Sentences with phrase «by imagined landscapes»

Mitchell's inner life embraced a world beyond her own craft, especially literature... her compositions were informed by imagined landscapes or feelings about places.

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«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»
This vibrant urban sprawl, inspired by the colorful buildings of the real - life city of Guanajuato, is as marvelously imagined as the cerebral landscape of Inside Out or Monsters Inc.'s bustling Monstropolis, another densely packed world of wonders that's both familiar — there's a scene about skeleton bureaucracy that kills, I swear — and otherworldly.
Pixar's second release of the year imagines 1) Earth never hit by a big, bad asteroid, 2) dinosaurs that never went extinct as a result, and 3) a time when their human neighbors weren't yet paving and building on every available inch of the landscape.
Timothée Chalamet, «Call Me by Your Name» It's now difficult to imagine our current film landscape without the charming Chalamet, who stole hearts with his naturalistic performance in Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me by Your Name.»
Environments and creations are brought to life in any way fans can imagine, either by building brick by brick, placing down enormous prebuilt LEGO structures, or by using wondrous tools that let you paint and shape the landscape.
This phenomenon in child - led play design, initially known as «junk playgrounds», was first imagined in the 1930s by landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sorensen.
In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives.
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi Published by Little, Brown; ages 14 & up Paolo Bacigalupi's debut YA novel (and Printz Award winner) Ship Breaker imagined a future America dependent on scavengers for survival after global warming and peak oil have irrevocably altered the landscape.
Imagine a stay in a beautiful, modern beachfront resort sitting on 20 acres of powdery sand, surrounding by mountains, jungle, and meticulous landscaping.
Just imagine setting off and knowing that, for the next 53 days, you will be taken 23,000 miles round the entire globe on famous international rail networks, by air and by coach, not only visiting, but actually getting to know, a vast diversity of countries and being able to experience, as you pass through or stop to explore them, all the astounding differences in landscape and culture of each one.
Imagine celebrating the most magical day of your life surrounded by wildflowers, next to a landscaped pond, in the middle of the forrest.
Environments and creations are brought to life in any way fans can imagine, either by building brick by brick, placing down enormous prebuilt LEGO ® structures, or by using powerful tools that let them paint and shape the landscape.
Environments and creations are brought to life in any way fans can imagine, either by building brick by brick, placing down enormous prebuilt LEGO structures, or by using wondrous tools that let you paint and shape the landscape.
The imagined landscape is greatly influenced by time spent in the woods of Maine and Vermont, as well as time spent daydreaming about those places while living and working in New York City.
«Each piece is part of a landscape I imagine as the earth gets swallowed by the sea,» he says.
Expanding upon the language of Magic Realism these flowerscapes, a term coined by writer Luanne McKinnon, depict bright, intensely detailed flowers over maximalist landscapes both real and imagined.
In «Ardent Nature,» prompted by the exhibition's title, we began to read these unstable images as landscape allusions, now imagining ourselves confronted by echoes of trees and distant, rolling fields, now by an ant's - eye view among blades of grasses and leaves.
One imagines the artist looking over the New Mexico landscape, inspired by the incandescent and austere quietude of her surroundings.
by Stephanie Cristello Open Letter to an Enemy: Nicole Eisenman (1993 — 2003) When Western painters in the mid-late 1800s imagined the exotic landscape of the East, it was filled with caricature and hyperbole.
For «Imagined Landscapes,» Duval - Carrié studied artworks from the 19th Century and earlier depicting the New World's lush Caribbean, sometimes by artists who knew little if anything about the history of places they described.
Nguyen's unique practice combines drawing with photography to create extraordinary, hidden worlds influenced by her personal memories, landscape imagery, and imagined visions.
American Views provides a fresh look at landscape, both real and imagined, though late 19th and early 20th century paintings such as Samuel Colman's and George Henry Smillie's detailed studies of farms, and varied depictions of the effects of light on water by Martin Johnson Heade, John Henry Twachtman, and Childe Hassam.
While these elements reflect the components of a seemingly classical composition, Carreño portrays the scene within a verdant landscape that evokes an imagined tropical garden inspired by the artist's native Cuba.
By including the work of 12 artists who vary in their formal interpretations, «Blurred Horizons: Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined» replicates the multifarious richness of nature in a gallery setting.
These enclosed tranches of landscape, culturally displaced and geopolitically charged, relate to Land Art exponent Robert Smithson's Non-Site series; while other homages to recent heroes of art history include Blow Up, which reveals itself as a playful destruction of the photographic work of German couple Bernd and Hilla Becher and the life - sized, white ceramic Pig (2012) which is both a scaled - up version of a piggy bank from Monk's childhood and an imagining of an unrealised sculpture by Jeff Koons.
Picked up by antenna and streamed into the shelter over an ethernet cable, Dark Fiber depicts the artists laying a single fiber optic cable across the United States, from west to east, hopping across landscapes, industrial infrastructure and media apparatuses, and moving through walls, conduits, lived spaces, and imagined worlds.
From famous locations such as Versailles to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to food production recorded by journalists, the subjects in this exhibition broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the cultivated landscape.
The Black Sea's Undersong imagines an apocalyptic, subterranean landscape that evokes a terrible and sublime beauty of the kind described by philosopher Edmund Burke, who wrote, «Whatever is qualified to cause terror is a foundation capable of the sublime.»
These ideas are usually inspired by childhood imaginings, classic childrens tales and dramatic landscapes.
At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.
Bringingtogether new paintings and sculptural forms, Losh imagines a rollicking, center-less landscape, populated by static figures, and countered by wall works emphasizing frenetic linearity.
In a city where relatively cheap living standards and a diverse urban landscape are being transformed by development, it's sometimes difficult to imagine how investment in the arts (and artists) can show its value.
The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles» computer - generated chance operation for «imagining» houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hiller).
Dreamlands is a group exhibition inspired by the landscapes of our dreams, real and imagined.
The first - a continuation of the classical tradition popularized by Claude Lorrain - produced ideal - landscapes, often depicting scenes of the Italian countryside, real or imagined.
«Imagine Brandywine,» a new exhibition space at the Brandywine River Museum for the display of creative art projects by area school students and inspired by the museum's collection and landscape, debuts on November 10.
His new show at G. Gibson Gallery, Quest, is a collection of landscape paintings inspired by this merger of virtual and real environments, a culmination of an interest in imagined ecologies he's been chasing since his earliest works.
Now, also at the Met, «Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings» positions Cole as a challenge to Trumpian greed, as well as to the American landscape as imagined by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and EPA chief Scott Pruitt.
Rousseau's imagined landscape, lush with gargantuan flowers and foliage, here carefully re-painted by Churchman, is a stage for a gruesome and distorted act.
Imagine if dozens of truly ravenous polar bears stalk and ambush people across a great frozen landscape, taking them by complete surprise because no one considers a bear attack in spring to be a real possibility.
Imagine the impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions by agriculture if typical American suburbanites devoted the time and energy that they presently spend on maintaining lawns and various other decorative landscape plantings to organic food gardens instead.
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