Sentences with phrase «american ancient art»

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The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

Some historians of the American experience emphasize the radical break between the ancient, classic tradition of the «liberal» arts and the modern liberal tradition.

The first two hours of each day are devoted to the Main Lesson block, with Language Arts, Math, Science, and History taught artistically through developmentally appropriate stories, including fairy tales, saints and fables, Hebrew scriptures, Norse Myths, Ancient India, Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and American History.

A member of the Kansas City Midwives Alliance, I am certified by the American Heart Association / American Academy of Pediatrics in neonatal resuscitation, and I am a graduate of Ancient Art Midwifery Institute, specifically dedicated to training homebirth midwives.

Michael Angarano is the American kid dropped into the middle of the Chinese legend, a South Boston teenager and martial arts movie buff swept out of his neighborhood and into ancient China.

They need to stop seeing reading as the broccoli that kids have to eat before they can get to dessert — dessert being things like music, art, the American Revolution, Ancient Egypt, snakes, or the human digestive system.

You can tap into the science of the body and the art of being centered and grounded to the Earth with simple botanical wisdom from ancient global heritages like Yoga, TCM and Native American philosophy.

Some of the topics which we cover include Art of Construction, Ancient Architecture, Abstract Expressionism, Islamic Architecture, Abstract Art Paintings, Contemporary Architecture, Russian Art, The Medieval Architecture, Oceanic Art, Miniature Painting, Roman Art, American Architecture, Canadian Art, Modern Architecture, Industrial Architecture and several.

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The French pavilion inspired building houses a collection that spans 4,000 years, featuring European painting and sculptures, Mediterranean ancient art, and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Mexico promises an enticing mix of contemporary arts and Meso - american cultures, a place where you can explore ancient Mayan pyramids and play a round of championship golf in one day.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

He has built important collections of African, Asian, and African - American art, among others, and has authored and curated many catalogues and exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient ceramics to twentieth - century Mayan textiles.

Other strengths include African, ancient American, and Oceanic art, and Jewish ceremonial objects.

«Her education and experience make her well - suited to cultivate and showcase the DMA's important collection of ancient American art, including pre-Columbian works from across Latin America, which are of international significance.»

At the same time, Albers's long - term commitment to studying Mexican art and architecture also positions him as a prescient figure in the history of post — World War II American art, when artists such as Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Smithson looked toward ancient traditions with a new sensitivity and self - awareness.

Its holdings span 4,000 years and include European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

With acclaimed holdings in American, British Sporting, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, and Modern and Contemporary — and additional strengths in African, Ancient, East Asian, and European — VMFA ranks as one of the top comprehensive art museums in the United States.

Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, and Modern Masters: Sean Scully and John Walker

With acclaimed holdings in American, British Sporting, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, and Modern and Contemporary art — and additional strengths in African, Ancient, East Asian, and European — VMFA ranks as one of the top comprehensive art museums in the United States.

VMFA also participates with the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry: AAMD Object Registry which lists new acquisitions of archaeological material and works of ancient art and tracks resolutions of claims for Nazi - era cultural assets.

July 17 Collection Connection: «Reciprocities: Native American / American Art» 11 a.m. - noon Free, no registration required Meet at the Visitor Services Desk Examine Native American objects produced for a non-Native market and Native American influence on American decorative arts at a critical moment in their common history, with Dr. Lee Anne Chesterfield, Assistant Curator of Ancient American Art, and Dr. Susan J. Rawles, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Art.

She is a specialist in ancient South American art and architecture and her dissertation, entitled The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for the Communion Between Humanity and Nature, argues that huacas, or sacred places, defined the relationship between nature and human ritual practice.

Other strengths in the collection include European medieval art, European and American paintings, Outsider art, classical antiquities, African art and ancient American art.

She became the Virginia Museum's first curator of Ancient American Art in 2006 and opened the museum's first permanent galleries for Pre-Columbian and Native American art in 20Art in 2006 and opened the museum's first permanent galleries for Pre-Columbian and Native American art in 20art in 2010.

American artists who share his interest in space and time have famously recreated ancient art on a Stonehenge scale: James Turrell claims direct inspiration from the Stone Age for his natural observatory in a crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, and the colossal dimensions of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah make it one of the post-1960s works that will always capture imaginations.

With acclaimed holdings in American, British Sporting, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, and Modern and Contemporary art — and additional strengths in Ancient, East Asian, and European — VMFA ranks as one of the top comprehensive art museums in the United States.

