Sentences with phrase «from everyday subjects»

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On a later trip I reviewed results from different body scanners and noticed that the test subjects didn't look like everyday passengers.

The Queen Of Versailles gleans some big, guilty laughs out of its subjects» rampant egotism and surreal disconnect from everyday reality, but it's ultimately less interested in laughing at the Siegels» misfortune than in attempting to understand them.

5 @ 5: Everyday People (10/9 & 10/10) The New Environmentalists — from Peru to Tanzania — John Antonelli (co-director), Will Parrinello (co-director), Tom Dusenbery (co-director) Oddball — Joshua Moore (director), Liz Payne (editor & wife of Joshua Moore) Stolen Youth: Political Prisoner of the Dictatorship — Joshua Dylan Mellars (director), Sofia Englund (producer) Washed Away (10/10 only)-- Dana Nachman (director), Brandon Anderton (subject), Ian Reinhard (executive producer)

The majority of their conversations occurred by phone call or text exchange (Manville said Day - Lewis does not use emojis — we asked) and encompassed every subject, from their characters» family history, which they fleshed out, to everyday observations.

My personal take on the subject is that mobile games provide an amazing opportunity for effective and engaging learning, free from space and time restrictions, and pose great potential for adult learners as they allow flexible integration into everyday life, thus reducing barriers to entry compared to traditional classroom settings.

From its history to its occurrence in everyday life, pi is an endlessly fascinating subject.

Aside from the fact that schools don't offer to return money when an extra child enters this hypothetical classroom, the ebb and flow of students in and out of every school building everyday is subject to so many variables that it is nearly impossible to single out one.

In this episode, WISC - TV Editorial Director Neil Heinen interviews Gray on subjects ranging from the tools IGE provides for making ethical decisions in everyday life to the big picture questions of how we, as a society, view ethics today.

Discuss about anything and everything: from the daily news to your everyday life, from serious subjects to just random chatter.

Taipei - based artist Shih Yung - Chun paints scenes from everyday life, taking inspiration from hundreds of photographs, but there's an element of the bizarre in all his crafted narratives — his subjects always seem to occupy themselves with strange activities.

Regarded as one of the most important American portrait painters of the 20th century, Neel's subjects were people she knew from her everyday life — family, friends, neighbors, activists and creatives.

Laid out according to subject rather than chronology, the effect is that of a forensic case study, tracing a path from the everyday objects she called her «models» to her «portraits» — incisive studies she made across media — to her paintings, where the original subject is less abstracted than obscured by the history of her experimentation and transformations.»

Featuring subjects that range from deli counters and solitary figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings endow the most common objects and everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.

Diverse in size and subject, the works at once bear witness to everyday life and to far - flung moments from history, mediating between realism and fantasy, figuration and quixotic decorativeness.

Pop Art incorporated recognizable elements from everyday culture in its pictures and initiated a new discussion about the artist - subject's status in the age of mass - production.

Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives.

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.

All of Cooke's subjects stem from real life — his autobiography, live models or photographic and literary sources — but metamorphose away from these everyday referents as they become realized in paint and enmeshed in the landscape of the work.

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way

In keeping with her work produced during the last decade, the artist's subject matter is drawn from her everyday life in Philadelphia and her extensive travels.

This French follower of Caravaggio, who inherited the Italian master's emphatic realism, was adept in a range of subjects, from everyday scenes of musicians and cardsharps to contemplative depictions of saints and martyrs.

By wrenching information free from its contextual foundation, Sammak engages in a continuous play with form, subject and content, that encourages viewing the everyday anew.

Campbell, whose solo exhibition at Kate Werble Gallery coincides with her first museum survey at the Aldrich, will talk to Smith - Stewart about her multidisciplinary practice, which ranges from drawing to sculpture and installation focusing on subject matter that delves into everyday experience.

In recent years, her work has started to develop further and further afield from her earlier endeavours focusing on delicate everyday occurrences and subjects.

Polke's early work has often been characterised as European Pop art for its depiction of everyday subject matter — sausages, bread and potatoes — combined with images from the mass media.

