'I never know what's going to happen' Jun 16, 2008
The figures start to seem like characters in a fragmented allegory of life. The words that accompany one of them seem to evoke Markarian's life in the studio: So now, OK, let's see what happens when no one's around. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Julianne Moore knows how to make them suffer Jun 15, 2008
The first wave of U.S. press was largely dismissive of Fernando Meirelles' dystopian allegory, set in a world where everyone except Moore's character has suddenly lost the power of sight, labeling it ponderous and heavy-handed (European critics were significantly more enthusiastic). But Moore says Meirelles is adept at leavening the film's weightier aspects with powerful flickers of human feeling. (Los Angeles Times)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Jun 14, 2008
"OK, OK. I believe this is both a ponderous and didactic political allegory and the most brilliant critique of Soviet Russia. But I still love Julia.". "Then it's Room 101 and the rats for you.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
French police recover stolen Monet painting Jun 5, 2008
The stolen paintings were Monets 1897 Cliffs near Dieppe, the 1890 Lane of Poplars near Moret by fellow Impressionist Alfred Sisley and Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elders 17th century Allegory of Earth and Allegory of Water. . (MSNBC -- News)
Too much battle in 'Narnia' May 25, 2008
This is a swashbuckler dressed up as an allegory. Too much, unfortunately, is left in the closet. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
The Medieval Imagination May 24, 2008
In the manuscript of a Middle English prose translation of Guillaume de Deguilleville's allegory, The Pilgrimage Of The Lyfe Of The Manhode And The Pilgrimage Of The Sowle (c. 1430), Satan is portrayed in very strange manner. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The golden touch May 24, 2008
This is an allegory of the macro and the micro in art ... Klimt's flirtation with this kind of epic, overweight, overcrowded picture - somewhere between Wembley stadium and a mass grave - is pared down, spliced with symbolist aesthetic and allegory, but over-impressed by the idea of size. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Shaking up the crowd at Cannes May 16, 2008
Saramago, this new film goes higher up the brow still, with an allegory with a very large capital A.. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Well hung painting causes a stir May 14, 2008
" Todd describes his painting as an allegory depicting the Greek community moving into the Northern Territory, and said he was disturbed by the fact that one complaint could ban a painting. "But I understand it is a court of law and it worried me that maybe it was the mother of a victim that was offended, so I didn't really want to fight," he said. It isn't the artist's first brush with controversy. His first exhibition was "visited by the vice squad" after someone at the company that processed... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In brief: Matters of Faith May 11, 2008
YOUTH MUSICAL: High school youth from Central Lutheran and Lutheran Church of Hope will perform a free musical "For a Time Like This" at 8:15, 9:45 and 11:15 a.m. Sunday at Central Lutheran Church, 1420 Cordova St. and at 10 a.m. May 18 at Lutheran Church of Hope, 1847 W. Northern Lights Blvd. The show is an allegory about window dressers who learn about what really matters in life. For details, call 277-1622 or 279-7714. (Anchorage Daily News)
Belingheri makes you think about absurdity May 11, 2008
Jackson resuscitates that idiom in his paintings, less as existentialist allegory than to respect the fact that we treat a painting that matters to us like an individual: our paradigm of an individual is a person. This approach has Jackson walking the edge of sentimentality and anachronism all the time. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The 'right' hero for our time? May 4, 2008
"There's a certain amount of political allegory," admitted Marvel writer Mark Millar in an interview with newsarama. com, describing the death of Captain America as "a story where a guy wrapped in the American flag is in chains as the people swap freedom for security.". (Canada.com)
Downey Jr. brings Iron Man to life May 2, 2008
So kudos to the actor-director Jon Favreau and his four credited screenwriters for trying to raise the blockbuster consciousness, although most of the good and excellent superhero films have politics or allegory on their minds (even that last, execrable "Fantastic Four" movie gave us a waterboarding sequence). "Iron Man" isn't remotely as adventurous as the Marvel series, which debuted in 1968, and which has had Tony Stark wrestle with alcoholism, Communism, Vietnam, and destructive... (Boston Globe)
Current Events Crop Up In Comic Art Apr 17, 2008
