Sentences with phrase «too avant»

That opening show, according to Spriggs, was too avant - garde, too experimental, too far removed from life in Harlem.
Moscow dealer (and former New Yorker) Gary Tatintsian hosted the buffet supper for Halle and his betrothed, artist Ann Craven, at his old loft, inhabited now mainly by a compelling group of vintage artworks by Carroll Dunham, Vik Muniz, John Coplans, John Currin, and George Condo, and a scatter of strange furniture too avant - garde to sit on very long.
They are supposed to appeal to conservative buyers who shy away from anything too avant - garde.
The other two tracks are somewhere between math rock, and psychedelic instrumental rock, but aren't too avant - garde for the average listener.
It is kind of funny when you think about it: that one of the oldest garments - predating even the «dress» as we know it - is largely considered too avant garde for Western fashion.
If money wasn't an object I would fill my closet wall to wall Stella, I love how she makes clothes that are funky but not too avant - garde to actually wear.
I love that they are not too avant - garde so I can wear in - fashion clothes even after they're techincally out of style without feeling stupid, and I am in love with the fact that they do not pretentiously label their clothes on the outside so that I become a walking advertsiment for a brand!
Adding one of the biggest menswear trends of the season to a simple double - breasted wool overcoat is just the stylish twist you want in your top layer, without looking too avant - garde.
Or are Amazon and Google too avant - garde?

Not exact matches

Still, Al Goldstein, chief executive and founder of Avant, which has made 300,000 loans to consumers in the past three - and - a-half years, with an average value of $ 8,000, says the portrayal of the industry as recklessly making too many loans is flawed.
The Cages and the Falstaffs of the world are least likely to know this, but true - believing Gnostics, an avant - garde elite if there ever was one, have always known it and have always known too how to move into and stake out claims in Christian and Jewish territory.
Though we love all the fur on glamorous coats and the lace leggings — a very avant garde twist to Victorian fashion, we're no too sure about how scruffy the facial bling looks.
I have a few other Avant Pop palettes, and never had issues It's surprising to hear the KVD gave you issues too, so sad as it's such a gorgeous shade range!
I used to be a member of an avant - garde performance group, so I enjoy the dramatic, avant garde, arty aspects of this style too.
The good news is there are a variety of ways you can approach styling this trend without looking too «avant - garde.»
It's just as clear, however, that Kubrick's decidedly avant - garde approach often prevents the viewer from wholeheartedly connecting to either the material or the characters, and it subsequently goes without saying that the movie, which is never boring, certainly, generally does struggle to justify its 146 minute running time (ie there are too many stretches here that just go on and on and on).
The good news about Natural Born Killers is that it's Stone's first avant - garde film; unfortunately, that's the bad news too.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING And about time, too: directors from TV and the avant - garde, from cartoons and commercials, are bringing the moribund British cinema back to life.
But in practice, the Porsche crossover drives more like some of those European high - performance sports wagons that too few North American buyers are interested in (go Google Audi RS4 Avant or Volkswagen Golf R SportWagen).
Its 260kW / 500Nm turbo - petrol 3.0 - litre V6 engine gives it similar straight - line pace to the outgoing V8 - powered Audi RS 4 Avant, and it looks tough too.
Up front, the Audi A4 Avant facelift gets redesigned bumper, while the grille, spoiler too have been refreshed.
In terms of fuel consumption too, the new S4 and S4 Avant 3.0 TFSI score top marks — using only 9.7 liters per 100 km (24.25 US mpg), the sedan outdoes its predecessor by a remarkable 3.6 liters (0.95 US gal), as much as 27 percent.
At the rear, too, the new S4 and S4 Avant remain unmistakable — thanks to the badge on the trunk lid, the LED lights and the quadruple oval tailpipes.
Even though the 2018 Audi RS4 Avant is having its debut this week in Frankfurt, don't get too excited, since Audi isn't bringing it to the United States.
Performance models form part of the A4's line - up too, and include the 349bhp S4 and S4 Avant, along with the flagship RS4, with 444bhp on tap and prices from # 61,625.
At the same time, the new Audi RS 6 Avant offers a high standard of travel comfort — on long journeys, too.
The power - to - weight ratio, too, matches that of a first - rate sports car: after all, with a vehicle weight of 2,025 kilograms — including the dynamic and sure - footed quattro four - wheel drive — every horsepower of the RS 6 Avant has to propel just 3.5 kilograms
The S4 Avant does rather well in the luggage - handling department, too.
We took out a $ 12K loan through Avant last fall, with payments at around $ 300 - not too shabby if you ask me.
It includes, too, the challenge of living without an avant - garde.
It deserves more attention, too, that those relationships change with the times — from shared patronage by the powerful to the shared alienation of the avant - garde.
Tenney, a composer who conducted sonic experiments at Bell Labs, introduced her to Stan Brakhage and avant - garde film, so one can see his marks there, too.
At this early date it is difficult to gauge Snow's infl ence in too many specific senses, although the evidence clearly indicates that he is the most important artist working within the film avant - garde in North America today.
Steinberg found the boundary between public and the lionized artist to be fluid, since the avant - garde can be curmudgeonly and conservative too, in its own way.
However, avant - garde stops being just that after it is embraced by way too many people and the exhaustion of once rebellious art movement is inevitable.
Now that «resistance» makes a regular appearance on the runway, it's too easy to think that any avant - garde artwork that's wearable would fall into that industry trend.
JMcK: The New Glasgow Boys in the 1980s (like the original Glasgow Boys, 1890 - 1910) suggest that their female counterparts, such as you, were marginalised as artists, though the trans - avant - garde artists in Italy were all men, and the German artists, too: Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, AR Penck.
Part of the Crisis of Brilliance generation at the Slade School of Fine Art, his contemporaries included Paul Nash and Isaac Rosenberg and, after his expulsion for being too radical, he travelled to Europe with avant - garde sculptor Jacob Epstein, where he met Pablo Picasso.
Americans Were Radical Too, You Know — The Continental artists who sparked the bulk of the outrage were also joined by homegrown avant - gardists Marsden Hartley and John Marin.
The true spirit of the avant - garde for Kelley came in the actions of»60s revolutionary and hippie culture, but this too had been packaged, refined, and sold.
Unsatisfied by instruction he thought too rigid, he left to study briefly at the Slade School, which was reputed to be more avant - garde.
For Greenberg, avant garde art was too «innocent» to be effectively used as propaganda or bent to a cause, while kitsch was ideal for stirring up false sentiment.
She established other habits too, like having herself routinely photographed with new work [20] and regularly appearing in public wearing her signature bobbed anime wigs and colorful, avant - garde fashions.
They were apparently considered insufficiently avant - garde by doctrinaire modernists and yet too modern to be embraced by doctrinaire traditionalists.
Bridget Riley and the ever - visible Yayoi Kusama are eminent exceptions too, and last year's Russian Revolution shows brought us the amazons of the avant garde as never before.
As a flagship, it's as avant - garde as it should be — and it gives other flagships a run for their overpriced money, too.
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