Sentences with phrase «with allegorical»

In such an oeuvre we are confronted with an allegorical model of abstraction that relies on the politics of the démodé in standing over and against the bias's associated with the mythos of heroic painting.

The exhibition opens with the allegorical short film, Will / We Must by Zhou Tiehai, which the artist produced in 1996 when he was 30 years old.

Williams interweaves references to true incidences of violence with allegorical scenes in which black resistors taunt and tame their abusers.

Bronze sculptures by James Muir are typically realistic, figurative artworks with allegorical references.

Each work is imbued with allegorical content that relates to our world, yet allows through its formal nuances for the transcendent and the sublime.

Compositions of natural and inanimate objects were often presented with allegorical connotations.

According to The Art League's news release, the show «explores the themes of clowns and dolls, human effigies, and painted faces, integrating human emotions and passions with allegorical storytelling.

The gray is lush, like the color of thought itself, and both artists take on the studio as their subject matter — Johns with an allegorical approach, and Guston more obliquely through dreamy translation and material play.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

Paul Pretzer paints scenes depicting fabulous creatures engrossed in absurd acts with allegorical still - life arrangements.

The setting is loaded with allegorical details to rival any Hans Holbein painting: patterned fabrics, posters for Chris Ofili and Lauryn Hill, photos of musicians and pop stars, and ads for Ultra Glow and Dark and Lovely.

The composition is riddle with allegorical references to the artist's own identities and witty allusions to current social, political, and economic themes.

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

It's an exciting (albeit contrived) setup for a quirky JRPG, with plenty of moe female characters in skintight outfits, mixed with an allegorical adventure meant to represent the long - running console wars.

The narration is interspersed with allegorical fairy tales that suggest intriguing connections to the main plot.

Watership Down is essentially a handsomely - mounted adventure sold with allegorical elements and a few sticky archetypes.

Star Nina Hoss and director Christian Petzold have crafted a postwar «Vertigo» with allegorical and emotional power.

In 2001, U2 had one of the top albums of the year (All That You Can't Leave Behind) with an allegorical, 11 - song tribute to a lover (or, more likely, mother figure) identified as «Grace»: «She takes the blame, she covers the shame, she travels outside of karma.»

With the allegorical principle once set aside, much of the support for the supposed Paulinism of Mark disappears.

Not exact matches

Just make it all allegorical with some historical fiction thrown in towards the end.

@Jesus Please ensure you are not mistaking YEC, which is of fairly recent Protestant vintage, with the position of the RCC which publicly announced decades (in some cases more than a century ago) that many of the stories in are allegorical.

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

In dealing with the problem, they made free use of an allegorical method of interpretation, which was a legacy from ancient Greek scholarship.

They are at once heroic, comic, allegorical, lyrical, satirical, fabulous, and (occasionally) dark; they move with alarming ease between the metaphysical and the ribald, the allegorical and the brutal, the spiritual and the grotesque.

I'm with you on the historical / allegorical front, but what's this strange teaching about the Holy Spirit?

The third approach is to treat Leviticus as a symbolic or allegorical system that has little or nothing to do with sacrifices per se, but everything to do with teaching important lessons.

Free Thinker Seeking Reason, «My goodness, you certainly are obsessed with your devotion to a book of allegorical stories written with the intent to entertain and provide a moral compass in their day.

My goodness, you certainly are obsessed with your devotion to a book of allegorical stories written with the intent to entertain and provide a moral compass in their day.

A more pictorial and naturalistic but no less conceptualized variation on this approach is the popular painting by William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World (1851 - 1853), in which Christ knocks at the allegorical door of the heart, waiting to enlighten it with his lamp of truth.

Portrayals of classical subjects, such as Lucretia and Cleopatria, as well as of allegorical topics, increasingly depicted female figures with exposed breasts.

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

First, disputes with Protestants, who accepted Scriptural authority alone and rejected allegorical interpretations, meant that the literal sense of the Bible was fundamental and almost exclusive.

The Song of Songs eulogizes a love affair between two unmarried persons, though even some scholars have conspired to cover up the fact with heavy layers of allegorical interpretation.

The allegorical Atlas Shrugged (1957) combines science fiction with her political message.

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Mythology 1: an allegorical narrative 2: a body of myths: as a: the myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular people b: mythos 2 3: a branch of knowledge that deals with myth 4: a popular belief or assumption that has grown up around someone or something

The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts at understnding the meanings.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

Pearce concludes the book with a painfully uninformed discussion of King Lear that ignores the obligatory decision about the quarto and folio texts, as well as the entire critical and theatrical history; he advances a naive allegorical reading whose major elements have all appeared, more cogently, elsewhere.

Either way, the myths had such strong allegorical ties to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, that they became a common symbol associated with Christianity.

So, let us get on with the Women's Equality Agenda; just not in the NYS Assembly, where the membership surely understands Kristen Gillibrand's allegorical «slap in the a $ $» comment.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

Explore the spiritual and allegorical side of our Signs and Symbols jewellery collection with these gorgeous gold drop earrings.

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

Black Panther is in - your - face with its political perspective, neither soft - peddling its allegorical aspects nor shying away from an ideology that may be controversial in some circles.

The Cleanse» embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.

A high - end commercials director making his feature debut, Blomkamp (who also co-wrote the script with Terri Tatchell) milks his ostensibly fantastic scenario for all its allegorical worth.

-- which is currently busy dividing critical opinion with its deranged, allegorical depiction of a woman under increasingly heavy siege from within her own life — has been far less polarizing for regular movie - goers, who gifted it with a rare «F» grade via audience polling service CinemaScore.