Sentences with phrase «to suggest a narrative»

In all instances, he seeks to evoke a sensibility, a mood, or an emotion, suggesting a narrative of place, thought, and reflection.

Although the title and colors immediately suggest a narrative, when approaching the work, the viewer realizes that each slide offers a unique abstract image that has the ability to gain different meanings.

This still point suggests a narrative, a before and after, an event that might, or can, or did happen.

They often have double meanings, suggest narrative possibilities or are something I find funny.

With elements fragmented and scales distorted, many of the paintings suggested narrative readings.

The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.

Never Before suggests a narrative of ascent with its stairs, but these lead nowhere, not even to the top of the canvas.

A quick glance at NC State's 2016 results suggests a narrative: the Pack started 4 - 1, lost four in a row, then won three of four.

The framing device that depicts unresolved black urban violence suggests a narrative lapse, yet it's very different from the patronization of political media - makers today.

Finally, Ravitch suggests the narrative that our schools have failed and need reform is more harmful to students and the country than any of the reformers» perceived ills in public education.

Often depicting children and executed in Neo-Classical lines, these artworks can push the viewer into uneasy terrain, suggesting narratives from Grimms» fairy tales or a creepy fixation with child portraiture, a tradition that dates back to the 18th century in the UK with the likes of Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney or Thomas Lawrence.

These images often suggest a narrative.

Cindy Sherman draws on cinematic styling in her work Film Still # 60 (1980), creating a dynamic scene that suggests the narrative quality of a film persona.

Her «domestic monuments» to suffering and lifeless creatures suggest narratives addressing the mass graves of major disaster sites, both natural and man - made, in which human forms are numerous and anonymous.

With this exhibition, the curators suggest a narrative that serves as an alternative to the one told by the big auction houses, major art fairs and biennials, and mega-galleries.

Lydia Rubio (b. 1946, Havana) Distinguished by the use of words and images in painted multi-paneled pieces or installations, Lydia Rubio's work suggest narrative puzzles and are often accompanied by books outlining the concepts and derivations of the works.

Evoking quarter plate daguerreotypes, the exhibition's most effective works are seven 10» x 10» gelatin silver contact prints made from negatives that Dowda marked and creased before shooting and whose arrangement seems to suggest a narrative chronology.

With reference to traditional mythological stories, Sethi's art suggests narrative that reveals itself organically through her highly - stylized, personal visual language.

Rauch's paintings suggest a narrative intent but, as art historian Charlotte Mullins explains, closer scrutiny immediately presents the viewer with enigmas: «Architectural elements peter out; men in uniform from throughout history intimidate men and women from other centuries; great struggles occur but their reason is never apparent; styles change at a whim.»

Some of the works depict single objects, while the key ones portray numerous items that together suggest narratives.

The authors suggest narrative story stems, playful tasks that activate the child's attachment representations, to assess for dissociation in maltreated children.

Her paintings and drawings seduce and beguile with suggested narratives.

(Conversation with John McEwen 1988, published in exhibition catalogue, Basil Beattie, Todd Gallery, London 1998) Never Before suggests a narrative of ascent with its stairs, but these lead nowhere, not even to the top of the canvas.

Like all of Fischl's work, these paintings suggest narratives both within and beyond the scenes depicted.

This current body of work continues to build on the use of imagery that suggests a narrative, remixes our stories and attempts to engage the viewer's associative responses: imagery that is at once forgotten but familiar.

Fukui's work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on closer observation intrigues with surprising imagery that suggests narrative.

Bellan - Gillen's work uses these bits and pieces of visual history, the «stones and bones» of memory to suggest a narrative and remix our stories.

Mike Nelson (b. 1967, United Kingdom) creates landscapes of sculptures from discarded materials, arranged together to suggest a narrative of objects one might find along the side of a highway or in an abandoned campground.

Considered one of America's greatest living painters, Marshall (who lives in Bronzeville with his wife, actress Cheryl Lynn Bruce) has worked at capturing the African - American experience for more than three decades, creating large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits that suggest narratives of African - American history from slave ships to contemporary culture.

In Abboud's work, it is not the suggested narrative which draws our attention, but rather the rich textures and pigments of his canvases.

Since 1987 his work has dealt with the figure within a context that suggests a narrative.

The result is an unfolding of extreme and surreal disconnection and alienation — of the art's subjects, symbolic contexts, suggested narratives, and mangled metaphors — that blurs dark humor and deadpan satire.

Both intense and banal, these anthropomorphic features, at the same time reference cherished relics from times past, suggesting a narrative that isn't really there.

The moody and enigmatic atmospheres, combined with a suggested narrative, allow the viewers to develop and project their own theories about the inscrutable drama within the works.

By choosing names for his artworks, such as Rio Máquina, Metamérico or Inabsência (Projeto Octógono, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2012) Lescher proposes an extension of the work, suggesting a narrative, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that places the spectator in a hiatus, in a suspended condition.

He called this work The Drain, and it is a piece emblematic of a «cinematographic» style that he developed across many series, which are overly allegorical, full of suggested narrative and allusions to both history painting and scenes from early modern painting.

Meanings suggested by the juxtaposition of works by diverse artists are meant to suggest a narrative.

Objects play a central role in the film, almost as characters in their own right; the mise en scene becoming as potent as the action of the protagonists or any suggested narrative.

The result is that the works project multiple perspectives — as an array of objects in physical space, a suggested narrative playing out in the viewer's mind, and a working set in a film» — Gene McHugh

It's an effective recipe that blends gravitas, suggested narrative and immersive atmosphere, much like Rothko's Chapel does, despite Ms. Abney's less than Ab - Ex leanings.

Likewise, Worth's «Leaf 1» (2015) contains two distorted shapes, one that might resemble Matisse's cut - out leaves and one that approximates a hand, but the language of the comic book — the drawings that suggest a narrative or the close - up boxes that emphasize an action through strange cropping — is not present.

Although the imagery is abstract, the pictures invite interpretation or suggest a narrative.

By choosing names for his artworks, such as Rio Máquina, Metamérico or Inabsência (Projeto Octógono, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2012) Lescher proposes an extension of the work, suggesting a narrative, sometimes contradictory or provocative, that places the spectator in a hiatus, in a suspended condition.

I use it to kind of suggest narratives that I have in my head.»

His interest in creating zones of space within a painting and using this not just to suggest depth and texture, but also to direct the viewer through the picture and any suggested narrative, became more evident.

He suggested the narrative resume to tell my story in full sentences, including everything from the degrees I have to the experiences I have had.