" Rudin told me, "Hnath's theatrical language looks like naturalism, walks like naturalism, talks like naturalism, but it's not naturalism.
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And while its style might be called micro-naturalism, or naturalism on steroids, there's much art in Ms. Baker's construction and a large vision behind the play's concept.
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My approach — I just like to do grounded naturalism.
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This naturalism comes at the cost of character development. Lale
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In areas of truth and crude naturalism, without any concession.
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It's part naturalism, part Troma, part early Japanese monster movie.
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But they also retained a realist sense of naturalism and form.
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But I'm not sure that naturalism would have been the answer.
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The new series takes an early turn away from naturalism, though.
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Logic is not the point of "Novenas" nor naturalism its mode.
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In his plays, naturalism is a red herring, designed to sucker you.
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Not long after he died, however, the fever for naturalism broke, too.
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Wendy's take is a mix of naturalism and expressionist fantasy, shot with a naturalism that almost suggests it's a documentary about the "true" story behind the legend of Peter Pan (that also happens to include some magical elements).
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Without straight-ahead naturalism, the gender dynamics of the play automatically translate differently.
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He was dismissive of what he called "the Actors Studio ideal" of naturalism.
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The production team, led by the director James Robinson, opts for stylized naturalism.
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And, I think, for the same reasons, Kushner's operatic naturalism and their length.
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Still, for all their naturalism, the vocal lines also achieve agitated, plaintive lyricism.
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Trapped by the conventions of naturalism, Munch was already looking for a way out.
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Finding dance that is based in naturalism is a VERY specific kind of communication.
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If The Favourite is an exercise in naturalism, it also contains a profound artifice.
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The cast manages a similar feat of naturalism: These are big but nuanced performances.
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But it's funny: I hadn't thought of Fairchild as practicing naturalism until just now.
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There was no precedent in China for any of this, the scale, the naturalism.
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Despite the naturalism of his style, Wyeth asks viewers to exercise their own imaginations.
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But it feels, well, unnatural in a work based on a pioneering novel of naturalism.
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Small interactions glibly dismissed as inconsequential factor into the mundane naturalism in the gameplay experience.
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On this album, the naturalism of Swamp Dogg's lifelong soul and funk all but disappears.
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"Hassam embraced impressionism, but also naturalism, tonalism, and aestheticism," she writes in the exhibition catalogue.
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He is one of the great movement choreographers that we have and is based in naturalism.
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I think I'd describe the style of it as hyper-naturalism, with a ten-degree tilt.
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With subtly skewed naturalism, the play's second half explores the woman that girl became (1:15).
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With subtly skewed naturalism, the play's second half explores the woman that girl became (234111:231982).
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With subtly skewed naturalism, the play's second half explores the woman that girl became (212:2115).
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Ms. Ng emphasized the naturalism of Moroni's work, which has a mixed reputation among art historians.
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A textbook example of Greco-Roman naturalism, it was cast in Yemen, as an inscription confirms.
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No less impressive than these lavish backdrops are the movie's understated performances and its overall naturalism.
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This breakthrough was also his break away from "Kroghian naturalism," the prevailing style of 1880s Norway.
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There's a naturalism and complexity to his McEnroe that keeps him from being turned into a caricature.
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While there's an unforced naturalism in all three performances, Vinaite's role may have been the most challenging.
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What Stewart has that so many actors of her generation lack is a perfect sense for naturalism.
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It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme.
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"Better Things," a comedy rooted in slice-of-life naturalism, trusts that the little stuff is enough.
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Thankfully, Prince grounds the whole thing with a raw naturalism that most grown-up Oscar winners could envy.
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There's a comfy naturalism to everything, to the suburban blah and the gossipy chatter and the easy cruelty.
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Speaking of acting and staging trends, they weigh the worth of trying to apply naturalism to Shakespearean verse.
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A cosmopolitan and protean filmmaker, Pabst (19613-1967) was attracted to naturalism as well as to big issues.
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Britain, which has a particularly strong tradition of amateur naturalism, has the best-studied bugs in the world.
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Onstage, the key seems to be her choice to explore as utter naturalism the absurdity of Beckett's premise.
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He was an advocate of European naturalism, and of fiction that attended to the social and political moment.
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The counterweight to Seurat in gravity is Daumier, whose fusion of humor, style and naturalism has few rivals.
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It reminded me a bit of the American naturalism of writers like Jack London, transported to the United Kingdom.
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"We know how important this is," director Jon Favreau (who helped pioneer the naturalism of The Jungle Book) said.
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This is why using naturalism has become a default critical yardstick for reviewers, especially those on a tight deadline.
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While High Maintenance offers a higher degree of flexibility than a more traditional program, naturalism remains its primary style.
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Coutard proliferated the hyper-aware sense of staged naturalism that has become the look of motion picture in 2016.
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And one of the beautiful paradoxes of this new naturalism is the way it enriched images of the supernatural.
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He's glad more people know about it but sad that some of the naturalism of the place is lost.
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In the nineteenth century, German romantic writers like Ernst Moritz Arndt and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl synthesized naturalism and nationalism.
