Sentences with phrase «by intense»

Existing in both hemispheres, it starts when air in the tropics, which is heated at the surface by intense sunlight, warms and rises.

A sunspot is a region on the Sun's surface (photosphere) that is marked by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of reduced surface temperature.

Higher temperatures, long droughts punctuated by intense rainfall, more resilient pests and plant diseases — all of which are associated with climate change — have reduced coffee supplies dramatically in recent years.

And, finally, this energy transition is being driven by an intense excitement from the realization that people are now tapping energy sources that can last as long as the earth itself.

Fueled by intense heat, dryness, and high winds, 50 major wildfires burn in the central and southern regions of Chile, causing thousands to evacuate, creating millions of dollars in damages, and destroying hundreds of homes.

They are typically initiated by intense rainfall and / or rapid snowmelt.

The end of this period was marked by globally high temperatures induced by an intense El Nino.

As trees large and small are compromised by near and long - term aerosol spraying, compounded by intense UV exposure, I wonder if it's an intended or unintended consequence that life and limb will reek havoc as well.

Currently Europe is being gripped by an intense cold wave, one that has sent temperatures in Germany to as low as -27 °C this morning.

Dr. Geh Min, former president of Singapore Nature Society, highlighted the unique role of tropical mangrove ecosystems in providing wildlife habitat, curbing coastal erosion caused by intense wave actions or surface runoff, acting as a natural purifier of water, while serving as sitea for human recreation.

«Nightmarish scenarios follow from these data,» he goes on, «multiyear drought punctuated by intense heat waves leading to rapid ecosystem diebacks that in turn trigger other nonlinear processes of erosion and fire.

«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this year.

The 1930 - 1934 exception (above) leads me to conclude that the intensity of solar radiation at the surface created the intense heat of the dust bowl years, and that the 1939 - 1942 strong EL Nino period was triggered by the intense solar radiation from 1930 - 1934 penetrating a large surface area in the Pacific.

One of the most influential young artists working in the Filipino art scene, Nona Garcia is perhaps best known for her elaborate, large - scale paintings characterized by an intense, photo - realistic approach and for her series of X-ray installations — illuminated films of found objects encased in light - boxes.

In doing so, they were inspired by intense relationships developed with some of the leading figures exploring the language and theory of Italian and international art at the time.

Defined by the intense optical vibrations that occur between adjacent strips of colour, the Stripe paintings were the last major cycle of canvases that the artist created before his untimely death in 1962.

Both paintings record a path... Garrison's path of life's mundane errands; a calendar in color of ubiquitous activities and Oleksyn's the path of his brush guided by intense concentration; an artifact of a meditation.

His religious scenes, landscapes, and still lifes are distinguished by an intense coloristic richness and primitivistic angularity.

It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.

Characterised by their intense, conceptual focus, her canvases suggest a catharsis, harnessing the energy that results from repetitive mark making.

December 7: Six weeks after the closing of his shows, he is stricken with severe chest pain followed by an intense convulsion, which initially leaves him paralyzed from the neck down.

The last years of Vandenberg's artistic output were marked by intense investigations into the intersections of language, text and color that produced multi-layered and rich drawings, paintings and book projects and are now part of a titillating exhibition curated by the director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Anthony Huberman.

By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lassnig's work had turned to gestural, field - like abstract landscapes, exemplified by «Tachismus 4» (Tachism 4)(1958/1959) and «Ohne Titel (Untitled)(c. 1960), in which her earlier subdued palette is replaced by intense, warm color.

By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lassnig's work had turned to gestural, field - like abstract landscapes, exemplified by «Tachismus 4» (Tachism 4)(1958 / 1959) and «Ohne Titel» (Untitled)(ca. 1960), in which her earlier subdued palette is replaced by intense, warm colour.

The outgoing Director of the Serpentine Galleries, Julia Peyton - Jones, has deemed Adnan's work to be «underpinned by an intense engagement with the world and with modern history», and even at 91 years of age this intense engagement remains undimmed, much to the joy of art lovers around the world.

