Dark, Erotic, Intimate, Pastoral, Perceptual, Spiritual, Surreal

Abstract, Atmospheric, Contemplative, Deconstructive, Intense, Intimate, Manic, Pastoral, Postmodern fiction, Postmodern poetry, Realist art, Realist fiction, Realist poetry, Realist theater, Reception theory

Cyprien Gaillard's work explores the effect of architecture on human life, using techniques borrowed from Land Art and Minimalism. He treats modernist buildings as romantic ruins, and aestheticizes their destruction. Gaillard films the demolition of housing projects and the explosions that carve away

Architectural, Catastrophe, Melancholy, Minimal, Monumental, Nostalgic, Pastoral, Power

Jean Renoir inherited his acute feel for the poetry of landscapes -- from the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, his father. Emotive impressions of place, captured by a slowly panning camera, underlie the movement of his narratives. Renoir's genius lay in fusing environments and narr

Dramatic, Epic, French impressionism, Parody, Pastoral, Witty