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So does the abbreviated naturalism of two rare river otters in bronze by Tsuda Shinobu: The animals look almost wet.
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He drew from live models, not existing images or casts, and his renderings of flopping flesh have a remarkable naturalism.
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The producer of "The Tree of Forgiveness" is Dave Cobb, Nashville's first-call choice for tracks built on rootsy naturalism.
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" Mr. Appignani said he rejected a last-minute proposal from a dean to call it a chair in "philosophical naturalism.
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Maar's photographic experiments reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.
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This Sunday, the Velaslavasay Panorama will host a lecture on the development of North American naturalism in the 19th century.
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"We might slightly bend naturalism, as all theater does, but we don't want to go into anthropomorphic territory," he said.
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What he wanted was something like the scene of the girl and her dolphin balloon: beauty, naturalism and spontaneous emotion.
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They're works of rub-your-nose-in-it naturalism, unforgiving and emotionally draining, books that make you squirm, and think.
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Bonds has a talent for naturalism, and the chatter among the three friends crackles with lived experience and imaginative sympathy.
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He made his name first as an art critic, railing against naturalism and Impressionism, both of which he considered banal.
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Its immediacy comes in part from the brisk naturalism of the performances and the nimbleness and fluidity of the editing.
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By combining her artistic naturalism with a focused specialty, Bonheur was able to stand out in the nascent art market.
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Bois refers to the work inspired by the mosaics as "oblique" lineation that traces "inner contours," no longer conforming to naturalism.
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At his best — or let's just say in everything except "Battleship" — he combines blockbuster-flavored effects with fine-grained, sinewy naturalism.
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"Engagements" diverges from naturalism in a series of interior monologues that some of the characters deliver into a hand-held microphone.
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Forcing a theater audience to reroute its urge toward naturalism, Mr. Rau encourages a consideration of the means of storytelling itself.
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These scenes are performed with a quiet and naturalism that differ starkly and pointedly from the feverishness of the musical sequences.
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And the quiet moment in which Dotte (Nicole Lewis) reads Mabel's fate in tarot cards is an acting class in naturalism.
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But when the adapters translate Gabriel's turbulent sensations into a long monologue, the spell of closely observed naturalism is inevitably broken.
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Across this stack of two nooks, McKean references the evolution of naturalism in art to challenge artificial hierarchies between antiquity and novelty.
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I have that problem here, and then I go to Germany, where the idea of historical costumes and naturalism is so outdated.
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A newly discovered warrior tomb suggests Bronze Age Aegean culture was more interested in naturalism and the human form than previously believed.
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Conversely, the works in the first room, with their vestiges of naturalism trailing behind them, seem inextricably bound to their own time.
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"Old Stone," a tough, bitter serving of straight-up naturalism, opens on a street and closes at the edge of the abyss.
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The jokes are all amplified just a little beyond naturalism, and the conflict is gentle to the point of feeling slightly sleepy.
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Our chief dance critic on this great theater maker and his particularly American style of ballet, which weeded out artifice and embraced naturalism.
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Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism.
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His films have always been inspiring; they're an interesting mix of a surrealist, earthy naturalism with a very strong political and social mindset.
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In structure and tone, "Moonlight" sets itself against the earnest, austere naturalism that has become a default setting for movies about social misery.
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Beyond that, Mr. Shandling and company created the visual vocabulary (fly-on-the-wall naturalism) and voice (scathing) for a generation of comedy.
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From then on, trying to make sense of the story would be like trying to find documentary naturalism in Salvador Dalí's melting clocks.
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Shot with a lucid naturalism in the brightly lit ship canteen, the visceral scene is as shocking today as it was in 1979.
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The cybernetic naturalism of previous records has given way to Utopia's eco-fantasia and it's telling what she's decided to take with her.
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To the extent it succeeds, it's another worthy experiment — the kind Bushwick Starr excels in — into the nature of post-naturalism in theater.
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But there's a lack of a comparable fluidity here; the show often feels tonally stranded between wish-fulfillment fantasy and dream-crushing naturalism.
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Greek figurative sculpture of the 5th century BCE had art historically been long considered the height of naturalism — the newly discovered Parthenon the jewel in its crown — and we see it dually worshipped and intensified in Rodin's bodies, which concentrate and over-accentuate naturalism to the point of becoming hyper-real; famous is the contemporary accusation that he actually cast from life.
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The best actress prize was given to Jaclyn Jose, the star of "'Ma' Rosa," a slice of naturalism from the Philippine director Brillante Mendoza.
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Instead, Nietzsche grounded himself in a version of naturalism—the post-Darwinian conviction that humans are an animal species, led by no transcendent purpose.
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Clearly, this is Jones's way of dealing with the strangeness of the play, which isn't amenable to naturalism because Horvath isn't interested in truth.
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His father, Arthur Elgort, is a fashion photographer whose on-the-streets shoots for Vogue brought the magazine a kind of charmingly manicured naturalism.
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This is well meaning, and maybe will result in some pleasant naturalism, but amidst Frieze's wave of boosterism, ignoring the audience seems a bit foreboding.
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They get to know one another, but not through the style of traditional naturalism, in scenes moving cleanly toward an emotional or dramatic turning point.
