Sentences with phrase «everyday gestures of»

At the end of the day, it's the everyday gestures of love that count.

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The data on trust reveal that the feeling is actually the sum of small gestures, kind words, secrets kept, and other everyday actions, which contribute to filling the mental «marble jar» we keep for each person in our lives.

Deep brain stimulation now helps to control her symptoms, and she revels in being able to use the simple gestures of everyday life again.

«Most cognitive neuroscientists focus on the signals themselves, on the words, gestures and their statistical relationships, ignoring the underlying conceptual ability that we use during communication and the flexibility of everyday life,» he said.

If gestures do become a regular part of everyday computing, «it's hard to anticipate what the secondary effects might be until after you see this technology deploy to a million or more people,» Isbister says.

He has the gift of the very best writers — to locate drama and inherent tension in everyday events, locations and gestures, without having to explain or rationalize it.

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion.

We can tap this ethos for our everyday play, a support network of gestures that shifts culture making into community.

Josh Tonsfeldt Josh Tonsfeldt's practice is rooted in the everyday and the accumulation of small gestures that build a larger narrative.

He adopts materials and gestures informed by quotidian American public spaces, suburban culture, and everyday objects, and often works directly with the architecture of a given site.

Jesús «Bubu» Negrón creates sculptures and performances by inserting small gestures into the everyday landscape: for example, creating a carpet out of cigarette butts collected by street sweepers, or mending a cracking bronze public sculpture with a plaster cast.

With Shingles (2011), for example, Carl Andre's floor - based metal works meet their working - class counterpart, as copper plates are exchanged for patterns of overlapping asphalt roofing tiles; Siding (2011), meanwhile, replaces Donald Judd's shiny metal cubes with the work's namesake — and very plebeian — exterior vinyl wallcovering found on many a tract house; and by simply lifting a marble countertop off the bathroom sink and onto the wall, Counter (2012) proves that even the slightest of gestures, such as a change of orientation and context, can render foreign something familiar — the everyday as convincing art object.

Reproducing objects taken from everyday life and highlighting some of their formal aspects this way, Engh provokes a kind of transposition of the meaning of the chosen subject, and manages, with a simple gesture, to shift the attention from the historical detail to the formal detail, likening these objects to pure forms.

In 2009 Victoria Donohue wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, «In these works it's still possible to believe that aesthetic presence might have some impact on the hard reality of everyday existence», and in 2011 she wrote: «Her landscapes have a simplify and power; Their intensity of focus on feeling and seasonal changes (are) ambitious exercises in reconciling geometry and gesture...»

A Divine Light is designed as intimate encounter with the devotional art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explores the ways in which Northern Renaissance artists expressed the central mysteries of the Christian faith through setting, pose, gesture, and the objects of everyday life.

This gesture is typical of the artist, as he recurrently seeks to establish a boundary between his work and the outside world and to distance it from the everyday, creating a shelter for art.

As a way of being, the normal and the everyday become the centre of attention and through delicate and sensitive gestures we encounter a new world made out of ours.

Lee creates poetic object - based installations fashioned from everyday materials and household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures of painting, drawing, and placement.

This gesture represented a clear reworking of aspects of the abstract expressionist painterly vocabulary7 and also emphasized his interest in both the texture of the canvas and its structural mediation through the everyday materiality of a disposable item.

The second in a series of major explorations of slow - motion technology, the work eloquently speaks to Carr's ever - present concern with moments of magical transformation: a semi-mystical gesture located in the everyday that unleashes ripples of chaos and beauty in equal measure.

In 1999, interested in materials and anti-industrial gestures, I visited Richard Salmon Gallery in London to see the exhibition «Furniture»: I was convinced that artists invariably tell us more than designers do about the everyday things of the world.

Starting with wall drawings (of a bicycle, for instance, which children in a South African township would wish for in vain), Robin Rhode developed an artistic practice that cleverly and humorously makes it possible to experience everyday observations, political statements, desires and (in his latest work) references to art history — via gestures that sometimes resemble slapstick.

