Sentences with phrase «drawing upon memory»

Also making our list is an artist book launch and a closing reception of a graceful exhibition with work drawing upon memory and poetry to explore meaningful connections.

The pictorial influences of 17th century Dutch Masters, the 19th century French and German Romantics and the Neoimpressionists figure strongly here, while drawing upon memory and a nod towards the fantastic imagery of William Blake, without the tortured figures.

Rather than omit such expression, one may well draw upon his memory of passages in the Bible, or repeat the words of a familiar hymn.

Reconstructing the facts of Schindler's life to fit the format of a novel, Mr. Keneally could only draw upon the memories of those who owed their lives to the man's unexpected heroism.

Xiao uses the internet as a «massive material bank», the work «Action» draws upon this memory bank of digital information, focusing on the difficulty of understanding the past from the perspective of the present.

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William James envisioned a «common reservoir of consciousness to exist, this bank upon which we all draw, and in which so many of the earth's memories must in some way be stored.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

It is a true racial memory, upon which our individual memories draw and through which they complete themselves.

Remembering God's Mercy draws upon Holy Scripture and the great Catholic spiritual masters — particularly Jesuit saints such as Ignatius of Loyola and Peter Faber — to discuss painful memories through the lens of Christ's Passion.

Divock Origi calls it his «resource» — a memory bank of highs and lows that is extensive for a 22 - year - old and drawn upon regularly.

I'm so happy that you were close with your dear sister and that you have many happy memories to draw upon.

For instance, when a person sees a clock, only a small number of neurons become active, enough to do pattern matching that draws upon the brain's memory of a clock and compares it with the object's basic features — its round shape, the presence of numbers — to draw a conclusion that this thing is a clock.

(35) For Jodorowsky, the film drew upon his own childhood memories of the circus, and his «terrible» relationship with his mother, who allegedly tried to live through him and with whom he had little physical affection; characters with dominating or pseudo-incestual maternal relationships have figured into virtually all of his earlier films.

As the year of 2017 draws to an end, we celebrate our past memories and adventures that we have embarked upon, and prepare ourselves to a new set of adventures soon.

DC Moore Gallery will bring together important early works from the 1960s and 1970s by renowned African American artist and historian, David Driskell (b. 1931), who draws upon personal experience, memory and aspects of American and African culture to create multifaceted paintings and collages.

Acting as an extension of the artist's body, each work draws upon adolescent memories — those of maps, legs clad in 90s neon, and the cover of Beck's Midnite Vultures — and propels moments frozen in time into contemporary discourse to create a new narrative.

Drawing upon her own recollections of the South, the memory of her friend and mentor, artist Cy Twombly, and their shared past in Virginia, Sally Mann presents a series of color and black - and - white photographs of objects in Twombly's studio.

She often drew upon childhood memories of Lake Michigan when composing paintings, some of which she called «expressionist landscapes.»

Utilizing drawings, paintings, collages, photography, sculpture and participatory installations, Darkeem's practice often incorporates a craftwork sensibility that combines traditional with contemporary aesthetics, while drawing upon cultural and historical memory.

Her «Memory» thesis collection draws heavily upon the influence of her native Korea, where cocoons and threads represent ancestral strength and spirit.

Working in a variety of media, Shalev - Gerz unfolds histories and cultural identities by opening dialogues with individuals, drawing upon their testimonies to elaborate upon their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.

Like many of the Easyfun - Ethereal paintings, it draws upon the potent visual memories of childhood, in this case Koons's fascination with a novelty porcelain ashtray that sat on his grandfather's table.

It draws upon ideas of memory and place in a newly conceived installation that responds to the architecture, natural surroundings and history of the Serpentine which was converted from a 1930s park café to a gallery in 1970.

Zarina Hashmi has lived and traveled all over the world investigating the essence of identity, drawing upon sources ranging from her childhood memories in Aligarh, India, to contemporary political events.

Drawing upon works from VMFA's permanent collection as well as the VMFA exhibition The Great War: Printmakers of WWI, this course surveys the ways in which artists have contributed to the memory of military conflict — from ancient epics to World War I.

From 2011 Paolo Canevari begins the «Monuments of the Memory» series; a research based upon the traditional mediums of painting, sculpture and drawing.

The exhibition draws upon ideas of memory and place in a newly conceived installation that responds to the architecture, natural surroundings and history of the Serpentine which was converted from a 1930s park café to a gallery in 1970.

The proposal guidelines encourage participants to use a wide range of locations and mediums to create collective memory and unity, drawing upon traditional and expanded ideas of memorial.

From afar one of his paintings could read as a monochromatic color field, but upon closer examination they reveal themselves as meditative compositions made up of childhood drawings and ruminations on his own memories.

Xa draws upon elements of Korean folklore in order to delve into both her own memory and the country's cultural memory.

Throughout her 70 - year career, Bourgeois has drawn upon personal memories to develop complex meditations on such universal themes as personal identity, family relationships and the power of art to express deeply felt emotions.

It drew upon ideas of memory and place in a newly conceived installation that responded to the architecture, natural surroundings and history of the Serpentine which was converted from a 1930s park café to a gallery in 1970.

Raqib Shaw's narrative - fueled fantastical landscapes draw upon his homeland of Kashmir, making reference to issues of memory, history, and identity.

In this way, the works are precisely composed citations that speak directly to the viewer's preconceptions, by drawing upon both the artist's personal, and our collective, experience of the built environment as a site of memory that is adept at conveying both political and psychological significance.

Martin Hornet draws upon childhood memories for his latest solo exhibition at Matthew Marks.