The connection between caped crusaders and their times came to a head in 2006-2007, when Marvel's "Civil War" series pitted hero against hero after the US government mandated that all masked marauders make their identities known in what many thought to be an allegory for the Patriot Act. So what new heroes will emerge at Comic Con to represent today's politics. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Exhibition is a tribute to Indonesian art Apr 13, 2008
"The artist pulls forth selected images that he believes are essential to the kind of allegory he wants to represent," says Robert C. Morgan in his catalogue essay. Sciascia works in oils, again in black and white and gray, employing a crackled/cracked effect and sometimes painting over the top of images/old paintings to create different textures and surfaces. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Souren Melikian: The hidden conflict in Poussin's landscapes Apr 11, 2008
Rosenberg points out that it is "easy" to read the message of the work, "an allegory on the futility of wealth, on the vanity of earthly goods and on the opposition of desire and reason." Easy, that is, for those who know their Latin classics backwards, and read Poussin's visual riddles like an open book. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark's Novel Mar 4, 2008
Clark s contemporaries saw a parallel or even a allegory of what was going on in Nazi Germany. Clark said that this is not what he intended. (Suite101.com)
Latino San Francisco Feb 21, 2008
The mural, titled Allegory of California, depicts the industry, agriculture and sense of discovery embodied in the young state of California. His next mural, at the San Francisco Art Institute is titled The Making of a Fresco, Showing the Building of a City. (Suite101.com)
The Way Of The Women Feb 16, 2008
Read this as a massive (more than 600 pages, far too long) allegory as South Africa grinds to see beyond the past and into the future. an error occurred while processing this directive. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Branded and On Display' at the intersection of art and commerce Feb 15, 2008
Laurie Hogin's garish paintings, "Allegory of Psychodemographics: Twenty-Four Brands My Family Uses in a Typical Summer Day," which feature hybrid monkeys with fur the color and pattern of various logos, including the American flag, discouragingly reduces her family to pure consumers, nothing more. That's not inaccurate. (Boston Globe)
Read Indepth Article Feb 14, 2008
The Allegory of Form: Elie Bou Zeidan, K L Campbell, Efrain Cruz, Thierry Fazian, Patrice Goubeau, Timo Hanley - Agora Gallery - absolutearts ... "The Allegory of Form: Elie Bou Zeidan, K L Campbell, Efrain Cruz, Thierry Fazian, Patrice Goubeau, Timo Hanley" 2008-02-14 until 2008-02-26 New York, NY, USA United States of America ... The Allegory of Form is a vibrant collection of artists who defy convenient classification. (AbsoluteArts.com)
The Allegory of Form: Elie Bou Zeidan, K L Campbell, Efrain Cruz, Thierry Fazian, Patrice Goubeau, Timo Hanley Feb 14, 2008
The Allegory of Form is a vibrant collection of artists who defy convenient classification. Through intuition and personal expression these artists have developed unique voices with which to speak to and about the world at large. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Valentine's Day Museum Exhibitions Feb 4, 2008
Fragonard's interpretation of this motif from classical and medieval poetry is an allegory of marriage and carnal appetite. And the fountain from which the young lovers imbibe is the same wellspring in which Cupid, the god of love, dips his amorous arrows. (Suite101.com)
Dame Edna shows her artistic side Jan 29, 2008
Humphries's own offering on the site, London on Sea, is a bright seascape he describes as 'a little allegory. Inspired by climate change, he suggested, it shows a sunny, north Australian beach with a gloomy-looking London positioned in the middle distance. (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: Iagnemma's 'Expeditions' Jan 29, 2008
Given such an allegory, you can only hope the author will subvert it in some fashion - otherwise the novel could become less a story than a vehicle. Iagnemma follows through on our best expectations, for the most part. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Creative passion Jan 18, 2008
Kapper: I was working off the idea of an allegory, so it illustrates a spiritual change. There are a lot of metaphorical elements and direct references to Christianity. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
The sun sets Princeton orange Jan 18, 2008
I also don't think I'll ever have to discuss in depth the allegory of "The Faerie Queen" except on English department comprehensives. I can tell you what trochaic hexameter looks like, but honestly, who cares. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Gallery exhibits a different chapter in writers' lives Jan 10, 2008
