Sentences with phrase «abstracted human forms»

He's abstracting human forms to visualize the interaction between body and mind.

«A specially designed LED light suit abstracts the human form to shapes of light,» explains Belfast photographer Michael Taylor, on his new series LightPath.

Over the course of her career, Odjig, who is of Potawatomi, Odawa, and English descent, has developed a distinct style based on the abstracted human form.

Like her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in abstracting the human form through gestural mark - making with black lines and the direct application of pure, unmixed paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.

Not exact matches

Human brains are very good at processing information put in a narrative form, whereas we find it difficult to process abstract concepts and vague ideas.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

Over the years the human figures in his prints have filled more and more of the space, leaving less and less for the plant forms, abstract patterns and calligraphy that appeared in early works.

On the positive side, I am sure you are right that Catholicism goes beyond all other religious traditions, Christian and non-Christian, in the dignity it confers on matter and the human body; on the negative, we must indeed get rid of «infinitely contrary poles of existence» and the successive swapping of abstract forms by parcels of intrinsically featureless matter.

Repeated observations leading to fine tuning of our descriptions was seen to base human inference more than abstracted «forms».

The living occasions abstracted from the inorganic occasions of the human body do not»... form a corpuscular sub-society, so that each living occasion is a member of an enduring entity with its personal order.»

Subplate neurons form the first connections in the developing cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

During development, subplate neurons are among the first neurons to form in the cerebral cortex — the outer part of the mammalian brain that controls perception, memory and, in humans, higher functions such as language and abstract reasoning.

Susan Hespos, a co-author of the study, and associate professor of psychology at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences said, «We show that infants can form abstract relations before they learn the words that describe relations, meaning that relational learning in humans does not require language and is a fundamental human skill of its own.»

The abstract of the paper in Nature reads: «A key event in human evolution is the expansion of modern humans of African origin across Eurasia between 60 and 40 thousand years (kyr) before present (bp), replacing all other forms of hominins1.

Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.

Vannes, France, Europe About Blog Inspired by natural forms, Stéphanie Kilgast grows colorful organic sculptures on abstract backgrounds, celebrating the beauty of nature and opposing it with abstraction, often a metaphor for the brutal impact of human activities on Earth's biodiversity.

As visitors engage directly with their surroundings and walk among the immersive excavation, they are met with sculpted openings in which jagged edges morph from abstract forms into the silhouette of a human figure,» a museum statement said.

Influenced by feminism, quilt design, and non-Western as well as Western art, Ms. Valdez combines paint, fabric, and embroidery on canvas to yield abstract forms with undeniable relation to the human body.

The human figures are this time assembled out of abstracted forms in order to avoid an interpretation that would rely too much on pyschology.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

The works on view at the exhibition evokes conversations between abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.

Taylor's work is bold and bright, often utilizing neon colors and mixing abstract patterns with notes of realism and the human form filtered through the style of the illustrator and comic artist.

I find as much interest in abstract painting as I do in drawing the human form.

We will explore the issues central to abstract painting, such as nature, structure, geometry, the human form and master paintings as potential sources of investigation and inspiration.

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas

Shapiro is mostly known for his works in bronze of linked cuboidal shapes, which read as abstract forms that play off of a likeness to the human figure.

Dripping and cartoon - like in their expression her works reveal a strong association with landscape and the human form beyond the layers of abstract tangled forms.

«What was it about the middle of the 20th century that inspired two very different artists to employ the concept of the abstract, to the capturing of the human form?»

Instead, Scully, like Mark Rothko before him, struggles with how to use abstract forms and their relationships to express human emotion and psychology.

It is important to the artist that in the intentional ambiguity of his abstract forms lurk chance reminders of human figures, animals and landscapes.

Referencing both a human figure and «the spirit of a bird,» as the artist says, this dark, abstracted form depicts a bird in the corvid family, which includes grackles, crows, and ravens, common in large cities around the world.

Facets of the Figure is a thought provoking survey of the various aesthetic interpretations of the human form in painting and sculpture by juxtaposing museum - caliber works by Surrealists, realists, Expressionists, modernists, social realists, and abstract expressionists.

Some sketches feature figurative motifs, human forms and faces, while others appear as purely abstract shapes, configurations and patterns.

These abstract pieces continued to reveal the presence of human forms within them for the entirety of the painter's career.

Resnick continued to work in an abstract style until the late 1980s, when he started creating a series of gouaches featuring simplified human forms suspended in a field of brushstrokes and color.

Although de Kooning was a leader of the predominantly nonfigurative abstract expressionist movement, he never abandoned the human form.

At once delicate and robust, these abstract works also evoke the human form and gestures of the body.

Ramirez's work is colorful, playful and whimsical while representing the human body and its functions through evocative abstract biomorphic and geometric forms that are sensual and suggestive.

His early prints tended toward the figurative, often portraying human forms on abstract backgrounds.

And Antony Gormley considers the architecture of the human body as an adaptable set of forms to comprise abstract sculpture.

A few years later, she enrolled at the Institute of Design and received her Master's degree in 1966 based on her series of abstract nudes entitled «Human Forms».

These impressions of the human form, whether a cast of an an orifice or a handprint, put the body in what the artist sees as both the real and abstract spaces of politics, which can be seen in her arrangements as well as the works» titles.

Chaining together disintegrated cloth and textile materials coated in enamel paint, she creates abstract sculptural works that occasionally reference the human form.

The theme of the show marries the often sacred and sensual traditional use of the human back to represent form with the more abstract concept of what it means to be «back to back».

The solo exhibition features Ben Schonzeit's collage and sculptural work, including abstract figurations of human forms.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

This Modernist ceramic sculptures depicts an abstracted and cubist human form sitting cross legged with his back bent forward and arms outstretched.

John Lyon Paul's (NY) sculptural devices reference abstract, organic and geological forms, suggesting the burden of human suffering and hope.

For Stieglitz, the abstract forms and formations of clouds perfectly equated to the modern idea of equivalence, holding that abstract forms, lines, and colors could represent and evoke universal inner human states, emotions and ideas — a powerful notion which numerous later photographers recognized and emulated.