Sentences with phrase «contemplative feel»

Painted woodwork, nautical stripes and feature wallpaper, such as this migrating geese design create a serene, contemplative feel in the hallway.

The blog posts often have a contemplative feel, a sharing of knowledge and experience.

It is the balance between these contrasts that lends these bodies of work a highly contemplative feel.

It instills an intensely contemplative feeling, recalling Renaissance alter pieces that the large - scale triptych paintings also evoke.

Not exact matches

As Fr Bertram suggests, those who have never felt drawn to the «contemplative» spiritual tradition may find Newman's work especially helpful - but in truth, there is something in these pages for everyone to treasure.

After a short break in the quiet contemplative atmosphere of the spare tea house, tasting tea and a small sweet, I felt utterly refreshed and ready to return to our itinerary.

But in private, contemplative moments that fall, the researcher indicated she felt confident that the long - enduring CFS puzzle was likely solved; her real interest going forward was in developing treatment for those who were suffering.

In the logic of the film, for the camera to move at all would feel like a betrayal of its contemplative hunger.

As the two are reunited, time slows to Nico's «These Days», a gorgeously contemplative song choice that once felt far more original than it does now.

Contemplative, playfully loose and exploratory (but nothing like mumblecore, to which some have lazily drawn comparisons), «Prince Avalanche» is a distinctly singular David Gordon Green film which feels like the logical, next - phase direction for the filmmaker.

While the first act feels chaotic and inspired — with the sense that it could really go anywhere — the second and third acts are much slower and more contemplative, thus deepening the story.

The most effective way to take the conditions and feelings of such a reflective learning experience and move them forward into practice is through role - play, processing what has been learned, and effective closure techniques for ending the lesson in a contemplative and lasting way.

I think silence is played out in this book as contemplative space and space to accept what she (Terry) feels.

This is a feeling I carried in to the arrangement, which features lots of slow and contemplative parts,» Roger Wanamo explains.

It's contemplative and gentle in a way that invites us into the feelings of the characters and the difficulties of the journey they face.

But despite that, there are parts of the centre that feel calm, quiet and contemplative, with an abundance of space and light that's a world away from some of the continent's more touristy locations, and so refreshing for it.

«With the Waterborne piece at the Estuary festival, it felt like such a fitting setting for the piece; it was very bleak but also contemplative.»

«Thiebaud's method... has the effect not of eliminating the Pop resonance of his subjects but of slowing down and chastening the associations they evoke, so that a host of ambivalent feelings — nostalgic and satiric and elegiac — can come back later, calmed down and contemplative: enlightened» (Gopnik, 80).

Celia Paul's art stems from a deep connection with subject matter and is quiet, contemplative and ultimately moving in its profound attention to detail and deeply - felt spirituality.

They feel introverted and contemplative but don't lack a sense of humor.

Although it has been argued that these lines resemble some of the geographical features that Diebenkorn observed in the suburban landscape, by the time he painted his Ocean Park paintings he felt he had resolutely abandoned figuration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their creators....

Talking of these arrangements, De Salvo speaks of «finding the sweet spot where you can create a contemplative space and at the same time not make it feel as if the works are cut off and alienated».

«Thiebaud's method... has the effect not of eliminating the Pop resonance of his subjects but of slowing down and chastening the associations they evoke, so that a host of ambivalent feelings — nostalgic and satiric and elegiac — can come back later, calmed down and contemplative: enlightened.»

In these paintings, images are often cropped and lack a specific point of spatial reference, such as a horizon line, thus inviting a contemplative experience and generating the feeling of immersion in Katz's open - ended pictorial space.

Tomma Abts» precise drawings and paintings have a contemplative intimacy and formal rigour that evoke a feeling of the timeless.

A calming quietness which is contemplative and moving pervades her paintings.There is an inherent spirituality that is felt through Paul's representation of people and locations.The artist's primary subject was her mother from 1977 to 2007 she then started painting her sisters and close friends.

Tomma Abts» precise drawings and paintings have a contemplative intimacy and formal rigor that evoke a feeling of the timeless.

This work, The House In My Head, feels very personal, conveying the contemplative, even dark mood one feels at night, which is when he often paints.

The contemplative claim of most abstract art is felt by many to have lost its address.

These new paintings not only feel different — more sober, more serious, more contemplative — but look dramatically different as well.

The contemplative room feels like a futuristic and aggressive version of Walter de Maria's seminal installation the Earth Room.

My personal opinion — based on nothing other than a subjective feeling — is that the black paintings do provide a contemplative experience I would call mystical.

Long recognized for her grotesque representations of colonialism, her ability to evoke a constancy between past and present, and her anthropologically inspired explorations of race, Adriana Varejão's latest exhibition, Polvo, feels contemplative, even hopeful — especially for an artist who has spent much of her career lamenting historical atrocities, tragedies, and disparities.

Her art really does engage Western painting, although the contemplative nature and quietist feeling of her works make it clear that she is a person of two cultures.

Paul's work is quiet, contemplative and ultimately moving in its profound attention to detail and deeply - felt spirituality.

Michael Brune, executive director of Sierra Club, said this morning that he was feeling «angry and sad and contemplative.»

Instead ended up with a dark teal - ish blue («pier14 ″ from valspar) that I love because it feels contemplative and calm.

«In difficult times, blues are comforting - reliable, contemplative and calm when the world around us feels frazzled,» she said.