Sentences with phrase «work of realist»

The ARC Salon is an international exhibition of the work of realist painters including award winners Ben Bauer, Rachel Bess, Daniel Bilmes, Candice Bohannon, Alex Callaway, Leslie Fornalik, Zoey Frank, David Gluck, Amanda Grieve, and Steven J. Levin.

Recently on view at Danese Corey Gallery in New York, artist Shelley Reed's mural - sized paintings evoke the work of realist French or Dutch paintings from a bygone era — although at a slight removal given their monochromatic palettes.

The show starts with the foundational work of the realists and quickly shifts to the pioneering work of the impressionists; then there's a section devoted to American followers of the French - based movement, and finally, a salute to Monet, the star of Nature as Muse, many of whose paintings are included, notably the DAM's «Waterloo Bridge.»

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• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

In his philosophical works Edward Holloway suggests a slight realignment of detail within the realist tradition in the light of modern insights into material reality.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Still, in an abundance of prudence, the administration's wise new realist thrust determined that it was in our nation's interest not to meddle in Iranian affairs and to continue the dialogue with the current authorities, even as it was clear that our national interest dictated that we work with President Chavez to help bring the deposed Mr. Zelaya back to power in Honduras.

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

What difference does it make that advocates of just war work within the presumptions of a realist foreign policy — as in the case of United States foreign policy — which assumes that one must do evil that good may come?

Buber — who was, in an elevated sense, a pragmatic realist — worked continually for these aims and insisted that the new «political enterprise» (the State of Israel) was normatively subordinate to the «religious idea» (Zion), and «that as long as such a reality [i.e., the idea of Zion] lives, history should be responsible to it rather than that it should be responsible to history» (preface to Israel and Palestine: The History of an Idea).

I also have co-written a book with Susan Pease Gadoua, a longtime Marin divorce counselor and author of Contemplating Divorce, called The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels (Seal Press, Sept. 28, 2014) a cutting - edge book that challenges our one - size - fits - all, till - death - do - we - part version of marriage and offers new models that work better for who we are today.

Symbiotic Realism, a theory proposed in a previous work, posits that the classical realist perception of competitive state relations, in which states are primarily concerned with relative gains in a self - help system, does not withstand scrutiny in our globalised world.

The works of classical realists like Morgenthau sidelined much of the ideological component of political regimes, depicting inter-state affairs as obliging to a higher morality of state interests and survivability, which essentially meant minimizing risks and maximizing benefits.

I know of no realist work interested in post hoc political justifications for foreign policy actions.

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And as the young, vibrant nanny works tirelessly to shake Marlo out of her postpartum depression, Reitman begins to introduce magical - realist elements into the film — a nighttime excursion into the city, an amusing yet uncomfortable threesome — that ably put us in his deliriously exhausted, wish - fulfilling protagonist's mindset.

Nevertheless, it's an extraordinary work, half magical - realist fable, half anthropological essay, marbled with moments both of transcendent beauty and dirt - poor grit.

They sought inspiration in the era's art, specifically the work of the photo - realists, who painted photographs in a style that is both hyperreal and at one remove from reality — evoked by the variety of reflecting surfaces seen in the film — and the op artists, who deployed contrasting visual elements to create vibrating surface tensions on a single plane.

But for all its fugitive conventions, the film is at heart a social - realist tale about the toil of the working man.

One way to look at this conscientiously mature, strategically magic - realist movie is as its creators» most ambitious joint effort to date, yet it's actually this same, superficial «daring» that points up their work's underlying lack of real imagination.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

What makes Wright and Pegg's handling of genre clichés work is the way they spin them to make an almost realist view of how these types of movies would play out in the real world.

In his output from early in that decade, with its elements of fatalism and compositional sophistication, one can see the seeds of the poetic realist tendency in French cinema, a style whose popularization Duvivier would have a fundamental hand in a few years later (along with the likes of Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Jean Renoir, all of whose work has come to overshadow Duvivier's).

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

A realist aesthetic has always been basic to Brooks, but we tend to forget that what we call realism — in the work of everyone from Emile Zola to David Denby — almost invariably derives from a class position.

The work of French poetic realist / film noir specialist Julien Duvivier gets a double feature — «Flesh and Fantasy» (1943) and «Destiny» (1944).

But while Haigh, thirty - seven when he made Weekend, worked his way up the ranks of British cinema — he was an assistant to Ismail Merchant and worked as an assistant editor with Ridley Scott — his sensibility has more in common with the realist tendencies of the contemporary American independent scene, in particular the naturalistic intimacy and political intent of filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.

Here's a realist message that you can send back to whomever you were delivering that clearly partisan message from: As of right now, Odyssey or any other online learning software / virtual system does not work with non-intentional learners, poor inner - city learners, poor readers, and limited English learners.

Through their work, they communicate and bond with each other despite geographical distance, such that one can easily speak of the youthful realist novel, or neo-realist novel, or fantastic novel or post-modern novel that young writers from all the Arab countries have contributed to.

As James Thomas and I continued collecting, we noticed the shorter the work, the more it questioned the terms of «traditional» (realist) short - story characteristics.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the «magic realist» tradition, is famous for novels... (more)

I am of a generation that has grown with printed books from school to college to Uni, to work & leisure but I am a realist that, like all of us, we are witnessing a new era where technology, like of loath), is introducing a new format that is the eBook.

Look for the work of coastal artists including Royal Nebeker's mixed media watercolors, Steve McLeod's impressionist and realist scenics and Allyn Cantor's acrylics that often combine thread, fabric and leaves.

One must think of these works in relation to one another under a common criteria, much in the same way that we can examine a catalog of Italian neorealist films or a compilation of magical realist novels.

In the essay, Nochlin traces the ways the Romanticists, the Realists, the early Impressionists, and others created a vanguard of artists who broke away from salon - style work and exhibited art that provoked, both stylistically and conceptually.

Stein works between the lines of abstract and realist, he creates recognisable faces, but is not interested in a photo realistic portrait.

Although these sound like the fighting words of a hardcore abstract artist, Matthiasdottir was a realist painter who, like all significant artists working in this mode, reinvented it.

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

He finds the artist's works — like those of other «Berlin and Hamburg Realists,» as a subheading has it — to be «not that good, even as satire.»

One of the earliest works on view is Fisherman's Family (1931), a seemingly realist oil painting of a family scene.

Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

On view October 22, 2016 — January 22, 2017, this exhibition surveys the state of representational painting at the beginning of the 21st century and features approximately 40 works by 20 contemporary realist artists from throughout the United States and Canada.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.

Timed to celebrate Black History Month, Grenning Gallery has assembled a group show of contemporary African - American artists working in the realist mode for an exhibition that is long on the traditional portraiture for which the gallery is renowned.

His portraits are realist works constructed of flawlessly rendered figures and an array of props.

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).

His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the ground - breaking «New Realists» show at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (1962), «Dokumenta IV» and «Dokumenta VI» (1968, 1977), the Venice Biennale (1988), and «Pop Art» (1991 - 1993) organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

Martin Basher works in a variety of different media — from photo - realist paintings, large - scale abstract canvases, and assemblage sculptures to collage techniques.