Sentences with phrase «kneeling woman»

- Kneeling Woman (1911) Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Noted for Kneeling Woman (1911).

She left the marks, which look like pencil lines outlining the kneeling woman.

Modern stone carvers have included Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875), famous for his wonderfully animated Dance (1865 - 9, Musee d'Orsay); Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), who produced The Kiss (1907, Kunsthalle, Hamburg); Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959) responsible for the evocative Adam (1938, Harewood House); the Gothic - inspired German expressionist sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881 - 1919), creator of Kneeling Woman (1911, MOMA); Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915), noted for the Red Stone Dancer (1913, Tate Gallery); Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), noted for Mother and Child (1924 - 5, Manchester Art Gallery); the painters Andre Derain (1880 - 1954), famous for his Standing Nude (1907, Pompidou Centre) and Modigliani (1884 - 1920), who always preferred to carve directly in stone; and others.

The kneeling woman is reminiscent of the later classic Mayan wind god, and the other woman seems to be shadowed by a rain cloud.

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Fallon's rendition touched on the #MeToo movement («Come women and men who hashtag #MeToo / And believe me when I say that we believe you»), NFL players kneeling in protest of the national anthem, and Michael Wolff's controversial book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» — with several jabs at Trump thrown in.

One of the professors (who, as it happens, is one of the world's leading scientists) was kneeling next to the wife of my tailor — she's an immigrant woman whose simple southern Italian spirituality is of the sort that gets Catholics labeled Mary worshippers by our Protestant friends.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

25 The woman came and knelt before him.

Then, when I was working on the biography of John Paul II and was reminded that the first thing he had done on returning to his home parish in Wadowice as pope was to kneel and kiss the baptismal font, memories of those men and women who remembered the day of their rebirth in Christ as a crucial way of identifying themselves came back to me.

Why does this woman, who is descended from slaves, still kneeling at the altar of a God that was of her slave masters creation.

The Son of Man cured the chronically ill men and women who crossed his path: «A man with leprosy came and knelt before him» (Matthew 8:2).

He saw a woman kneeling in one of the pews and asked what she was doing.

Whatever position a woman chooses... semi-sitting or hands and knees or kneeling... it is the natural position in the moment.

Women will sometimes go from a kneeling position during the Breakers to a hands and knees position.

Finally, when the breakers are in full swing, women invariably bring down one knee and take a kneeling position with one knee on the floor, the other bent.

My experiences have been that women most often choose a kneeling position when not culturally imprinted.

In one ad dating to the 1950s, a woman kneels beside a dryer, gazing adoringly at her husband, her mouth slightly open, as he smiles somewhat sinisterly down at her.

Researchers report in today's Cochrane Review that women who knelt, sat or walked around during the early stages of labor instead of lying in bed sliced as much as an hour off of the birthing process.

A woman can give birth in many positions, such as squatting, sitting, kneeling, or lying back.

A woman takes a handgun and walks to the graves of her family members; she kneels and seems to be considering suicide until a man takes the gun away from her.

Framed by water, a young woman kneels at the edge of the river.

In -LCB- kneeling, head on clasped arms; double rectangle -RCB-(2015), a woman in white is bent double over her rectangular mat, which is itself a double for the canvas.

Her piece The Time Game shows a naked woman holding an hourglass and kneeling on the front lawn of an imploded house as a swirl of mayhem breaks loose in the background: kids are shown riding tortoises, wearing traffic - light costumes, and dancing in girly dresses, and a man can be glimpsed running behind the house.

A woman kneels near a makeshift memorial for Kayla Mueller in Prescott, Ariz..