Sentences with phrase «artistic life of»

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To have three exhibitions currently on display at venues across Europe gives a great boost to the artistic life of our city.»

But one negative aspect of these comfortable breaks, which are frequently hosted in the opulent villas overlooking the city centre, is that visiting artists are removed from the artistic life of the city.

At the time, foreigners participated in the artistic life of the city, exhibiting with local galleries and alongside local artists: most famously, Cy Twombly visited, and later moved to Rome in 1957.

Programming throughout Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 showcases the Carpenter Center's vibrant history in diverse and creative ways that highlight the uniqueness of the building and its contributions to the artistic life of the University while celebrating Le Corbusier's inventive synthesis of art and architecture.

This archival material provides rare insight into the artistic life of Basquiat before he was recognized as a prominent painter in the early 1980s.

Until his death in 2006, Hadzi continued to work out of his Cambridge studio with the enthusiasm, curiosity and perseverance that marked his entire artistic life of more than 50 years.

In the New York Times of October 17, 1980, Hilton Kramer maligned Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, 1974 — 79 — an installation of thirty - nine place settings for historically significant and mythical women — as «art so mired in the pieties of a political cause that it quite fails to acquire any independent artistic life of its own.»

I know that your archive surely contains many views into NYC artistic life of the 20th century; as the personalities of that time who created the New York School now pass on - it would be remarkable to read examinations of the type of families and collective associations (mutual bonds) that were created and upheld that made formed the world for the NY intelligentsia.

Dominique Stroobant, Sculptor Extracted from Leitch, Alison (2010), Materiality of Marble: Explorations in the Artistic Life of Stone

About the Parrish Art Museum Inspired by the natural setting and artistic life of Long Island's East End, the Parrish Art Museum illuminates the creative process and how art and artists transform our experiences and understanding of the world and how we live in it.

The work presented will speak to the dynamic changes that occurred in the art world in general as a result of its occurrence, and to the history of its effect on the artistic life of the Capital Region.

With their unique decoration, our 2 apartments commemorate the most famous Hungarian characters of the artistic life of Budapest.

To celebrate the important role of printmaking in the history of the Provincetown art colony, as well as its central place in the artistic lives of many who have held the Visual Arts Fellowship, a number of artists and master printers supportive of the Work Center are joining forces to create a limited - edition portfolio of prints.

As part of our «Fellows Friday» series, we focus on the artistic lives of our Pew Fellows: their aspirations, influences, and creative challenges.

Not exact matches

He used himself as an example: As a graduate of University of Michigan, Costolo moved to Chicago to pursue improv comedy — what many might consider a life of artistic poverty.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Like a bipolar magnet, the Christian author today feels the pull of both forces: a fervent desire to communicate what gives life meaning counteracted by an artistic inclination toward self - expression, form and structure that any «message» might interrupt.

I have observed that the right - side arguments (the Bible is a book of Priorities) has yielded life, community, honesty, and exceptional diversity of worship and life - styles... and this works among the normally disciplined, those that have an artistic mindset, and among those that trust God to change others.

For the curious lay reader who can overlook Isaacson's editorializing (and his repeated insistence that Leonardo's penchant for sodomy went hand in hand with his creativity), this work is a serviceable introduction to the major events and artistic developments in the life of the genius behind the Last Supper.

This life — A concern for this life (as opposed to an afterlife) and a commitment to making it meaningful through better understanding of ourselves, our history, our intellectual and artistic achievements, and the outlooks of those who differ from us.

And though I'm sure talent oozed from his pores, Lewis» artistic and intellectual abundance should be a testament to what giving one's life to the glory of God actually looks like.

Just be artistic in a way that inspires others to think about truth, feel the love of God, and live in a way that promotes freedom.

I'm not actually religious, nor part of a religious community, but I find your observations about life and your artistic eye intriguing.

Jules is a Caltech graduate who now makes his living as a professional photographer; he combines an artistic talent with his scientific abilities in the darkroom to produce some astonishingly beautiful images of nature that now adorn his living room.

I thoroughly enjoy all of these artistic expressions, these slices of life as seen by hurting and healing people who are made in the image of love.

So architectural and artistic preservation, when it values sacred space in the context of ordinary surroundings, assists in the hallowing of the rest of life, decades later.

It may be of modest artistic quality, but at least it represents a fitting tribute to 343 firemen who gave their lives at the World Trade Center.

I just think that if Christians are trying to live the Kingdom of God, then we should be the most innovative, artistic, and creative activists on earth!

Van Gogh remained in the Borinage after the church withdrew its support, and he began his artistic career by making drawings of the simple life of the Belgian peasants.

We incorrectly view faith as an eraser, rather than giving Jesus artistic license over every chapter of our lives.

Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction — he says it took him two years to arrive there — that his trouble had not been with life in general, not with the common life of common men, but with the life of the upper, intellectual, artistic classes, the life which he had personally always led, the cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition.

Up until that moment in your life, you and I knew where we lived only on the basis of artistic guesses.

As to the aesthetic reaction against the task of considering method, this is a pain with which the minister has to live, a pain he shares with every writer, painter, musician, or other artistic spirit.

Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.

Taking up the question of architecture, music, sculpture, painting, literature, philosophy, and the artistic life, Christian next refers to George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, which uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democracy?

This is not something the atheists of earlier ages would have been very likely to say, if only because they still lived in a culture whose every dimension (artistic, philosophical, ethical, social, cosmological) was shaped by a religious vision of the world.

Artistic spirits; sensitive, full of creativity, questions and a zest for life.

A softer cynicism would note that artistic communities develop habits that affect the life and work of individual artists.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Cage rejects this tradition, and declares that the end of artistic creativity is not order or value but purposeless play, a play that affirms life and invites other men to wake up to the ordinary life around them that can be lived here and now.

A painter who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, can not but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end.

That we must live under the ridiculous conceit that smutty videos and pictures constitute a species of artistic expression is a leading sign of the intellectual corruption of our regime.

I want to tell the story of a special scarf she just made, one that demonstrates both her artistic ability and what she is overcoming in order to create a new life in Austin.

The Buddha - Carita of Asvaghosa is the great Buddhist epic, «an actual epic created by a real poet, who, filled with intense love and reverence for the exalted figure of the Buddha, and deeply imbued with the truth of the Buddha doctrine, was able to present the life and doctrine of the Master in noble and artistic, but not artificial language.

The first is a matter of the physical and mental traits which we carry over biologically from our forebears; the second is a matter of the social environments, the literary, artistic, religious traditions, the racial and national culture, into which we are born and by which our plastic lives are shaped and: molded.

It's easy to get caught up in the grind of day to day life, and in the throes of it, familiar food often takes precedence over creative, artistic dishes...

As a conscious, creative professional chef and designer, Jaime's dedication to creating a quality - driven life — whether that be in food, wine or interior designs and art — has influenced him to travel the world in search of superior foods and stylish, artistic, sophisticated brands.

I like it because it strikes me as a technically good photograph in an artistic way, and it shows an essential act in the life of the cottontail.

Mike LayPort, who has the distinction of being the fastest roller skater in America, lives in a 22 - room mansion off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with (above, in descending order) his father, Lee, a realtor who in the mid -»40s converted the old Mack Sennett studio into a roller rink known as the Palace Arena; his mother, Vivian: his brother, Patrick, a former senior men's four - mile - relay roller - skating champion who now manages the family gift shop; Patrick's wife, Carolyn, and their children, Kathleen and Pat; his wife Donna, an artistic (or figure) roller skater; and Sam, a Labrador retriever.