Sentences with phrase «by means of paintings»

Based on the thoroughness of these class notes, and also on the syllabuses for the Asian art courses that Reinhardt took from Alfred Salmony at the IFA in the late 1940s, the essentializing of Reinhardt's published essays was intentional, part of a larger strategy to promote his own ideas about contemporary abstract painting by means of paintings from a foreign past.

His prolific output during the 1960s and 1970s was driven primarily by a desire to create, by means of painting, a universal system able to address all others — the entire range of social and political issues facing modern humanity.

Figurative works by Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, which explore the human body and add a psychological dimension by means of painting, are followed by works of Josef Albers, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana that emphasize the support as such in its three - dimensional character and material quality.

These feelings are expressed by the means of painting.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately for the Bank of Canada, market participants have struggled to accept that the paint - by - numbers approach to communication that became the norm during the financial crisis was never meant to last.

After being welcomed by the Aboriginal staff, you are invited to explore their indigenous history, art, dance and culture, including the use of their tools and weapons, and meaning behind their body paint.

Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).

The abuse perpetrated by priests is atrocious and hurts Catholics (meaning THE PEOPLE who make up the Church) deeply but that does not given anyone the right to paint every priest the with the same brush of pedophile!

We see lots of short term «missionaries», which usually means spending part of a day in Tijuana painting a house, followed by six days at the San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, Seaworld, Legoland, a trip to Disneyland and of course a couple of trips to some fabulous beaches.

The writer Delmore Schwartz, who almost certainly was one of the models for Bellow's Humboldt, liked to say that life is a wedding, by which he meant that the universe is meaningful, and one can happily take his place in it like the figures in Brueghel's painting.

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

While we gave Wojciech Szczesny an awful lot of grief around here last season — and by we, I mean me — the truth is he was probably somewhere between the extreme portraits we painted of him last season.

She builds layers of meaning by combining ephemera, oil paint and beeswax, rendering modern images in an ancient medium.

You may have started wondering why I'm telling you all of this... By no means am I trying to paint the picture that big life decisions come easily for me or that «walking boldly forward» is always been my go to in life.

Caro paints a picture of a deeply unpleasant man determined to gain power by whatever means.

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Speaking in Paris last week at the fifth annual IT Seminar, organised by the International Data Corporation, de Benedetti painted a bleak picture of what the new divisions will mean.

Unfortunaltely the Hudson Institue (and many others) have perverted the meaning of the word skeptic, the use of the word in their «study» is a (feeble and desperate) attempt to sow doubt by painting things in terms of scientists vs skeptics.

Typically when an artist who paints with watercolors (which I think you all understand what I mean by watercolor)... the person sketches out a drawing with a special kind of pencil as so when they apply water and paint — the outline from the watercolor pencil blends in versus just being an outline.

By colour we mean painting a picture of what dating you would really be like and the kind of person you really are.

The Holiday is appallingly written and icky besides in that familiar way of this brand of Love Actually / The Family Stone yuletide romantic refuse, casting Cameron Diaz and Jude Law as lovers fucking away the hours inside a Thomas Kincaid painting while Diaz's frumpy house - swap buddy, played by Kate Winslet, finds meaning in Santa Monica by propping up a fossil (Eli Wallach) and falling for a James Horner-esque composer of horrible soundtracks (Jack Black).

While many love stories never delve much deeper than the initial attraction and union of two people who must overcome obstacles to finally come to equal terms, The Painted Veil differs by starting out with an uneasy union, with characters that have many conflicting feelings for one another at varying times, never quite able to come to a mutual understanding of what they mean to each other.

Ashen - faced, with a rotting tooth and deathly blue eyes (accomplished by means of remarkable, hand - painted contacts), he looms and whispers like a Beantown Beelzebub.

As the viewer regards two separate paintings by 16th century Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen, titled The Vegetable Seller (1576) and A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (1551) respectively, each cut to a different fragment of the paintings» surfaces raises questions: what do the artworks depict; what is placed in their foregrounds; what is relegated to the background; and, ultimately, what meanings can be excavated from the artworks» layers and represented objects?

What's more, this is a bold and brave filmmaking decision, meaning we're not going to get a paint - by - the - numbers remake, and Blumhouse has always given a huge amount of creative control to their filmmakers, so we won't have to worry about some clueless businessman making creative decisions.

Darren Aronofsky's preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning — a curious mix of deep - think and makeup effects that goes back to his black - and - white debut feature, Pi — grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self - destruction, its only prophets being madmen.

The July 6 letter by David Pace painted charter schools as an albatross, a corporate tool meant to «put public schools out of business.»

And I don't mean to paint all schools with the same brush, for some schools have relatively high productivity, but the reason for the overall inadequacy of productivity is the misallocation of resources because of the perverse incentives that are by nature so deeply embedded in education cost structures.