Known for his paintings Jules has rendered scenes from everyday life, geometric compositions, and abstracted symbols incorporating painterly gestures that show his true alliance with the brush and the process of pushing paint.

«This program examines and intervenes into the codes and forms used to demarcate our everyday life, by appropriating or interrupting common gestures and modes of communication, capitalizing on and redeploying systems of power and exchange, and imbuing quotidian experiences with the poetic.»

She explores painting in the wake of conceptual art, continually questioning the possibilities of the medium and furthering many concerns explored throughout Western art history — flatness versus depth, materiality versus illusion, the epic versus the everyday, the grid versus the gesture.

Working in a variety of different media including photographs, films, performances, book projects and installations Germaine Kruip elevates everyday gestures and common actions or appearances.

Instead of standard realism he favors a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which archival footage is re-edited or re-staged, real people perform fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives.

Throughout, he examines the intersecting themes of genre, gesture, and artifice — both as they occur in art and in everyday reality.

anGie seah 9.00 — 10.00 pm Exterior of Block 37 Malan Road anGie seah (Singapore) will present Part 1 of A Thousand Horses Running in my Head (2015), a mash up of bass droning, poetic gestures and erratic voice - works combined with everyday sounds.

With a keenly perceptive and sharp wit, Ahmet Öğüt examines everyday happenstance, modes of behaviour and informal gestures which bear witness to broader global social and political structures.

But the American artist argues that his elevation of kitsch objects to alluring paintings and sculptures is a democratic gesture, encouraging people to find the extraordinary in the overlooked, everyday things around them.

Stevovich's images depict ordinary men and women in everyday situations and locations — in restaurants and bars, at the beach, on public transportation — but their gestures and expressions confused the overall logic of the scene, creating a sense of mystery and allowing for a a variety of readings.

She uses choreography as a tool to create movement sequences that re-interpret our everyday physical gestures, reflexes, and rituals, and direct the viewer into the frame of the composition.

Favoring everyday materials and objects over monumental gestures, Wentworth has transformed expectations and considerations of sculpture, saying in a conversation with the critic Stuart Morgan, «I find cigarette packets folded up under table legs more monumental than a Henry Moore.

Activating the space between performance and presence, the performances incorporate an unlikely series of everyday objects to create absurd or inappropriate gestures.

Jérôme Sans appropriated all areas of life and the most everyday gestures, turning them into «moments» dedicated to a set of sensual and creative experiences; from the olfactory identity of the brand, to its original soundtrack, through the breakfast signature and a creative wine menu or the in situ creation of works of art in the hotels.

Triangular abstract compositions, and secondary paintings affixed to the first, intrude on these banal scenes of everyday life, starkly contrasting abstraction as an imaginative, expansive gesture with the confines of my daily circumstances.

Danto took Warhol's miraculous transformation of everyday objects into art works beyond the Duchampian gesture, by demonstrating how it was rooted in the transubstantiation of wine and wafer to the blood and body of Christ in the Eucharist.

According to the artist, people are influenced by numerous factors that condition their lives and actions: everyday needs, repeated daily gestures or pressures of the majority.

Her artistic practice is often performative, reactive and repetitive involving the re-arrangement of symbol, language and gesture in her search for the universals of the everyday.

Offering grand gestures with a pop attitude, the artist works in a variety of media — which is grounded in sculpture despite the artist's training as a photographer — to explore the intersection between art and everyday life.

Collapsing any distinction between the physical process of making the work and its visual content, these everyday tools provided the artist with a repertoire of ready - made imagery that avoided both spontaneous gesture and self - conscious compositional decisions.

Its precision touchpad was smooth and enjoyable in everyday use; the trackpad responded to all of our two - and three - finger gestures with ease, and we never accidentally moved the cursor with our palms while we were using the keyboard.

A missed birthday, anniversary, or a hasty, thoughtless gift would be disastrous — so would the absence of everyday gestures.