Sentences with phrase «from ancient art»

Paul Feeley (1910 — 1966), while often mistakenly associated with the Color Field painters of the 1940s and 1950s, in fact found the inspiration for his work primarily from ancient art, Greek architecture and Egyptian sculpture.

Conversely, Ann Gardner builds from an ancient art practice, creating stunning three - dimensional objects that can take on monumental proportions.

The cultural diversity of subjects range from ancient art to modern and contemporary visual art, architecture, design, and performance.

The store offers around ten thousand titles, ranging from ancient art to cutting - edge contemporary art and also offers a unique selection of jewelry and gifts, and includes items handmade by local artists.

You will join the team at Hamsters Inc., and, as you soon learn from the ancient art of Hamster alchemy soon, over time the little furry balls of fun can turn into bronze, silver and gold.

Drawing from the ancient art of Ayurveda and Vedanta, India, with its ayurvedic roots, is fast emerging as a hot destination for spa tourism.

The researchers took inspiration from ancient arts, and use their new technique to build up «Celtic Knots».

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In FIVE STARS: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great (St. Martin's Press; June 5, 2018) bestselling author of Talk Like TED, Carmine Gallo argues that mastering Aristotle's «ancient art of persuasion» — combining words and ideas to move people to action — is the key to standing out and getting ahead in the age of AI

That was a mystery.But there they were at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, two ancient pieces dating from the years 100 to 300, sitting beneath the grass on the east...

«You can never tell from where an idea will spring, whether from an ancient historian, an art critic, an economist, a journalist or even a politician.»

If I kept walking through the Met, I would find works of art from Iran and China, from the ancients to the moderns to the postmoderns.

There was no separation from the divine, art and philosophy in ancient times.

As a supplement to the reading of the stories of the life of the Buddha, and an aid to understanding the role of the Buddha in Buddhism, Anil De Silva - Vigier's The Life of the Buddha Retold from Ancient Sources serves a unique function for it tells the life of the Buddha with illustrations of Buddhist art.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

Daniel Mendoza, the heavyweight champion from the London ghetto, had introduced the art of footwork and some fancy blocking, but the average bare - knuckle pug a century ago was a strong, squat, determined slug of a man who stood his ground like an ancient gladiator, dealing out punishment to the limit of his endurance and taking the full force of his opponent's blows without flinching.

William Binnie and Claude Ferrier, the men behind the project, used the Art Deco style which tries to modernise ancient architectural themes, drawing influence from many eras.

Up until then in almost every image in ancient art from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia....

His Book Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage was first published in 1976 from his trip to Calcutta and gives us a good example of this ancient parenting tradition.

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

Origami is the famous ancient art of paper folding (from ORI meaning «folding» and KAMI meaning «paper»).

That ancient critique is now the name of a temporary exhibit at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Ill. «Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt» features the sketch, along with six more intact or nearly intact Egyptian funeral portraits, one still attached to its mummy.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

The studies» conclusions emerge from state - of - the - art ancient DNA and linguistic analyses, but the debate over PIE's origins is likely to continue.

Those who practice the ancient Chinese art have enriched lives, enhanced health and well - being, and created better living and working conditions for thousands of people around the world, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair.

In Illusions in Art for Young Eyes at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, contemporary master Eric Conklin borrows tools such as conical mirrors from 17th - century Dutch artists and mathematical principles from ancient Egyptian architecture to create a sense of depth when there is none or to imply volume when only area exists.

The Venus figurines of women, some with exaggerated anatomical features, and ancient rock art, like the image from the Abri Castanet site in France that is supposedly of female genitalia.

This information would not only help us understand the significance of rock art but is also of interest for reasons ranging from resource exploitation to ancient trade to contemporary conservation.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

Science may soon tell us who made ancient art, but it'll need help from unexpected quarters to explain why they did it

Dr Alice Samson, co-author of the paper from the University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, explains: «Scientific analyses from the team have provided the first dates for rock art in the Caribbean — illustrating that these images are pre-Columbian made by artists exploring and experimenting deep underground.

To do this, as they describe in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the team developed an approach to nondestructively identify and quantify the concentration of light - absorbing molecules known as chromophores in ancient paper, the culprit behind the «yellowing» of the cellulose within ancient documents and works of art.

A new class of futuristic materials that grow when stretched get their abilities from the geometries of ancient Islamic art, and they could be useful in medical devices and satellites.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

Ayurveda, which translates vaguely to «life knowledge,» is the ancient art and science of life from India.

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Sharmila comes from a matrilineal line of renowned Indian artists and intellectuals, who raised her with the importance of spiritual discipline and ancient art in contemporary daily life.

In her practice and her teachings, she blends the extraordinary benefits of healing techniques from the Western naturopathic tradition with the ancient art of Chinese medicine.

Synergy draws from many traditional healing modalities and art forms - from traditional Thai massage, yoga, martial arts, clown, and ancient meditation practices.

Far from just being the ancient capital of England, you will find a hidden side to London that takes in a truly romantic soul within a world of music, art, and natural beauty in the form of the city's many parks, green spaces, and of course the majesty of the River Thames itself, long the life line of a thriving former empire, and now the backdrop to a very modern hub of commerce, arts, and industry, not to mention a great background for a truly breath taking date.

Meet cats in the most unusual of places, from ancient to modern, massive to tiny, art museums to street corners, and hear true stories of cat heroes, swanky cat - only hotels, and unexpected cat ladies.

Gay history, gay art, homosexual mythology, gay love poems and articles on homosexuality from various world cultures, spanning ancient times to the present.

More important in that department is the debut of a CinemaScope visual style, which cinematographer Leon Shamroy anchors through often hauntingly precise coloration and lighting, in addition to a tight scope which is intimate and grand enough to immerse you into George Davis» and Lyle R. Wheeler's Oscar - winning art direction, which is immersive enough by its own right, utilizing Paul S. Fox's and Walter M. Scott's impeccable set decoration and Charles LeMaire's and Emile Santiago's costume designs to restore the look of Ancient Rome - from its high society to simple villages - lavishly.

From mastering martial arts in Shang Simla, China, discovering rich culture and famous landmarks on a romantic getaway to Champs Les Sims, France or exploring the depths of ancient tombs in Al Simhara, Egypt, players can take their Sims on a journey that will change their Sims» lives.

A trip to Kathmandu in a desperate search for some kind of miracle spiritual cure puts him in contact with the Ancient One, a bald sorceress played by Tilda Swinton (a gender and ethnic switch from the comics where the character is male and Asian; Swinton's Ancient One is of Celtic extraction) who by turns torments and trains him in the arcane ways of the mystic arts.

Set in ancient Japan and presented in a classical Japanese «sumi - e» ink art style, Sumioni is literally translated from Japanese as «ink demon», and puts players in control of Agura, a single Inkdemon who has been summoned from a long slumber to help rid the land of a sinister evil.

So Wong (Benedict Wong) is promoted from an Asian sidekick in the comics to a librarian and a master of whatever mystical art it is that the Ancient One practices, often getting the film's best lines.

It introduces them to: - The term «globalisation» - The spread of artwork from ancient civilizations such as the Romans - The impact of trade along the Silk Road - The impact of colonialism on the spread of artwork and art techniques - A comparison of very local artists such as John Constable with modern global artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures.

You can tap into the science of the body and the art of being centered and grounded to the Earth with simple botanical wisdom from ancient global heritages like Yoga, TCM and Native American philosophy.

A powerful, ancient relic has been stolen from the British Museum — a relic that could do significant damage in the wrong hands... Enter the MASTERS OF THE MYSTIC ARTS!