Their recipe for creating a unique vehicle is pretty much the same as the one used on the 2013 GS F Sport, meaning the CT 200h received a set of double spoke design forged wheels using Yokohama Advan Sport rubber (235 / 40ZR19 front and rear), a widebody conversion with a number of aggressively styled body parts and a special paint finish (Dark Passage) highlighted by custom black accents.

Available for both the GranTurismo and GranCabrio models, the Sport Special Edition standards out by means of a new Rosso Italiano, three - layer paint — which mimics the red of Juan Manuel Fangio's F1 - winning 250F race car — and 20 - inch alloy wheels in Glossy Black with «Special Edition» logos.

He remembered his first awkward hour in the college — joining the other first years for the freshers» get - together in the Common Room on the second floor of Foster Court, ascending the stairs under a painting by Whistler, and ending up informing a bespectacled girl with a Princess Di haircut that the Sanskrit prem meant both carnal desire and love, that there was no separation between the two in «Indian culture».

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.

A mean trick of nature, a joke that had waited several million years: the lake looked like Lenin's profile, which was imprinted on us by medals, badges, stamps, statues, paintings, and drawings in books.

But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, his packet of unfiltered Camels, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck)- from him we learned how to create beauty where none exists, how to be generous beyond our means, how to change a small corner of the world just by making a little dinner for a few friends.

Call of Duty has painted itself into a corner, and whilst Infinite Warfare is by no means a bad game, it may potentially be a small step in the wrong direction — that being said, I found very little to complain about in the days that I spent playing the beta, and so I'm hopeful that Infinite Warfare will shake off the shadow looming over it and deliver the Call of Duty game that we as fans are looking for.

These larger historical factors of political and social milieu impact his painting only by very indirect means.

It is much easier to convey emotion by means of abstraction rather than with subject painting.

His extremely vulgar and poorly executed sculpture of himself in the buff lying alongside the Italian porn - star - turned - politician Cicciolina was flanked by laser - painted canvases of the slickly unamorous couple, unveiled and smug in various revealing close - ups — which gave the term «site - specific» a whole other meaning.

Wilson writes that the current exhibition «is compelling, and that the pieces have been selected with a sense of the visually rhythmic — by which I mean, the paintings dialogue with each other: they carry on an engaging conversation that feels neither repetitive nor disconnected.

Painting outside in public can be hazardous in such a culturally deprived location, by this I mean — the people walking by and comment on your painting are likely to heap insane amounts of praise (sometimes for just setting up an easel — with a white Painting outside in public can be hazardous in such a culturally deprived location, by this I mean — the people walking by and comment on your painting are likely to heap insane amounts of praise (sometimes for just setting up an easel — with a white painting are likely to heap insane amounts of praise (sometimes for just setting up an easel — with a white canvas!)

He reinvented the practice of painting for himself by learning to excavate volatile new meanings from the medium's most essential materials: paint and cloth.

He goes on to define what he means by high and low art and as an example he draws the contrast between a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song; or a painting by Georges Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover; all being examples of contemporaneous culture.

What does it mean to craft these obsolete machine objects by hand, to cobble them together in clay, to paint them colors the Princess designers never dreamed of, to render them obdurate — and useless?

... [snip much amazing thinking and description of great artists and their work]... Greg Allen's Destroyed Richter Paintings channel the elder artist's own private documentary images back into the photo - based painting feedback loop he once deemed «photography by other means.»

The painting Nasema Nawe («I'm telling you») was inspired by the highly sexualised Baikoko dance in Tanzania; Gauguin's masterpiece provided a visual means of exploring the significance of the dance.

And if I disregard the assumption that a photograph is a piece of paper exposed to light, then I am practising photography by other means: I'm not producing paintings that remind you of a photograph but producing photographs.

Another fascinating aspect of the decision — and by fascinating, I mean obvious and totally in agreement with me — is the court's emphasis on the changes in size, format, and process between Cariou's book pages and Prince's giant inkjet / collage / paintings.

De Kooning never abandoned the human form, Pollock sought (and failed) to reappropriate it after his signature drip paintings, and Gorky's abstractions, those lyrical elisions of biomorphic shape and washy veils of pigment, are nothing if not figure painting by other means.

The one - liner of its title, which pitches a resemblance to late paintings by JMW Turner, pre-empted any possible critique of its own cynicism by suggesting that it merely reflects the cynicism of the culture, or its collectors (that posh paint was meant for their apartments).

A large picture is an immediate transaction; it takes you into it» meaning that you could walk into the paintings and be in them, surrounded by them, immersed in them; he also said — «the reason I paint large pictures is because I want to be very intimate and human» and as a painter of large works I agree with this.