folkloric
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He said long-standing questions about Chávez’s record “led a lot of us to turn away from his folkloric status.”
From Los Angeles Times
The printed synopsis doesn’t really offer a way to follow the choreographic action, which, with Galina Solovyeva’s oddball costumes and Simon Pastukh’s sci-fi-like settings, feels disconnected from the story of a lovelorn prince and the fantastic folkloric creatures he encounters.
The artist abrades the surfaces of his paintings, giving them a patina of age that contributes to their folkloric vibe and makes these images even more absorbing.
“The folkloric Euro-American story of the ‘headless horseman’ comes to mind — a nightmarish, animated corpse who haunts the living.
From Los Angeles Times
It was a rural, folkloric emphasis; we changed it to an inner-city kind of culture.”
From Los Angeles Times
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