Word: metaphors
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...Rockwell Church chose to kick off the night, for instance, finds the speaker reflecting on the mind games he and his girlfriend play when they fight: “It was a subtle implication / Supposed to thrill me to the core / You trade the caustic observation / For the burning metaphor . . . It’s strange the way we change into the things / We might become anyway...
...canvas plane once guarded against outside referentiality has been invaded by metaphor, narrative, and gleeful appropriation of historical styles,” Kertess writes in the show’s description. And so Kertess uses the paintings of Carroll Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...
...with a proclivity for gleefully impenetrable sound bites had always made me suspicious: It smelled of media spin. As it turned out, the latter part of that stereotype wasn’t far from reality. Posed with the most straightforward of questions, Amos would deliver dreamy musings, rife with metaphor and personification of her songs...
...collection. Six of the panels are radiant and colorful photos of silk flowers in a shop, each of which is strong enough to stand alone. The seventh panel shows two women closely analyzing the flowers. These women are ordering the flowers, so the photo can be seen as a metaphor for the human attempt to order life. There are so many flowers, each precious and beautiful, that ordering them seems an impossible task. Is Hilliard sending the message that it is impossible to control and order every little thing in our lives? Is he saying that every bit of ourselves...
...true story of mid-20th century boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull seeks to do more than simply recount events and re-interpret them; instead, it is rich with artistic adornments such as beautiful cinematography (especially in its stunningly real and yet eerily surreal depictions of boxing) and metaphor, as LaMotta’s almost masochistic willingness to take abuse in the ring in many ways reflects his self-destructive behavior in his real-life interpersonal relationships...