Sentences with phrase «uncanny references»

Not exact matches

The earlier reference to Brian Griffin wasn't just facetious: Stark is so much like Brian (from a sense of superiority to a nearly identical voice) that seeing the actor in the flesh just feels kind of weird, like a reverse uncanny valley.

According to the gallery, «The Girl» encapsulates Op de Beeck's uncanny ability to create visual fictions of wonder, silence and introspection, while referencing art historical traditions of the panorama, landscape painting and German - Romantic notions of melancholy and the sublime.

His interests and references include extraterrestrials, biker gangs and punk rock groups, German artist Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau (1931 — 33), Mike Kelley's book The Uncanny, and cult films such as Lloyd Kaufman's Toxic Avenger (1984).

«Exhibitions involved both internationally renowned names and those who work and study in the University's Art History department, helping put the department on the contemporary art world map,» the website notes and includes references to the recent exhibitions «Display: Marketing as Art» and «Uncanny.»

The show and its title are premised on Sigmund Freud's «Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex» (1920), which fixated on our need for deviations from pure connections between the sexual object and sexual aim, and which Zipp uses to navigate us through his uncanny landscape in search of strange interconnecting reference points and dialogues.

Featuring new and recent work by six artists from the UK, US, and France — Jonathan Baldock, Genesis Belanger, Matthew Hansel, Matt Lipps, Theo Mercier, and Adam Parker Smith — the exhibition reflects on the legacy of surrealism in contemporary art while investigating the notion of the uncanny in reference to the history of art.

An uncanny mood, ambiguous circumstance or symbolic reference can prompt the viewer to further unravel a story line.

It seemed uncanny to me that the epilogue would reference an image of Lincoln again, holding.

The portrait, the contour and the field are in reference to the senses, the intellect, and the uncanny.

Tannatt, while working on predetermined «hanger» forms he was translating into glass elements for wall mounted sculptural / painting work, re - remembered an aspect of Mike Kelly's «Uncanny» project and incorporated the reference into his intention of «breaking in» and how we now «break in» in virtual ways i.e. codes & «watermarks.»

Rife with symbolism and references to mythology and mortality, Fuss's images starkly confront viewers with the unknown, the sublime, and the uncanny.

The title «Valley» is a reference to Oursler's fascination with roboticist Masahiro Mori's 1970s theory, which conflates Jenstch's and Freud's theories of the «Uncanny» with the development of human - like robots.

Roland Bathes» application of Freud's concept of «the uncanny» to landscape photography is the pertinent reference.

Many referenced his uncanny ability to fluidly traverse figuration and abstraction; one friend called him the fastest draftsman you will ever meet.

The most obvious point of reference is perhaps John Constable, especially as Fergus's small format oils bear a sometimes uncanny resemblance to Constable's oil sketches.

Cole is known for his inventive transformations of found materials into uncanny sculptures that depict everything from domestic objects and animals to African artifacts and ante-bellum imagery, often rendered with humor and / or political references.

Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson's work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as his models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian.

Boyce references architectural and modernist design and materials to create environments that blend functionality and aesthetics, to uncanny effect.