Sentences with phrase «as symbolic»

There was a time when she decorated her office with plaques and trophies, but she has packed away the hardware perhaps as a symbolic gesture to the next generation of real estate professionals who will succeed her.

The event began with speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony, which was followed by a presentation of a traditional Cantonese roast pig («siu yuk»), a Chinese ceremony for business openings as a symbolic offering of good luck.

In addition, her use of Cinema - Therapy serves as a collaborative tool of using film stories as symbolic metaphors of problems and challenges clients may be facing.

The present studies build on this framework that nations are socially constituted entities that are comprised as symbolic attachment figures.

Primes of nations as attachment figures, including imagery that personify nations as symbolic caregivers, can be employed to investigate several avenues, including the effect on the acculturation orientations of both heritage and mainstream samples, endorsement of multicultural ideology, and patriotic and nationalistic attitudes.

The government has condemned the rights approach as symbolic only, one which doesn't produce practical results.

Blockstack co-founder Ryan Shea positioned the series of announcements as the symbolic beginning of a new internet as decentralized as the blockchains it supports, including bitcoin, ethereum and zcash.

Also known as symbolic links, as the name implies, shortcuts are not applications but rather links that symbolically represent applications.

Symlink — also called as Symbolic link or Soft link — could be one of most hidden concepts for computer users.

Success in Spain is seen as a symbolic market «win'that demonstrates Line has the potential to go beyond Asia.

Its influence survives as the symbolic guarantee of individual human rights for all.

The historical «bar» (also from the French, la barre, a low wall) appears in Canadian courts as a symbolic railing separating the lawyers from the judge.

So, the declaration, sold as symbolic, turned out to have steel teeth — it is an advance warning of defeat at the final hurdle.

«How EPA Abdicated Responsibility for Flint but Pursues CO2 Emission Reductions at All Costs Is It Worth Tripling US Electricity Rates as a Symbolic Gesture?»

It is worth thinking about what the decision to cancel marches and protests means in real, as well as symbolic, terms.

Wiki: According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, they were made of blue sapphire stone as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God's throne....

The solar power industry also applauded the White House action as a symbolic sign of its commitment to renewable energy.

The death of the Sonic is as symbolic as it is strategic.

«These artists had the same goals of light as symbolic of the inner world, creating a transcendent, quasi-mystical sense of reality,» explains David Houston, director of curatorial at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

But I came to see Rubins» cascading mattresses as a symbolic horde of the homeless, and the cake as the diet commended to them by the penny-wise politicians of the new right.

The artist develops a hybrid work, of pictorial and sculptural character, where the image blends with the materiality of the object in a apparent contrast that functions as a symbolic complement.

Engaging with numerous scientific and formal topics such as symbolic systems, visual perception, and the structural significance of patterning, Auerbach's diverse output includes rainbow - hued trompe l'oeil canvases, hand - wrought glass helices, elegantly calligraphed text - based drawings, and (of course) books — from zines to technically advanced sculptural volumes to unique takes on the exhibition catalogue.

Tran's work does not implicitly comment on the gentrification process that big arts events (such as this one) help to accelerate, but the piece could be read as symbolic for the complicated relationship this 6th Berlin Biennale forms with its venue locations and their neighbors.

They use varying kinds of imagery appropriated from popular culture and abstract interpretations of nature, used as a symbolic vocabulary to express a mystical, ephemeral and kaleidoscopic viewpoint.

It is the garden that often operates as a symbolic territory in the division between the commons and the proprietorial, between one nation and another.

A confluence of scenarios and narratives, situated across «reality» and dreamlike states, come together in the photographs, which at once portray the familiar experiences of community members as well as symbolic or playful representations against the backdrop of their home and culture.

The statue has been the site of various protests and art actions over the years, including in 1971 when six Native Americans were arrested for defacing the statue with paint, in 1991 as a symbolic part of David Hammons's «Public Enemy» installation at the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2015 as part of Black Youth Project 100's Black Out Tour that highlighted racist histories at AMNH.

(1892, Kunstmuseum Basel), as well as symbolic works like Brooding Woman (1891, Worcester Art Museum) and We Shall Not Go to Market Today (1892, Kunstmuseum Basel) and Arearea (1892, Musee d'Orsay).

Although the setting in Kahlo's painting is fictional, it serves as a symbolic space for self - staged expression.

The response of the patrons who fought back against a raid on the bar, and the ensuing riot, have become recognized as the symbolic birth of the gay liberation movement, a movement leading to the establishment of a gay press, a range of gay activist organizations, a new consciousness among gays and lesbians, and a greater public awareness of these issues.

Mr. Lipton spoke of the work as symbolic, «an affirmation of life.»

Beyond his own father, Beck is referring to the Name - of - the - Father, a psychoanalytic term, via the Church, that designates one's given name, as well as the symbolic order of things.

Throughout the 20th century, Harlem has been regarded as the symbolic mecca for Black American artistic production, culture and activism.

The focus lies on the period from 1989 until 2017, taking 1989 as symbolic date to underline the shift from analogue to digital.

The paintings in Never Forever offer points of entry to consider architectures» ability to serve as a symbolic backdrop for unfolding political events and changing power structures.

Golub maintained that art is «an attempt to get at life as a symbolic thing.»

Colours tend be whole and uninflected, suggestive of integrated values, best seen in the prints of Matthew Brannon and Camilla Wills and the wall works of Paul Lee, unfazed by doubt and un-riven by division, and ultimately as symbolic of reliability as they are of concealment and repression.

Here, we repeatedly see a table altar from her grandmother's home, a heavyweight orange pot (that often acts as a symbolic proxy for her grandmother), and an intergenerational trio of women who are Crosby's grandmother, mother, and sister (referred to as «Mama, Mummy, and Mamma»).

The garden often operates as a symbolic territory in the division between the commons and the proprietorial, between one nation and another.

The X Nicaragua Biennial is dedicated to June Beer and emphasizes artistic practices as symbolic parables of the relationship of individuals with their environment.

The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists whose work looks to food, eating, feeding, and cooking as symbolic representations of exchanged emotion or power.

As a symbolic activity of Korean unification, the Klein blue is splashed, dipped, dripped on top of colorfully painted images of «Happy Land» themed Styrofoam punch - out paper toys found in Choco · Pie boxes, which are smuggled into North Korea from the South.

His use of beauty as a symbolic metaphor also compliments Redd Walitzki's themes.

During the 1970s, Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, and other feminists put forth a theory about women's art, finding that an enclosure or rounded form was at the center of much work by women, including O'Keeffe, whose flower paintings, begun in the 1920s, had often been described as symbolic of female sexuality.

Strom references opulent Dutch still life paintings through a rich canvas of constructed scenes that act as symbolic reminders of transformation and impermanence.»

I see medium and technique as being just as symbolic as representation is thought to be.

As symbolic objects, children have often stood in for innocence, free spiritedness and play.

A selection of short - filmed performance is also featured as part of the exhibition; in the preview Starr gives a 15 - minute routine wrestling with a chair as a symbolic representation of the familial struggles with her grandmother.

McVeigh's works in «Elegy to Nature,» which she views as symbolic human landscapes, sit between painting and drawing, abstraction and figuration.

By deliberately distorting the objects Gober re-creates, he allows them to function as symbolic metaphors, breaking free from the reality of our perceived world and moving into a liminal space — one that exists somewhere between reality and dreams.