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Mr. Bowie was his generation's standard-bearer for rock as theater: something constructed and inflated yet sincere in its artifice, saying more than naturalism could.
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Holmer sometimes goes overboard with a groaning, atonal score, which feels like a garish shout for attention by contrast with all the low-key naturalism.
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The œuvre of Bookchin, who died in 22015, is vast and dense (a typical title is "The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism" ).
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Gruet's background in nonfiction film has aided him in this effort to infuse a sense of naturalism into the show—and also to be adaptable.
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A performer of great unforced naturalism, she has always come across more like a character actor than a star, even when she has the lead.
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That's the real value of "Contact High": capturing hip-hop's transition from improvisation to construction, from thrown-together fashion to stylists, from naturalism to poses.
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The still spaces and figures of Piero's art help Mr. Hockney achieve a unified naturalism, based on the observation of actual people, places and things.
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Stretches of naturalism fare better; Dale Soules, as the woman's pious, emotionally ruthless aunt, slows things down by sheer force of will, mining genuine laughs.
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But I also think there's enough naturalism within the Battle Royale scenario that it balances out the robot birds and terrifying remote-controlled robot wolves.
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On "Beverly Hills, 90210" and more recently as a "hot dad" on the kid-noir "Riverdale," he walked the line of naturalism and subtle parody.
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She shed all traces of naturalism and realism and developed a faux naïf style in which small, often elongated figures occupy a stage-like setting.
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Hyman's answer is that each of these artists is "resistant" to the legacy of 19th century academic naturalism and it's numbing external vision of materialism.
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It's artfully made, but sometimes its easy-flowing story and flawless naturalism makes it feel more like a documentary about teen life than a narrative film.
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Just when I was beginning to think that this scene, too, would smoothly hew to naturalism, Ms. Ruhl sprang surprises too delightful (and haunting) to spoil.
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At this point in their careers, we don't expect documentary-style naturalism from Wes Anderson, bittersweet romance from Quentin Tarantino or violent action from Whit Stillman.
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She presents herself as a latter-day Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter, full of longing and devotion, supported by the naturalism of piano, guitars and string sections.
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Throughout the episodes, many scenes are improvised to heighten the naturalism as Lil Dicky tries to transform himself from a viral gimmick into a respected rapper.
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A small surface of canvas reveals Munch's whole self ("the soul's inner pictures" he called it) in a way the illusionistic space of naturalism never could.
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If anything, he found their naturalism to his advantage, noting that the younger stars in particular, who anchor the first two episodes, become one with their characters.
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In the many 007 film clips sprinkled around the show, I noticed that Bond's trials and tribulations shuffle between a stylized, modernist naturalism and wild, flagrant artifice.
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The quote "The question of naturalism is a fallacy," is attributed to Grossman; he carried no delusions about an image's ability to display something natural and unaltered.
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After several seasons where makeup on the runway evoked some idealized image of dewy naturalism, the metallic appliqué exuded a molten heft that was unabashedly sci-fi.
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What did it mean for Murillo to place himself in this wholly artificial marble box, and to undercut the naturalism he brought to depicting his own face?
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It's an emblematic turn for Mr. Stanton, who didn't so much steal scenes as inhabit them, employing an uninflected naturalism that could make other actors seem forced.
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Over the week, the two bond, argue and work, all of it shown with a naturalism that can be clumsy or graceful, but it always feels authentic.
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As he ambles sideways into the story, his naturalism is so convincing that audience members on Tuesday tried to help out when he fumbled for a word.
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Moroni, among the best of underappreciated Renaissance painters, brought a new level of naturalism to his subjects, who included lavishly dressed aristocrats but also scholars and tradesmen.
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In Heavy Rain, this sense of naturalism emerges in the sequence following the opening credits, where recently divorced father Ethan Mars (pictured above) tends to his son, Shaun.
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Among the paintings that Leonardo took away with him was the portrait later known as the "Mona Lisa," begun around 1503 and soon admired for its astonishing naturalism.
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A great example of White's artistry is his recent sculpture of woman's nude torso, which features a sort of surreal naturalism that removes everything above the woman's jaw.
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But, despite the shambling naturalism of his twitches and his line deliveries, nobody really talks the way he does, with painful hesitations acting, surprise , as perfectly placed transitions.
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He's known for freeing works from the shackles of naturalism, stripping his shows to their component parts, and revealing new angles to stories we thought we already knew.
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But most of the choreography seems superfluous and jumbled, its strained attempts at psychological extremity at odds with its show-off dance effects and the narrative's established naturalism.
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It contains several horrific — and now notorious — scenes of brutality, but what makes those moments especially unnerving is the low-key domestic naturalism in which they are embedded.
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This movie aspires to depict real life, not life as cinema is often inclined to idealize it; by the same token, it is hardly a work of naturalism.
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The piece is also a prophecy because Giorgione, along with his teacher Bellini, helped inaugurate the massive innovations of the Venetian Renaissance with exactly this kind shocking naturalism.
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" The Los Angeles Times named it one of the best books of the year, and Publishers Weekly praised Ms. Bezos's "subtle imagination and a startling talent for naturalism.
