Sentences with phrase «visual metaphor for»

However, in Sillman's universe, the reclaimed triumph is more about the power of abstract form to function as an effective visual metaphor for a range of emotional truths.

Judy Chicago's work has long been associated with images of pussy power as a visual metaphor for female agency, even before the term was widely accepted.

She uses an array of materials and techniques, such as collage and photo - transfer, which serves as a visual metaphor for the intersection of cultures as well as the artist's own hybrid identity.

The sculptures, drawings, collages and mixed media installations that compose the show seek to create a visual metaphor for the consciousness that permeates the physical world, and Strange takes us on an Alice in Wonderland - like journey in the process.

Responding to the US invasion of Iraq, this work operates as a visual metaphor for the disaster that the war would provoke.

In Limbus, traps are a visual metaphor for how the interaction between painting and viewer works.

Vicuña's quipu transform this ancient practice into a visual metaphor for the collisions of two competing cultures and worldviews: the Andean universe of oral communication spatialized through an embodied, nonlinear encounter with time, and the Western mapping of time through the linear, teleological unfolding of the printed word.

Musical notation becomes a visual metaphor for a moment of translation between forms — the point where creative leaps and conceptual shifts spark new possibilities.

Providing both a catalyst as well as a visual metaphor for the curatorial vision and conceptual origin of the show, the gallery's walls will feature socio - political maps inspired by artist Miguel Covarrubias.

The underwater environment was her visual metaphor for New Orleans - before Hurricane Katrina hit.

By casting jagged reflections on gallery walls, they create a striking visual metaphor for Santiago Muñoz's interest in breaking and transforming conventional images of the Caribbean — and specifically, her native Puerto Rico.

The Tang Teaching Museum's building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence and exchange of ideas that the institution catalyzes.

Transformed by his costume made of raw meat into a visual metaphor for the city itself — flayed but still enormously powerful — he engaged random pedestrians during a walk through the Upper East Side of Manhattan in a performative meditation on the fundamental social dynamic — an exchange between two people — and its role in promoting healing and social stability.Symposium «Flânerie and the Politics of Public Space»

Chieh - jen creates a visual metaphor for the stoppage of production and of time through close - ups of the women's faces and hands and through monumentalized shots of their static bodies.

The spiral is not just decorative, but as LaGama explains, in western African Religion stands as a visual metaphor for the trajectory the soul takes when it leaves the body.

This aesthetic also becomes a visual metaphor for what the East End represented to these artists.

The claustrophobic quality of the room, closed in around the three figures, serves as a visual metaphor for their confined opportunities in life.

Finally, a quick run over the Williamsburg Bridge to the condemned Domino Sugar Factory for the stunning tour de force sphinx — its Aunt Jemima head bound in a bandana, its rump fleshing out a scatalogical valentine — that Kara Walker worked from eight tons of white sugar into a stinging visual metaphor for the sugar cane that America's slaves harvested to enrich their masters and the refined processed sugar that is killing the descendants of both.

Under Schendel's hand - one undoubtedly shaped by the persecution and political unrest so prevalent in the first half of the 20th Century - language is presented not just as a communicative device, but rather a wider visual metaphor for human existence.

In this way, the house acts as a grounding hub for the game, a visual metaphor for the messiness and chaos of life and a physical manifestation of the Finch family tree.

Maybe you're the cover designer who creates a visual metaphor for the story.

(Perhaps a visual metaphor for the state of overblown studio movies?)

In a different context, Franco's casting of himself as Wiseau might have been pointed: the handsome, Oscar - nominated movie star behind the accent and shoulder - length black wig as a visual metaphor for the character's Hollywood ambitions.

The scene essentially serves as a visual metaphor for what the rest of the film will be: one long, overly enthusiastic standing ovation.

In one scene, director Lelio creates a visual metaphor for Marina's situation and character, in which she walking into the face of a rising wind, as the landscape around her deteriorates.

(Poor Pike is even forced to hack off chunks of that wig in a trite visual metaphor for Brigitte cutting ties.)

Sand, spanning miles of beaches, carpeting vast oceans and deserts, is a visual metaphor for limitless resources.

The ambitious and imaginative structure of Hawkinson's sculpture offers an uncanny visual metaphor for Melville's epic tale, which is often considered the ultimate American novel.

Kung - fu moves, a driving dance beat and a trippy visual metaphor for knowledge make the music video for «Reborn» everything you'd want out of a colorful mind - melter.

The phrase «long tail» is a visual metaphor for the shape of a distribution graph (we promised a dragon above and don't worry, it's coming):

Here, Glueck learned about the flywheel concept, a visual metaphor for business.

The paintings which depict Radha and Krishna surrounded by darkness while they themselves are lit by a sullen glare from the sky, or portray the lovers enclosed in a triangle of night while the inhabitants of Vrindavan unconcernedly go about the day's tasks, are visual metaphors for a sensualism which is simultaneously hidden from the world and from the lovers» awareness.

... use visual metaphors for quantities.

While the villains are an excellent parallel for commercial imperialist pub chains that have taken over the bars the group remembers so fondly (Starbuckin» it, as Paddy Considine puts it), and there are some wonderful visual metaphors for character development when you spot them, the final confrontation just sort of... stops.

These works» use of materials as visual metaphors for desire, violence, place, and the effects of time, foul weather, and foul play continue Hammond's ongoing project to «bring content into the world of abstraction.»

While the intense experience of looking at Wilson's work may resonate with the strange intimacy we have with computer screens, the artist is less interested in visual metaphors for media interfaces, and more interested in the intersections of landscape, process, and time.

Throughout his career, Morris Graves has used the images of nature as visual metaphors for the mysteries of life, or as he describes, «the inner eye».

«I often use images of weather — rain, snow, clouds, hail, and wind — as visual metaphors for these ideas.

With Holland's lo - fi net aesthetic series of GIFs entitled «Visual Orgasms», she uses visual metaphors for orgasms such as trains speeding through tunnels, cascading waterfalls, or fireworks and manages to convey and arouse sexuality in the viewer while rendering it genderless.

Artists take a step back from their everyday studio practice to create new artwork that serve as visual metaphors for the routine of art - making in the group exhibition In Bringing Forth.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

This exhibition highlights the themes and motifs that served as visual metaphors for Bourgeois and recur in her artistic practice across seven decades.

Harmony Hammond's work uses materials — such as latex rubber, linoleum, straw, leaves and hair, and weathered objects from abandoned farms — that act as visual metaphors for desire, violence, place and the effects of time, foul weather and foul play.

If abstract painting, to quote Matthew Collings on Mali Morris, is about «constantly coming up with visual metaphors for experience», and the artist's job is to produce this metaphor - world «in the form of visual pleasure, or beauty», that's a great metaphor for what Mali Morris does.

Not exact matches

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Like its central visual metaphor, the picture is a chess game without a board: Pieces are lost, position is won, and there is no definition for success.

Condon attempts to use metaphors for the significance of each act through a series of visuals of a virtual room of users, all of whom seem to be Assange himself, a nod to the fact that Assange was a chihuahua puffed up to try to look like a big dog through the creation of a bunch of alias sources claiming to be working for WikiLeaks.

But beneath its surface, director Scott Cooper's film shares little with Michael Cimino's 1978 epic, despite a shared fondness for overt, visual metaphor.

Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.

I don't really understand the metaphor anyway, although it makes for a stunning visual climax when the boy, exhausted from all the psychodrama, trudges into New York's Museum of Natural History and contemplates the ancient origins of life.