festishization of the banal, and elevation of low consumer culture are evinced through the use of the humble woolen thread.

The artists — Judie Bamber, Tom Burr, Tony Feher, Mike Kelley, Ry Rocklen, and Collier Schorr — begin with banal or familiar objects and forms, transforming them into poetic works of art through juxtaposition and subtle alteration.

The Black Mirror features a selection of White's haunting monochromatic paintings of the banal detritus of daily life, reimagining the still - life tradition through the lens of a contemporary Pop sensibility.

Its names is inspired by the banal titling of skate videos and it carries through the same scratchy close - ups of metal hitting metal that these videos often show, the silhouette of the film maker only sometimes being seen.

As the perfectly pitched, bombastic buffoon Erlich Bachman, comedian Miller steals the show, dubbing his banal suburban domicile an incubator and, aided by a fistful of psilocybin, rattling off evangelical tech gibberish: «Technolojees - us... Cloud - based disruptive platforms... Making the world a better place through cross-platform business facing!»

White's caricature of a cloud seizes hold of a mood — simultaneously ominous and banal — that runs through each of the four artists» work throughout the show.

Bechtle spent many of his early years in Alameda, and he captures this community and landscape through incisive, square - format drawings that glimpse more deeply into the banal and the all too often overlooked.

Naama Arad's sculptural installations convert the function of mass - produced, banal objects, which through her...

These artists take domestic and relatively banal material and subtly shift it through minor alterations in context and / or fabrication.

Continuing his investigation into what he terms «social geometry» — the intersection of physical space with human thought and behavior — Lionni trains his eye on seemingly banal images, objects, and substances, filtering them through a variety of meticulous processes in order to focus our attention on their oft - overlooked

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

Working through conceptual constructs including the new, the banal, and the sublime, he has taken his work from its literal, deadpan beginnings in readymades to baroque creations that extol innocence, beauty, sexuality, and happiness in confounding combinations of abstraction, figuration, sumptuous effect, and pure spectacle.