Sentences with phrase «evanescent objects»

«This body of work explores the idea of art as a natural and evanescent object, meant to represent a memory or reflect a specific moment in time.

Immortalizing an evanescent object that melts at the touch, the series becomes an opportunity to appreciate a natural state that's normally in constant flux.

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But the layered structure of his half - cylinder - shaped hyperlens preserves these evanescent waves, allowing incredibly tiny objects to be resolved.

Conventional materials can not amplify these so - called evanescent waves, which fade intensely the farther they get from the object.

At the nanoscale, however, evanescent waves can play a large role in heat transfer, tunneling between objects and essentially releasing trapped energy in the form of extra heat.

As it turns out, when objects are extremely close together, heat flows not just as electromagnetic waves, but as evanescent waves — exponentially decaying waves that have little effect at the macroscale, as they typically die away before reaching another object.

Color and pattern dominate in the luscious still lifes of Chicago's Megan Williamson, with boldly contrasting wrap - around foldings in «Paper Still Life» (2011) and overall curlicues with an evanescent glass object in «Still Life with Glass Bottle» (2010).

Leblon's sculptures, crystalisations of fleeting memories, are objects in which the past and present converge and the evanescent and tangible merge.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Described as a deeply passionate person by contemporaries such as Nicholas Serota, it is no wonder Hodgkin transformed his experiences into coherent physical objects that contain an evanescent and emotional sense of realism, with which he would rather move the viewer than convey the nature of an extract from his life.