Her paintings of war subjects were just one aspect of Rix Nicholas's developing commitment to nationalist ideals and the heroic representation of Australia.
Just below him are heroic bronze representations of random Virginia Confederates.
In his own work, Stoddart has developed "heroic-realist" neo-classical representations of historical figures.
The exhibition focuses on the years 750 to 450 B.C., centuries in which art evolved from a primitive geometric style to representations anticipating the heroic human image-making of the Classical era.
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For a representation of the heroic comedy of growing old, Birthday (2001) cannot be bettered.
Talisman: the representation of the heroic archetype's dream.
Because if you were a black girl growing up in this country, watching TV and movies and reading magazines like every other kid, looking for some representation of yourself as something beautiful or heroic, you would be sorely disappointed.
According to Bakhtin, genres portray particular ideologies, in large part, through their representation of time and space (e.g., the heroic vision of epic).
The work may look old-fashioned to some, with its attention to relationships between abstraction and representation, its choice of weighty materials (wood and bronze) and its heroic scale.