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"Van Gogh was constantly on the search for new ways of working, from naturalism, to Impressionism to Post-Impressionism, to add to his own style," Mr. Becker said.
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They are also done in a range of styles: Naturalism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and Expressionism, which influenced a generation of German artists in the first decades of the 20th century.
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In addition, the figure's extreme naturalism, which caused an immediate public sensation, gave rise to rumors that Rodin hadn't sculpted it but had cast it from an actual body.
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And while many were characterized by a hard-boiled naturalism, there were some — like Robert Siodmak's "Phantom Lady" (1944) or Edgar G. Ulmer's "Detour" (1945) — that were blatantly dreamlike.
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But "Tosca," directed with extravagant naturalism on a severely raked stage by David McVicar, had pleasures in a thoughtful Sonya Yoncheva and the puppy-dog energy of Vittorio Grigolo.
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And where "Empire," while overheated, is fairly consistent stylistically, at least nodding toward naturalism, "Star" is all over the place — adventurous or nuts, depending on your point of view.
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Though he doesn't quite achieve Coogler's balance of poetic intensity and laid-back naturalism, Caple proves to be both a capable fight choreographer and a deft orchestrator of emotions.
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Mr. Jude, while he shares with his contemporaries an unsentimental interest in human folly and failure, departs from the naturalism that has been their collective signature for the last decade.
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This pseudo-naturalism is compounded by industrial steel and acrylic platforms on which the work is displayed and file cabinets that suggest a place of origin for the discombobulated archive.
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Even the style of the acting is divorced from the conventions of American naturalism—with such frequent and lengthy pauses, I felt like I was watching Pinter rather than Miller.
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It's a hushed, intractably sad scene, drawn in precise detail — naturalism I wouldn't expect from Ms. Ruhl, whose imagination is among the most adventurous at play today in the theater.
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This director, usually so experimental, conspicuously stages "Iolanta" straight, setting it in an airy, comfortable sitting room, with the characters in late-19th-century dress and acting with Chekhovian naturalism.
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But Mr. Kaurismaki does not traffic in the harsh, immersive naturalism that has recently flourished on the international festival circuit, and his movies feel more like fables than like bulletins.
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The movie doesn't romanticize or judge them, but it also shies away from the kind of objective naturalism that would challenge viewers to think about what this story might mean.
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The Wilma now has a three-year-old resident acting company and welcomes shows whose daring aesthetics depart from the factory-setting naturalism of most American stages, especially regional ones.
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The much earlier painting "Study for Cubism" (2004), featuring two figures with less exaggerated proportions, seems to catch the artist at a crossroads, poised to leap from naturalism to distortion.
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Where so many other games are gray and stolid, the world of Phoenix Wright is all color and movement—a baroque counterpoint to the gritty naturalism displayed by the larger medium.
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What empowered Van Eyck's out-of-nowhere naturalism — the incredible sense, as the art historian Ernst Gombrich would write, that he was holding "the mirror to reality in all its details"?
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López gets remarkable performances from her ensemble of young actors whose grounded naturalism is crucial to keeping the film anchored in its grim reality, even as it shifts into genre territory.
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While the artists also rejected the early 20th-century Bengal School's nationalist art movement and penchant for naturalism, they did adopt one of their strategies, the recovery of older art forms.
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His process, in fact, reflects a remarkable blending of exploitation and empathy, of vigorous manipulation and naturalism, to a degree only ever matched, arguably, by the still life painter Chardin (1699-1779).
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The displays demonstrate how she forged links between naturalism, symbolism, Art Deco, and the obscure, delicate Neo Florentine movement as practiced by Paul Dubois (who may also have mentored the young Claudel).
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Unsurprisingly, these technologically savvy images are the most interesting in the exhibition, as they reject the pretense of naturalism in straightforward photography and instead attempt to achieve something much deeper than resemblance.
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Here, too, Mughal influence eventually pushed artists to greater naturalism, and by the middle of the 18th century, these northern artists had fused Islamic and local painterly traditions into ardent new form.
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Those familiar with Mr. McCraney's earlier work, much of which is written in a startlingly original impressionistic style, are likely to be bewildered at first here by the seeming kitchen-sink naturalism.
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But by turning to naturalism, he undercuts his original, still-present concept of a California history pageant à la Brecht — especially because the Brechtian set design, by David Gropman, is nearly unchanged.
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The gridlock they create amid the stunning chutes of water running down the steep granite slopes of Yosemite's glacier-carved valley results in a kind of drive-by naturalism that frustrates many.
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The subject — inspired by the memory of an older sister, Sophie, who had died at 18940 — wasn't the problem, but his Impressionistic style was an affront to a local taste for academic naturalism.
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Given the general prejudices against naturalism linked to most schools of modern art, Soutine would need to accomplish more "magic" than the static, hackneyed, and by now dissipated traditions of trompe l'oeil verismo.
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At age 25, he was more than ready to leave behind a scolding, pietistic father and the provincial Norwegian art scene, which worshipped at the altar of naturalism, for everything France might offer.
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He sticks to the visual and psychological conventions of war-movie naturalism in order to expose their limitations, and also to find metaphor, magic and metaphysical terror in the midst of grim realities.
