Sentences with phrase «totemic beings»
Welded to bases and standing upright, they evoke a clan of totemic beings, ancient and alien, emerging from the woods and clustering in the grass.
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This strategy was aided, in highly personal terms, by the outgoing Democratic Governor, Barbara Roberts (whose husband died during her term of office) and by the widow of former Republican Governor Tom McCall (a totemic figure for many Oregonians).
The veteran striker, who will turn 37 in January, has always been the most endearing of footballers, a totemic, endearingly self - deprecating being who has always exuded an air of contentment throughout his career.
The party allowed its more enthusiastic supporters, and some senior frontbenchers, to put out the message that the totemic Tory councils of Wandsworth and Westminster were in play, while Barnet was already in the bag.
Something far more totemic will come along in the next few months and that cause will be the game changing campaign.
The only way Vince Cable will impinge on the headlines is if the party loses control of the totemic council of Sutton in south west London and goes backward in its inexplicable strongholds in pockets of Manchester.
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.
It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»
By the time it left office, Labour was off track to hit its totemic target of eliminating child poverty by 2020.
From the backbenches, Fox has called for «totemic» tax cuts if the Conservatives are going to win the election next year.
Tentatively reported at the weekend, but now repeated as fact, the hierarchy of the Labour party is once again locked in a totemic struggle.
I like how the IT BAG was once described in Vogue as «that totemic accessory that announced you were owner of all that was desirable in the world.»
Forest Whitaker is the aged adviser and totemic shaman, schooled in the sources of the king's power.
Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.
Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?
In «The Force Awakens,» Abrams rummages through the bin of the original three films, thrilled to be playing with his favorite toys, with a fanboy's fetishistic understanding of their totemic appeal.
And the totemic use of Walden in Shane Carruth's beautiful and baffling Upstream Color might qualify it for inclusion here; that's about the only categorization you're going to come up with for it, I'd imagine.
Out of the tumult of history and the psychic torture that is the legacy of slavery, Steven Spielberg forged his most accomplished film since Schindler's List: a ruminative epic that used America's 16th president as a totemic figure against which a nation's progress over the centuries since could be gauged.
He is the world's totemic «tortured artist».
Dragonfly, for all its intimations of totemic spirituality and faux religiosity (going so far as to provide Linda Hunt, Dragonfly's third Oscar - winner, a walk - on as a homuncular nun), is ultimately a vapid shuck - and - jive with all the depth of a traveling medicine show.
Hyams» use of Van Damme is only partly totemic; JCVD has one of contemporary cinema's great hurt, tragic faces, and he imbues what's essentially a «character - building» backstory role with eccentric gravitas.
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No living trees are sacrificed for his totemic pieces; only recycled, reclaimed and naturally felled wood is used.
As cool as towering totemic warriors and slumbering smoke dragons are, I was more interested in the twins wielding these godlike powers than the powers themselves, but we never really dig beneath the surface.
Opening reception: Thursday, September 11, 6:00 — 8:00 pm Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present new sculpture and photographic works by Matt Keegan with Landfall, 1970, a totemic column by Anne Truitt (1921 - 2004).
Within these decorative monuments are totemic, bling - draped Ice Cream Royalty.
The totemic figure Trefoil is made out of pinecones and jacaranda logs, joined together by a tongue and groove construction that echoes the surface of the pinecones, breaking the branch down to its elemental particles.
Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.
Additionally, there are pieces made of welded sheets of bent steel that bring to mind Caro, Richard Serra, and Brian Wall, and seem at first the opposite of her totemic, hand molded and painted bronze pieces in the other spaces, the body of work to which Pas de Deux also belongs.
She was dark, brooding, and totemic, much like her monumental art.
Adolph Gottlieb had totemic grids in the 1940s, and Sue Williams has been simulating Willem de Kooning in carpets of sex objects for some time now.
On view are Carol Ross» large freestanding metal sculptures that resemble totemic monuments of the ancient world.
He flourished as a critic in New York from the 1940s to 1960s, but even today, decades after his best - known work and 17 years after his death, he is a totemic and constantly invoked voice on modern art.
These totemic materials predominate throughout the German artist's work, with the myth as a resonating centre of meaning, both personal and historical, even if the story itself isn't really true.
Evoking the spiritual practices of animalistic religious whereby interaction with animal parts was thought to transfer magical and totemic powers, Hall is creating both object and mythology.
It is in their ability to navigate between the abstract and the figurative, the technical and the totemic, that these works take their place among the twenty - first century's most captivating painterly projects.
The mature paintings are atmospheric, architectural, calligraphic, totemic, gestural, immediate.
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.
There are other sculptures, totemic stacks of geometric shapes, that I love equally, but the Guggenheim did not include them as part of their press materials, and no photography was allowed (I tried).
Something else that grew from his time spent in Japan are a series of wooden totemic sculptures made from drawing, painting and collaging found local materials.
Weaving together the socio - political, activist, mystical and animistic traditions, Geers creates works of art that are talismanic and totemic in nature.
Their strong relationship to nature is evident through the use of a natural material like clay manipulated in order to become nature again, but in this case nature has become fetishised as in the lava trees» totemic presence.
«The Figure of Question is in the Room» and «The Figure of the Question of Death», two totemic sculptures in gilded marble, embody Byars's philosophical ideal.
The assemblage is housed in a totemic sculpture constructed from a reclaimed beehive.
Is the totemic figure seeking an offering?
Soon, A.R. Penck was enjoying a worldwide attention for his paintings with pictographic, primitivist imagery of human forms and other totemic designs.
It seems likely that many of Andre's early totemic sculptures may have been inspired by Brancusi, but it was only later that Andre began to produce his pure, simple forms and transitioned them to the horizontal plane.
«The look of my figures is abstract, and to the spectator they may not appear to be figures at all,» Bourgeois said of her «Personages» series of stacked, totemic structures created between 1946 and 1955.