Part of it is the Fakires piece, where letters become pictorial elements immersed in expressive flows of a richer color palette and brushstrokes, underlined by intense black lining.

Luminist landscapes - exemplified by those of Frederic E Church, Albert Bierstadt, and the Missouri frontier painter George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 79)- were characterized by intense, often dramatic light effects, a style visible also in the hauntingly beautiful works of Whistler, such as Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green, Valparaiso (1866) and Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea (1871).

Clark's work was shaped by these intense processes and experiences and by the environment of the prison.

Together, they reveal the artist's quest to redefine the notion of a monument in a period marked by both intense historicism and the ever - accelerating rhythms of modernity.

The later part of Wróblewski's oeuvre is marked by an intense period of production on paper, an essential medium for the artist.

After World War II, in the Stanley Kowalski era, the art world was dominated by intense dudes like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Koonig and Franz Kline.

Many artists moved away from the specific picturing of things as one observes them in the world to focus instead on the quintessential shapes, colors, and moods that a place projects, all indicated by an intense handling of paint.

Brothers Thomaz and Ramon Ballverdú are the founders of a project known as Solar Runways, installations that provide a safe space for children and adults alike to play out in the streets of Brazil while still being protected by the intense sun that Brazil is known for during the summer.

, installations that provide a safe space for children and adults alike to play out in the streets of Brazil while still being protected by the intense sun that Brazil is known for during the summer.

He was also loosely associated with Neo-Romanticism as evidenced by the intense, bulbous eyes that are characterized in his early portraits.

As the artist puts it: «As a screensaver, the implied danger of burning a whole into your screen is, in fact, not a real threat: the longevity of our newer screens is no longer effected by intense of light or form in one place.

Termed Color Field painting by the art critic and champion of American abstract painting, Clement Greenberg, it was defined and differentiated from Abstract Expressionism by an intense approach to color theory and a revolutionary application of paint.

Her art, characterised by an intense realism, includes works on paper and ephemeral installations, and find inspiration in contemporary or historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust and the atrocities committed during the Vietnamese War.

With them he created his color scheme of primaries broken by intense greens and purples, each to a separate object.

From the 1970s, his tireless pictorial production was accompanied by intense sculptural activity, which included small humorous sculptures made with found materials, the Coco Mato boxes reflective of his psychedelic experimentation, and classicising figures often made in bronze.

The photographs are dominated by intense color and a gentle abstraction.

Arriving unaccompanied at the institution's silvered Wooster Street digs — formerly Jeffrey Deitch's HQ, as if any reminder were needed — I was immediately buttonholed by intense art historian Lorena Morales Aparicio, who filled me in on the subject of her doctoral thesis - in - progress, contemporary Swiss touchstone Pipilotti Rist.

Often his projects are preceded by intense documentation whereby he photographs, salvages, compiles and collects images, signs and objects as a basis for the creation of formal data banks.

For non-specialists, those baroque artists influenced by the intense theatre of Caravaggio's works have often seemed to be «after Caravaggio» rather than somehow reaching beyond him: not only working in his shadows, as it were, but also borrowing them directly from his paintings.

Exploration bits are complemented by intense combat arena scenarios in which insectoid enemies bombard the screen from all corners while you quickly have to type out the letters or words overlaying each enemy to zap them dead before a single one is able to breach your central position.

The exploration of the story behind the world of Sublevel Zero is a bit too simple and vague to give me an emotional investment in it, but players will be able to fill in that void by the intense space battles and memories they make themselves.

This is rounded out by the intense campaign and its visceral view of the European theater of war.

If you're looking for first - person shooters or sports simulations which sell themselves by their intense attention to detail and realism, then certainly, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are where you're going to want to look.

Dying Light offers up a firm story accompanied by intense parkour abilities, allowing for riveting traversal of the map as well as intense action sequences that will result in you gripping the edge of your seat until you retreat to safety.

Though I'm loathe to spend so much time on frame rate, especially as someone largely fine with games sputtering, the dynamic of your average Battlegrounds match, where the moments of quiet are punctuated by intense firefights, requires split - second decisions.