What is remarkable though, is how skilfully Yang Fudong balances this dichotomy to create works that are endowed
with classical beauty and timelessness.
Not exact matches
It constitutes a radical challenge to
classical and humanistic axioms
with regard to
beauty and art, not in the form of an apologetic diatribe but rather of a masterly study in comparative literature.
Converts Great On The typical Taurus woman possesses a
classical Venus - like type of
beauty,
with a curvaceous figure and beautiful hair.
Stylistically it's a
beauty,
with khaki - uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing
classical score.
«Jaffa to Stamboul» is a really lovely piece
with a charming melody heard initially for solo duduk over soaring strings; «Arrival» turns the tables a bit,
with choppy strings providing real urgency, rhythmic accompaniment from percussion seeing the pace growing; then «The Orient Express» offers a full - on romantic musical portrait of
classical train travel, full of buzz and energy and
beauty,
with a wonderful theme introduced (barely heard again, sadly).
With a curriculum built upon a
classical liberal arts tradition and a revolutionary approach to school itself, Great Hearts cultivates the hearts and minds of students in the pursuit of Truth, Goodness and
Beauty.
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Mapplethorpe's photographs exemplify
classical ideals of form and proportion reminiscent of the work of Edward Weston,
with their controlled relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry,
beauty and obscenity, whilst at the same time clearly presaging a more contemporary interest
with the body and self - obsession.
He was inspired by graffiti and the so - called «outsider» art of psychiatric patients, prisoners and children, work that was at odds
with the academic,
classical notions of
beauty in art.
Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, it is one of a series of paintings Picabia made between 1921 and 1923 in which the ancient ideal of
classical beauty is combined
with geometric abstraction, and it is housed within its original Pierre Legrain frame.
Mapplethorpe's photographs exemplify
classical ideals of form and proportion with their controlled relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry, beauty and obscenity, while at the same time clearly reflecting both a Classical and highly contemporary interest in the hu
classical ideals of form and proportion
with their controlled relationships between light and shadow, balance and asymmetry,
beauty and obscenity, while at the same time clearly reflecting both a
Classical and highly contemporary interest in the hu
Classical and highly contemporary interest in the human body.
A second - century Roman bust of a goddess, for example, will be paired
with unusual portrait busts made of chocolate and soap by contemporary artist Janine Antoni in an effort to explore
classical concepts of
beauty.
Made of polycarbonate, the sculptures are coated
with graphite, giving them the look of
classical works — which makes them all the more disturbing, due to the contrast between the technical
beauty of the pieces and the ugliness or weakness that they so often depict.
In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines photographic portraiture
with line drawings taken from
classical antiquity to question notions of
beauty.
But she often coupled her criticality
with a sly humor and an exacting, alluring
beauty, as in the 1983 — 88 series «Objects of Desire,» for which she cut out items from magazines, ranging from dresses and bowls to bondage gear and
classical statues, which she then rephotographed and printed on solid fields of color that matched their frames.
For over five decades, Mr. Mangold has been mining an extremely spare combination of shape, color and line (always drawn in dark pencil)
with consistently outstanding results that reveal the thoughtfulness of
beauty in both
classical and contemporary terms.»
Formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, the former owner of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, it is one of a series of paintings Picabia made between 1921 and 1923 in which the ancient ideal of
classical beauty is combined
with geometric abstraction, and it is housed within its original Pierre Legrain frame.
Ben Charles Weiner's respective depictions of these subjects - both in isolation and together in tableaux — pair a motif from
classical Western painting
with a synthetic
beauty product — to address tension between the rapid technological innovation of our time and the persistent fact of our mortality.
Also, geometric abstraction is in line
with classical aesthetics: Plato for example maintained that the highest form of
beauty lies in the «ideal» concept or geometry of a thing, rather than its actual appearance in the natural world.
Quite the accomplished artist, Lorna Simpson has been trailblazing for some time by merging ideas of
classical beauty with provocative politics.
With «Tonic», Alyssa Monks has created a thing of
beauty, while pushing the boundaries on what most
classical realists are doing.
Further, Batura has compounded the allure of fetish magazine imagery
with Classical notions of
beauty, blending them into an erotic ideal.
They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and
classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily
with the waning of youthful
beauty.