Sentences with phrase «used as allegory»

Its dark comedy was used as an allegory for the idea that fear - mongering weakens morale and costs lives.

In the original comic the X-Men's status as mutants was used as an allegory for the civil rights movement.

Santiago Muñoz's films capture the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using them as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

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He also uses imagery and allegory to good effect, such as the reference to playing table tennis on a moving train: The ball may appear to be bouncing back and forth, but in the grand scheme it's really moving only in one direction.

Throughout the book, DeMarco uses the allegory of cars — especially his own Lamborghini — as he aims to get you out of a «Hyundai lifestyle.»

Verse 20 immediately falls under suspicion, since it seems to provide a reason for early Christian fasting, and, more importantly, it uses the allegory bridegroom = Jesus (This allegory is itself a product of early Christian piety, arising out of the concept of the Church as the bride of Christ [II Cor.

Then he is able to move from this to the conditions of the ministry of Jesus itself as they differed from these, in particular, the use of parable as distinct from allegory and the relationship to the Kingdom of God proclamation.

Considered by some to be an unusual choice, «The Square» stars Dominic West and Elisabeth Moss, and uses the art world as an allegory for middle - class guilt and incorporates aspects of both conceptual and performance art.

Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.

«Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter» is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses «Fargo,» the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life.

Denounced as a heretic for his vocalizations, Marston aims to use the Bishop's tribulation to tell a powerful allegory on the importance of inclusivity.

The Journey Told from the perspective of a young child, this 2016 book set in an unspecified region uses lush illustrations and few words to present a family's migration as an allegory.

Although didacticism was historically intentional in genres such as the spiritual allegory or moral treatise, the term is used today to describe writing that is «ostentatiously dull and erudite,» or in other words, overly preachy or pedantic.

Her world - building is so detailed and well - integrated, each character and place so well - drawn, one wonders if they truly exist somewhere... Seraphina is an engaging and innovative fantasy that uses the plights of dragons and humans as an allegory for the real prejudices we all must face.»

Internationally renowned artists Peter Doig, Charline von Heyl, and Rita Ackermann will discuss the use of allegory as applied to painting.

Baltimore - based artist Mequitta Ahula's work Performing Painting: A Real Allegory of Her Studio (2015) used herself as a means to depict and deconstruct the history of figurative painting as it relates to the body along time and space.

The motive of crucifixion served as a symbol of pain and death, and Bacon used the allegory to make Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion.

Santiago Muñoz captures the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using the stories of farmers, activists, and artists working in Puerto Rico as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

Kabisch's aesthetically ironic figuration of humans takes the physical body as an allegory of our society; using the self to explore mankind's manners and paradoxes.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

By using the binary of light and dark as an allegory for the dichotomy as a concept in general, this exhibition explores various compositional opposites such as hope and despair, familiar and foreign, human and mechanical, and real and representational.

Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.

In his first solo museum exhibition, Fahamu Pecou uses the trend of «saggin» (the style which sees young men wearing pants well below their waist) as an allegory to talk about Black male mobility and agency.

Several artists, however, used the mayor's charismatic flair as a motif in their works and humorously portrayed the losers of the last election campaign, as can be seen in the photographs of the artist duo Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda at Atelierhaus Monbijou, or the homage - like portrait to Berlin's mayor, Allegory of Government, in an empty room at KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin by Clegg & Guttmann.

Considered by many to be the first dramatic work of the theater of the absurd, Roi (translated as «King Ubu» or «King Turd») is an allegory of anarchy that uses farce and scatological humor to comment on art, literature, politics, and the ruling class.

Each of his assemblages, as they seemed to me at the time I first encountered them, was a moral allegory of his life as well as an expression of a personal existential surrealism, not to mention neo-narcissism (he often used casts of his own body in his art).

However, instead of merely cataloging species as Audobon did, Ford uses the familiar visual language of the well - known wildlife artist and other early natural history artists to depict historically - based allegories of the violent collision of man and nature.

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