allegorical
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Jonas adds, “It’s allegorical in nature. What if I could just take this man and chain him up? It’s making that literal for us to watch. It’s about that female id deep inside of us.”
From Los Angeles Times
It makes for an intriguingly allegorical work that is fascinating in concept though often static in execution.
The earliest are three allegorical scenes about the senses from c. 1624-25, when he was just shy of 20.
The drawings emphasize the allegorical side of Ahab’s monomaniacal hunt, fixing the characters in expressive, statuesque postures.
For Zigmont, the dog is not only an allegorical concern, but also a truly practical one.
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