This picture feels allegorical, yet it lacks any specifically allegorical figures.
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Everything points to Grindelwald as an allegorical Aryan totalitarian leader.
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He is literally an allegorical embodiment of male movie violence.
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It's like a stop in an allegorical journey of life.
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These characters are clichés, but they are also allegorical figures.
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I wonder if her work's allegorical nature decided her palette.
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Arnaldo Roche Rabell uses frottage to develop his enormous allegorical compositions.
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"A Bug's Life" (1998) gained positive reception for its allegorical story.
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"This is all allegorical to this moment," Simon told Variety recently.
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The allegorical narrative produces some plot points that feel too convenient.
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The titular hedgehog is allegorical and never appears in the prickly flesh.
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The allegorical woman has appeared on American coinage since the late 1790s.
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But originally, the Treasury Department planned to depict the allegorical Lady Liberty.
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It's heroic, allegorical, and contains a power and conviction about its space.
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The Skeksis are meant to represent an allegorical form of pure selfishness.
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Allegorical images — Temperance, Justice, Charity — on urban facades promoted civic pride and obedience.
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This adoption of contemporary references in allegorical art continued through the 20th century.
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These could also be allegorical in nature, depicting religious scenes or commemorating military victories.
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Maybe it is the way the framing makes them appear both immediate and allegorical.
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The Underground Railroad is a thoughtful, allegorical journey through America's ugly history of racism.
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But innovations and changing technology aren't Davies' focus here, even on an allegorical level.
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Petlin's painting is an allegorical vision of black men stuck in an insufferable environment.
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It may not be Carpenter's best, but it's one of his most bitingly allegorical.
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Sometimes the visions people described seemed more allegorical than literal, but no less meaningful.
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Some have obvious formal qualities (arrows, cups, etc) some have apparent allegorical qualities (e.g.
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In this allegorical children's tale, kids will find an exciting battle of good vs.
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Colors, costumes and cinematography err to the imaginative and allegorical, keeping the commentary crisp.
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The beauty of the building is found in its allegorical fortitude, its symbolic stature.
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You couldn't have scripted a more allegorical end to the progressive crusade started by Sanders.
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It's mostly allegorical, using familiar AI and robotics tropes to raise questions about human agency.
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The video features a lot of Sim-esque BBC employees in various absurd allegorical scenes.
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Similarly, using surrealistic methods, Sadeghi encompasses the allegorical stories and cruel realities with stinging satire.
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As early as its third episode, The Orville's creators were offering allegorical, politically relevant plotlines.
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An outlandish, pointedly allegorical conceit is inhabited not by symbolic figures but by terrestrial oddballs.
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The allegorical intertwining of personal and world history can certainly work — "Reds" comes to mind.
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In dreamy, club-like interstitials, Paige and Keough are locked in an allegorical standoff for control.
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Or maybe they feel like they're dealing with today in a more allegorical or symbolic way.
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Did you want to tap into male fears about woman's destructive power in an allegorical way?
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You can get into the allegorical, plus you can have cool stuff like robots and aliens.
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There's an allegorical unease about technology and futurism in the song, which the video makes explicit.
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I love how often horror-movie monsters can become allegorical stand-ins for what scares us.
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Rather, it's from Orwell's 1945 allegorical fable about the events surrounding the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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In a fiery allegorical painting by Mr. Price, Old Glory appears to be losing its stars.
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He'd had a kind of allegorical thing going for him once, but he'd lost the trail.
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It's possible that the woman was Margaret, or an allegorical figure to replace the silver platter.
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This isn't necessarily an iconic episode, but it's a solid example of a TNG allegorical outing.
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For instance, "fancy heads" representing allegorical women that were popular as engravings proved difficult to copy.
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You could see the scene as an allegorical critique of TV more interested in sensationalism than humanity.
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Even the smaller scale works by Dunbar, no matter how silent and opaque, deliver an allegorical grandeur.
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Experiences common to the group are therefore legitimately represented as happening to a single, quasi-allegorical figure.
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It was with this work that he began to fashion his distinctive, highly allegorical approach to design.
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"Grey Rock," a simple and somewhat allegorical story, is less overtly political than any of these pieces.
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The opera begins in something that might be a representation of some allegorical garden with dancey music.
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Here, bright spectrums of color are contrasted against azure skies, and unicorns lounge amid other allegorical creatures.
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On the West Bank as presented in Amir Nizar Zuabi's allegorical semi-comedy, which runs through Jan.
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Many of the Fabrica's illustrations depicted cadavers in allegorical poses, giving the visuals an even eerier quality.
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Hilton has digested the latest Elizabethan scholarship and parsed the allegorical implications of contemporary paintings of the queen.
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It took its swings at big, allegorical sci-fi/fantasy movies, as well as distributing arty, prestige films.
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But there's such a monotonous, unimaginative tread of cruelty that it loses any shock value or allegorical heft.
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Mr Liu's stories are scientifically rigorous; Mr Han's are allegorical and uncanny—but also grittier and more subversive.
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The allegorical configuration and the imaginative, pictorial breadth of Bergman's cinema struck a deep cord with von Trotta.
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The clanging dissonance between these two levels of meaning—the allegorical and the literal—is what makes Mother!
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Nor does the prejudice directed at the mythological races really come alive, as allegorical as it might feel.
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Cole provided an allegorical warning: the wealthy elite had a place in politics above mob rule in democracy.
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The more allegorical and spiritual his work became, the more it confused and even disgusted the general public.
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Gardens, of course, must be cultivated, and thus they are rich allegorical territory for storytellers of all sorts.
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And it's a movie about doubles and doppelgängers, so of course the title is pulling double allegorical duty.
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Far from wincing at this process, of course, Aronofskyans—a devoted league—will be swayed by its allegorical force.
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In modern times, we don't open mollusks until an extremely allegorical gem pops out; we play the lottery instead.
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It looks more like a ship than a musical instrument, complete with a topless allegorical lady on its prow.
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Andrei Tarkovsky's loose adaptation of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's science fiction novel "Roadside Picnic" lends itself to allegorical interpretation.
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The period details, the nowhere setting and the deadpan delivery of most of the dialogue signal vaguely allegorical intentions.
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The period details, the nowhere setting and the deadpan delivery of most of the dialogue signal vaguely allegorical intentions.
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Yet the same austere indeterminacy, the same allegorical quality that haunted Kitamura's earlier fiction is also at work here.
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In Benjamin Buchloh's 216 essay "Allegorical Procedures," he describes Buren's historical place as revealing the material conditions of ideological institutions.
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Valley of the Dolls is no allegorical social critique or thinly veiled commentary about the mass drugging of American women.
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"God Bless Baseball" at Japan Society has a few modest allegorical points to make and takes its time making them.
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The painting is allegorical, but the artist doesn't provide a key, leaving viewers to determine the cause of the calamity.
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Both doctrinaire Catholics, both keen supporters of the Inquisition, they still had a marked taste for mythological and allegorical painting.
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When Beckmann arrived in New York it was not a propitious time for his kind of complex, allegorical, narrative painting.
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Meanwhile, Forrest is pursued by a detective with the absurdly allegorical (but absolutely true to life) name of John Hunt.
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It is a stifled view, conversant with the 2683th-century tradition of animalier painting, but stripped of any allegorical comfort.
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But what makes "War With the Newts" so extraordinary is how it resists tethering itself to any particular allegorical scheme.
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The highly allegorical drama centers on the prosperous and dissolute character of Jedermann, whose callousness and appetites have offended heaven.
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Less claustrophobically allegorical than Mr. Lanthimos's other work, it is cruel and funny, an elaborate period bonbon laced with poison.
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Rasoulof resorted to allegorical stories in earlier work like "White Meadows," so as not to "directly confront power," he said.
