Sentences with phrase «animals and human figures»

It can be argued that environmental art has its roots in the Paleolithic cave paintings of our ancestors that represented animals and human figures and other aspects of nature important for them.
Birds, animals and human figures are pared down to their very essence, giving them a primitive and mystical presence.
Even though they are darker in nature, the paintings remain true to his style portraying floating animals and human figures in ethereal backgrounds.
Known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures, the Art School's 2018 Visiting Ceramic Artist, Beth Cavener, will discuss her inspirations, body of work, and unusual method of working «solid» on a monumental scale.
Drawing inspiration from films, popular culture and everyday imagery, Estelle Cherel's exquisite drawings, collages and watercolours present intriguing scenes where animals and the human figure take centre stage.

Not exact matches

The human animal has simply evolved to be able to figure things out about the external world and there has been a selective advantage for our species to show love and generally be good.
Her destination is Delicado Shelter, one of some 300 shallow caves in the region known for paintings of human figures, deer, canines, felines, birds, rabbits, snakes, and other desert animals.
«All of their contemporaries figured that any stone tool must be an example of culture because they thought that humans are the only animals that make and use tools and humans rely on cultural transmission to do so,» said Premo.
If scientists can figure out how animals like bears, bats, and mice survive the low - oxygen effects of hibernation, D'Allesandro says, it could lay the groundwork for human journeys to not just the mountains — but maybe to Mars.
And what else is interesting about that is that there are other animals that have figured out, as human worm charmers [have], that if they set up vibrations on top of the ground, worms will rise to meet them.
For the last decade, neuroscientists have been using the non-invasive brain - mapping technique functional called magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI to examine activity patterns in human and animal brains in the resting state in order to figure out how different parts of the brain are connected and to identify the changes that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases.
«For the past 30 or 40 years, scientists have used similar animals to figure out how fear might work in humans,» says senior author of the paper and associate professor at Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Sreekanth Chalasani.
There was no difference or age - dependent increase in the level of TBS - soluble or FA - treated Aβ peptides in cerebellum between non-transgenic and transgenic animals (Additional file5: Figure S4); a finding that is in agreement with the human pathology [49].
«For the past 30 or 40 years, scientists have used simpler animals to figure out how fear might work in humans,» Sreekanth Chalasani, associate professor in Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and senior author of the paper, said in a statement.
Nonetheless, everything in 2001 aims toward one conclusion: humans are just animals that happened to figure out tools and develop technology.
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Charms worn by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians and Hittites were created from lapis lazuli, rock crystal and other gems and inscribed with symbolic designs, like figures of gods, humans and animals.
Each year hundreds of baby animals are orphaned and well - meaning humans try to figure out what exactly is the right thing to do for them.
As the SJACS animal control contracts include Saratoga, Los Gatos, Milpitas and Cupertino, the following figure includes the total combined human population of all the contract cities.
Avoiding traps and figuring your way along the levels by jumping, swinging, and shooting away at human and animal attackers is quite sufficient to keep interest in the game going.
On top sit little human and animal figures.
Special demonstration workshops, distinguished speakers, stellar Los Angeles venues, and facilitated life drawing sessions will support artists interested in making representational imagery of all kinds, including human and animal figures, figure groupings, portraiture, landscape, still - life, and representational sculpture.
Project Space Festival Day 14: District Mythical figures are hybrids that exist between worlds — the animal and the human, the past and the present, the sea and the land.
At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making human and animal figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal painting championed by Matisse»
She creates figures that are part human, animal, plant and machine against a fantastical backdrop.
From a human - animal hybrid figures to black and white photographs of modern Mali, the festive break is your last chance to catch some of the best shows of 2016.
In a departure from previous works in this series featuring stuffed toys and anthropomorphic animals, Davis is also showing drawings with human figures as part of his pursuit to fully realize this...
Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food.
These figures take on animal, and human characteristics, which is evident i...
Back in 1993, on Park Avenue, there was a public exhibition of Fernando Botero's big, curvy bronze sculptures, monumental human and animal figures that sat fat and happy on the green median of one of the world's priciest streets.
21 — 28.06.2015 6 — 13.09.2015 Family Sundays: Little Giants David Altmejd's spectacular, meticulously crafted sculptures will inspire participants to create hybrid figures that bear a connection to the animal kingdom and to the human species, in particular.
The human figure, animal forms, rolling landscapes, an animated universe of tumbling orbs, and crafted stage settings engage, delight, and challenge our perceptions and beg the question «What is real?»
It is important to the artist that in the intentional ambiguity of his abstract forms lurk chance reminders of human figures, animals and landscapes.
Handaxes are considered the longest - used tool in human history and figure stones are naturally occurring stones that prehistoric people collected for their figurative qualities, such as faces and animal forms.
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe's first U.S. museum exhibition, Journey Elsewhere: Musings from a Boundless Zoo, is filled with grotesque half - animal, half - human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.
The imagery features the inchoate elements of the iconic language associated with Keith Haring to this day — pyramids, flying saucers, dogs and crawling babies are intermixed with wandering figures and human / animal / extraterrestrial activities.
This exhibition highlights the impact and interaction of Alexander's hybrid human - animal figures as well as her documentary - style photographic montages.
The human figure remained Bacon's principal subject, however in the 1950s he made several paintings of animals and a small series of African landscapes and animals.
Anonymous «everyman» figures, anthropomorphized animals, and half - human / half - creature characters are featured players in the uncanny theater of her work.
Mayer disassembles old typewriters and reassembles them into full - scale, anatomically correct human figures and other sci - fi - ish bugs and animals.
He blended the artistic styles of his adopted countries with those of Africa, creating mythical hybrid figures — combinations of animals, plants and humans — in large - scale paintings.
Additional works in the exhibition include Thirty - eight works by Andy Warhol, four bronze sculptures depicting figures who are part human, animal and machine by William Kentridge illustrating social and political life in South Africa; and Olafur Eliasson's Fivefold Sphere Projection Lamp which compels us to view ourselves in relation to space as well as time.
«Vicente's divertimientos range from non-representational explorations of color, texture, plane, and volume to cleverly - concocted figures with clear allusions to human forms and animals.
Drawn from different animal species, Tim brings his subjects into such close focus that we begin to read their poses and gestures as we would the body language of a human figure, face or hand.
For this show, Rothenberg continues to use animals as surrogates for the human body, transforming the representation of the figure into a study of space and form.
Swords, daggers, demons,, animal, human and hybrid beings, an imagery that often draws from art history and, more generally, from a spiritual and mystic dimension, guide us through a twilight where figures emerge from the scrawled surface — they seem to prevail, and then again they are absorbed by the invasive gesture of the pen.
In this category I would put two of the five freestanding sculptures found in the first of the exhibition's two rooms, David Hare's almost entirely abstract «Figure Waiting in Cold» (1951) and Germaine Richier's animal / human hybrid «The Devil with Claws» (1952).
The artist employs rich colors and highly textured surfaces, which layer brick - like patterns and active marks over and under the drawings of human and animal figures.
Transforming ancient symbols, myths, and ideas, he has created a personal visual language of dreamlike landscapes, animals, and human figures drawn from recollections of his travels.
Studio items such as the manipulation of photographs including those of John Deakin, Peter Stark and Peter Beard; reproductions of Muybridge's pioneering studies of the human figure and animals in motion; images torn from books, magazines and newspapers of skin diseases, war atrocities, boxers, wildlife, art, lovers and friends all of which are of intense interest and relevance in the field of contemporary art practice.
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