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She learned how to be an actor by observing Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, she said, especially their naturalism and the way they could enter a room and immediately make it their own.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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There's no couch, but there are many of the other trappings of fusty stage naturalism: a working sink, a kettle on the stove and "Mama Nola's famous strawberry cake" in the pie safe.
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That's saying something, because runway fashion, with its heightened aesthetics and commitment to the spectacle of artificiality over naturalism, is in some ways inherently camp — but Gucci takes it to a new level.
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His colors similarly depart from naturalism in their loudness: all purples, yellows, and greens straight from the tube, applied to all landscapes, whether supposedly LA or East Yorkshire: They could theoretically depict anywhere.
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If you tell yourself once a day that cinema needs reality in order to exist, then it's enough for me to walk out where I live and look around, without searching for excessive naturalism.
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The length of time it took to build is evident in the various architectural styles throughout the building -- there are signs of the Renaissance and the Naturalism era along with the French Gothic look.
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"Every perfromance was keyframe animated the same way that they did back in the time of 'Bambi,' except with the computers using it for lighting and for rendering, it creates this beautiful photoreal naturalism."
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Similarly, the mumbling in costume dramas often isn't there to purposely make the speech unintelligible, but to create a feeling of naturalism: Not everything said in real life is delivered as a knockout line.
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Whenever I was in a museum or zoo gift shop, or passing a toy-store window, I'd find myself drawn to the animal figurines, always seeking out the naturalism of that first Roger effigy.
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No matter: All are equally done in by the final scene, a bonkers scherzo in which the quasi naturalism is swept away by what is meant to be the joyful surrealism of children's theater.
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Bresson used the term "cinematography," which he defines in "Bresson on Bresson" as "a kind of writing," to distinguish between his own methodology and the bogus theatrical naturalism and fake psychology of popular cinema.
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And in work spanning 40 years, Ms. Srimati's choreographic take on naturalism makes everyday subjects — a woman dressing, a family riding to market — look heroic, and images of deities and saints look approachably human.
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" All this can bring to mind Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," but where Ward is Faulknerian in her rhetorical sweep, Sexton maintains a cool, detached naturalism more reminiscent of Tayari Jones in "Leaving Atlanta.
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And naturalism is not a good guide for ethics or policy -- many "natural" things, such as disease and natural disasters, are bad, while many "unnatural" things, such as cities, education and the arts, are good.
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Volumetric, yet not limned with the naturalism of her surroundings, the young woman makes for an odd avatar, half in the "real" world of the illusionistic digital rendering, half in the flatland of a cartoon.
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Velázquez landed the country's one plum job for an artist, as chief painter to King Philip IV, in Madrid, where he could bring to peak refinement his astonishing naturalism, with secular subjects in sophisticated company.
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The film marks the director's return to shooting in Seoul and to naturalism (well, more or less—it would not be a Bong Joon-ho picture without a few surreal surprises slithering in a corner).
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Trip Cullman's clever production, a world premiere, makes the most of a similar feint in "Before the Meeting," offering in its opening segments a high-octane naturalism of the most expert — and creepingly tedious — sort.
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"Every performance was keyframe animated the same way that they did back in the time of &aposBambi,&apos except with the computers using it for lighting and for rendering, it creates this beautiful photoreal naturalism."
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Trip Cullman's clever production, a world premiere, makes the most of a similar feint in "Before the Meeting," offering in its opening segments a high-octane naturalism of the most expert — and creepingly tedious — sort.
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Perhaps Balke felt that events such as the Aurora Borealis required new techniques and that naturalism was not up to the task of evoking the drama of a constantly changing world of sky and sea.
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Can you speak to that naturalism, and if the theme is connected to music being wider than the sky (as in, you have the freedom to move away from metal, or doom, or a labels expectations).
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The first feature film from Brazilian YouTuber and music video director Joe Penna, which premiered last week at the Cannes Film Festival, Arctic is a standout for its commitment to naturalism and to braving the elements.
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Directed with maybe too much sensitivity by Colleen Clinton and Lily Dorment for the Pond Theater Company, "The Naturalists" is staged with impeccable, well, naturalism — all that food, all those beers, the mumbling and the pauses.
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But here, despite a vein of Ayckbourn-esque melancholy and a nod toward state-of-the-nation seriousness, Mr. Betts and the director, Stephen Darcy, keep surging past naturalism toward strident farce, then stumbling into tragedy.
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Writer and director Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats, It Felt Like Love) tells the story sparingly, favoring naturalism rather than polemics and recalling bleak dramas like the 2007 Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
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Adam Bock's drama, directed by Trip Cullman for the Williamstown Theater Festival, set you up to expect nothing but naturalism from a handful of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts preparing coffee for their 12-step meetings.
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Style is to be celebrated for the labor that goes into creating it and for the pleasure that it creates; style that effaces itself in the name of naturalism is dull, more trouble than it's worth.
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Even in Rome, the innovative energy generated by Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio earlier in the century was dissipating; in Florence, painting had calcified into a pompous, idealized naturalism that relied heavily on lush flesh and plentiful drapery.
