Sentences with phrase «engagement with nature»

Also painting trees around her studio in Connecticut, critic Nancy Grimes observes that Miller's, «meditative engagement with nature is revealed in her quiet and subtle works.

Long's work is rooted in his deep affinity and engagement with nature, developed during solitary walks.

Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting traces the history of artists» engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th century.

In site - specific installation as well as drawing and sculpture, Finch has combined scientific calibration and calculation with a romantic's engagement with nature and faith in the limitless rewards of observation.

The exhibition presents 14 artworks that highlight Kahlo's engagement with nature in her native country of Mexico, as seen in her garden, decoration of her home and in the complex use of plant imagery found in her paintings.

In the Time Flies retrospective catalog essay, art historian Liz Wells suggests that Männikkö's imagery moves «from social documentary towards a more expressionist formal aesthetic, and from the more specifically located to a more generalized engagement with the nature of existence.»

Champion's large - scale construction Raze Bloom (2015), a commentary on our contrived engagement with nature within our built environments, references the current proliferation of development sites, in which entire neighbourhoods are «razed» to make space for new, rapidly built, constructions, both in its title and in the installation's material, formal presence.

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

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We recognize that confessing a high doctrine of the nature and place of Scripture is insufficient without a firm commitment to the intense devotional, disciplined, and prayerful engagement with Scripture.

This Bible helps children understand God's Word by utilizing the nine common ways that children learn: Logical reasoning; Visualizing; Discussing and debating; Learning with others and using interpersonal skills; Reflection or intrapersonal skills; Emotional engagement; Experimenting and doing; Kinesthetics; and Nature.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

2 Whatever the nature of this destination, it will be the fruit of preparation and lively engagement with the Biblical text, it will be clear to the minister, and it will be the beginning point for the sermon preparation proper.

The singular nature of this moment may be that it provides the opportunity for a less inhibited engagement of Catholic teaching and democratic theory — less inhibited from the Catholic side because of the historical ascendancy of democracy in the framework of the Anglo - American experience, rather than the French revolutionary framework with its powerful animus against religion in general and Catholicism in particular.

People connect with nature at Mass Audubon sanctuaries in all four seasons through an array of nature activities; school and group programs; and myriad opportunities for personal engagement with the outdoors.

While China could also do more to deepen bilateral ties, the unequal nature of the relationship calls for Russia to perfect its understanding of, and engagement with its neighbour.

The President's other engagements in Paris include bilateral talks with French President Francois Hollande, and the launch at the UNESCO of an exhibition on Nature Conservation in Ghana, with a focus on the Mole National Park.

Frontrunning Democratic mayoral contender Bill De Blasio likened his ideas to the «disruptive» nature of technology in a recent interview with the New York Tech Meetup *, emphasizing the importance of transparency, grassroots organizing and engagement in the democratic process, invoking the examples of Barack Obama and Howard Dean.

He argued the lightly armoured nature of Snatch vehicles made them ideal for engagement with the local population, a key goal of the UK's counterinsurgency tactics in the country.

GMB CEC expressed considerable regret about the apparent lack of understanding the proposal mooted by Ed Miliband will have on the collective nature of trade union engagement with the Labour Party.

Kids love nature, and there's no way to increase their engagement with it more than by providing them with fun discovery tools.

A scientist's outcome expectations related to outreach would be expected to inform the extent to which they continue to engage with the public as well as the nature of such engagement.

Increasing the longevity of viral altruism may therefore require more meaningful engagement with a social cause, and paradoxically, slowing the viral nature of the campaign.

They wanted their engagement photos to capture both their personalities and styles, so they started with their love of nature and Jacquie's passion for fabulous fashion (a GORG feather capelet and sequined chiffon dresses at the Marin Headlands) and then their more serious, romantic sides — plus Kyle's love of the beach — at Rodeo Beach.

It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

It is a matter of looking at sustainable engagement and motivation with a new perspective because engaging in education online has similarities to the training area in a business organization or the brick and mortar school classroom, but the online environment is not the same in that the boundaries of collaboration, innovation, and creativity are global and immediate in nature.

New research has found learning in nature has a significant positive impact on engagement back in the classroom, with educators able to teach for almost twice as long without having to pause and redirect students» attention.