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But his fact-and-fantasy images of existential violence and degradation, past and present, are in an old allegorical mode.
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The downpour was bad luck for the dozens of journalists there that day, but it was also a touch allegorical.
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One of my childhood heroes was Thomas Nast, whose elaborate, allegorical, political cartoons stimulated my imagination and rewarded prolonged reflection.
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Even so, despite their undeniable, concrete presentness, the "Accumulations" prompt allegorical speculation, and the viewer's mind wanders to larger things.
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While many a think piece has been written about the allegorical meaning of the fidget spinner, few address these practical concerns.
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By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing.
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To be clear, we don't need another Kilgrave, and the allegorical demons he stood for, for the show to be successful.
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Packing.My sister and I are like an allegorical lesson in travel-packing extremes, but we are both pretty terrible at it.
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His condition—blind, nameless, amnesiac—seemed fictitious, the kind of allegorical affliction that might befall a character in Saramago or Borges.
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An especially poignant allegorical work by Russian-born artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov sits within an open, sun-drenched grassy knoll.
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One poster for Argentina and Brazil shows an oversize, allegorical woman pulling aside a curtain to reveal the South American landscape.
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Bunyan's allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.
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The critique dwells safely within the limits of the allegorical while the real anxieties, however obscured, remain just outside the window.
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A series of powerful frescoes by Rosso Fiorentino illustrates stories from antiquity, drawing allegorical parallels to François as a great king.
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Rehoboam is representative of a broader shift that "Westworld" makes in Season 3, from the allegorical to the more nearly literal.
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The story shows Sweden's infiltration by malevolent agents of a country called Liquidatzia, an allegorical stand-in for the Soviet Union.
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Positive reviews considered the film a technical achievement, however, and Variety noted that the film was a "dazzling" allegorical morality tale.
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Then he turned to paintings that took on, in a sweeping and aggressively ugly allegorical register, American greed, imperialism and violence.
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The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness.
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Hannah Lash's "Desire," an allegorical chamber work for three singers and the JACK Quartet, had its world premiere in New York.
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What I think happens is that there is a critical reprimand for choosing mythic elements and allegorical elements in American theater.
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Xenophon's characters seek even bolder rewards in "Oeconomicus," which is often considered an allegorical blueprint for military success and good statesmanship.
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Observing this lifestyle, one might ask, what character traits dispose one to engage in a weekday ordeal of near allegorical sacrifice?
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The well-known series The Frieze of Life exemplifies Munch's penchant for allegorical depictions in an attempt to distill universal human truths.
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The early movies, which appeared in the early aughts, were hopeful, Harry Potterish films — they were loosely allegorical and all somewhat uplifting.
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Darren Aronofsky: Black Swan and Noah director Darren Aronofsky made a splash last year with the trippy, uncomfortable, and deeply allegorical Mother!
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It may not be Carpenter's best film (wrestler-turned-actor Piper's performance doesn't help), but it's one of his most bitingly allegorical.
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The geographical distance between them is allegorical, a gulf that seems impossible to bridge, despite Jamie's concerted effort to forge a connection.
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"If someone sees an allegorical painting of three fancifully dressed people eating, call me and I'll come check it out," Nye said.
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But it's also an allegorical representation of his own life—the orphan-boy spewed up by the Atlantic onto an Irish beach.
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Our guides are Marianne, the allegorical embodiment of France's republican ideals, and Napoleon Bonaparte, the actual embodiment of the nation's imperial ambitions.
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For the Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto also executed allegorical figures representing the seven deadly sins, painting them to resemble sculpture in carved marble.
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In the background are flat monochrome sections or landscapes thick with deer and other allegorical animals that dissolve the documentation into reverie.
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There is one woman in Marwen whose flesh-and-blood analogue we don't see, though she doesn't seem to be entirely allegorical.
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Lovelace in fact generates a phantasmagorical, rather than allegorical, series of tales that grow from simple observations of social or personal fact.
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His previous work — allegorical, satirical, anti-realist and metapsychological — defies genre labels and can seem scrubbed clean of any trace of influence.
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To forgo any specific thoughts here about the new government is consistent with the allegorical realm Eggers capably constructs in the novel.
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If completed, it would be the first sculpture dedicated to a non-allegorical or fictional woman to be erected in Central Park.
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And indeed, despite GG's austere and allegorical modes of storytelling, the theme of alienation in I'm Not Here resonates loud and clear.
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A Wife rolls up her stockings, Unwomen report for duty in the radioactive fields, and, naturally, lots of babies, against Reagan's allegorical words.
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In them, the real and the imagined, the material and the allegorical, intersect at shifting angles and provide fresh perspectives and lasting consolation.
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Aamis can be simultaneously read as a slow-burning forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
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Related: Bosco Sodi's Illusion of Earth | Studio Visit Vintage Book Covers Get the Animation Treatment The Wicked Comedy of Nicole Eisenmann's Allegorical Paintings
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Images of unidentified women, usually allegorical or generic, have appeared on the reverse sides of Canadian bank notes on and off since 1935.
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Their awkward convergence becomes an incandescent, allegorical outgrowth of the agonizing introspection that Abélard and Héloïse undergo in their search for self-awareness.
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"Vixen," with its allegorical pitting of woodland animals against their human oppressors, serves a charming, bestial foil to Mr. Puts's vision of conflict.
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It remains an extraordinary experience, an exercise that reduces the basic "Go from here to there" game directive into something mythic and allegorical.
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Finally, presumably the two sculptures of lions attacking other helpless animals present an allegorical version of the Last Supper — could that be correct?
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American patrons preferred portraits to allegorical or historical subjects, and often demanded a degree of verisimilitude that stifled any impulse to artistic license.
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But the new coin is what Mr. Jeppson called an "allegorical liberty," meaning Lady Liberty does not represent a specific figure from history.
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O.J Simson: American Crime Story than American Horror Story or Scream Queens, given that it is closer to true crime than surreal, allegorical horror.
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For those that haven't seen the film, it follows an allegorical woman named "mother," who is slowly destroyed by the people she cares for.
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You mean, should we have guessed Hold the Dark would be an allegorical story about canines and dangers lurking within and outside of us?
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Most numerous are the paintings by Rodin's friend Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, providing an allegorical context for Rodin's many sculptures based on ancient mythology.
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Often in these older works, math is allegorical rather than formulaic, its systems broadly used to convey the order and balance of the world.
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His "Dark Knight" entries in the Batman saga raised the genre's allegorical stakes and dialed down the humor to an all-but-imperceptible whisper.
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There's a marvelous, hard-won simplicity and directness in these drawings that evokes the physicality of a wild spiritual journey recalibrated as allegorical satire.
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In the prologue, the allegorical character La Musica addresses the audience and declares her dominion over not just human emotions, but also nature itself.
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And while the allegorical shoe certainly fits (her name is Eve and she enjoys forbidden fruits), Perrotta's tender attention keeps her round and real.
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As Heim's translations make clear, what de Chirico meant by "metaphysical" was nothing less than a kind of allegorical consciousness that refused finite meaning.
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This anemic allegorical vanité reminds us that we are all melting and that it is advisable to meditate on the transient nature of life.
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This allegorical dimension of the work — which comments on the nature of artistic process — receives its most compelling articulation in Blake's depiction of holes.
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In talking about the film throughout awards season, del Toro has been clear that he sees it as an allegorical film about embracing the other.
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The tone can, by turns, be interrogatory, tender, coldly scientific, analytical, allegorical, plain and painful, all without ever asking for sympathy or singling herself out.
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Ryggen's massive allegorical tapestries attest to the artist's strong condemnation of violence as the world burned through World War II, and later, the Vietnam War.
