Sentences with phrase «crouching woman»

A number of works of art that influenced the young Moore, including Rodin's Crouching Woman from 1882, will be on show

Inspired by natural forms, biomorphic / organic abstraction in sculpture is exemplified in works such as: Human Concentration (1934, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris) and Demeter (1961, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem), both by Jean Arp (1887 - 1966); Mother and Child (1934, Tate Collection, London) by Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975); Abstraction (1940, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe) by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986); Crouching Woman (The Farewell)(1940 - 1) by Henri Laurens; and Two Forms (1966, Soraya marble, Staehein Private Collection, Zurich) by Henry Moore (1898 - 1986).

Crouching Woman (1906 - 1908), Meditation without arms (after 1900), Torso of a Young Woman with Arched Back (1909): these masterpieces demonstrate Rodin's experimental nature in large - format plaster sculptures and convey his sensual depiction of the female body through raw, fragmented forms.

An international partnership of the Northwestern University / Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU - ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, has used multiple modes of light to uncover details hidden beneath the visible surface of Pablo Picasso's painting «La Miséreuse accroupie» (The Crouching Woman), a major work from the artist's Blue Period.

Applying X-ray radiography to the painting reveals a hidden landscape, the lines of which Picasso incorporated into «La Miséreuse,» with the concealed cliff echoing the contours of the crouching woman's back, Walton said.

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I remember this moment as being very «earthy»; three women crouched on the bathroom floor examining the mystery of what had kept baby alive these past nine months.

Rosi, for instance, testified that he told a woman in labor to crouch on all fours in the back seat of her car while a family member drove her 75 miles an hour down the Edens Expressway from her Mundelein home to Weiss Memorial Hospital on Chicago's North Side, about an hour away.

That horribly frightening image of the woman delivering at home in Brazil (I think), photographed by a homebirth photographer and she's in the shower, crouching down, and all you can see is a bright purple hand emerging - arm presentation, at home, primigravid mum, and the midwife just watching.

14 In Newfoundland, sleep paralysis is called the «old hag,» because it is associated with visions of an elderly woman crouching on the sleeper's chest.

The 1902 oil painting, owned by the AGO in Toronto, Canada, depicts a crouching and cloaked woman, painted in white, blues, grays and greens.

Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies) stars as Lulu, a glamorous woman representing the business world in her day job, but whenever there's trouble, she dons a mask and sexy metallic outfit as her alter ego, Silver Hawk.

The all - star cast headed by Tony LEUNG Chiu Wai (Days of Being Wild — Berlinale Forum 1991, Chungking Express, Happy Together, In The Mood for Love, 2046, all directed by WONG Kar Wai), also includes Ziyi ZHANG (Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, D: Ang Lee), who was a guest at the 2009 Berlinale Competition with Forever Enthralled (D: CHEN Kaige), CHANG Chen (Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon; Eros, D: WONG Kar Wai), ZHAO Benshan (Happy Times, D: ZHANG Yimou), XIAO Shengyang (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, D: ZHANG Yimou — Berlinale Competition 2010) and SONG Hye Kyo (A Reason to Live, D: LEE Jeong - hyang), as well as hundreds of Asia's top martial artists.

Connie Chung — television reporter Ann Curry — news anchor woman, Today Show S. I. Hayakawa (1906 - 1992)-- U.S. senator, college president Dr. Feng Shan Ho — saved thousands of Austrian Jews during the Holocaust David Henry Hwang — playwright, M Butterfly Colonel Young Oak Kim — first Asian American to command a battalion in combat Ang Lee — movie director: Hulk; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973)-- movie star and martial artist Gary Locke — governor, state of Washington Norman Y. Mineta — first Asian - American member of U.S. president's cabinet Patsy Mink — Congresswoman, Hawaii Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, presidential candidate Yoko Ono — artist, musician; was married to Beatle John Lennon Dalip Singh Saund — first Asian elected to Congress (1956) Donna E. Shalala — secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services John Sununu — congressman, New Hampshire Amy Tan — author, Joy Luck Club Tiger Woods — golfer Kristi Yamaguchi — Olympic figure skater Jerry Yang — co-founder of Yahoo! Laurence Yep — author, young adult fiction (Dragonwings, Rainbow People)

The woman is crouched beside her now.

The old woman crouched in the middle of the transfer walkway, tossing bunnies from a cardboard box like enticing, furry water balloons.

Among her most iconic works is the sculpture Tale (1992), which depicts a woman crouched on all fours with a trail of excrement trailing behind her, capturing the anxieties about the body and the sense of despair that characterized the period.

In the video Scouring the Press (2016) we see the artist together with two other women crouched on their knees in a rugged landscape.

Heffernan admires Bonnard's «nuance, with his ability to show the interrelatedness of things... What is different with Bonnard is that nothing is off limits to one who sees with no distinctions between chairs and fireplaces and radiators and a woman crouching.

A nude woman crouches inside the window of a box covered with drippy black resin, then jumps out unexpectedly; the projected image of a finger is superimposed over a life - size rubber finger; tiny men and women speechify almost inaudibly.

One woman's eyes are fastened on us, while she crouches in a prowl.

There's a primitive figure of a man with bat's wings, a horse with six heads and a woman crouching like a toad.

On view will be a video from 1978, dozens of painted chairs, and a large series of recent works on mylar, including a 10 - foot tall image of a man proudly sporting an enormous penis and a triptych depicting three crouching, nude, spread - legged women, all painted in Applebroog's signature style of simplified human forms with bold outlines.

In Irene Hardwicke Olivieri's Subterranean Family (2013), a large woman crouches, her body sinking into the earth, weighed down by a patchwork of introspective self - images....

A 1991 survey of 528 British women found that 85 percent of them crouched over public toilets, 12 percent used toilet paper, and only 2 percent sat directly on the seat.