Sentences with phrase «variations on certain themes»
For all their virtues, however, the 16 late paintings here are not enough to fully represent Ms. Thomas's adventurous range and her way of improvising variations on certain themes.
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At a certain point, The Light Between Oceans seems almost single - minded in its pursuit of theme; by the time the nationality of the dead man in the boat is revealed, the film has made clear that we're watching variations on survivor's guilt — the idea that, in war and maybe life in general, staying alive (or emotionally fulfilled) is often a zero - sum game, dependent on choosing your own well - being over that of a stranger.
Fiskin edits her surroundings, underlining certain repeated visual choices made by the public at large, and presents variations on a theme.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.
Marriage vows in the U.S. usually follow a certain pattern, but there are many variations on the basic theme.