Sentences with phrase «wrought lyricism»

- Publishers Weekly «At times slow - moving, but imbued throughout with a careful and evenly wrought lyricism.»

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Much of the film's bruising lyricism comes from the camera work: as a DJ plays a bizarre mix of anti-police rap and Edith Piaf, the camera lurches drunkenly into the air at rooftop level.

In observing these characters» whimsically wayward lives, their indecision over work and frequent skipping between living situations (their apartments range across Manhattan and Brooklyn), Baumbach captures the current young - NYC - boho milieu with an exactitude that's almost anthropological and a lyricism that's both droll and engaging.

There's neither the overheated lyricism of Raging Bull nor the pulp grittiness of a noir like The Set - Up; everything in Kuosmanen's film feels earthy and grounded, and, unlike Bill Conti's work in Rocky, Kuosmanen forgoes a non-diegetic music score, thereby denying us any easy emotional signposts.

SC: And that's why I love you and your work: because of your poetic soul and the lyricism of its expression.

We'll examine recent works of nonfiction that are innovating the genre to try to learn from some new techniques involving collage, lyricism, and tone.

A thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism, set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves.

Vu Tran has written a thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism, set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves.

After a period of working predominantly in painting and film, Graves returned to sculpture in the 1970s, though with diminished investment in verisimilitude and more integration of the playful lyricism of her paintings.

Forms and textures of her sculptural works draw out mysteriousness from the materiality of a simple material such as wood, and imply stories with rich lyricism.

One could quibble with whether these paintings should have been called «Man Dressed as Butterfly»: The matter - of - factness of the titles (and Doig's skills) keeps the work from sliding into cheap lyricism, while also reminding us that Doig began with a snapshot of a costumed individual.

This show affords an intimate and focused look at Lee's rarely seen works derived from paper and stones created in the 1970s and early 1980s, offering new insights into an oeuvre defined by its elegant and unconventional approach to the lyricism and malleability of form.

The abundance of texture and color, articulates an encyclopedic breadth of the human experience life with an eloquence and lyricism commensurate with the great works by Walt Whitman, T.S. Elliot and Lord Byron.

Such singular geometric lyricism came to the fore in Calderara's seminal work Painting Infinity, which he created in 1959 at the age of 56 — the same year he created his first fully abstract painting, Quadrati e Rettangoli.

«The thoughtful display of quilts aligned with abstract works offers a dialogue between the technical splendor and lyricism of geometric patterns with the apparent freedom of color and expression,» explained Kay.

There's no doubting Ashbery's sophistication; his whimsical works on paper channel Max Ernst's collage novels, Anne Ryan's intimate accumulations of paper, string and fabric and Joseph Cornell's unseemly lyricism.

In these earlyworks there is a lyricism, a tenderness of touch, of surface, and content, while the more recent work of the same subject matter is tougher, sharper, bolder and more imposing materially, thus proposing another kind of youthfulness in older age though the return to landscape or nature as a thematic seems to bracket the period of cooler irony of Artschwager's most noted works, emerging in the era of Pop Art and continuing through the era of appropriation art.

«The works... span more than 30 years of enchanted lyricism and painterly deftness, and they confirm Avery as one of the under - regarded heroes of American modernism.»

Hartigan began to doubt her lyricism, and later felt this work was too easy, too beautiful.

Spanning work made between the 1960s and 1990s, this concise survey traces the evolution of Tanaka's style from his dark and intense early paintings, which demonstrate abstract experiments with nihon - ga materials, to the refinement of his later works that display a fresh and profound lyricism through the use of color.

Stephanie Cristello: I wanted to start with your relationship to lyricism in your work — but specifically the attention to the language of music, as a linguistic and conceptual structure.

Basing her work on natural references that were then transformed into formal abstract elements, she used the whole world as her source of inspiration, creating works that displayed lyricism, exuberance and humor.

And what is so remarkable is that the very loss at its core — a portrait is a person here, but not here — is countered by the slow lyricism of the work: Gorky's mother is brought back from annihilation, held in the bounding contours and gentle colour, her momentary image indelibly fused with the painting's hard - won surface.

