Sentences with phrase «visual tour de force»

«The Woolworth's Choir of 1979» is not only a visual tour de force - it is 20 of the most exhilarating minutes I've ever spent in an art gallery.
Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy is a visual tour de force - particularly the look of its two leads, Hellboy and Abe Sapien.
The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg's visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life.

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In 2016, Masud Olufani declared his arrival as a visual arts tour de force in Atlanta...
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.
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.
Pushing the limits of the tradition, in tableaux evocative of violent dislocations, these paintings offer a tour de force of visual expression and visceral effect.
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