Paul Rahilly's sharp, comic, brilliantly painted canvases portray odd scenes that suggest allegory, but evade pat meaning. Perhaps a work such as "The Bacchus Family," also on view at NAGA, is more an opportunity to artfully capture the swell and luster of flesh and fabric, the antic gestures of tree branches, and the sheen of a brass wine jug than it is to tell a story, but half the fun is trying to make sense of the tale. (Boston Globe)
'Passing season' Jan 6, 2008
In November, symphonygoers were thrilled by the collaboration with noted award-winning artist Gary Kelley to create a musical and visual allegory based on Gustav Holst's "The Planets." The Feb. 2 concert featuring flutist Claudia Anderson, "Shakespeare in Love," is in partnership with the College Hill Neighborhood Association, and Calle Sur, guests for the Feb. 17 family concert, will go into the schools. Schoolchildren also will be involved in the performance. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Striking contrasts define the year Dec 26, 2007
And as in all the best fantasies, there's more going on than meets the eye, as Fuller weaves an often poignant allegory on modern isolation and the power and danger of human touch. Those who just see cutesy whimsy aren't looking nearly hard enough. (USA Today -- Life)
Stripping back to an art form Dec 17, 2007
" For Anderson it is akin to a musician practising scales. It is about keeping one's eye in. For others it is a more passionate, even spiritual experience. "If you're interested in drawing the soul, even two weeks with the same model isn't enough," explains Terry, a regular at the class, who sees life drawing as a nude portrait more than as a study of curves and angles. Life drawing has a venerable tradition. From the time of classical Greece, the naturalistic representation of the human form... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Int'l art show deconstructs Asian identity Dec 8, 2007
Also from Indonesia is Heri Dono's fiberglass and aluminum sculpture titled Licking the Money, a sledgehammer allegory featuring heads licking Rp 100,000 bills. Meanwhile, Didik Sayahdikumulah's Beyond Tragedy is a large painting of globular color, green, pink and grays, that has a slightly squashed feel about it. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Dec 4, 2007
"William Nicholson, whose play Shadowlands explored Lewis's relationship with the poet Joy Davidson Gresham, said there was a need for caution. "There can be no doubt that the books contain Christian allegory. But I think the majority of people read them as wonderful children's stories. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Classics) by Lewis Carroll is a great book, an allegory for women today, still not fitting in 'quite', either too big or too small or growing too fast. It is amusing to read fiction as a satire, not as a simple story, and has been my favourite book all year. (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: The Mist Nov 23, 2007
Stephen Kings novella has been turned into a horror allegory: a group of citizens is trapped in a supermarket by strange creatures lurking outside in a thick mist ... It doesnt take long before the populace in the supermarket is split into camps: The Mist is Kings Lord of the Flies, an allegory for the breakdown in society that comes a few minutes after the power goes out. (Canada.com)
Text as illustration Nov 17, 2007
Gray's cover illustration catches the mix of realism and allegory. The doleful old man pictured in a cap, for instance, is surely Duncan Thaw's father, made lonely by the death of his wife and sadder still by his son's endless reserves of truculence. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
In Which Museum Nov 12, 2007
The Sacred Allegory by Giovanni Bellini ... An Allegory of Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time by Agnolo Bronzino. (Suite101.com)
Mowgli turns 40 Nov 3, 2007
The Jungle Book is not a wild Kipling dream but has a subtext of political allegory. While Burroughs slightly raw though vivid approach can be seen as racist and sexist in the 21st century, it is hard to knock down Kiplings man-cub since he did crave for a Utopian world that is almost Zionist in its setting. (Kolkata Newsline)
Enormous steel sculpture lifted 12 stories Oct 30, 2007
The pieces - shaped as flames, a ghost, a gingerbread man, a whale skeleton, and a series of small circles inside a larger one - are characters in an allegory, Stevens said, keeping an eye on his creation as parts were pulled skyward. "It's about fueling our future by consuming our present," said Stevens, who is 43, wiry and constantly in motion. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
King's Lines Turns 25 Oct 28, 2007
Usually, the man and woman seem to collectively embody an emotional and psychological allegory. Maybe the woman will keep pushing the man away, finally go limp and be hoised onto the man's shoulders, leaving audience members with an overriding feeling that the dance is about trust - not just about trusting others, but about trusting yourself. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Meaning of life examined in next BCU play Oct 26, 2007