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Hannibal isn't the only recent work that's used cannibalism as a narrative jumping-off point for allegorical commentary, or craftier character studies instead of scares.
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It is allegorical, but not so pointed as to get the author in trouble if an ambitious censor were on the hunt for hidden meanings.
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"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is an allegorical story about Robert Kiyosaki and his two dads, and how growing up with them shaped his financial views.
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Taking advantage of the lower-degree of hyper-realistic precision that the medium offers, her paintings feel more mysterious than didactic, more allegorical than forthright.
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Am I trivializing the things that are happening in the real world by treating them in this allegorical fashion in a world that doesn't exist?
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And here we start to run up against the limits of Asher's near-allegorical thesis that Algren's downfall can be traced to a personal vendetta.
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"Neither Heaven Nor Earth" is one of several movies at this year's festival that use the supernatural as an allegorical window into real-world crises.
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The payoff is visible in the work of the past two years, in which monumental portrayals of allegorical figures from Pruitt's own imagination simply astonish.
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Originally, the Treasury Department planned to depict the allegorical Lady Liberty, but legislators and activists objected, pushing the department to honor a real woman instead.
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In a sense, the novel is allegorical: It teems with quickly drawn characters who shed light on the multivalent nature of the global refugee crisis.
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Of those, 110 are allegorical or mythical, and 29 are of Queen Victoria, according to a study of British public monuments by Caroline Criado-Perez.
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Though her novel is largely allegorical, Sainz Borgo avoids a narrative that is overly reduced by symbols; the writing, like Coetzee's, is tense and complex.
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Eventually, Hodzic reveals that he knows the truth about his caretaker, and what seems like an allegorical farce becomes a rumination on friendship and trust.
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Rampantly visual and wildly allegorical, "The Salvation Hunters" anticipates beatnik dirges like Christopher MacLaine's "The End" (1953) and Jonas Mekas's "Guns of the Trees" (1961).
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In a less plot-driven book, this kind of allegorical storytelling would just be part of the genre and it wouldn't have to justify itself.
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Sometimes the dances are evocative and allegorical; sometimes (with no loss of suspense) they are solely about this dancer doing this step in this way.
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The rules in "Bird Box" are never fully articulated, never fully understood, leaving room to debate its mysteries and its deeper allegorical meaning (if any).
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Consumed by existential discontent, a impatient King slowly consumes his entire universe in this allegorical animated short about greed, desire, and the agony of existence.
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The two allegorical figures in the Hall of Constantine were previously attributed to his workshop, but a recent restoration revealed them to be the master's work.
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To the team behind the video, it's less of an arbitrary rendering and an almost allegorical experience of what it was like traveling around the world.
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This peaks in the infamously divisive final two episodes, which take place almost entirely within an allegorical mindscape and feature heavy philosophical discussion amongst the cast.
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Some badges even border on the allegorical, telling a story about the club which serves to illustrate some greater significance to its place in the game.
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While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild.
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The third Lifar ballet always associated with her was "Les Mirages," an allegorical fantasy in which she was the Shadow, or conscience, of a questing hero.
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Related: Artists Turn Kids' Clay into Grotesque Sculptures of Their Neighbors The Wicked Comedy of Nicole Eisenman's Allegorical Paintings The Beast within Brian Kokoska | Studio Visits
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Over five albums since 2009, Laura Gibson has steadily and ambitiously expanded both her music and lyrics, from folky to surreal, spooky and allegorical.
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I'm not under any illusions, here; I knew watching Mr. Robot meant signing up for allegorical chess matches and men bragging about how they're probably gods.
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Often shrouded in secrecy, these rites may include instructive-allegorical dramas, acted out by members dressed in special costumes and guided by traditional scripts or customs.
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The show, "Rodin at the Met," offers eerie moonlit allegorical scenes by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes that enliven Rodin's sprightly bronze portrait bust of that painter.
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Not just super-shivery, the film was an allegorical warning that something evil was budding in the blood-soaked soil of post-World War I Europe.
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By the 18th century, a seductive gentleness had settled into Mexican church art, as seen in Miguel Cabrera's allegorical picture "The Divine Spouse" from around 1750.
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Matt Osterman's allegorical thriller, written by its star, Cleopatra Coleman, flirts with topicality on several fronts, commenting not only on drone strikes but also on agribusiness.
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The problems arise when the film revs its allegorical engine and Phoenix tries to assemble a character from the tics and tropes he has been given.
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On the monument's core and around its edges, she has installed allegorical figures of her own that offer a sardonic counterprogram to the celebration of empire.
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The series throws you into a world of faeries, fauns, and warring civilizations, fully immersing the viewer in a story that is both imaginative and allegorical.
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The title "Love and I" suggests old companions who have grown abstract, almost allegorical in their relations to one another, like functions in a math problem.
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As the new brand ambassadors for Omega, the family was as perfectly sculpted as the allegorical figures of the four seasons, carved into the building's facade.
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Yet it also celebrates the beloved dead, while the poet momentarily questions his own assertions, only to reassert the obvious explicitness of the reality: Allegorical coffins!
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Will a black woman ever have the freedom and studio support to make an allegorical film about her artistic anxiety, let alone release it in theaters nationwide?
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There is something about short literary forms — this novel is under 200 pages — in which the allegorical and the violent gain special potency from their small packages.
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Its high-school setting, meanwhile, keeps the movie down to earth, avoiding the dark allegorical pretension that has plagued so many recent additions to the superhero canon.
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The game opens on a generic anti-terrorism mission in Dubai, which looks a little too much like something from similarly allegorical shooter Spec Ops: The Line.
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DANCING WITH DEATH Five centuries of European works on paper celebrate the so-called "danse macabre," an allegorical meditation on the inevitability of death. Sept. 217–Nov.
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Ambitiously allegorical, "Good Manners" dramatizes class and racial tensions in contemporary Brazil by creating contrasting worlds: rich and poor, black and white, high-rise chic and shantytown.
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"It was allegorical to the Greek gods, and each god had a realm they came from that we would see at a very large scale," Cotrona said.
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I think any time you feel that sense of the allegorical creeping into your own creation of characters, that's a warning sign as far as I'm concerned.
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The fantasy genre is having a major moment right now and Amazon has thrown its hat in the ring with the allegorical, fantasy crime thriller, Carnival Row.
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There are a few terrible, surreal, allegorical images of judgment in the Book of Revelation, but nothing that, properly read, yields a clear doctrine of eternal torment.
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In the feature, though, the monster, a behatted imp known as the Babadook, became even more blatantly allegorical — a stand-in for the mother's grief and depression.
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The film sets this first half up as an allegorical loss of innocence, dominated by a bombastic orchestral score by Scott Walker, himself a former pop star.
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These are not flattering or romanticized portraits, nor are they grounded in a familiar reality; these are humorous and allegorical depictions of these fictional and often savage characters.
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While there are only five historic women among the city's numerous monuments, other anonymous women are immortalized in bronze, granite, and marble as allegorical figures, goddesses, and angels.
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Kafka dealt in allegorical abstraction, however; The Night Of is shaping up to be about the brutal realities of being a defendant in the American criminal justice system.
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Alternately theatrical and intimate, with a palette of saturated pastels as complex as their narratives, his paintings especially depict a gay subculture at once conjured, allegorical and real.
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The resulting sixty paintings, on Biblical and allegorical themes, made in two intense phases across twenty-four years, add up to a Venetian equivalent of the Sistine Chapel.
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" Despite the outlandishness of his exploits, the stops on Wash's journey have none of the allegorical quality of the towns featured in Colson Whitehead 's " The Underground Railroad .
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Its blend of astute commentary and effective carnage might have raised hopes that "Election Year" would turn out to be a timely and cathartic exercise in allegorical satire.