Idris Khan's second solo show with the gallery, will consist of two major sculptural installations and a number of new photographic works that interlink seemingly disparate ideas of religion, Minimalism, music and poetry Khan's new body of work has a more formal engagement with the material he appropriates, in order to elicit a kind of lyricism and spirituality using a Minimal aesthetic.

Despite this curiosity for exploration of different media and techniques, the existential lyricism and poetic content is a constant in his work.

A 1998 gouache by LeWitt highlights the interplay between lyricism and conceptual apparatuses in the artist's work.

Rothko in particular admired the «gripping lyricism» of Avery's work.

The artist's work has been characterized by its precision and lyricism, its realism and abstraction.

While making this work, Svobodová intensively listened to the music of Antonin Dvorak, capturing his lyricism and alternating rhythms during the process.

With sebaceous materials such as oil stick and wax crayon, the late works reveal, in their lyricism and sensuousness, what Twombly described as his «irresponsibility to gravity.»

For co-curator Chris Darke, who frequently corresponded and also worked with Marker, the show reveals the ways in which the artist's «central subject was intelligence, a very particular, astute intelligence that's also full of political acuity, humour and lyricism».

That perception is the perfect clue to the surprisingly dissimilar works of the two painters: abstraction and realism, lyricism and analytic study, color and its subdual are all in play.

«The work can look a trifle austere at first glance,» noted Andrew Lambirth, «but the exquisitely balanced tonal drawings display a lyricism that leads you to the heart of his endeavour.»

Yet, Kahn's pointed concentration on hue and luminescence moves beyond the constraints of abstract expressionism, in which his teacher worked, to a kind of representation that artfully transcends overt description or narrative, even while maintaining a kind of painterly lyricism hinged entirely on color and its unique application.

Many globally recognised artists and practitioners are behind some of the most iconic works in the history of music, compositions that remain solidly in public memory for both their lyricism and striking illustrations.

This contrast between visual lyricism and content does not make Walker's work didactic; instead it makes the work unsettling in the worst possible way.

The work exemplifies Sonnier's trademark lyricism with neon lighting, playing solid forms against the graceful lines of his glowing neon lights.

Her ability to express a lyricism and mystery through paint, her carefully perfected methods of paint application, and her use of color and gesture all come together to make her work truly distinctive.»

With precision and an air of lyricism her work generates relationships between objects, creating balanced but contra - dictory dialectical encounters.

While painting and visual arts are her main practices, lyricism is the reigning characteristic in her works.

The Foundation of Contemporary Arts (FCA) has announced the new C. D. Wright Award for Poetry, an annual prize of $ 40,000 given to a poet over the age of fifty whose work «exemplifies Wright's vibrant lyricism, seriousness, and striking originality.»

The lyricism and careful composition of her work has been compared to the classical Indian Ragas, but with their high keyed color and keen energy the new paintings could as easily have spilled from a steamy «Bollywood» romance.

These ethereal and poetic watercolors on lined notebook paper embody the experimental lyricism that characterizes the work of an artist whose significant influence has been felt from the 1960s to the present day.

Title: Menhir Stacking Artist: Hans Van de Bovenkamp (Sagaponack, NY) Framed signed drawing of Van de Bovenkamp sculpture 26» h x 20» w, framed Value: $ 1,800 Starting Bid: $ 1,000 Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open - air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist - mystic whose work — with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions - heightens the viewer's sense of imagination and discovery.

Torbjørn Rødland at Serpentine Sackler Gallery September 29 — November 17 Full of allegory, lyricism, and humor, the work in Torbjørn Rødland's show «The Touch That Made You» keeps viewers engaged.

Fried's passion, lyricism and humor — lauded by authors such as Allen Grossman and J.M. Coetzee — are on display as he explores great minds and great works of art that have moved him.

Voicing criticism of her times with a gentle lyricism, Bhimji promotes confrontation with the difficult social issues of migration, globalization, and post-colonial history in her work.

As fluid as these works appear they avoid the trappings of lyricism whilst indicating a newer, less encumbered romanticism, something I was reminded of when talking with Erin in her London studio about her works and those of Günter Umberg.

Working at a small - scale, Wiener celebrates formal organization, but irregularities and accidents temper his formalist tendency, infusing the work with a poignant lyricism.

The current show presents a looser, less highly - wrought body of work; there is still the palpable sense of watching an artist think through every mark, but there is also a greater lyricism to the final effect.