Sentences with phrase «with classical beauty»

What is remarkable though, is how skilfully Yang Fudong balances this dichotomy to create works that are endowed with classical beauty and timelessness.

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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 huclassical 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 huClassical 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.
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