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Fussell — a caretaker of sorts in the continuum of traditional music — is equally skilled at selecting his material, looking for songs that feel allegorical and apropos for today.
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Then again, I'm not going to bet sight unseen against Jordan Peele, one of the new "Twilight Zone" producers, whose "Get Out" had its own Serlingesque allegorical creepiness.
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Each of her three allegorical canvases in the triennial is set in a pastoral outdoor environment, to contrast with "the internal mayhem" her subjects feel, Ms. Ellis said.
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This is perhaps because she works in an allegorical vein under the tutelary spirit of Odilon Redon, but that doesn't really begin to describe how incomparable she is.
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Given the allegorical and autobiographical nature of the artist's oeuvre, this work draws comparisons between Zenil's life and the famous Christian martyr for whom the work is named.
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In 1911, Schiele planned an allegorical cycle dedicated to Francis and his sister Clara, and was able to finish three paintings before his legal troubles began in 1912.
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Both filmmakers are major Dead-heads, and like Romero, they found allegorical power in the kinds of movies that many moviegoers (and Academy voters) once refused to take seriously.
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New findings, however, reveal that he actually did leave his mark on the hall, in the form of two allegorical female figures portraying the virtues of Friendship and Justice.
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The five allegorical paintings of "The Course of Empire" (pictured) depict the same imaginary landscape, each representing a different stage of civilisation, in sequence of the times of day.
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My work is a discourse on black representation within canonical art by means of traditional painting techniques and the allegorical meaning that goes into composing images and creating narratives.
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In the forties, under the spell of his Princeton teachers John Berryman and R. P. Blackmur, he perfected a learned, ominous, allegorical poem, mopping up for the high modernists.
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A great interior arcade displays a series of hypnotic, visceral, chromatic, distressed portrait paintings by Birch—which, for him, is the literal and allegorical heart of the entire matter.
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Sometimes the best way to go into the center of private trauma, familial trauma, is to use it as the quiet center of something larger, more allegorical or phantasmagorical.
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Solibo's death represents the allegorical death of a Creole oral tradition in the French Caribbean that leaves the stage clear for the new narrative form of the written word.
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It consists mainly of debate: one-upmanship among the allegorical figures Earth, Air, Fire and Water as they await the dawn, with interventions from Time and the Dawn itself.
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The characters encountered are a bit more colorful than the ones you are likely to come across in real life, but not so much that they seem overtly allegorical.
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In allegorical paintings, prints and murals with a subtle yet richly colorful palette, Ms. Lazo celebrated Mesoamerican cultures, especially the Maya, and the spiritual abundance of the natural world.
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In her allegorical reworking of biblical narratives of the fall and rebirth of humankind, Verney is a humble shepherd boy who marries into the royal family at Windsor Castle.
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Most of these pages represent some sort of romantic, emotional, or physical trauma or disfunction via the allegorical misadventures of cutesy bunnies and other creatures subjected to cartoonish violence.
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While you're distracted by the thriller tropes, Whitehead is moving his chess pieces into place so that he can take you on an allegorical journey through the horrors of racism.
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In other stories, Gay employs the surreal and allegorical to explore the contradictions of desire, of the yearning for motherhood and the cruelty that women can inflict on other women.
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They respire airs of aching grace and allegorical mystery, and they furnish, in their visually malleable beauties, a wealth of things to look at, and a whole lot to consider.
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There's an allegorical and political weight to the show's premise, with two populations that literally had everything in common being pitted against each other because of an accident of history.
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His cronies and apologists include such allegorical types as Reverend Salvation and Editor Daily, whom 1937 audiences would have recognized as cartoon versions of Billy Sunday and William Randolph Hearst.
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Based in Mumbai, Mr. Kallat has been best known since the mid-1990s for allegorical paintings and sculptures combining news photographs, self-portraiture and images of urban chaos and violence.
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In a virtuosic final section Greene describes how this will work by inviting us to climb an allegorical Empire State Building; on each floor the universe is 10 times older.
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Beside Victoria, queen and empress, glowering toward the Mall, is a cascade of allegorical statuary representing Courage and Constancy, Truth and Justice, Manufacture and Agriculture, Peace and Progress, and Motherhood.
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The contemporary artist Michael Armitage, in his solo Projects show at New York's reopened Museum of Modern Art, transforms the political dramas of his native Kenya into allegorical cautionary tales.
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Held in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the ball, with 400 guests dressed as allegorical figures (and, crucially, photographed), was the grandest fancy dress ball of the century.
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Allegories, on the other hand, are not made out of parts, and the captioning of an allegorical image or situation activates what was in abeyance, latent, dormant—but not fragmented.
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Into the Renaissance and the early modern period, painters and sculptors used the fasces when depicting allegorical ideals such as Iustitia (Justice) and when depicting re-popularized myths from antiquity.
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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which depicts the allegorical figure of "Glory" holding a dying Confederate soldier in one arm and a laurel crown in the other, built in 1903.
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His hypothesis: that straight white men saw the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show as the allegorical death knell of their power, because even though Coldplay headlined, Beyoncé won the night.
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The director's best-known and most-loved movie (at least until now) may be 2006's Pan's Labyrinth, a dark allegorical fairy tale also set in Spain during the Civil War.
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The natural world of plants and animals, the social arena of friends, family and colleagues, and the allegorical atlas of visited sites, all claim a vital seat at his creative table.
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This show marries a body of work made in response to the Trump presidency — including four large murals and free campaign pins — with a group of apt allegorical drawings from 212018.
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But as in all allegorical texts (the Bible itself, for instance), the relationship between the literal and the symbolized strata of the work of art is where its true value lies.
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The title of the series The Great Clown suggests a Dadaist critique of warmongering narcissists, with clear allegorical undertones: a nation in the clutches of a great clown is, indeed, doomed.
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As Augustine first said, "Ignorance of things, too, renders figurative expressions obscure" and Book of Beasts helps to disintegrate modern ignorance over the language of allegorical animals in the Middle Ages.
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She tries three times, in escalatingly romantic-allegorical ways, and it's the third gift, the last tear of a sinner who repented on his deathbed, that causes the gates to open.
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"Carnival Row" offers an unlikely mix of genres, laying out a murder mystery in a world of fairies and other mythical creatures, while also delivering a healthy dose of allegorical politics.
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Taking a dig at self-help movements and dietary gurus (especially the notorious "master cleanse" program), "The Cleanse" embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A strange allegorical representation of New York State in 2020 designed by Governor Andrew Cuomo is about as "with the times" as a parchment scroll.
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Shot three years earlier by the Georgian director Tengiz Abuladze but immediately shelved, the film, "Repentance," was a powerful allegorical critique of Stalinism in which a corpse refuses to stay buried.
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While professing "untheatricality" in line with the art world ideology of antitheatricality, Collecting Injustices harkens back to the long theatrical tradition of pageants and allegorical plays, which stretches back to antiquity.
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Things get more allegorical in the show's centerpiece, the large cotton, wool, and silk tapestry "Gebunden" (2017), which looks like a kind of stylized family tree of a particularly dysfunctional clan.
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Her massive allegorical tapestries, now on view at Modern Art Oxford, attest to the artist's strong condemnation of violence as the world burned through World War II, and later, the Vietnam War.
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Chess puts the reader in the shoes of those refugees, using science fiction in its best possible form: telling an allegorical story that provides insight into the world around us right now.
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At its most imaginative, the allegorical quality of his pictures trouble their fundamental realism, conjuring up, here and there, the carnality and mayhem seen in works by Francisco Goya and Bruno Schulz.
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There are the dreamy allegorical paintings, the romantic landscapes, and the surreal, rainbow-punctuated interiors that have surfaced over the years, and then there are these big, meaty abstractions that feel new.
