Sentences with phrase «by eccentric work»

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He has some stunningly brilliant work in mathematics which has been overshadowed by a book and movie which details some very eccentric behavior.

Ultimately this elliptical, even eccentric involvement of biblical themes, figures, and narratives does not make for a work of superior accomplishment in either religious or literary terms, whether by comparison to masterworks of the past or the finer novels in Coetzee's own oeuvre.

Lucretius» only known work, On the Nature of Things, is remarkable for its foreshadowing of Darwinism, humans as higher primates, the study of atoms and the scientific method — all contemplated in a geocentric world ruled by eccentric gods.

When doing negative reps, you should find yourself a spotter that will help you during the the concentric part of the movement while you'll do most of the work on the eccentric part by lowering the weight more slowly.

Early research on human muscles by Komi and Bosco (1978), and Komi (1984; 1986) demonstrated that concentric muscle work was increased when preceded by active stretch (eccentric action).

Become a MASTER at a certain size because there are numerous eccentric ways to increase the intensity with a fixed weight by manipulating your work / rest times.

Over the past several decades, numerous studies have established that eccentric contractions can maximize the force exerted and the work performed by muscle... that they can attenuate the mechanical effects of impact forces; and that they enhance the [good] tissue damage associated with exercise.

All of this means that when you challenge your body to do more WORK — for instance, by going very slowly on the eccentric portion of the movement — you get more of your important type 2 (fast twitch) muscle fibers involved... which means you become more metabolically active to burn fat... AND build greater strength.

Most millionaires are eccentric and have weird habits, so if you are put off by such behavior, millionaire dating may not work for you.

Rowling's debut as a screenwriter is inspired by a same - named, catalog - style textbook that is supposed to be the work of a «magizoologist» and Hogwarts alum named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne in eccentric shy - guy mode).

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

«Opening Night: A failed Broadway singer who now works as a production manager must save opening night on his new production by wrangling his eccentric cast and crew.

There's a gentle touch to the absurdity here that makes the duo's work often oddly endearing, and that the almost - romance between Mooney and Ronan is ultimately derailed by the revelation that she's actually a ghost on a very eccentric mission is great.

WHAT: When low - level programmer Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) discovers that the useless music app he's been working on contains a groundbreaking file compression algorithm, he rejects a $ 10 million buyout offered by Hooli CEO Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) and partners with eccentric angel investor Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch) to develop the program himself with fellow programmers Erlich (T.J. Miller), Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) and Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani).

Lest we forget the wonderful work executed by Jason Patric in the film, whose eccentric, psychopathic villain is nothing short of exceptional, goofy and, overall, difficult not to watch at all times.

Given the new moniker by Frankenstein, Igor is enlisted to become the eccentric creator's assistant as well and work with him on his big dream — to bring life to the dead.

Eccentric even by Roeg standards, Eureka, written by Paul Mayersberg (working from the true - life tale of Harry Oakes), goes overboard with the histrionics, and even the slight supernatural tinge that defines Roeg's movies is clumsily handled here.

Directed by Andrew Renzi the film follows Gere as a wealthy, ageing eccentric who finds a new lease on life by working his way into the life of his late friend's daughter (Fanning) and her husband, played by Theo James.

Room's director, Lenny Abrahamson — whose previous film was the offbeat Frank, starring Michael Fassbender as an eccentric musician who wears a large papier - maché head — navigates the balance with remarkable finesse, working from a screenplay written by Donoghue.

But then the book is stolen by the eccentric out - of - work actor Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant) and given Paddington's well - expressed desire to own the book, he's found guilty of theft and thrown in prison.

Gringo has an ensemble cast of eccentric characters but director Nash Edgerton (working from a story by Intolerable Cruelty co-writer Matthew Stone) is unsuccessful at bringing out the true zaniness within them that is begging to be unleashed.

Inspired by Thomas Wolfe's first novel Look Homeward, Angel (1929) * she left home to find her destiny, having had an inkling of what that might be during a summer internship with the local newspaper, where she discovered «a work world where eccentrics reigned.»

The first in a series, The Spellman Files tells the story of Isabelle Spellman, a tough - talking 28 - year - old (described by another character as «Dirty Harry meets Nancy Drew») who works for her eccentric family's P.I. business.

Norton's eye for the bizarre, amazing, and beautiful inhabitants of the oceans, and the eccentric characters who work, study, and live by the shore make his book a wonder - filled experience.

This is part of a Money Map series created by Apathy Ends and Budget on a Stick, other participants include The Luxe Strategist, Adventure Rich, MinaFi, OthalaFehu, The Frugal Gene, Working Optional, Atypical Life, Eccentric Rich Uncle, Cantankerous Life, The Retirement Manifesto, Debts to Riches, Need2Save, Money Metagame, CYinnovations, I Dream of FIRE, Stupid Debt, Spills Spot, and Making Your Money Matter.

