Sentence examples for surface realism from inspiring English sources

Lacking Bernini's dynamic vitality and penetrating characterization, Algardi's portraits were appreciated for their sobriety and surface realism.

People like these shows because they feel that they flatter their intelligence, and because they confuse surface realism with some kind of deeper truth.

Like Gattaca, which New Zealander Niccol directed, and The Truman Show, which he scripted, Lord of War is a moral fable treated with a surface realism.

Without necessarily dramatising or endorsing piety, Tyler, through the supernatural or fantastical strain that often counterpoints the surface realism of her stories, frequently explores the tenets of her country's governing Christianity.

They said: "Like a slowly tightening noose in Norris's expertly paced and shaded production, Afore Night Come moves by stealthy degrees from surface realism to ritual horror and atavistic violence".

Ms. Akerman's interiors are orderly and pristine, and often demonstrate a degree of color coordination — with Jeanne's costumes matching elements of the décor — that subtly undermines the film's surface realism.

The metallic sonorities and obsessively striving melodic ideas of Copland's Third plainly echoed the language of Shostakovich's most recent symphonies, which exemplified, at least on the surface, socialist realism in the musical realm.

This extension of the standard algorithm allows the use of textures to describe complex reflectance and emittance patterns over surfaces, increasing the realism and complexity of radiosity images.

With its muted colors, matte surfaces and funky realism, the sculpture looks like the work of a zany hobbyist and has the uncanny air of a "Twilight Zone" episode.

And despite the increasing dominance of abstract art during the middle years of the 20th century, a pervasive and stubborn substream of realism surfaced periodically Regionalism, Pop art, the figurative work of artists such as George Segal and Leonard Baskin to manifest the continuing debt of American art to the achievement of Thomas Eakins.

This realism that surfaces repeatedly even in Ratmansky's plotless works is his weakest suit.