This self - portrait departs from Craig - Martin's frequent subject matter of everyday objects, which he has explored in a variety of media throughout his career.

Subjects, therefore, may vary from the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib to the proliferation of trash in the environment, from concern for architectural heritage to the gritty everyday life of the city's streets.

One of two permanent collection displays on the Museum's fifth - floor mezzanine, Edward Hopper and Photography pairs Hopper paintings from the Whitney's permanent collection with the work of contemporary photographers who share an interest in elevating everyday subject matter by manipulating light.

«3 Doig equates many elements of his work - its very big size; its subjects of skiers, horror movies, and drug use alluding to his adolescence in Canada - with losing oneself and the inherent freedom that follows an escape from the blandness of the everyday.4 Movies, arguably the ultimate escapist vehicles, are extremely important for understanding Doig's work.

It is this discovery that I hope each viewer can make too from my painting, seeing the image as more than just everyday subject matter.

She draws from common everyday objects, things often over-looked or passed by, as subject matter and infuses them with humor and expressive color.

The project aims to explain to the viewer how art investigates and comments on the processes of everyday interactions between people and the world, how contemporary art practices interpret the current condition of disappearing transitions from object to subject, from nature and culture to conceptions of the world as a collective process.

The expressions of everyday life and vibrantly abstracted forms presented in Pattern Scheme evoke qualities of time, balance, repetition, focus, and design that emerge from the unique styles, subjects, and stories of each artist, connected through their varying use of pattern.

Taking inspiration from subjects as varied as literature, mythology, cinema, anthropology, evolutionary biology, religion and the banality of everyday life, Henrot's work acutely reconsiders the typologies of objects and established systems of knowledge.

[8] Tuymans» subjects range from major historical events, such as the Holocaust or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to the inconsequential and banal: wallpaper patterns, Christmas decorations, everyday objects.

His subjects range from the everyday to the classical tradition embedded in Italian history.

Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), his Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of colour.

As famous for his quips as for his art — he variously mused that «art is what you can get away with» and «everyone will be famous for 15 minutes» — Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color.

Pinned on the side of a bookshelf in the dining room is a list of older works for the show, their titles describing the everyday, accessible subjects she loves, from olive oil labels to Choco Leibniz biscuits, from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill to Arsenal and Spurs.

Born in Zanzibar and raised in the UK, she has focused on a range of subjects related to race, from matters of the African diaspora to the visibility of black creatives in museums.Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.

French photographer Florian Beaudenon has created an intimate photo series entitled «Instant Life», where he takes dull, everyday moments and turns them into something more interesting, simply by shooting his subjects from above.

Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa's popular culture.

Yet she consistently took everyday moments from her personal life as her artistic subject: her son, Noel, in front of the Christmas tree; her birthday celebrations; her routine swims in the San Francisco Bay; evenings at the opera with her husband.

Graham's three bodies of work from this period operate as an informal trilogy, linked not only by common subject matter, but also by underlying issues such as racial and social inequality, the texture of everyday life, and the nature of sight, perception, and photography itself.

Toderi tends to make detached recordings of actions that often unfold in an everyday environment; her deliberately elementary use of video as an expressive means emphasizes her desire to concentrate on the subject and the action taking place, distancing herself from pure and simple creative will.

Drawing his subjects from the visible world, Moore remains a painter of our everyday lives, as he continues to incorporate still - life arrangements, urban landscapes, and architectural motifs into his formally constructed compositions.

The book connects everyday experience, social critique, and creative expression with classroom learning, and includes color reproductions of artworks; statements in English and Spanish from more than fifty contemporary artists; lesson plans for using art to explore subjects such as American identity, changing definitions of the family, AIDS, discrimination, racism, homophobia, mass media, and public art; and resources, including annotated bibliographies for further study.

Works like Ten Dollar Bill, a lithograph from 1956, illustrates Lichtenstein's early investigation into the use of everyday symbols as subject matter.

He has been a pioneer of colour photography from the mid-1960s onwards, and transformed everyday America into a photogenic subject.

In individual photographs as well as series, Kelm explores a vocabulary of subjects ranging from everyday objects to architectural and landscape photographs to portraits.