Sentences with phrase «visual whimsy»

St. Etienne, France's Oakoak takes a humouristic approach to the blemishes of urban decay, adding touches of visual whimsy and wisecracking narratives for the eyeballs.

It's a very strong show of spot - on assemblage sculpture whose visual whimsy and wry humor rely upon Larsen's knack — that's too ARTnews - y: gift — for harnessing good design to still better invention.

«Think of the 101 ways as nuggets — none over a few pages; each written in a no - nonsense style yet flavored with a bit of visual whimsy.

It's a nice idea, but just never a funny one, especially with Dar piling on overly broad physical gags; and that the film sometimes flirts with becoming something more intriguingly offbeat (the opening titles, which are a 3D journey through a scene - setting childhood photo collage; a romantic duet number that builds to some Baz Luhrmann - ish over-the-top visual whimsy) becomes more than a little frustrating.

It combines the oversaturated colors of Oz, the fanciful storytelling style of «The Princess Bride,» the visual whimsy of «Amélie» and the eccentricity and pie - loving passion of «Twin Peaks» - all baked together in a yummy dessert.

Not exact matches

It's the whimsy and mix of lovable characters that make this animated family film from Belgium a winner, especially for the youngsters, who will giggle and warm to the colourful visuals

The visual effects are consistently superb (yes, Smaug is a triumph — though they didn't need to electronically treat Cumberbatch's voice quite that much); the new characters fir seamlessly, and Jackson has settled on a tone (no more whiplashing between Hobbit whimsy and LOTR darkness)-- which leads directly to the score being better because composer Howard Shore doesn't have to skip all over the place.

It is an oddity that asks players to look at things from a different angle, mixing whimsy visuals and playful interactions with a sense of surprise and discovery, quietly threading an untold narrative.

Something as seemingly pedestrian as a cheeseburger or French fries or an old - school jar of Vaseline are imbued with irony and whimsy and are, as Walter Robinson, the creator of these colorful images, observes, a kind of «visual hymn to the hydrogenated consumer utopia of 21st - century America.»

The wrappers are manipulated to give color, form, movement and whimsy to the subjects, creating both a carnal delight and an exciting visual effect.

«The Illusive Eye» is full of whimsy, and the show is an unabashed visual delight.

An edition of 25, the work illustrates a mountain scene; while evocative of traditional Eastern landscape painting, Cutler's inclusion of the comical goat and the traveling hybrid women — they are half human and half rocky terrain — both imbues the work with whimsy and makes for a witty visual pun.