Sentences with phrase «uses wry»

Joyce J. Scott uses wry wit and humor to tackle complex, painful subjects with refined materials.

Reinhart uses wry humor, alliteration and other devices to ensure his text is both informative and entertaining.

Using wry humor to upset expectations about so - called high art and the meaning of its placement in a commercial space, the works are also indicative of the importance language plays in the artist's practice.

Motley was particularly adept at capturing the vibe of a specific time and place and using wry humor to explore delicate issues of race and identity.

Using wry humour, her work is much more than a slippery language game.

Not exact matches

Well - chosen New Yorker cartoons are used in the book to temper the argument with wry and gentle wit.

A wry Londoner with a brush mustache, he was used to spending most of his time researching fungi, bacteria, and the evolutionary relationships among slime molds.

His voice is wry and reedy and takes getting used to.

Back to Willis: That wry, «yippee - ki - yay» edge that he used to bring to action roles?

Fellini appreciated Flajano's deft humor, wry cultural observations, and subtly and used the writer to help pen some of his best films including La Strada (1954) and La Dolce Vita (1960).

Chadha and co-screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges offer a wry, low - key feature - length commentary with some fairly interesting / entertaining recollections, including the thinking behind the somewhat ballsy use of a corporeal David Beckham in the epilogue, the unblinking national reaction to the Sikh rituals depicted in the film, and Chadha's desire to exploit her male cast members by getting their shirts off as often as possible.

Taking its title from the prediction fortune tellers use to beguile their marks, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, illustrates with wry humour how easy it is for our illusions to make fools of us all.

The comic touch which by reputation is artfully displayed throughout the «Buffy» tv series (which I barely watched), is again used to full force here — there are moments of outright laughter, and others of wry smirking.

Wry but not dry, its nimble use of archive footage and chewy interviews expands the film into a thoughtful examination of what (and who) cities are for.

Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain & Chiwetel Ejiofor all turn in quietly composed & honest performances while the perennially under - used Michael Pena & a wry, LOTR joke toting Sean Bean provide some light relief.

Its wry sense of humor and surrealism reminded me of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman, who used a checkpoint as a microcosm in his 2002 film, Divine Intervention.

(As dean, I used to give this get - rich - here speech to students, and I knew I was «getting through» when a student with a wry smile told me, «I've now heard your pitch three times.»)

It is very much a traditional adventure game, in which players control Marty McFly as he solves puzzles, uses items on the environment, and makes wry observations on his situation; if there are any elements of action or reflexes in BttF, I haven't seen them yet.

(The music resembles the kind characteristically used on the sound tracks of art documentaries, which might well be a wry joke on the artist's part.)

A master of bravura expressionism with a nod towards Soutine, Vitali uses slashing impasto and vivid hues to get at the often wry and visceral crux of people and things.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Taken from Paul Gagner's titular work, A Series of Moves references the practicality of creating a composition, with all three of the artists using a table, most often the studio table, as the setting for their wry take on the long history of still - life.

In Jose Lerma's most recent sculptural painting using the largest polo shirt you could possibly imagine, he combines his well - known paint blobs into a work full of fresh and cynically wry humor.

Also conceptually loaded yet formally beautiful is Houston artist Nathaniel Donnett's wry Hairline Fracture (2014), which uses African - American hair seemingly to etch a minimalist line drawing into the side of a free - standing wall.

Using techniques and materials ranging from pop colored inks, gradient monoprinting, loose watercolors, acrylic paint, crayon, and sharpie crosshatching, Lederer creates images that walk the line between wry playfulness, and deep - seated fears, all the while deconstructing the picture plane and drawing parallels between the digital and the analog.

Using simple materials, everyday objects, wry wit and written instructions that encourage people to interact with his sculptures, Erwin Wurm makes spectators into active participants and turns them into living, breathing works of art.»

Marti, a photographer, is known for the wry, ironic twists he uses to -LSB-...]

But as we have moved beyond that moment and into the 21st century and as we have moved into the era of post-modernism, particularly that category post-black, I really felt that it would be worth revisiting Archibald Motley to look more critically at his work, to investigate his wry sense of humor, his use of irony in his paintings, his interrogations of issues around race and identity.

In her video piece, The Unknown Series (1994 — 96), Baldino implicates a medley of mundane objects in a wry investigation of their possible uses and uselessness.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results — referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

With wry wit and a formalist approach Erwin Wurm uses simple materials and everyday objects in his performances, photography, video, installations and large freestanding sculptures, all presented in this inaugural exhibition.

The «only straw offered», to use Bassett's wry phrase, is the statement that «black air» is highly combustible, enormous masses of it being instantly consumed by the smallest flame, even an electrical luminance isolated in a vacuum.

With a wry and poignant twist, artist Hannah Rothstein has reimagined the great WPA posters once used to lure visitors to the splendors of U.S. National Parks.

These activists include Sharon Eubanks, a former US Department of Justice attorney who once helped bring a similar case against Big Tobacco; House Democrats Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier; Canadian eco-loon Bill McKibben (who talks, with characteristic wry understatement, of Exxon's «sheer, profound, and — I think — unparalleled evil»); and, of course, Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, another attorney determined to use lawfare to shut down the debate on climate change once and for all.

But hopefully having picked a few out and poked fun at them, the next time you see one you will adopt a wry smile, look knowingly at the person or text using it, and see beyond the cliché to the important points of what they are saying.