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" The 21-year-old describes an effective Renaissance-style photo as one that "should consist of emotion, naturalism (in this sense, a candid photo), and the frame should be filled with a variety of people and characters.
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Set in the Tuscan countryside during the summer of 19873, with the American forces advancing and the Germans in retreat, "Night of the Shooting Stars" is an unpredictable, often comic blend of sentimental naturalism and skillful hyperbole.
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In the works of the artists he admired — Cadmus, Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Bernard Perlin, and Ivan LeLorraine Albright — we find an allegiance to pictorial finesse even as the imagery departs naturalism for social satire or Surrealism Lite.
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One of the difficulties is that commercial and mainstream American drama has eschewed Wilder's more global, abstract, philosophical voice for a kind of nitty-gritty naturalism, which doesn't critique American society the same way that Wilder does.
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He was inspired by the naturalism of "the Vidal Sassoon revolution," he said, but after stints at salons including Vidal Sassoon, Kenneth and Elizabeth Arden, he opened his own studio in the 1980s, inspired by another revolution.
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But Meyerbeer may be just the composer for our moment, not just in his subject matter but also in his almost proto-postmodern resistance to the fully immersive naturalism that would become the operatic norm after Wagner.
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Romare Bearden (1911-1988) became famous for paintings and collages capturing the black experience, but, as this biography shows, he long strained against the conservative naturalism championed by people like his mother, a New York activist and journalist.
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On a needlessly wide set (by Adam Rigg) crammed so close to the audience, and lit so brightly (by Amith Chandrashaker), that artifice becomes impossible to ignore, the production settles on a flattening mishmash of alienation and naturalism.
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On that first day of the rehearsal, however, Mr. Mayer was already feeling an urge to nudge Mr. Roth's script away from naturalism and toward something more "abstract," as he put it, using one of Warhol's favorite words.
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" In 1926, the Book Review published an unsigned review of "Soldiers' Pay," which said that Faulkner's use of "the episodic and elliptical pattern of modern experimental fiction" allowed him to avoid "the dreary piling-up of details of naturalism.
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I didn't know how it would look, but because it all sort of happens organically, and everything's different with every take, it creates a sort of naturalism that you don't get from bigger-budget comedies, or movies in general.
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Instead of trying to cross the uncanny valley into naturalism within virtual reality, or falling back on the tropes of gaming animation, Dispatch's writer and director Ed Robles of Here Be Dragons decided to create a more impressionistic approach.
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The show "takes a period and place that's often approached with dutiful naturalism and sobriety about difficult circumstances and infuses it with light touches of magical realism and bursts of palpable otherworldly joy," Jon Caramanica wrote in The Times.
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Ms. Baker's style, here in particular, might almost be called micro-naturalism, in its rigorous attention to the rhythms of real speech and everyday interaction, which are rarely as smooth — or, ahem, as speedy — as they are depicted onstage.
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Eye makeup looks often aim for some degree of naturalism, as with a "smoky eye" created from a tonal range of brown or black eyeshadows, but the movement toward in-your-face color is all about artifice and playfulness.
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Standing firmly behind this "poetic naturalism" is Sean Carroll, the theoretical physicist who's taken readers on a journey through time in From Eternity to Here and the hunt for the Higgs-Boson in The Particle At the End of the Universe.
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As a Marvel writer in the 1960s, Lee—along with artists like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby—ushered in the Silver Age of comics, imbuing superheroes with a level of naturalism and realism unlike anything the form had ever seen.
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Compared with Mughal miniature painting, known for its refinement and naturalism, the paintings here — from Rajasthan, in the northwest of the subcontinent, and from the independent states of the Punjab hills, south of the Himalayas — are more vibrant and even flamboyant.
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Humans and Other Animals captures a subtle transition as Frink, working against critical opinion that made abstract sculpture de rigueur in the 1960s, settles into a confident naturalism, simultaneously expressionistic and poetic, that would guide the rest of her career.
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What Mr. Guare seems to be after is a dramaturgy that is absurdist not for its own sake but as a kind of last-ditch naturalism, replicating the absurdity of actual life with all its serendipities, hyperlinks, potholes and misprisions.
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" The writer and director Lena Dunham told me that what she often admires about Gerwig's dialogue is the contrast between erudition and naturalism — "In one breath she'll be referencing a superobscure book and also utilizing the awkward parlance of our times.
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In Atomic Blonde, someone who's a little more hammy (like McAvoy) is hammy in a way that perfectly aligns with the film's brooding tone, while someone who's more naturalistic, like Marsan, tweaks that naturalism just enough to tilt toward ham.
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Tate Britain curators Chris Stephens, Andrew Wilson, and Helen Little make this clear by their choice to arrange this chronological survey around Hockney's technical interests, theming each segment in the context of, say, abstraction, naturalism, and optical theories regarding cameras.
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Talk about doing these musicals, or these Old Hollywood movies full of sets and costumes, where it feels like there should be no room for naturalism at all, and yet you watch Singin' In the Rain, you feel like you know her.
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Starting with Trap-A-Velli Tre, released in August of 2015, Mr. Chainz began effectively synthesizing all the best threads from his past work—the cartoon luxury, the somber naturalism, the quiet, earnest hope that the Braves will somehow get it together again.