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Lured by the promise of escape and attraction to the crew's top salesman (Shia LaBeouf), she signs on with the group, and the journey takes her through a series of allegorical challenges.
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That film was "This Can't Happen Here," a semi-allegorical anti-Communist melodrama-thriller that Bergman made for the studio Svensk Film in 1950, when he was financially strapped after a divorce.
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Some of his best poems are pained audits of the damage he and those around him incurred as a result of his treating flesh-and-blood conflicts as clashes between allegorical opposites.
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I'm reminded of a line from the Netflix-BBC One co-production of "Watership Down," based on Richard Adams's allegorical novel about a noble herd of rabbits' pursuit of a peaceful homeland.
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Initially part of a larger exhibition that premiered at Yale this spring (which was lavishly praised in The New York Times), "Redoubt" is a myth-informed western, an allegorical apologia for artistic practice.
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Each January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists greets the new year with a readout of its Doomsday Clock, an allegorical timepiece created in 1947 to illustrate our species' proximity to the apocalypse.
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The Village is the most clearly allegorical of these twists: For most of the film, Ivy and Lucius (and the audience) assume that frightening creatures are keeping the villagers from entering the woods.
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In the latter part of the evening, when he embodied the allegorical Dr. Marianus, whose worship of the Holy Virgin paves the way for Faust's redemption, Mr. Gerhaher's voice turned velvet and weightless.
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Obama's historic presidency, for all its allegorical power, did not in fact result in a post-racial America — nor did Hillary Clinton's candidacy solve systemic sexism or stem the tides of gendered violence.
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"While the film is full of artifice and allegorical implication, it also presents itself as a quasiscientific look at human male pack behavior in the wild," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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The musician and scholar George Lewis's ambitious opera, "Afterword," which tells an allegorical history of Chicago's historic and still-formidable Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, will be staged on Friday night.
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Set in an invented colonial country on the verge of native rebellion, it's explicitly allegorical, a fable of societal upheaval lighted with flashes of gorgeous, lurid imagery, like something out of Henri Rousseau.
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It was also important that Mr. Marshall's paintings are representational: fastidiously rendered, densely allegorical scenes occupied by ebony-skinned figures that touch on everything from the failure of housing projects to Renaissance art.
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And in a cumbersome allegorical role called Die Älte is the great Estelle Parsons, 92, who gives a performance of such bravura ferocity that the production's fiery special effects seem pallid beside her.
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The scene depicted on the memorial is of a serene classical temple, peopled with allegorical figures in Grecian attire and Christian saints and martyrs, flanked by soldiers, women and children in contemporary dress.
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This wasn't quite a Speed scenario — no terrorists aboard, just a clueless and stubborn bus driver who didn't know his new route — but it felt almost allegorical of our current state of affairs.
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Catherine arrived at the gates of the city riding a mule, and large swathes of London were transformed into an allegorical procession in which Catherine was cast as a star ascending into the heavens.
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Over three decades ago, a 20-year-old Sheen starred as Stone's onscreen alter ego PFC Chris Taylor, whose purity of soul becomes the murderous plaything in an allegorical battle of Good and Evil.
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There's these guys: And there's this guy: Plus this girl clown: Oddly, Ryan Murphy has insisted for months that the season will have some kind of allegorical relationship to the 2016 presidential election. Huh.
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Hazarika crafts Aamis in a way that can be simultaneously read as an emotionally grounded slow-burn forbidden romance, an allegorical nod to the aftermath of socio-cultural repressions, and as macabre corporeal horror.
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If we trace the metamorphosis of our pop cultural depictions of 93/11 in the years that have passed since the tragedy, direct attempts to cope with the attacks eventually evolve into allegorical attempts.
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Although AHS season 7 is one of the darkest and most allegorical looks at cults in modern memory, it's certainly not the only work of TV or film to examine cults and their repercussions.
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A 2012 survey revealed that of 640 listed statues in the UK, only 15% portrayed women, and of these most represented royalty or allegorical figures (although Nightingale does have a sculpture in Trafalgar Square).
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Once this allegorical setup is grasped, the journalist's fate, the disposition of the corpse and the movie's final shot make for a thriller that, while lesser than Hitchcock's, is more brutally cynical and despairing.
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It is much harder to fall in love with Harriet or Perdita or Margot, who are held at a certain distance from the reader, more like allegorical stock figures than like living, breathing people.
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These are very specific characters, but the years that you're writing about are so politically weighted that it seems tempting to read them as holding an allegorical significance in addition to just being themselves.
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But although his writing hums with a vivid populism, his emotional and allegorical tale seems at times almost too safely well done to do justice to the ragged and tortured people whose tragedies it traces.
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Today Medusa, with her snake hair and stare that turns people to stone, endures as an allegorical figure of fatal beauty, or a ready image for superimposing the face of a detested woman in power.
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The frontier and the battlefield were allegorical spaces where Cold War anxieties were played out, but they were also representations of the offices where more and more Americans spent more and more of their time.
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Most of the images he went on to draw of Lincoln were of that kind; one, an allegorical vision of a "false peace" between North and South, was widely credited with helping Lincoln get reëlected.
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Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women embodied in these statues, even if their names are often lost.
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The director Roland Joffé (who made "The Killing Fields," about Pol Pot's slaughter in Cambodia, and "The Mission," a tale of 18th-century colonialism with pronounced allegorical accents) is not known for a light touch.
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And while its allegorical nature is partly what makes it an ultimately hopeful children's classic, the miniseries makes a pretty boldfaced case that Watership Down is and always has been a straight-up horror story.
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Including portraits, still lifes, cityscapes and several of his most ambitious allegorical visions, it will warm the hearts of Beckmann's fans and serve as an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with his vigorously humane art.
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Five of the parts — which, in addition to Everybody, include such allegorical figures as Friendship, Kinship and Stuff (or material goods) — are newly reassigned at each performance by lottery (via balls in a bingo cage).
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I don't know anyone who now thinks of pelicans as models of Christian self-sacrifice, or the imagined couplings of vipers and lampreys as an allegorical exhortation for wives to put up with unpleasant husbands.
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But I don't think it's as thematically interesting as the more allegorical episodes from earlier in the season, and it spends more time on Doctor Manhattan himself as a character than I particularly care for.
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This allegorical scene on the beach sets the stage for "The Seventh Seal," which opens up into a larger pursuit of religious meaning at a time when mortality was being cut cruelly and arbitrarily short.
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Now, Mia is doing a public art piece where she holds Lady Justice's two scales as both a symbol of her belief in the allegorical heroine and metaphor for all the people who share her pain.
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I always feel a lil cheated when I see allegorical racism in movies cause that racism usually stems from human emotion or tolerance but not by law or systems the way it is in real life.
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The salas reservadas offered art-loving kings and other nobles — though not queens; ladies were not allowed — a place to appreciate these paintings, both as allegorical lessons and as erotic stimulation, without directly contravening church teachings.
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More than 50 years since they were removed at the behest of New York's "master builder" Robert Moses, two allegorical statues of "Miss Brooklyn" and "Miss Manhattan" have returned to the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge.
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As Lanchester puts distance between himself and his gigantic symbol, the plot grows less constrained, and the last hundred pages are full of tense action and sudden reversals that are mercifully unburdened by any allegorical significance.
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The second floor is anchored by a 1,345-square-foot dining room with wood ceilings as high as 18 feet and a large fireplace with an allegorical fresco over the mantel depicting the theme of Time.
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He came to the attention of most English readers in 2003, the year he died of liver failure in Barcelona, when his exquisite allegorical fiction "By Night in Chile" was translated into English by Chris Andrews.
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A few hundred years later, during the 19th century, a time of scientific discovery and adventurous expeditions, allegorical readings of men breastfeeding gave way to more detailed accounts, albeit ones tinged with an unmistakable colonial exoticism.