Annie finds her work with the feral cats to be deeply gratifying, but she is saddened when she realizes that she is viewed by people in her community as an eccentric, troublesome old lady.

Lanyon's work embodies a unique combination of the surreal and fantastic imagery characteristic of the Chicago - based Monster Roster of the 1950s, and the eccentric figuration and meticulous detail favored by the Chicago Imagists, whose work dominated the Chicago art scene in the later 1960s and 70s.

He primarily works with raw building materials and broken furniture converting them into «creatures» inspired by natural history museums, sci - fi, and his grandfather - an eccentric taxidermist whom let Mike play in his basement with numerous dead things.

The European side begins with works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.

Curated by Charlotta Kotik, the former chairman of the Department of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition will feature approximately forty works, the majority of them large in scale, by ten New York artists who use eccentric and frequently obsessive techniques to create singular works on paper.

The narrative about their contribution to abstract art lays behind the exhibition An Eccentric View: Works by Tauba Auerbach, Jo Baer, Marsha Cottrell, Tara Donovan, Eva Hesse, Kathleen Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, and Mira Schendel, which is going to be presented at Mignoni Gallery, New York's brand new exhibition space.

Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics presents key examples of Murakami's work alongside a rich selection of Japanese masterpieces spanning several centuries and arranged here according to concepts laid out by his mentor and foil, leading Japanese art historian Nobuo Tsuji.

Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»

«Several Art Events Making a Scene» San Francisco Chronicle Written by Kenneth Baker June 25, 2014 More information here Sophont in Action: One of the most eccentric contemporary artists working in the Bay Area, Desirée Holman will enlist local residents in an outdoor performance activating visionary elements of her art, on view here, in static and kinetic media.

Mellors» Ourhouse series of videos features a cast of misfit characters enacting the decline of an eccentric British family, while his new work The Saprophage examines the literal and metaphoric waste produced by contemporary society.

In several works from 1972, Mr. Overstreet switches to an explosive, staccato drip technique, whose intimations of starry skies are regularly contradicted by dividing lines or added segments of canvas, leaving us suspended between deep space and eccentric objects.

Some of the maps of space stick to two dimensions, like the eccentric designs of Alfred Jensen and, in a folksier vein, Forrest Bess — or the notes toward a work of work of art by Lee Lozano.

The eccentric and fiercely anti-establishment Smith, who died in 1989, would be shocked to find his work not only no - longer - underground, but permanently ensconced in this hallowed institution, in a room with works by Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Lee Bontecou, Bruce Conner, and others.

In his sculptural works that explore materials such as bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale.

The survey also includes works by the Chicago Imagists» mentor, Ray Yoshida, and Robert Lostutter, a close friend of Paschke who did not show with the groups but is closely affiliated with the Imagists in his eccentric style and expression.

Independent - minded, somewhat eccentric and seemingly unaffected by the shifting trends of the art world in the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Davie was an early European admirer of postwar American abstract artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, whom he first encountered at the 1948 Venice Biennale as well as in the collection of Peggy Guggenheim (who bought two of Mr. Davie's works).

The Jewel Thief will combine works by over fifty contemporary artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art.

Over his lifetime, Dutterer created a vast body of work depicting eccentric worlds populated by ghostly trains, wrapped heads, and fantastical underwater creatures.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.

Ephemera comprises much of the show, and it's crammed into every nook of the galleries: there is the exhibition announcement for Ms. Lippard's legendary 1966 exhibition «Eccentric Abstraction,» which included organic, tactile work by Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois and others as the feminist counterpoint to minimalism; an issue of Aspen Magazine devoted to minimalism; and documentation of Richard Serra's famous molten iron piece Splashing (1968).

Her contribution to this showcase of sixteen artists, organized by designer and artist Lyall Sprong, includes Three New Wands I, II, and III (all works cited, 2017), eccentric fabrications in wood of a wand she made as an adolescent.

In 2006, the foundation acquired 568 «multiples» by Joseph Beuys, an eccentric German artist known for working with felt and spending three days in a room with a coyote.

Across Venice, at the Punta della Dogana (owned by the Pinault Collection) Vo has assembled and curated Slip of the Tongue, an eccentric exhibition of art from the 13th century to the present, juxtaposing Vo's own work with major contributions from Nancy Spero, David Hammons and Nairy Baghramian.

Among the many artists invoked by critics in relation to her work are Gauguin and van Gogh; the Belgian eccentric James Ensor; midcentury painters like Francis Bacon and Philip Guston; and the contemporary artists Cecily Brown and Barnaby Furnas.

But these works rehearsed all the aspects of her later art: eccentric dimensionality, large scale, crusty paint surfaces and suggestive, emotionally charged, implicitly autobiographical narratives conveyed by extravagant distortions of form.