Sentences with phrase «with psychological portraits»

Los Angeles, fine artist Anja Salonen returns to figurative painting with psychological portraits of herself and her friends posing with chains, wigs, sunglasses; all elements the artist explains as connected to the formation of the personalities of those shown.

Not exact matches

Acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Chung Mong - Hong (The Fourth Portrait) delivers a fascinating and chilling meditation on spiritual migration and reincarnation in this stylish psychological thriller about a man who develops an unsettling bond with the transient spirit that comes to inhabit his body.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

His portraits of reprehensible humans are rife with too much glee and bitter contempt and not enough psychological understanding.

Part psychological drama and part crime thriller, this warped love story leverages its disturbing plot into a mesmerizing and nerve - wracking portrait of a damaged woman forced to reckon with her true nature.

Not simply a chronicle of an investigation, Evil Genius also doubles as a psychological portrait of those with unfulfilled «potential,» and director Barbara Schroeder expertly weaves the police procedural aspects with creepy yet touching personal stories.

With Sisters, Lily Tuck delivers riveting psychological portrait of marriage, infidelity, and obsession; charting with elegance and insight love in all its phaWith Sisters, Lily Tuck delivers riveting psychological portrait of marriage, infidelity, and obsession; charting with elegance and insight love in all its phawith elegance and insight love in all its phases.

The composition of Ossorio's intriguingly titled psychological portrait Donald Clean and Healthy with His Worries in His Hair (1944 - 49) is re-worked almost twenty years later as an abstract congregation in Undistracted (c. 1963).

Preferring to make portraits of people he knows, a selection of works from the Arts Council Collection introduces some of his early social circle, revealing the skill, sensitivity and psychological insight with which he represented them.

Imbued with a powerful psychological dimension, Neel's portraits bear witness to almost a century of evolution in attitudes towards gender and ethnicity, and to radical changes in fashion at the heart of American society.

This visually arresting selection of landscapes and portraits plumbs underlying psychological states, executed with the artist's characteristic masterful gesture and vivid palette.

Through her work, she plays with the idea of memory and the psychological self, whether it is in «Tired Men,» a series of photographs of iconic sculptures of Cuban historical figures depicted from the back to portrait «prints» created on an inkless dot matrix printer, their images only seen in the vague embossing created by the printer.

Alice Neel is best known for her portraits which, with their controlled painterly drama and psychological nuance, are complete and polished formal statements in a classical genre.

The exhibition combines depictions of funerary bouquets, which Packer approaches as psychological stand - ins for people, with individual portraits of those she knows well — mostly family members and close friends.

The other big portrait show in town promises just as much psychological intensity, with a group of 70 works that includes all the usual suspects (the Metropolitan Museum of Art's «Boy in Red» made the trip, as did many paintings from Spanish museums and collections) and some of the master's characteristically mordant self - portraits.

Peyton herself owes a debt to the great portrait painter Alice Neel, known for her incisive psychological studies, and in fact paid homage to Neel with a nude image of the artist (referencing Neel's own famous nude self - portrait at age 80.)

His relentless circumspection and proud self - absorption is reflected in his multiple self - portraits which are laden with psychological drama, some attribute this to the fact that he is the grandson of Sigmund Freud.

It's especially gratifying to see portraiture included here, since so many photographers since Arbus seem to have forgotten about the portrait's psychological punch and instead give us what the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik once called (glowingly, with due respect to Richard Avedon) «studies in human performance.»

A portrait might be darkly psychological, as with Freud's fraught figures; expressively off - kilter, as with Chantal Joffe's disproportionate, listless subjects, or it might flatten and modularize a figure into something readily consumable, as with Lichtenstein.