Experts fear changes to boundaries of Utah national park could endanger ancient Native American petroglyphs Conservation experts have warned that Donald Trump's measures to reduce the size of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah could threaten the future of ancient Native American rock art on the site.

American artist Elizabeth Peyton has been credited with infusing the ancient art of portraiture with a new life.

Formerly focused on European and American modern and contemporary art, the Cravens collection extends the reach of the visual arts at UB Anderson Gallery from modern to ancient times.

Conceived as the companion to the 2009 publication Art at Colby, the catalogue includes seven essays on the collection's major areas: ancient Chinese art; art through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiArt at Colby, the catalogue includes seven essays on the collection's major areas: ancient Chinese art; art through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart; art through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collectiart; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collection.

I like ancient sculpture from the Pre-Columbian era, sculpture from the Middle Eastern civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates, African art, American folk art, Japanese prints, and on and on.

The galleries showcase an exceptional collection of art from Africa; important works by established and emerging contemporary artists; outstanding European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; significant artworks from China; ancient Antioch mosaics; and exquisite textiles from around the world.

Penck's signature pictographic style, which features glyphlike stick men and other motifs recalling cave art or ancient murals, came to have a distinct impact on younger American artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat.

Collection gives the Museum a new strength in art from the Plains for its Native American art collection,» said Matthew H. Robb, assistant curator of ancient American and Native American art.

Of particular note was the gift in the 1970s of the Wise Collection of Ancient American Art, along with two collections of African art, that gave the Museum added significance and stature among scholars and patroArt, along with two collections of African art, that gave the Museum added significance and stature among scholars and patroart, that gave the Museum added significance and stature among scholars and patrons.

Like many other American museums founded in the same period, the Nelson - Atkins is an encyclopedic art museum whose collections spans a period of over 4000 years, from ancient to contemporary art.

The Mead holds the art collection of Amherst College, celebrated for its American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, English paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant - garde art, West African sculpture and Japanese prints.

Named for its founder, William Rutherford Mead (an 1867 graduate of Amherst College and a partner in the storied architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White), the Mead holds the art collection of Amherst College, celebrated for its American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, English paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant - garde art, West African sculpture and Japanese prints.

With roots dating back to 1823, the Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the United States, with a collection representing nearly every culture, ranging from some of the most important ancient Egyptian works in the nation; to the arts of the Pacific Islands, Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; to American and European art; to international contemporary works.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts owns 208 Pre-Columbian ceramic vessels, textiles, sculptures and metalwork objects from Meso, Central and South America as part of its Ancient American Art Collection.

He admired the Native Americans» ancient and mystical relationship with the land and this helped permeate his art with the highly - developed sense of spatial awareness that is unique to his canvasses.

It also has many international exhibits, such as the Ancient American Art collection that features masks from the Olmec culture.

It also has many international exhibits, such as the Ancient American Art... Read More

Cuban - born American artist Ana Mendieta brilliantly synthesized and advanced emergent art forms of the early 1970s, such as performance, body art, land art and film, with personal and political explorations of the gendered and raced body, ancient cultures and belonging.

As Chief Curator, he led curatorial activities in art of the Americas, Oceania and Africa, Ancient art, European Paintings and European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, American art, contemporary art and international textiles and costume.

From the prehistoric caves of Altamira and Lascaux, through ancient Chinese art, the Renaissance, and centuries of English and French artists (Stubbs and Muybridge, Gericault and Delacroix, Degas and Lautrec), Butterfield, along with Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, is one of few Americans to equal history's greatest interpreters of the horse ethos.

From the prehistoric caves of Altamira and Lascaux, through ancient Chinese art, the Renaissance, and centuries of English and French artists (Stubbs and Muybridge, Gericault and Delacroix, Degas and Lautrec), Butterfield, along with Frederic Remington and Charles Russell, is one of few Americans to successfully interpret the horse ethos.

The Dallas Museum of Art, established in 1903, has an encyclopedic collection of more than 26,000 works spanning 5,000 years of history and representing all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary aArt, established in 1903, has an encyclopedic collection of more than 26,000 works spanning 5,000 years of history and representing all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary artart.

Upritchard's interest in folk, myth and ancient rituals links well with the historic fine art and museum heritage collections at Victoria Gallery & Museum, especially with a group of Peruvian pots collected by the university's Latin American studies department.