Sentences with phrase «visual motifs»

One of the recurring visual motifs of the film is the female abdomen.

It's a gross visual motif, but a brilliant one.

The key visual motif comes from the 1963 book, The Potential of Woman, published in conjunction with a symposium of the same name.

The central visual motif in Frostpunk is a tower around which the frost - ringed society builds a radial city.

The movie's central visual motif is the kind of murky tendril - filled locale that opens the story.

The wall mural at the entrance, a tour de force of instinctual drawing in coloured chalk and charcoal, contains within it many of the gestational, embryonic, transformative, shamanic gestures and visual motifs for which Klunder is known.

Insects wriggling around on trees, predatory animals feeding on dead animals, and flowers blooming and withering also act as a recurring visual motif of the evolution of life.

Aside from the naggingly persistent visual motif of huge vehicles (planes, ships) dwarfing puny humans in shadow (Roger Deakins's cinematography is sadly prosaic), Unbroken's chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible — and thus largely inhuman — superhero.

There's a great visual motif with Strickland that emphasizes his growing insanity.

Director Nimród Antal recreates various visual motifs from John McTiernan's movie and composer John Debney shamelessly borrows cues from Alan Silvestri's score.

Last of Light (3 Needles), 2017 acts as the focal point to the Angel Court piazza and borrows visual motifs from the area's anecdotal history.

His early style of Pop Art featured simple visual motifs like flags, maps and targets, as exemplified by: Flag (1954, Museum of Modern Art New York), Target (1958, private collection) and Three Flags (1958, Whitney Museum of American Art).

This has the beneficial side - effect of preventing Assayas from beating his familiar visual motifs even further to death than Boarding Gate — with its too - predictable image of LCD projectors colonizing Asia Argento's face with global karaoke culture, et al. — did.

Both «Crimson Peak» and «Notorious» feature ongoing visual motifs of tea cups and key - chains.

Gilroy and the rest spin clever variations on the previous films, and they acknowledge where they've been by emphasizing visual motifs of the series.

There are beautiful visual motifs that reinforce the central themes of rebirth and survival, making the hackneyed script work that is put right next to it all the more egregious and superfluous.

Several visual motifs (like the frequent appearance of twins) add a textual layer to the film that's sure to reward repeat viewings.

Assassin's Creed «s principal visual motif, that of the same eagle seemingly flying all over the world in multiple different time periods, feels as head - slappingly obvious yet needlessly convoluted as the film it stitches together.

In 2049, though, he's on assignment, doing maintenance on themes and visual motifs long since established.

He sidesteps the conventional storytelling of AIDS dramas in the film's final third, and creates an elegant visual motif of particles suspended in the air (ethereal under a club's spotlights, yet suggestive of much else without pressing the point).

A frequent visual motif in Andrew Dosunmu's pictorially stunning second feature involves blurry, indistinct figures slowly coming into focus.

Using clever sound design and repeated visual motifs, Silva's feature has a way of simulating mental illness in both the best and worst possible ways.

In addition to the great play, Crystal Chronicles benefits from an absolutely lovely celtic folk soundtrack and bucolic visual motif.

The wheel of Fortune became a far more common visual motif in the medieval age, increasingly ubiquitous and ominous.

What she terms «sublime ordinariness» manifests itself in a muted pastel - and - beige colour palette, and recurring visual motifs such as pearls, butterflflies, hearts and motivational slogans, act as reminders of the ubiquity of the mundane and the cute in presentations of identity and taste in social media and beyond.

The exhibition keeps circling back to a few visual motifs, sometimes too few, but it does not write off The Feminine Mystique as a thing of the past — or simply a horror story.

Though each canvas makes use of the same visual motifs — flames and «U» s — no two are identical.

By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.

Robert Motherwell frequently worked in series, exploring a specific visual motif but often on different sized canvases, among which he tended to work back and forth simultaneously.

Fernando Palma Rodriguez typically uses visual motifs of nature, constructed with found manufactured materials such as scrap metal and often animating these...

He breathes life into the exhausted or dormant visual motifs of Modernism and reenergizes these familiar forms to make them new.

So, too, would the sewer grate endure as a potent visual motif in his work, as he continued to create hidden vignettes beneath the floor.

Taylor's style and process fluctuates throughout these decades, thus the roughly 150 works on view are organized around a repeating theme or dominant visual motif rather than according to material or decade.

The exhibition opens with Sun Xun's Mythological Time, a site - specific installation that weaves visual motifs — a dragon, an opera dancer, a one - winged chunk of coal — into a modern day cave painting.

Buren endorsed the removal of authorial presence from painting, reducing his canvases to repetitive visual motifs.

The show also includes Collier's signature visual motifs of the open book.

Jean - Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280 — 2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on >> more David Zwirner Books ISBN 9781941701546 US $ 14.95 CAN $ 21.00 TRADE Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in.

In more recent work, Islam often takes a single visual motif as her point of departure, such as a woman distractedly spinning a ring in Dead Time (2000), a girl turning towards the camera and then vanishing in Turn (Gaze of Orpheus)(1998), a group of rickshaw drivers instructed by the artist to sit and do nothing in First Day of Spring (2005), or a cable car receding from its port in Time Lines (2005).

American vernacular architecture has been a consistent visual motif in Armajani's practice, and is embodied in his public works, including bridges, gardens, and outdoor rooms.

Visual motifs for this latest body of works are dedicated to elements from the field of botany, such as leaves of a tree or a plant.

Her works are layered with meanings and references that viewers can appreciate on many levels, from persistent visual motifs, to repetitive phrases and titles, to obscure citations, allusions, and puns.

A simple visual motif, where Elisa brings multiple eggs to the creature, visualises her growing emotional connection.

Also featured in the publication are stills from newly produced films, Telegraph (2012) and Encre Chine (2012), as well as reproductions of paintings and works on paper developed from the recurring visual motif of a photograph of a sailboat — continuing Sietsema's ongoing investigation into the mechanics of knowledge and history within image culture.

In her first exhibition with Alexander Gray Associates, Polly Apfelbaum will present new work in the multimedia show «The Potential of Women,» inspired by the cover design and visual motifs from a 1963 book of the same name.

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Rubin's most recent works include visual motifs of cellular structuring, revealing patterns that speak to the biological kinship of all beings.