The play is presented as an allegory, a narrative in which the characters have two levels of meaning, Poole said. "Each character personifies an abstract idea," he explained of the names given to the actors. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Evolution of an artist Oct 19, 2007
Stephens' paintings are surreal urban landscapes chock full of detail, allegory and irony. Above all else, the works offer a compelling vision of the artist's view of man vs. nature. (The News-Herald)
Creature feature Oct 11, 2007
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'I want to change the world' Sep 29, 2007
Fiction "can concentrate people's minds in a way which is not about the news, or is not about the TV, or about articles in Nature or special programmes on the radio - once you make it into a fable or an allegory or imaginative space, people are prepared to enter it differently, and they'll go with you on the particular journey". She takes on nuclear proliferation, the "war on terror", celebrity, rampant free-marketeering, genetic tampering, paedophilia, feminism, technology, the diet industry,... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies Sep 24, 2007
In Czechoslovakia before the Soviet-led invasion of 1968, he recalled that audiences understood it as an allegory about capitalism. After the invasion, they saw in it an image of themselves under Russian domination. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Racism and The Lord of the Rings Sep 2, 2007
The Nazi state implemented explicitly racist policies towards Jews and gypsies, which culminated in the Holocaust, and though Tolkien always denied any allegory or simple application of Middle Earth to contemporary events, it is easy to make the connection. If the Shire didn t specifically represent Britain wartime, it certainly represented what Tolkien felt was best and most worth retaining about Britain. (Suite101.com)
Elvis is dead +30: 2 perspectives Aug 16, 2007
In Elvis life, we see an allegory of the entire American experience during the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Like many before and after him, a youthful and dynamic beginning ended in premature old age and a bloated, overweight body. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
Singer/Songwriter Kyle Lardner To Release Her Debut CD 'Sail Among The Stars' on Little Dizzy Records / Warrior / Universal Music Distribution on September 25, 2007 Aug 14, 2007
Lardner says, "The song is about my first relationship ... a summer romance and I was in love!" Another groundbreaking song on the CD entitled "Costa Rica" is an allegory. Lardner explains, "Costa Rica is the guy I want to escape with. It has double meaning. It was supposed to be a sad song but in the end the real meaning came through." Lardner's debut CD "Sail Among The Stars" offers listeners a candid look into an insightful spirited young mind. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
McEwan's novella top of the list for Man Booker Aug 8, 2007
The bookmakers William Hill made Nicola Barker's much admired Darkmans an early second favourite with Mohsin Hamid's post September 11 allegory of east-west relations set in New York was third. Also on the list is the Orange longlisted Catherine O' Flynn, with What Was Lost. (Independent)
Hejdå, Ciao Aug 8, 2007
An allegory set during the period of the Black Death, The Seventh Seal was blatantly existentialist entertainment, a costume version of Camus's The Plague. Bergman waxed even more philosophical in an early '60s trilogy that addressed God's indifference and his own spiritual crisis: Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1962), and The Silence (1963). (City Pages)
Four priceless paintings stolen in brazen French museum heist Aug 7, 2007
The two stolen works of Jan Breugel, a Flemish Baroque era painter who lived between 1568 and 1625, were "Allegorie de l'eau" (Allegory of Water) and "Allegorie de la terre" (Allegory of Earth). "One of the staff members on the first floor told me that the men told him to lie on the floor as they put the paintings in bags. They wanted to take a fifth but could not do so," Bailet said. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
4 paintings stolen from gallery in Nice Aug 7, 2007
The stolen paintings were Claude Monet's "Cliffs near Dieppe," Alfred Sisley's "Lane of Poplars near Moret," and the Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder's "Allegory of Earth" and "Allegory of Water," said the museum's deputy curator Patricia Grimaud. Today in Europe. (International Herald Tribune)
Thieves grab priceless paintings from French gallery Aug 7, 2007
Police said the men were probably working to order, as the stolen works Claude Monet's Cliffs near Dieppe, Alfred Sisley's Lane of Poplars at Moret-sur-Loing and Brueghel's Allegory of Water and Allegory of Earth are well known, making them hard to sell. "They are priceless works, not at all negotiable on the market," the museum's deputy curator, Patricia Grimaud, told Reuters, adding it was not the first time the two Impressionist paintings had disappeared. (Globe and Mail)
