Sentences with phrase «visual wit»

This kind of visual wit allows Smith to indulge a quite original colour sense that feels linked directly to the real utilitarian world but also one heightened by colours and forms wrested from mass media imagery.

You can, believe it or not, see some of Leitch's affinity for the silent classics in Deadpool 2, a movie that often blends action and comedy with visual wit and efficiency, offering an unexpected new angle to a sequel that returns with the expected load of R - rated snark and in - jokes for movie buffs (Celine Dion sings over the opening sequence, which invokes everything from Bond movies to Flashdance.)

As critic David Sterritt notes in his liner essay for our edition of the film, the dazzling Brazil's «verbal and visual wit remain as incisive as ever, and the themes it explores — social alienation, terrorism, the hazards of high technology, and the bureaucratization of absolutely everything — are more urgent now than when the film premiered.»

Cartoonist Joann Sfar brings visual wit to this biopic of the controversial French icon, but not much insight.

An approach to artmaking that combines visual wit and material sensibility is central to the whimsical spirit of the exhibition.

Trockel's particular probing poetic visual wit turns wool into something at once menacing and comforting, domestic and industrial, concrete and sof.

In this show, Ybarra deploys visual wit and irreverent acuity in the way that he appropriates the aesthetic signatures of mainstream art's validation process.

Of special note are two concurrent exhibitions, one by the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, which in its way shows a variant methodology for combining classicism with cartooning, deploying humor and a stylized visual wit; and another showing never - before seen latter - day works on paper by the iconic Louise Bourgeois.

Lewis, a master of visual wit, irony, and critique, figured in contradistinction to another abstractionist, BEAUFORD DELANEY, who wavered between completely nonillusionistic, gestural canvases and thickly painted, expressive portraits.

Director Peyton Reed, meanwhile, has a wonderful grasp of the big - small dynamic of his pint - sized hero, conjuring up a string of inventive action set pieces that subvert scale with visual wit.

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

The movie's visual wit is evident in its salutes to the likes of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Rube Goldberg's famously complicated contraptions.

It doesn't really matter, and you'll be laughing too hard at the gorgeous ukiyo - e illustrations of samurai kittens to care (this film can't match the savage comedic sting of «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» but the jokes come fast and furious, and Anderson's visual wit has never been sharper).

Their longing for a kindred spirit leads to an ongoing correspondence with each other over the following 20 years, revealing the minutiae of each other's lives, rich with black humour and visual wit.

Lacking, too, is the visual wit that made Mary Harron's American Psycho adaptation so scabrously entertaining, leaving us instead with little more than the depressing sight of a hairy James Corden snorting copious amounts of coke before taking an unmourned early bath.

Cheap scare tactics grafted onto gore without any visual wit, making this remake an exercise in poorly lit brutality.

The visual wit almost always trumps the verbal.

Arthur Christmas definitely should have been tighter, but the elements which count were done well: There's charm, visual wit, heart, and even some valuable messages.

Edgar Wright's latest retains his preternatural skill for storyboarding, editing and visual wit, but it lacks the emotional punch his previous films have brought to the table.

Without Carpenter's visual wit, Halloween II too often lapses into murder - by - numbers — a scalding hot tub here, a syringe in the eye there — but Rosenthal and his ace cinematographer, Dean Cundey, give the main setting, Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, the expressive mood of a Dario Argento movie.

Cohen notes «At first [Westfall's] compositions strike the viewer as well - behaved structures of pattern with decorative correlates in the applied arts... But his visual wit goes beyond mere reference to recent abstract art history.

Bonnard has been described as «the most thoroughly idiosyncratic of all the great twentieth - century painters», and the unusual vantage points of his compositions rely less on traditional modes of pictorial structure than voluptuous colour, poetic allusions and visual wit.

But behind the rich layers of vibrant colors and sharp imagery, visual wit and dark humor reveals her cheeky commentary on issues like gender, capitalism and violence.

Shire's visual wit and passion for color evolved over the decades into ever more outrageous small ceramic sculptures that only nod in the direction of a utilitarian origin.

Review: «a very sophisticated sense of composition, and a great sense of visual wit» — The Wall Street Journal

Fusing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the Duchampian tradition of the readymade, Therrien constructs a doppelganger from an everyday piece of furniture, both displaying his visual wit and actualizing literary or imaginative fantasy in three - dimensional space.»

As we engage in a global conversation about shock and humor following the attacks on the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo, Ungerer's work stands out for its visual wit.

Demonstrating formal finesse, visual wit and disarmingly direct technique, the recent paintings of Olive Ayhens are a pleasure to behold.