However, while there are already Australian Professional Standards [iii] in place, there is a pressing need to reconceptualise the nature of professional experience for contemporary times, and ensure that there is greater consistency in delivery and the quality of engagement with teachers.

Experiences with the arts and in nature enable schools and other learning centers to expand engagement and success for students, building on their strengths and «multiple intelligences.»

Maybe concepts like «marine conservation», «connection with nature», and «community engagement» are just not your cup of tea.

His work involves the fabrication of «real» moments within documented footage and an engagement with filmmaking itself - the scripting, editing and artificial nature of film.

However, for Chimes this flight from reality was achieved, not through abuse of drink or drugs, but through a prolonged engagement with literary and artistic subcultures, whose radical nature deeply enriched his artistic practice.»

Like these historical, canonized series, Flat Screen Nature toys with perception and audience engagement.

Where there has always been an engagement with the sociological in his work, Current Events provides a platform for Tomaselli to inject new «tendrils of the apocalyptic and pathological» into what he sees as the profuse, ornate and beautiful shape of nature.

Using a classic Conceptual strategy - i.e., a limited, predetermined set of ideas or conditions in which to execute a work - she reconsiders the nature of visual perception through an engagement with everyday objects and situations...

Aspects of the constellation of materials Schultz has used in past iterations — moonboots, angle stabilizers, stencils, and prints — resurface in her engagement with the Hyde Park neighborhood — where the tripod, as a mechanic apparatus of looking and watching, coalesces with technology, like a drone into nature.

Indeed the Danish museum was founded to provide its visitors with a complex, comprehensive experience made also of exposed artworks but, at least equally, of nature, architecture and emotional engagement.

In contrast, the nature of the Victorian public's engagement with the painting is effortlessly conveyed here, through a series of stereographs that develop the narrative of Landseer's painting into three further scenes.

«I thought it was a really interesting engagement with a lot of issues around nature, the environment, landscape traditions, Romanticism, melancholia — some of Pierre's big subjects,» says Lynne Cooke, who organized a 2002 show of Huyghe's work at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and is now senior curator for special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The exhibition will also underscore Thomas's engagement with flowers and nature distilled in large - scale canvases, such as Breeze Rustling Through Fall Flowers (1968).

His dynamic images of earth, sea, and sky prompt viewers» engagement with both fleeting and timeless qualities in nature.

The techniques, ideas and themes addressed in this exhibition include long - term engagements versus chance encounters with various land and waterscapes, the capacity of the camera to document slow, subtle changes, and the infinitely cyclical qualities of life and nature.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

This ongoing cycle that passes from the original source through the artist's hands to the viewer's engagement highlights the intangible nature of objects as they change with each phase of contact.

A multi-part engagement with the life and work of Carolee Schneemann, whose work has continually probed the precariousness of nature, art, and life

Drawing inspiration from his own artistic history, Flat Screen Nature exhibition plays with perception and audience engagement once more.

Drawing on the nostalgic representations of nature found in sources as varied as paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and the cover of the Supertramp album Even In The Quietest Moments, his work is a dramatized engagement with Canada's frontier.

While she retains her ongoing engagement with questions of memory and the individual nature of perception, the forms used to express these notions are malleable, continually morphing and evolving.

The choice of works is very deliberate with the exhibition broken down into seven themes: Beauty, Power and Space, which looks at each artist's engagement with the sublime, a theme central to English Romantic art but which survived through the modernist movement and is a key feature of Twombly's paintings; Atmosphere, which considers the ways in which the three artists paint land and sea through a filter of atmospheric conditions; Naught so Sweet as Melancholy, named after a phrase in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, where the theme of loss and memorialisation are central concerns; The Seasons which reflects upon the passage of time; Fire and Water where all three artists evince the power of the elements; The Vital Force which brings together works of a sensual or erotic nature; and finally A Floating World where each artist contemplates mortality and external events that impact on their lives.

By transforming the gallery into a hybrid space of nature and culture, Eliasson prompts an intense engagement with the world and offers a fresh consideration of everyday life.

Concurrent with his survey retrospective at the Hirschhorn Museum, the exhibitions show Kjartansson seeking to redefine the terms of a durational aesthetic engagement through his deeply mindful, perhaps too historically conscious, art, while displaying the multivalent nature of his somewhat uncharacterizable approach.