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" While a coin representing cultural diversity was long overdue, the Treasury announced that the 225th anniversary Mint is the first of a series of coins featuring depictions of "an allegorical Liberty in a variety of contemporary forms.
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There's a kind of allegorical irony in viewing works that showcase historical violence and repugnant biology with the most translucent of materials: historically speaking, we've been unwittingly complicit in atrocity and our own demise, despite its visibility.
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In 2012, Journey took the industry by storm and racked up countless awards because it blended serene, awe-inspiring visuals and incredibly moving soundtrack with a simple, allegorical story about traveling to the peak of a mountain.
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But that figure — high priest or petty dictator, destroying and consecrating reputations with the stroke of a pen — was always a bit of a myth, an allegorical monster conjured up by timid artists and their insecure admirers.
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It was written in an allegorical style traditionally used in China to criticise those in power, in this case in the form of an essay praising the seventh-century emperor, Taizong, for heeding a plain-talking courtier.
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In a literary culture where poetry has long been the most celebrated medium, writers are experimenting with a range of genres and styles, including comics and graphic novels, hallucinatory horror novels and allegorical works of science fiction.
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In "I Am No One" we find a writer standing on the border between the immediate and the allegorical, the personal and the political, the thriller and the novel of ideas, glancing in several directions at once.
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Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John RoseliusDirector: David Lynch There's always some allegorical boogeyman in a David Lynch film, but it's the bizarre encounter that mixes the creepy and comedic that best showcases this footprint of Lynch.
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Including portraits, still lifes, cityscapes and several of his most ambitious allegorical visions, it will warm the hearts of Beckmann's fans and serve as an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with his deeply and vigorously humane art.
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It was groundbreaking in that it was the first public art commission in New York City given to a woman, but the person it depicted was allegorical (albeit believed to be based on Stebbins's lover Charlotte Cushman).
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For her commission at London's Tate, Kara Walker has placed a female figure atop a fountain that sports a tree slung with a noose and allegorical figures taken from depictions of the slave trade and other events.
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It is decorated in a style pegged to the Dakota's 1884 German Renaissance-style architecture, with heavy wooden furniture, brocade drapes with tassels and Victorian allegorical paintings of the type whose eyes move in vintage horror films.
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And I think that we can read her conscious decisions in the finale — her walking into that house, willingly ingesting poison after she's realized her mother is trying to kill her — as an allegorical act of atonement.
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Books of The Times In the closing days of World War II, the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf was pursuing English-language rights to Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," with its powerful and clear allegorical view of Nazism.
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What Rembrandt Did as a Teenager: 4 of His 'Sense' Works Are Reunited The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is displaying this Dutch Master's early allegorical depictions of sight, hearing, smell and touch together for the first time.
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West painted this almost supernatural portrait of Franklin and his allegorical putti helpers more than 20 years after Franklin's death, a study for a larger painting he was planning for the Pennsylvania Hospital, which Franklin founded in 1751.
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A Pulitzer Prize winner in 2002 for "Topdog/Underdog" — a dazzling portrait of two grifter brothers who live up to the destiny of their names, Booth and Lincoln — Ms. Parks has never shied from the poetic or allegorical.
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Composed of Lazi's eight notebooks and described as a survival guide, an array of literary forms conspire together: aphorisms, fragments and allegorical interludes about crocodiles who wear human suits when they go outside and symbolize the queer body.
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George R. R. Martin surely didn't intend his blockbuster series of fantasy books, set in feudal Westeros (which I haven't read and, let's face it, probably won't read), to be an allegorical text for U.S. voters in 2016.
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But as it continues to follow the allegorical Antrobus clan in its 5,000-year struggle for survival (through a biblical-style flood on the boardwalks of Atlantic City and a family-dividing world war), "Skin" can wear thin.
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But this allegorical piece, in addition to paying respect to those who served, were injured, and died, also projected hoped-for vengeance and optimism about the birth of the Third Republic after the collapse of the Second Empire.
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But the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare's 1978 novel, "The Traitor's Niche," is an allegorical fable, finally (and very elegantly) translated into English by John Hodgson, about an earlier Albania, which for centuries formed part of the sprawling Ottoman Empire.
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"Santa Rosalia," presented in a rudimentary semi-staging directed by Marc Verzatt, is an interior allegorical drama enacted by Rosalia's better self, Repentance, and her lesser ones, Ambition and Sense, who try to steer her off her saintly course.
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Its successor, "Steps"—which David Foster Wallace later described as a "collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever"—won the National Book Award for fiction in 1969.
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Marvelous glittery stalagmites and figures elaborately costumed in pontifical vestments and Marie Antoinette-like wigs are arranged before a massive allegorical faux stained glass window made of plastic and tape that depicts love and sex and violence and death.
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Alec Nevala-Lee, reviewing Lanchester's dystopian novel, calls it a "gripping" story, especially as it progresses: "The last hundred pages are full of tense action and sudden reversals that are mercifully unburdened by any allegorical significance," Nevala-Lee writes.
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It could have been informative to add the voices of the unsung women who modeled for our public statues, whether Audrey Munson on the Manhattan Bridge, or Hettie Anderson guiding the statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, rather than an allegorical goddess.
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In the US, newspapers featured allegorical visuals such as one titled "The Awakening," showing a woman dressed in flowing garments like Lady Liberty, marching from the West Coast towards the women on the East, who grab towards her and the vote.
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He is a voyeur, seduced at first by stories that appeared allegorical—Arctic scientists trapped by melting ice on an island inhabited by polar bears, or a Russian boy killed by anthrax from a reindeer carcass uncovered by thawing permafrost.
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Valence, the capital of the Drôme, has a restored historic center, including a jewel of Renaissance architecture, the 16th-century Maison des Têtes, a palace in the late Gothic flamboyant style featuring the sculpted heads of allegorical figures and Roman emperors.
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The show doesn't try to replicate the near-pointillist density of the book, but at its best it manages to suggest something of its allegorical weight, its recognition of the futility of trying to separate the personal from the political.
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Including portraits of Quappi and others, still-lifes, cityscapes and several of his most ambitious allegorical visions, it will warm the hearts of Beckmann's fans and serve as an excellent introduction for those unfamiliar with his deeply and vigorously humane art.
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Despite the painting's surreal undertones and apparently allegorical content, the portrait itself reminds me of the anti-expressionist Neue Sachlichkeit movement in Weimar Germany, whose objectivity or "matter-of-factness" grounded the work in the observation of society's prevailing conditions.
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A second season might have been used to expand upon the characters' inner lives, offer some backstory about Hawkins, delve into the social and cultural realities of the 80s, or offer some kind of allegorical message for our own moment.
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Mr. Rodrigues opens up a world like a scroll as he shifts from realism to the fantastical and then the allegorical; pauses to meditate on the beauty of the world; and insists on the fusion of the spirit and the flesh.
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Dovey, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, has written a novel, "Blood Kin," and a story collection, "Only the Animals," both of which animated fictional, allegorical worlds that were removed from her own life experience.
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They may echo the allegorical compositions of Vermeer or Poussin, and the model's outfits are not unlike the country bumpkin get-up of "The Blonde Gascon," which Corot has sketchily reproduced on the wall at the top of the later painting.
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Listen to This With a masterful blend of allegorical lyrics and honky-tonk hooks, the artist and musician Terry Allen has been steadily solidifying his stature as a reigning deity of a certain kind of country music since the mid-70s.
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In spite of their differences and mutual suspicions, maybe the two primate societies, one coalescing while the other slid toward chaos, could share the Earth, or at least the stretch of Northern California forest where this franchise plants its allegorical flag.
