Sentences with phrase «work as an allegory»

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.

It's also amusing in the way it works as an allegory for Hollywood — another cutthroat industry.

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But when I bring any of them up to one of the fundies I work with, they always sluff it off as either allegory or a scribe's error.

Stephen Greenblatt, for instance, in Renaissance Self - Fashioning (1980), the foundational work of the New Historicism, reads Othello as a virtual allegory of the European conquest of the New World.

A good zombie movie but also more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a zombie flick.

The class implications of this allegory are painfully clear: though I suspect that Rockwell's background is more comfortable, the working - class origins of Anders, Rodriguez, and Tarantino (or at least what are perceived as his working - class origins) are central to their movies, and the myth of these filmmakers» ascendancy derives its power from the American dream.

The film works best as an allegory of what men fear: loss of family, loss of profession, loss of respect, loss of sanity (resembling in this aspect the suburban unease of the director's Arlington Road), going so far as to cast a woman (Laura Linney) as the film's only representative of order.

Still, what works in Happy Times is what has worked in this director's best work (Shanghai Triad, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum): mordant social critique so far removed from realism that its status as political allegory is as subtle as a neon sign and a crack to the noggin.

Also, Casper's naïve reaction to his food's criticism doesn't serve much as a lesson in thick skin by any means, and any allegory to Favreau's own opinions on criticism of his work isn't especially effective.

Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.

It's smart, funny and works both as a delightful family film on the surface and a rich allegory for race relations on a much deeper level.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

Sure it works as survival horror, but it's also a great allegory for the daily battles we find ourselves embroiled in.

An impenetrable folly of gaudy excess and crass emoting, the film's only achievement beyond the technical prowess of its staging is in highlighting the shortcomings of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tome: as an allegory, it is masterful, but as a romantic narrative, it is a meagre work.

And the film itself is as great as you might imagine: a gripping, deeply moving examination of one person caught up in an unfair system and trying to quell demons exterior and interior to fix it, which works equally well as a humanist portrait, as social commentary and even as political allegory.

It is every miserablist working - class, undereducated, easily - roused neighborhood - as - allegory you've ever seen on film, from Dead End to Out of the Furnace.

Plato's chariot allegory is about the soul, but it works just as well for these aspects of personality.

It is through Courbet, the specific artist, the Harmonian demiurge, that all the figures partake of the life of this pictorial world, and all are related to his direct experience; they are not traditional, juiceless abstractions like Truth or Immortality, nor are they generalized platitudes like the Spirit of Electricity or the Nike of the Telegraph; it is, on the contrary, their concreteness which gives them credibility and conviction as tropes in a «real allegory,» as Courbet subtitled the work, and which, in addition, ties them indissolubly to a particular moment in history.

Making reference to the reaper who appears in everyday lives in Hans Holbein's 16th - century series «The Dance of Death,» as well as to the shadows that enthrall the fictional prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave (a recurring theme in Kentridge's work), the piece also conjures a modern - day New Orleans funeral march.

A graduate of Pratt Institute (BFA in Painting) and Parsons School of Design (MFA), Cake's works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and exhibitions, including a solo show at The Untitled Space in July 2015, «Allegories Of The Held,» as well as public works such as The Gateway Project's Mural in Newark Penn Station «Cast the Burden and the Light Will Impress».

The garden as a place of sensual pleasure, fantasy and escape, site of allegory and myth, or collision of manmade and natural worlds connects works by Alice Neel, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Maria Nepomuceno and Sarah Sze.

Her work as a curator includes exhibits «The «F» Word: Feminism in Art» a group show of 20 female artists, «Human / Nature» a group show revolving around environmental themes and «Allegories of The Held», a solo show of works by artist Jennifer Caviola aka Cake, as well as «The Voyeur» exhibit at Art Basel Miami sponsored by The American Friends of The Louvre.

The Art Gallery of Hamilton owns the seminal work Horse and Train, often taken as an allegory for death.

The works evolve into art history as well as allegories perceived by the artist through the twist of expression given by its creator.

The «Allegories of the Held» exhibition presents a selection of works from Jennifer Caviola's «The Bride», «Mit Blumen» and «Feast of Shamen» series, as well as different artworks that have never been exhibited before.

Superficially about an American illegal - drug afficionado (played by Michael Cera) on a hallucinogen - sampling trip through Chile, the film works as a terrific allegory about American swagger and hamfisted international relations.

The title of the work, as the exhibition itself, can be read as an allegory: When a «face» looks into «water face», referring to the watery - fluids found in another person's eye, one sees not only the other's face, but his own face as is reflected in the other's eye.

Fabric drawings by Louise Bourgeois integrate the artist's autobiographical locus with allegory and memory conjured from working in the family tapestry shop as a child.

Baltimore - based artist Mequitta Ahula's work Performing Painting: A Real Allegory of Her Studio (2015) used herself as a means to depict and deconstruct the history of figurative painting as it relates to the body along time and space.