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Part tabloid fixture, part philosopher, Margaret was just as likely to cause a scandal by wearing a breast-baring gown to the theater (with rouged nipples) as by writing a romance that anticipates science fiction or a treatise that anticipates contemporary naturalism.
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"'The Get Down' takes a period and place that's often approached with dutiful naturalism and sobriety about difficult circumstances and infuses it with light touches of magical realism and bursts of palpable otherworldly joy," Jon Caramanica wrote in The New York Times.
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Both "The Humans" and "Sweat" are, to different degrees, dramas with generous doses of comedy that stick fairly closely to theatrical naturalism, the standard for most American drama, and perhaps an obvious choice for plays addressing the real-world concerns of average folks.
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Deeply involved in the Gandhi-led anti-colonialist movement, she repurposed the illustrational naturalism taught in British-founded art schools by filtering it through older indigenous styles like those found in the sixth-century Buddhist murals at Ajanta and in Rajput miniatures.
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Using occasional moments of darkness as editing opportunities, Deakins creates a remarkably convincing simulation of the uninterrupted flow of time: doing away with shaky-cam naturalism, he combines fluid, dancerly movement with stately composition and framing to create images of breathtaking beauty.
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This first piece from the Low Countries must have looked thoroughly alien amongst its new wall neighbors, and its impact appears to have been instrumental in the Brotherhood's total rejection of the academic tradition, with its prescribed themes and dedication to naturalism.
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Her 1666 romance The Blazing World, with its interplanetary travel and multiple universes, is an early forerunner of science fiction (it was the first book to feature interplanetary travel and multiple universes), and her philosophy, much mocked in its day, anticipates contemporary naturalism.
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Ever since Jesse Saunders changed the entire world with 1984's futureshock of a record "On and On," American house producers have never shied away from foregrounding vocals, never feared marrying the abstraction of electronically derived music and the naturalism of the human voice.
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Written with a fresh-feeling blend of documentarylike naturalism and theatrical daring, and directed with consummate skill by Joe Mantello, Mr. Karam's comedy-drama depicts the way we live now with a precision and compassion unmatched by any play I've seen in recent years.
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Moving into single-camera naturalism, Lorre carries with him the structures and comic sensibilities of the multicamera network sitcom — he just slows the pace, stretching out the setups, and ratchets down the jokes, as if explosive laughs would be unseemly in these quieter surroundings.
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The portraits in the main gallery, which date between 1907 and 1917, brim with shivers of tension that are far more subtle than the collisions between the separate realms of naturalism and decoration that characterize works like "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" and "The Dancer" (1917).
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" Jack and the Beanstalk, 823, Primrose Productions / BFI National Archive In reviewing her "Cinderella" for The New York Times in 1928, Charles Morgan wrote, "The small black shapes laugh at you from a world of their own into which naturalism makes no laborious entry!
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Coated in grease and pride at what his body can do, Yank is both a man and an Expressionistic impression of a worker, an embodiment of the playwright's ideas about theatrical naturalism and how to elevate it beyond the proscenium and make it deeper, spookier.
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These actors knew the Meisner-influenced naturalism of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and the elegant crispness of the British school, but they grew up in the 1970s when — after President Nixon and Vietnam — nobody believed in any kind of hegemony: American, theatrical or otherwise.
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While many in her community focus on the naturalism of the surrounding Arctic, Pootoogook looks beyond the superficial tropes of romantic landscapes, instead capturing the gritty reality of her community and the domestic modern challenges of life for First Nations living in northern Canada.
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Much of it likely stems not from the actual risks to mother and child, but from ageism -- the idea that certain things should not be done by older people -- combined with naturalism, namely the thought that it is "unnatural" for women past menopause to attempt pregnancy.
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The writing and the acting stick to an unpretentious, almost just-noodling-along naturalism while slowly, quietly charting out moral and emotional dilemmas — chiefly about responsibility, chiefly within the framework of a troubled family — so dense they would burst the spine of a proper literary American novel.
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Instead, "A Ghost Story" grows gradually stranger, sadder and more transcendent until it has the cosmic ambition of Terrence Malick's dreamy Texan meditations, the circular chronology of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014), and the supernatural naturalism of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" (2010).
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MORRIS: Yes, this group of men and women presents a gamut of what movie acting can be and do: knock you out, break your heart, scare you, delight you, amuse and haunt you, whether through vertiginously high style (hey there, Denzel and Viola) or plain-old naturalism.
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They showcase Aciman's finest mode: sketching the contours of a relationship through its small confidences, gestures, and extended conversations that dispense with naturalism in favor of exposing the essence of the pair's dynamic, its delicate back-and-forth play, balanced on the edge of their passions.
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Using extravagant camerawork and technical tricks that present the protagonists as larger than life, "The Get Down" takes a period and place that's often approached with dutiful naturalism and sobriety about difficult circumstances and infuses it with light touches of magical realism and bursts of palpable otherworldly joy.
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I could go on — there's a mortifying scene in which Brian brings home a man for a hookup — but I have to remind myself that Wohl is in fact one of our cleverest playwrights, exploring the outer limits of naturalism in search of new ways of expressing new feelings.