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With a steady, returning beat, closer to allegorical verse than to realist fiction, the novel reminds us of its guiding theme: the homelessness of its hero, condemned to spend his life in the lonely quest for a metaphysical safe harbor.
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A show last year at the Metropolitan Museum exalted his five-painting allegorical suite, "The Course of Empire" (1833-36), which narrates the rise of a seaside landscape from Edenic innocence to metropolitan majesty and then its descent into abandoned ruins.
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The audacity of the "Saga" series of graphic novels, written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples, lies first in its allegorical examination of who fears "miscegenation" and why, and second in its defiance of the usual conventions.
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"X-Men: Evolution" struggled to achieve the visual highs of Fox's benchmark "X-Men" show, but it did pack a strong dose of allegorical themes as it depicted the new adventures of Cyclops, Wolverine, and the rest of Professor X's mutants.
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While the movie has allegorical resonances with the political and human rights disasters of 20th-century Romania, by the end, its surfaces, while remaining superficially unimpressive, open up as the film moves from epistemological speculation onto a plane of mysticism.
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Take the lead single "Sign of the Times," whose title evokes Prince but which explodes into a Goliath post-apocalyptic allegorical anthem that sounds more like Never Hear the End of It–era Chris Murphy than, say, going crazy, crazy, crazy.
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Putting aside the graphical facelift, the game remains a cryptic, allegorical tale of a young man's quest to revive a loved one by setting out to murder 16 giant beasts that roam the land, as instructed by the voice of an ancient god.
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A year ago, this Reddit thread suggested that we're actually watching an allegorical tale about how dictatorships transition into democracy; that its characters will ultimately shun the uncomfortable Iron Throne, that it will end with the wheel of monarchical misrule finally broken.
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You may have assumed, as I did, that the limestone exterior — two colossal allegorical figures (war and peace, or victory and family) flanking a dedication to the men and women who fought in World War II — was the monument in its entirety.
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The formula for Marvel Comics evolved helter-skelter as Lee and Kirby poured out many monthly titles: flawed heroes, stories that mixed folklore with space opera, open-ended plots, and allegorical allusions to contemporary politics (frequently touching on the evil of discrimination).
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The scale of these poems is cinematic and their reach reveals the extent to which Bidart's classical mind is adept at plucking allegorical tales and figures from Western literature and history on which he can graft his own life story, and also ours.
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In the movie "Little Joe," an allegorical art-house horror film about a genetically engineered flower whose scent has been designed to work on humans like an airborne antidepressant, that simple, even simplistic, question gets a stylish, nuanced and deeply unsettling airing.
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A never-before-published Sylvia Plath story would appear as a book this month: "Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom," an allegorical tale of a train journey into a kind of purgatory, written months before Plath's first suicide attempt, at age 20.
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The costumes (by Ann Hould-Ward) lend the production a fluid timelessness, with combat boots under versatile tartan cloaks that feel connected to both ancient Scotland and, when they whirl with the actors' movements, Hogwarts — another site of epic allegorical battles between good and evil.
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Thereafter, banknotes initially featured a diverse range of personalities: presidents of course, including Lincoln; but also generals, secretaries of treasury and state, women in allegorical roles (both robed and partially disrobed), children, boats, trains, eagles, bisons and even Martha Washington, America's first First Lady.
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In spite of occasional public scolding about the rampant misuse of allegorical interpretation, hard-pressed, click-seeking cultural journalists and political pundits can be counted on to take up the hard work of finding echoes, resonances and subtexts in a big pop-cultural pseudo-event.
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The welcoming mansiones of the one empire were the innumerable dak bungalows of the other, and if the bleak highlands surrounding Hadrian's Wall were the last frontiers of the Roman imperium, the fierce Northwest Frontier of Afghanistan was the allegorical rampart of the British Raj.
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I'm betting that we'll choose none of those, because while all are bizarre, none are bizarre in an interesting, allegorical or even campy way (or uncanny in a Lynchian or Cronenbergian way, which seems to be what the director, Danny Perez, is reaching for).
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Here's one clue: On election night 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign team had lavishly choreographed an allegorical rendering of a giant glass ceiling being shattered, to commemorate what nearly all Democratic operatives and consultants agreed would be her inevitable and automatic ascension to the presidency.
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The Atlanta exhibition, "Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach and the Promise of Salvation," at the Emory University Pitts Theology Library, focuses on Lucas Cranach the Younger's allegorical painting "Law and Grace," which reflects Luther's view that faith is the path to salvation.
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If "The Raid" drives home the horror, it also does a great job of disseminating the larger allegorical point that makes Watership Down both so memorable and so formative: Everything in these rabbits' lives is a fight, because everything about living is a fight.
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This calls to mind Kafka's pregnantly indecipherable novels, but Di Benedetto fills out his quasi-allegorical premise with so many dingy particulars that his narrator seems to experience his universal problem, in what may be the universal way, as a private shame and defeat.
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And I think holding all that together in the context of this large allegorical canvas about American life — and the predicament of race in that American life — was unwieldy, and clearly it was a task that could not be finished or completed for him.
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As the site for his upcoming meeting with Mr. Kim, Vietnam offers a couple of possible allegorical lessons: On the one hand, it was the setting of the United States' last major war in the region, a reminder of the devastating costs of conflict.
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First there's an exhilarating dance rehearsal in an abandoned boarding school, featuring music by Daft Punk and Aphex Twin, then a slow dive into an LSD-spiked-sangria, party-gone-wrong nightmare — an allegorical vision of beauty and harmony, followed by total social collapse.
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Of course, "realism" is not the yardstick by which to judge every novel — and an allegorical one, like J.M. Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians," tells us more about society than any reporter's notebook — but Hill's relentless historicizing sets the terms in which he fails to deliver.
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At any given minute, Lynch and Frost could swerve away from the narrative entirely to add a musical performance, or to spend a few poignant minutes with a recently departed castmember, or to mount an elaborately allegorical avant-garde exploration of how modernity has hastened humanity's fall.
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Inspired by a strong female character named Martha in Alain LeMay's Western novel, The Searchers (123) — and John Ford's 1956 movie based on the book — the new ballet is allegorical, "a series of refractions of imagery from the American West and the Martha story," Gleich told Hyperallergic.
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Among the standouts is Kang Je-gyu's time-traveling romance The Gingko Bed (65), whose epic sweep and affecting score today plays as a sort of prototype for the Korean blockbuster that Bong would refine into a more directly allegorical and "respectable" shape a decade later.
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Because once we start thinking about the Underground as an allegorical space that represents dehumanized and marginalized bodies, then suddenly "we" are forced to contend with the troubling idea that perhaps the only things separating "us" from various "thems" — society's countless marginalized communities — are chance and privilege.
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Ever since, art history experts have pored over this rather large allegorical painting, which depicts a decapitation scene from the biblical story of Judith of Bethulia, a young Jewish widow who ends the Assyrian siege on her city by seducing and beheading the sloshed general Holofernes.
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Along the way, the book grows menacing and allegorical, and winks Lethem-ly at so many storytelling archetypes — the road movie, the journey into darkness, the return of the king, the Mad Max-ish dystopia — that it's hard to imagine such a strange machine actually flying.
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" His 18th-century editor, William Whiston, notes that, according to Josephus, "Moses wrote some things enigmatically, some allegorically, and the rest in plain words," and therefore it is possible that Josephus understood the entire story of human creation "in some enigmatical, or allegorical or philosophical sense.
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In Akwaeke Emezi's Pet, an allegorical YA debut that was long-listed for a National Book Award, monsters aren't supposed to exist in the city of Lucille — but when one appears, a young trans girl named Jam has to figure out how to get rid of it.