Four priceless paintings stolen from Nice museum Aug 7, 2007
Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's "Allegory of Water", top, and "Allegory of Earth" are two of four paintings stolen by thieves from Nice's Cheret Museum ... The two stolen works of Jan Brueghel, a Baroque-era painter, were Allegory of Water and Allegory of Earth ... Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder's "Allegory of Water", top, and "Allegory of Earth" are two of four paintings stolen by thieves from Nice's Cheret Museum. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cinema loses two greats Aug 4, 2007
But perhaps the Swedish auteur's most chilling opus is the Catholic allegory The Seventh Seal (1957), featuring Max Von Sydow as a Crusader who returns home during the Black Plague and ends up playing chess with the Grim Reaper. Michelangelo Antonioni was a slightly different breed of director. (Bangkok Post)
Who was taking off from whom? Aug 1, 2007
"Spenser's famous work is an allegory on the reign of Elizabeth I, regarded at the time and by history as a golden age. But even poets have to live in the real world. "The Faerie Queene is said to have been written under an oak tree by the river Blackwater on the poet's estate in Ireland. He had to flee his castle in 1598 during a bloody rebellion that claimed one of his children. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Alberto Sughi: 1946 to Present Jul 26, 2007
Teatro d'Italia is, in fact, a great social allegory. Sughi has taken part in all the most important contemporary art events, from the Biennale Internazionale dArte in Venice to the Quadriennale in Rome of which he has also been Director and to numerous exhibitions. (AbsoluteArts.com)
IT'S RIALTO FOR REAL REEL DEAL Jul 22, 2007
Consider: Jules Dassin's crime caper "Rififi" (1955); Robert Bresson's religious allegory "Au Hasard, Balthazar" (1966); "Masculine Feminine" (1966), Jean-Luc Godard's salute to "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola; and Carol Reed's "The Third Man" (1949), set on the cobblestone streets of post-World War II Vienna and featuring Orson Welles as a black-marketeer Harry Lime. Wednesday through Aug. 10, the Museum of Modern Art will celebrate Rialto's 10th anniversary with a 17-film look at some of... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
In pictures: Raphael Jul 6, 2007
An Allegory (Vision of a Knight) was painted about 1504. 8 of 8Raphael was influenced by Michelangelo and Leonardo as this image, Leda and the Swan (after Leonardo), about 1515, shows. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
$22.8m: artist's sweet pill to swallow Jun 24, 2007
The 41-year-old Hirst's Lullaby Spring, which is part of a series of stainless steel cabinets that are an allegory for the four seasons, had been expected to sell for up to 4 million. The 2002 work was sold as part of Sotheby's Contemporary Art auction in London, which included a 1978 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, which sold for 21. (The Age)
Hirst work becomes most expensive ever for living artist at auction Jun 23, 2007
The 2002 work, which is part of a series of stainless steel cabinets that are an allegory for the four seasons, was expected to sell for up to four million pounds, and beat the previous record of 17. 4 million dollars for a work by Jasper Johns sold at Christie's in New York last month. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
6/22: ArcheDream for Humankind Jun 20, 2007
"We'll put the archetypes together into a story that deals with some sort of allegory or conflict resolution - we've done stories on the homeless and one woman in our troupe does a performance about her rape," Tichenor said. The show is titled Balance, and deals with the interactions of the four basic elements - players represent Air, Water, Fire and Earth. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Two Famous 18th-Century Painters Jun 10, 2007
He painted walls and ceilings with large, expansive, tender of mythology, allegory, poetry, religion, the gods, and the saints. Tiepolo worked in the city of Venice, where the nobility and the clergy of Italy, Germany, and Spain clamored for his work and where he was praised as the most famous of the virtuosi. (Suite101.com)
Naked 'Tony Blair' at art exhibition Jun 8, 2007
"This is a biblical allegory - Adam and Eve expelled from paradise - and this is Blair's legacy," Sandle said, calling the Iraq war "disgraceful.". Blair has said he will leave office on June 27, after a decade in the post. (The Advocate -- Entertainment)
Blair depicted as naked at art exhibition Jun 7, 2007
"This is a biblical allegory -- Adam and Eve expelled from paradise -- and this is Blair's legacy," Sandle said, calling the Iraq war "disgraceful.". The artist accused Blair of "vanity" for supporting the United States in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and said Britain had a habit of "interfering overseas.". (Xinhuanet, China)