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Ideally, Blain-Cruz and the cast would have had a few more weeks to work through the play's complex rhythms, to make each pause seem like the response an interaction demands rather than what the script requires, to find the music — grave, adagio — in the not-quite naturalism.
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Spanish 'naturalism' — painting objects and people as they actually appear — can have a deeper emotional impact, as seen in the candor and humanity of Velázquez's portraits of buffoons or the austerity of Zurbarán's nearly all black-and-white paintings, like "Agnus Dei," which conveys the solemnity of Catholic Spain.
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The viewer can trace a satisfying trajectory from early promise to masterful fulfillment: a fine-grained naturalism that somehow sits beside rather than in or beyond lived reality, as close and yet remote as passengers in a train that runs, for a moment, on a track alongside our own.
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Every scene of hers is a wonder of naturalism on the screen, drawing the audience in the way she would in any other format, expressing in those added frames the most subtle expressions of mood and emotion, as though she were a real person sitting right in front of you.
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Ms. Granik has found another star in the making with Ms. McKenzie, whose naturalism and maturity gently bubble up as she navigates the delicate equilibrium between her love for her father — still fighting a war of his own — and her need for something greater than their fragile existence can provide.
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On "Starfire" it turns out that, unlike some other songwriters for hire, she has a striking voice of her own: lean and taut, with an insistent quaver and a hint of a sob, with glimmers of both the girl-next-door naturalism of Sheryl Crow and the wayward attack of Sia.
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Perhaps it's churlish to long for a bit more naturalism in a work so plainly proud of its obscurity as "The Last Hotel," whose American premiere is being presented at St. Ann's Warehouse, under the shared auspices of St. Ann's; Prototype, the annual festival of contemporary opera; and the Irish Arts Center.
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In "Some Strands of Support," Linder and another performer groom and caress a statue made by San Francisco artist Charlie Leese, and in the most non-narrative performance of all, "Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism," four dancers created different scenarios, lying under what looked like Persian rugs while hugging the wall.
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Like many Italian filmmakers of their generation, the Tavianis were formed by the neorealist cinema that emerged from the rubble of World War II. Their first films were documentaries; subsequent features alternately emulated or elaborated on the socially conscious no-frills naturalism that characterized the early work of Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti.
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Augmenting the naturalism of his early work with a slapstick absurdism pitched somewhere between the worlds of Luis Bunuel and Wile E. Coyote, the Georgian populated the City of Light with an assortment of layabouts, vagabonds, and ne'er-do-wells, concentrating their personal storylines into elegant vignettes that he wove into a larger network of intersections and juxtapositions.
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"An Octoroon" isn't just an alternative to the irony-free "black American theatre" of Hansberry and August Wilson; it's part of it—and part of many other things, too, because Jacobs-Jenkins's surrealism grows out of naturalism, the strange circumstances that make us open our mouths, hoping to be heard, even as we forget to listen.
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Having this experience of other people (or of fictional simulacra of people) is an annoyingly persistent habit of actual humans, no matter how many convincing theoretical arguments attempt to bracket and contain the impulse, to carefully unhook it from transcendental ideas, or simply to curse it by one of its many names: realism, humanism, naturalism, figuration.
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" (Lest anyone miss the ban on naturalism, one poster for the salons showed a Perseus-like hero holding up the severed head of Zola.) Female artists were ostensibly excluded, "following Magical law," although at least five women exhibited under pseudonyms—among them the poet and novelist Judith Gautier, who contributed a relief sculpture entitled "Kundry, Rose of Hell.
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In "Nighthawks" the space is clamped into a simple perspectival scheme, a kind of no-nonsense normalization of vision (…) Yet "Nighthawks" is so intensely realized as to transcend its apparently banal representation, to create a strange, unforgettable icon, with its own new resonance (…) The conflict between mere naturalism and The Real was always on his mind.
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"Our paintings have always been recognized as a turning point in Turner's work in a movement that began in the teens and accelerated in the '20s," said Susan Grace Galassi, the senior curator at the Frick Collection who organized the show, "moving away from naturalism towards a more poetic treatment of topographical subject matter, and towards a more imaginative treatment of light and color."
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After earning a degree in English at Cambridge, he returned and enrolled at the Yale School of Art, where, while painting abstractly, he was nudged toward naturalism by teachers and charismatic elders including Neil Welliver and Alex Katz—the "School of Maine," as they and such related contemporaries as Yvonne Jaquette might be called, owing to the locale of their homes or summer retreats.
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I'm no expert, but I'd place its origins in the given timeframe in Tuscany, in part for the awkward reason that by stepping back from it and kind of squinting, I imagined it in twodimensions as a drawing, one that might display just the kind of softened naturalism, sfumature and all, very characteristic of Tuscan — and perhaps even specifically Florentine — drafting at the time.
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While there are still those who would gloss over the considerable debt owed by the School of Paris to African and Oceanic art in the development of Western Modernism, it should be remembered that when European artists replaced centuries' old naturalism with the vivid color schemes and pictorial flatness typical of non-Western forms, they were influenced as much by Asian art as they were from African.
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