Sentences with phrase «figure study of a live»

The nude figure drawing or figure study of a live model rapidly became an important part of artistic practice and training, and remained so until the 20th century.

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To figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the research team asked study volunteers to try one of three interventions.

I will have to live my whole life surrounded by a world filled with mental midgets who have fooled themselves that faith and belief in deities is the answer instead of using their minds to work out problems, study science and figure out how we leave this planet when it becomes inhabitable in 4 billion years.

As we noted in the case of Freudians and Marxists, in the process of studying another figure, for example, Foucault, one may find that one is now understanding and appropriating Jesus from his point of view, that Foucault's insights have become the organizing principles for one's thought and life.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

In the Lutheran study mentioned previously, only half of the respondents felt that God has given clear, detailed rules for living that apply to everyone; most of the remainder felt that individuals have to figure out how to apply God's rules to their own situations.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

The modern critical study of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere figment of the pious imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time become the most widespread of all the religions of the world.

But first they had to figure out how to accurately measure the short - lived paths of the B meson particles, which decay after traveling on average about one - thousandth of an inch (by contrast, the kaons studied by Fitch and Cronin traveled more than 100 feet).

Regardless of where they undertake graduate studies, a high proportion of Chinese students still harbor strong desires to live and work in the U.S. (see figure 2).

For 1 life saved, more than 20 overdiagnosed In the new study, the researchers examined age - specific prostate cancer incidence and treatment data to figure out the effect of PSA screening on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

It'll take a few weeks to sort through the rubble and pull out the worthy new studies, but I figured I'd start with a University of Alberta study on back pain, since it's something that will afflict about 80 percent of North Americans at some point in their lives.

They boycotted washing dishes, made YouTube videos instead of studying, and thought they had life all figured out.

Whether your life goal is political action, raising a family, studying science, or any other worthy endeavor (even if you don't have it all figured out just yet), my question is why let current events get in the way of that?

I found a lot of studies during all of this where they are trying hard to figure out a way to package RS with probiotics such as kefir and yogurt — the problem is, the live cultures eat the RS.

A massively charismatic figure on screen despite a real life stature of just 3» 9.5», Mark Povinelli studied at Miami University before beginning an on - screen acting career with roles on TV shows like Fraser, and movies like The Polar Express.

Where other biopics seem to have made up their minds about their famous figures before the opening credits roll, this remarkable study of social psychologist Stanley Milgram remains curious, exploring and questioning his life, career and findings.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

The 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that after taking all grants and scholarships into account, attending one year of community college runs dependent students from low - income families more than $ 8,000 in tuition, fees, and living costs (see the green «Net price of attendance» bars in Figure 2).

«Today's figures are a vindication of our reforms to ensure pupils study for qualifications in subjects that boost their life chances and open the door to future success.

The school's rote, noncreative approach was all wrong for him, so he decided to design his own educational curriculum, starting with studying the life of Leonardo da Vinci, his great inspiration and model, and trying to figure out manufacturing methods on his own.

In other words, I'm a well - rounded animal expert, and I can draw from many years of life experiences and study to figure out what is going on with your dog, and to provide humane solutions.

Rebecca will be taking you through a range of techniques for applying the pastel as you capture 5 different studies - starting with a monochromatic still life, moving on to a captivating figure study, then progressing to two expressive landscapes, and finishing with an animal portrait.

When he resumed painting in 1945, Tworkov began experimenting with an academic approach to abstraction through the study of still life and the figure.

The exhibition looks at the various subjects which Learoyd photographs in his studio, including portraits, figure studies, and still lifes, and how his use of camera obscura influences the overall impression of his large - scales works.

The world's first exhibition on wax portraits will analyse a field that has been studied very little by art historians: that of life - size wax figures -LSB-...]

By the beginning of his professional artistic life in the late 1930s, Pasmore had quickly established himself as an assured painter of lyrical landscapes, figures and still - life studies in a style that drew upon his familiarity with the work and writings of a number of post-impressionist masters such as Pierre Bonnard.

The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers, body fragments and classical statues.

1996 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY The Countee Cullen Art Collection from the Hampton University Museum, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro - American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, TX; California Afro - American Museum Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of the National Center of Afro - American Artists, Boston, MA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Center for the Study of African American Life and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Woman's Work: A Century of Achievement in American Art, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

For more than forty years, Sally Mann (b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs — a broad body of work that includes figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes.

This exhibition presents an extraordinary selection of his photographs from floral still lifes and rare colour photographs to portraits, figure studies and his controversial erotic imagery that charted his involvement in New York's gay scene.

Lining the lower levels are academic paintings in the newly introduced technique of western oil painting — portraits, figure studies, landscapes, still lifes.

In 1952, Ms. Hartigan began making free studies after Old Masters and soon commenced the long exploration of «the vulgar and vital in American life» that has alternated with saints, Old Masters and historical figures throughout her work.

He was a professional «penciller» and it is great fun to shuttle between the images of his commercial work in a catalogue and the life studies that are among the most convincing works in the show, such as No. 386 (1959) and No. 3913 (1997), spanning decades of diligent attention to the female figure.

Sixty three lots were offered for sale at the second edition of the Photographs — Icons & Style sale at Christie's Paris, with works by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Nick Brandt, among others, with Helmut Newton's Big Nude II as the highest priced lot of the auction — this is a work from Newton's first and most important set of the dramatic life - size standing nude figure studies, that he initiated in 1980.

The works of Francis Bacon that can be viewed in the exhibition include Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake), 1955 (pictured), Figure in a Landscape, 1945, Dog, 1952, Reclining Woman, 1961, Study for Portrait on Folding Ned, 1963, Portrait of Isabel Rawsthrone, 1966, Three Figures and Portrait, 1975, Second Version of Triptych 1944, 1988, as well as two sketches from Bacon.

Her current work includes busts and life size figure studies; she enjoys the challenge of working with large 3D pieces and the impact they can have with the viewer.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

In college spent a lot of time studying photography and thinking about the implications of both portraiture and still - life photography — both modes of photography typically which typically isolate and employ a figure or object.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life.

The circular red ribs that make up the urn - like form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure / field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with black - and - white stripes.

Amory's paintings portray abstracted studies of urban life through fragmented cityscapes and anonymous, isolated figures.

From studies of the human figure in urban or industrial life to honoring form as a pure subject, British Modern art was a vibrant and rich universe of staggering creativity.

A wide range of photographers — from early experimenters such as Eugène Cuvelier, Charles Marville and Anna Atkins to modern giants Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, as well as contemporary practitioners such as James Nachtwey, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Loretta Lux — are represented by portraits and figure studies, city scenes and still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

The Francis Bacon works on display in this show include: Reclining Woman 1961, Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1966, Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) 1955, Study for Head of Lucian Freud 1967, Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle 1966, Figure with Meat 1954, Figure in a Landscape 1945, Figures in a Garden c. 1936, Triptych August 1972 and numerous oil on paper sketches.

I especially recommend a group of figure studies, the best of which is Reclining Nude (After Shelby Creagh) from 1982, which trades classic linear life drawing marks for a heavier, angled black line that in many ways can be extended from these early works into the idiom of the silhouette for which he is best known.

If Puritanism held little sway over the cosmopolitan cultural scene of San Francisco, where Diebenkorn adopted the progressive style of Abstract Expressionism, his later figures, isolated with their drinks in front of abstracted spaces, still respond more to Hopper's undertones of loneliness than to Matisse's Joy of Life (1905 — 06)(for which a study would also have been on view at the Steins»).

Amory's work portrays abstracted studies of urban life through fragmented cityscapes and anonymous, isolated figures.