Sentences with phrase «uncanny quality»

Working with veteran cinematographer Henry Sharp (who had shot King Vidor's The Crowd in 1928), Lang imbues even the most benign of locations with a sense of unease, which gives the entire film a slightly uncanny quality.

But it's the uncanny quality of the clothing that keeps customers coming back.

There is an uncanny quality to viewing a person in profile, related to what remains invisible and untold.

There's a dreamlike quality to these works that give them a kind of uncanny quality.

Conflating memory and present day reality, Shaw's works take on an uncanny quality, alluding to a murkier side of contemporary society and collective subconscious.

In his essay, A Lawless Proposition, Paul Chan discusses the perpetual question of why (and how) art comes into being, and touches on a particular phenomenon that some artists engage in their work, at times against their will — when the process of making creates the work of art itself: «By following the contours of this internal reasoning, a work takes on an uncanny quality that comes from it being an outgrowth of the experience of something becoming aware of becoming itself.»

Yet if her art had an uncanny quality akin to the movement's tenets, Kahlo resisted the association: «They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn't,» she said.

The strange or uncanny quality that runs through the works in this exhibition seems to come from the friction of allowing both idioms to exist at once, in varying degrees.

Noted designer Daphne Geismar's elegant design perfectly captures the uncanny qualities of Preheim's style.

In Gallaccio's tree, the inanimate meets the animate, creating an uncanny quality that will unfortunately disappear upon purchase, when the real apples are to be replaced by ceramic ones.

Magali Reus» installations and videos highlight the uncanny qualities of products.

Sometimes these new environments take on a surreal or uncanny quality, where familiar imagery is made unsettling through the interventions of the artist.

Projecting the uncanny quality of fairy tales and horror movies, van Meene peoples her images with somnabulent girls, headless bodies, faceless figures and solitary young women encapsulated in empty, luminous rooms.