Sentences with word «totemic»

The individual heads are combined into a series of totemic sculptures titled a wave or a tower or a stack of niggas on a plate (all works 2015) and presented in the half of the room wallpapered with holographic film.

In addition to the fabric heads, it also included a series of cell - like vitrines housing curious scenes of ecstasy and torture; a group of totemic figures, reinterpreting in fabric her early sculptures from the 1940s and»50s, and a selection of graphic works.

Both artists create totemic forms that have been devised through physical labor, from either the deconstruction of material or the application of numerous layers of unblemished paint.

Lelio increasingly embraces symmetry, and he positions persons within the frame in totemic fashion, with the dollops of Matthew Herbert's dazzling musique concrète - style score underlying the sense that the characters are entering a trance of their own making.

The third iteration of the Hammer's SoCal - focused biennial keeps things wondrously minimal, featuring thoughtful exhibits by only 26 artists that jumps between art - making styles, ideas and generations — from the powerful totemic wood sculptures of Kenzi Shiokava to the bright, graphic paintings of Huguette Caland to the humorous research - based installation of Daniel R. Small.

Malevich — who called his visually simple but theoretically dense approach «Suprematism» — declared that his intention was to use geometry to convey «the primacy of pure feeling in creative art,» and through it he created totemic works of strange, atavistic power.

Sarah Jessica Parker has passed beyond «Sex and the City» to a next - stage comedy that takes her out of New York and up to the «burbs for a role that could prove as totemic as single - girl Carrie.

Likewise, in her Marginalia paintings of the»90s, Applebroog depicts human and animal figures on freestanding panels, often in blood - red or brown paint, creating totemic figures representing contemporary stock types.

He pictured titanic figures with totemic power.

His vaguely biomorphic shapes evoke totemic presences, as if they were examples of a tribal formalism anchored to a dark future.

Henry Taylor's work mixes personal figurative paintings with totemic assemblage sculpture often making the line between art and life indistinguishable.

Priapus (2013) is a new edition based on a cast plaster work made by Lucas as part of her Penetralia series (2008), a group of totemic objects inspired by her move to the Suffolk countryside and combining casts of a penis with fragments of found flint and wood.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

A similar stacking up of elements was seen in larger, more totemic pieces such as

She was affected by the monumental and totemic qualities of Maya art, elements of which she subsequently incorporated into her own work.

Each work condenses the film's dominant themes — death, rebirth, and the twilight era of modern America — into totemic sculptural form, while invoking the complex personal iconography of Barney.

Payplan and the Payplan logo are trademarks of Totemic Limited.

Progressions can be traced between organic elements, preliminary sketches, maquettes and finished bronzes — for example, the amorphous totemic stack contoured in a 1955 maquette that is monumentalized in Upright Motive No. 5 (1955 — 56).

A similar stacking up of elements was seen in larger, more totemic pieces such as Three Forms Vertical (Offering), 1967 (BH 452, Gimpel Fils, repr.

The issue became totemic for his party, and many claim it was the reason the Lib Dems slumped from 57 to just eight MPs.

The Lib Dem leader has his sights on NHS reforms as the kind of totemic issue which he needs to show strength on to regain the trust of voters who supported his party at the general election.

The Economy Totemic policies such as the introduction of the minimum wage in the early Blair years have been eclipsed in the minds of voters by mismanagement and light touch regulation in the run up to the financial crash.

However, Byars did create a few totemic golden sculptures throughout his life, the largest being a roughly 66 - foot - tall piece, titled The Golden Tower, which was realized for a group exhibition at the Martin - Gropius - Bau in Berlin in 1990.

It is intriguing that around 1960 Pousette - Dart abandoned totemic symbols and geometric compositions and instead «atomized» paintings.

In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.

One of the most totemic council results took place early this morning in Sheffield, where Labour took control.

Only the Spacecolours that support themselves succeed in attaining totemic status.

Visitors are greeted with a vibrant but imposing array of monumental sculptures, brightly colored, smoothly finished totemic heads with the exaggerated, sloping features of the gods of tropical places.

In addition to Truitt's signature totemic columns, two horizontal works are included.

From totemic wooden sculptures to frank drawings of himself and his wife that expose the vulnerability of the human form, echoes of German Renaissance art haunt the dark forest of this demonic imagination.

Returning to the studio with the materials he had gathered, Vitturi created teetering totemic assemblages with a Baroque sense of drama, collaging and overpainting his photographs and materials in high - register colours — and often layering physical objects within the photographic assemblages to create new volumetrically disorientating images.

His series Library of Dust and History's Shadow delve into hidden archives, unearthing objects from the past and recasting them as potent, totemic images.

Even those to whom we might think to turn for a cool, calm, detached appraisal of the scientific evidence — our very own scientific academies — are bestowing scientific papers with totemic significance.

Samuel in Space, commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, in 2013, continues the trajectory as a singular, totemic black male dancer observes the vast high desert landscape before him and, in a combination of dance and gymnastics, tumbles through the desert at sunrise.

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

Weaver's totemic appeal is a mystery with the film beginning in medias res as it does; Stanford is unconvincing as both philosopher and paramour (shades of Pitt attempting the line «Machiavellian machinations» in Meet Joe Black); and Ritter, proving himself at times a capable character actor, is a tweedy lump of ineffectual half - declarations («But... then again... maybe it's...»).

First, two striking groups of works continue Taaffe's fascination with ritualistic activities and archaic totemic imagery, which he combines with twentieth century optical experiments and modern animist imagery to reflect upon mankind's earliest motivations toward image - making.

Spare and elegant, Kelly's free - standing totemic forms, one in bronze, the other two in mahogany and redwood, exude the same quiet and spectacular beauty as his better - known, brightly colored paintings.

The objects are often stacked, suggesting totemic forms.

Situated in the Giardino delle Vergini, at the end of what Macel calls the «Pavilion of Time and Infinity», Arancio's contribution to the 57th Venice Biennale takes the form of a sort of therapeutic sculpture garden, where visitors are confronted by these mysterious, primeval totemic formations inspired by the petrified trees that were formed in Hawaii when a lava flow swept through a forest in 1790.

From landscapes to experiments in non-Western totemic painting to sketches and drawings fueled by Jungian analysis, the range of Pollock's early and late work is presented here.

In a process informed by decades of printmaking experience, the artist painted unique works on mylar to be silkscreened on totemic sheets of paper.

Jack, or Edward, or Butterfly (he's called that because of a tattoo between his shoulder blades and also because of a more mysterious totemic connection to the insect) is a familiar enough movie type.

Perhaps this accounts for the peripatetic life Chatwin would go on to lead, and his journey to explore the traditionally semi-nomadic Australian Aborigines and their «Songlines» — creation myths that «tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path... and so singing the world into existence.»

Fixed an issue where the Cobra Totemic perk did not function properly when using weapons with the Quickdraw perk

Summer's blockbuster run includes Barbara Hepworth's totemic bronzes, smooth swooshing stone, and woodcarvings punctured by her distinctive holes (Tate Britain, SW1, 24 Jun to 25 Oct).