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With its intimate touch and personal imagery (portraits, nudes, and allegorical figures), Marini's art overall had more in common with the sculpture of the avowedly anti-Fascist Giacomo Manzù than it did with the neoclassical public monuments designed to serve Mussolini's ambition of remaking the Roman Empire.
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It is based on the series of fifteenth-century tapestries known as "The Lady and the Unicorn," in which a woman of high station is seen in the company of a unicorn, a lion, a monkey, and other creatures, in allegorical depictions of the five senses.
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In a society that's increasingly anxious about internet privacy, and about the way internet security breaches could bleed over into a loss of real-life privacy, the home invasion film is uniquely able to depict an allegorical version of what that security collapse might look like.
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In that way and others, the book is like C.S. Lewis's Narnia series: not blatantly preachy or too ponderously allegorical but integrating long quotations from the Bible and Christian theology into a story that still works whether or not you pick up on the Christian context.
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Tomás's narrative burns with energy and mystery, but the two that follow, featuring men named Eusebio and Peter, drag to a slow swirl, entwined in a dense, allegorical dialogue that ranges from the nature of theodicy to the work of Agatha Christie to the behavior of the great apes.
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Before departing Bohemia, versatile Kupka experimented with symbolism and religious allegorical themes — and this exotic taste for evocation informed his subsequent experiments with nonrepresentational color, form, space, and line to the point where this little-known Czech painter is now heralded as an "inventor" of pure abstract art.
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As Mann writes in Doctor Faustus, his allegorical novel about the Third Reich that is conspicuously cited twice by Knausgaard in My Struggle: "Amidst disintegration, the search for the rudiments of new ordering forces is universal …" Knausgaard himself takes an almost mystical approach to these demonic ordering forces.
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The four works that were retrieved were all early 17th-century Dutch paintings of various genres: "Farmers Wedding," by Hendrick Boogaert; "Kitchen Peace," a domestic scene by Floris van Schooten; "The Return of Jephta," a biblical scene by Jacob Waben; and "Lady World," also by Waben, an allegorical scene.
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A proponent of the art of emblems — the juxtaposition of picture and text containing a moral truth or an allegorical meaning — he was apt at playing intellectual games of interpretations with his colleagues, but he also used his ingenuity when it came to observing nature and its laws.
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A mural commissioned by the French city of Grenoble as part of a street art festival caused a stir for its depiction of the allegorical figure of Marianne (a symbol of the French republic) cowering as two police officers in riot gear approach her with their batons raised.
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While writers such as H.G. Wells explore Mars as an allegorical vehicle through character-driven narrative, "A Human of Mars" is language-driven and unfolds in an ambient flow, in sections metered into 5 sentences: 1 I am a human in the absence of others of a yet better red.
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Although often pretty to look at, thanks to its snow-swept locales, "Crocodile" is most useful as a compact summary of some of Black Mirror's worst tendencies: violence and cruelty for their own sake, and developments that abandon the story's pre-established logic in favor of big, allegorical gut-punches.
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For one, the band usually deemphasizes traditional black metal atmosphere for sheer intensity, references to Satanism are infrequent and seem more metaphysical or allegorical—though it can admittedly be hard to tell, as the band does not publish their lyrics—and the duo dresses like normal human beings during live performances.
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There's something very medieval about his forms and his style; the monstrous and grotesquely sexual demons stalking through everyday scenes recall the paintings and woodcuts of an earlier era; the images built for symbolic meaning rather than representational accuracy might be the last remnants of a thousand-year-old allegorical tradition.
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There is of course music for the film's "Red Shoes" ballet, which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a girl demonically possessed by her beloved dance shoes — an allegorical version of Vicky's struggle between her love of dance and her love for the ballet's fictional composer, Julian Craster.
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The exhibition at the Grolier Club begins with early 229th-century pastoral scenes, including work by Asher B. Durand, who worked in banknote art before concentrating on landscape paintings, and progresses up to the 1960s–80s, when artists like Robert Lavin were modernizing allegorical figures to represent new technology and industry.
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In some ways, the movie is a little too resonant — it all maps cleanly to some of the major political conversations of the moment — but that's what makes it unnerving not just as an experiential piece of filmmaking (it's got some decent jump scares along the way), but also as an allegorical one.
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That was the goal — to build an allegorical United Nations of artists, a creative think tank, called Communitas, an art practice that creates new art from new connections with artists from around the world, across disciplines, across gazes, people from all walks of life, many professions, colors, cultures, nationalities, subjectivities, Ubuntu, linked fate.
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There's much for gorey goodness for genre fans to enjoy, but there's a hidden, deeper meaning beyond all the blood: The many references to George Orwell's Animal Farm throughout the film will make any book lover feel seen, even if the movie's characters don't quite have a handle on their allegorical fiction.
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Each spread has its own ingenious design, shuttling between the literal and the allegorical: As the text talks about Hitler undermining the power of President Hindenburg and the Reichstag ("teetering like a German spruce"), the illustration shows the Führer literally hacking down the tree of state, a startled German imperial eagle taking flight.
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The year 1986 saw the publication of Art Spiegelman's "Maus: A Survivor's Tale," an allegorical graphic novel about the Holocaust that was later awarded a special-citation Pulitzer Prize, as well as Frank Miller's series "The Dark Knight Returns," which imagined an aging Batman in a dystopian Gotham fighting a fascistically inclined Superman.
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For instance, it could turn our planet into goo after a simple misunderstanding of its goals (the allegorical paperclip scenario is a good example), remove humanity as a troublesome nuisance, or wipe out our civilization and infrastructure as it strives to improve itself even further, a possibility AI theorists refer to as recursive self-improvement.
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No access to Wi-Fi is probably the only acceptable reason if you aren't at least aware of his allegorical and deeply angry "This Is America" video by now, and he'll essentially be hopping from that to a likely ridiculous opening weekend on May 25 for Solo, the Star Wars side story he's starring in.
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A heady, sometimes headlong blend of fable and nightmare, with overtones of David Lynch and Franz Kafka and arresting wide-screen black-and-white images, Avishai Sivan's second feature, "Tikkun," is the latest evidence of the vitality of Israeli cinema, which has recently been moving away from politics-inflected realism in wilder, more allegorical directions.
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While the complexities in Hamid's novel are muffled by the allegorical voice of an unreliable narrator and the ruminating style of an oral history, Khadivi's book is meticulous, unsparingly realistic and rich in nuance, a careful accounting of all those small nothings that, over three formative years, add up to everything for Reza Courdee.
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The speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference was supposed to highlight tax cuts and sanctions targeting North Korea, but veered instead to familiar tropes, including his victory over "crooked" Hillary Clinton and a spirited reading of "The Snake," an allegorical song that candidate Trump used frequently to illustrate dangers posed by undocumented immigrants.
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As daunting as that is—especially when you factor in their understanding that sight loss can be affected by issues such as diabetes and obesity, which are also on the rise—the fact of the matter is that a partial or total loss of sight isn't necessarily the nightmarish vision that Samrago's (largely) allegorical novel paints.
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Get Out is a startling, frightening film, but it's also meticulously crafted to make the audience politically and socially uncomfortable, with a candid, unflinching message about how black and white Americans interact, and an allegorical underpinning designed to make viewers of any race squirm with discomfort — while still laughing at the ironic humor in Peele's script.
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But just as The Lord of the Rings' Frodo and Sam represent a thread of "hopepunk" through the grimmer world in which they walk, the storyline of Game of Thrones has steadily built the character of Jon Snow, with all his allegorical "chosen one" signifiers, into its literal hope for the future stability of the realm.
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Ishiguro is certainly using his fantasy ideas in a heavily allegorical mode: The Buried Giant is a melancholy story built around the idea of a medieval English legend, with a dragon and a curse, and even readers who love it will tell you straightforwardly that it is a cold and misanthropic book that sees the worst in human nature.
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