Ruby's works act as formally charged markers and allegories for the burdens that plague contemporary existence.

i'm only a passenger — just like you (from an Egyptian tomb) As you round the corner of the entryway at Diane Rosenstein where this phrase is visible, the first works on view in Eleanor Antin's Passengers are two massive photographs from her 2004 series Roman Allegories.

Santiago Muñoz captures the aspirations and imagined futures of those who are deeply invested in alternative models of being, using the stories of farmers, activists, and artists working in Puerto Rico as allegories for larger political possibilities in the region.

Twombly often quoted the poets as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats, as well as many classical myths and allegories in his works.

Evading the reach of language, his subtly double - edged allegories make visible a broad spectrum of sensory experience, as well as physical and emotional exchange, coalescing at his work's center the unpredictable physicality of our world.

Many of the works on view in By the Book employ metaphor, allusion, and allegory as structures to evoke a powerfully symbolic visual language, while others are inspired more directly by literary texts and fictional narratives.

Müller turned to allegory, religion, and literature as sources of inspiration for his new large - scale figural works.

As Jeremy Lewison writes, «Neel fell outside the expected norms of leftist painters for whom works amounted to rather obvious allegories of the social situation... she rejected the post-cubist approach to the figure that Picasso and his followers adopted; and she avoided abstraction as a mode of painting because of its narrative limitations.&raquAs Jeremy Lewison writes, «Neel fell outside the expected norms of leftist painters for whom works amounted to rather obvious allegories of the social situation... she rejected the post-cubist approach to the figure that Picasso and his followers adopted; and she avoided abstraction as a mode of painting because of its narrative limitations.&raquas a mode of painting because of its narrative limitations.»

Raised in Hawaii, Charles Yuen brings a rich personal approach to the tradition of painterly allegory such as the work of Philip Guston and Francis Picabia.

Full of allegories and symbols, the parade depicts the farewell of the men from the village to seek work as migrants.

Bare breasted and tutu clad, their lips and eyes hidden by veils or obscured by black bars, these Cathara Insurgent Women recur as prominent characters in the artist's photographs, videos, artist books, and collage works on fabric, usually operating as allegories for resistance.

2010 Order to see, Galerie Praz, Delavallade, Paris, France In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro, London, Great Britain Whitney Biennial, New York / NY, USA 2009 We Are Sun - kissed and Snow - blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Paris Artists of Conflcting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany Cave Painting PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany Mrs. MacGruder, Benson Keyes Arts, Hello, curated by Michele Maccarone, Southampton / NY, USA Cave Painting: Installment # 1, Gresham's Ghost, Curated by Bob Nickas and Ajay Kurian, New York / NY, USA 2008 Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York / NY, USA Blasted Allegories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Works from the Ringier Collection, Luzern, Switzerland ESTRATOS, Contemporary Art Project, Murcia, Spain Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York / NY, USA 2007 XXS (Extra Extra Small), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, curated by Bob Nickas, Zurich, Switzerland The Third Mind, Palais de Toyko, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris, France Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland 2006 Panic Room, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greek Painting Codes, GC.AC, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy 2005 Lyon Biennale, Lyon Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Interested Painting, Gallery 400, University of Illionois, Chicago / IL, USA Down by Law, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / NY, USA 2004 Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2003 Utopia Station, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy Breathing The Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London, Great Britain Dreams and Conflicts, Venice, Italy, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 20th Anniversary - Welcome home, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York / NY, USA 2002 Five Years, Jousse Enterprise, Paris, France From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York / NY, USA Urgent Painting, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 2001 Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield / CT, USA Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Great Britain Extended Painting, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy Invisible Museum, Memphis / TN, USA Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Great Britain How is Everything?

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Remote Controls also features the video Seduction of a Cyborg (1994), a poetic allegory about technology's invasion of the body; The Complete Electronic Diaries (1986 - 1994), a 76 - minute single - channel «video typed» confessional that records Hershman Leeson's struggle, transformation, and transcendence as her personal story unfolds before the camera; and several short video works.

Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.

The present work thus reveals the foundations of Scully's praxis as he combines real life structures with the poetic allegory of a subjective viewing experience.

The plastic objects, as well as the entire shop, are part of the work; together with the film, they form an allegory for the living and working conditions within our global society.

One such work, Plato's Cave, realizes the philosopher's famous allegory as an architectural model.

Several artists, however, used the mayor's charismatic flair as a motif in their works and humorously portrayed the losers of the last election campaign, as can be seen in the photographs of the artist duo Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda at Atelierhaus Monbijou, or the homage - like portrait to Berlin's mayor, Allegory of Government, in an empty room at KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin by Clegg & Guttmann.

His works feature figures or objects — often domestic ones such as empty chairs — rendered in solid fields of color and employed as allegories for contemporary life in Ethiopia.

Considered by many to be the first dramatic work of the theater of the absurd, Roi (translated as «King Ubu» or «King Turd») is an allegory of anarchy that uses farce and scatological humor to comment on art, literature, politics, and the ruling class.