Sentences with phrase «how modern figures»

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Look at Sears, Kmart and JC Penney, all three of which are in dire straits due to the fact that they have not been able to figure out how to adapt their business to modern shoppers» desires.

The book exemplifies how people have gained and lost power throughout the ages, which is what I find really interesting: Learning from iconic figures from past centuries and applying them to our drastically different, hyper - modern business models of the present.

There are way too many moving parts to the modern global economy to even begin to figure out how this legislation will impact growth or inflation.

How a man rejected by the China Inland Mission became one of the most significant figures in modern missions.

Modern western Christians are so infatuated with sin, that we see sin everywhere and believe that our biggest problem in the world is sin and that God is sitting in heaven trying to figure out how to stop us all from sinning.

The modern rediscovery that Jesus was more preoccupied with eschatology than with morality should accordingly cause us to reassess how the figure of Jesus fits in relation to the universe.

Nor are we going to meet those sustainability commitments (achieving zero deforestation, tackling modern slavery, realising the SDGs by 2030) unless we figure out how to scale up more sustainable practices and do so in partnerships with other like - minded initiatives.

«Mastering the Art of Baking with Coconut Flour is without a doubt the most comprehensive guide to figuring out how to use this unusual ingredient with modern recipes.

How has such an elegant creative midfielder, with a highlight reel that could make Juan Roman Riquelme drool, become such a hated figure in modern football?

She must figure out how best to sterilize spacefaring instruments; baking them, as NASA used to do, isn't a good option for the sensitive electronic components on modern spacecraft.

My great hope is that we will figure out how to meld gravity and quantum mechanics, realizing a dream that can be traced back to Einstein and that, in its more modern form, has captivated two generations of theoretical physicists.

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

In addition to illuminating how Neandertals and moderns interacted, the Neandertal genome is helping researchers to figure out which parts of the modern human genome separate us from all other creatures.

I am particularly interested in figuring out how quickly oviraptorosaurs grew from babies to adults, and what the ecology and anatomy of modern birds can tell us.

And the worst part is, modern medicine isn't figuring out how to stop it.

When figuring out how to wear denim - on - denim in 2017, don't be afraid to layer it with complementing pieces or colors to make it feel fresh and modern, like this camel blazer.

«Mastering the Art of Baking with Coconut Flour is without a doubt the most comprehensive guide to figuring out how to use this unusual ingredient with modern recipes.

It has a modern, clean feel to it, and it doesn't take a college degree in computers to figure out how to navigate it.

For such an action - packed modern film, it's surprising how little blood figures into this combat epic.

We then simply started brain - crunching on each of the plays scenes, trying to figure out the most dynamic way to stage something or how to place an exchange in a modern setting while still being faithful to the text.

When they're not figuring out how to make sniper bullets move in the slowest of motions and cause the worst kind of damage to some people, UK developer Rebellion has been working on a modern take of the»80s arcade title Battlezone.

When they -LSB-- whoever they may be] figure out how to transfer modern 3 - D to DVD, I'll be one happy camper.

At the time, he kept it vague, only saying that the series would «re-examine a figure who maybe we forget how radical they were in their thinking because they were so incorporated into our culture and outlook as a modern society.»

- Explain why how Gregor Mendel contributed to the discovery of modern day genetics - Compare the differences between self - pollination vs. cross pollination, genotype vs. phenotype, and dominant vs. recessive - Describe how to use a Punnett square to figure out the probability of specific traits in the offspring of two parent crosses.

Between the dozens of less - than - modern models and basic interior layouts out there, it can be difficult to figure out just how to find that perfect used vehicle without having to give up your need for smart, cutting - edge tech.

Or, pushes to evolve the standard and what it is capable of doing will lead to features being inconsistently supported, as is the case with HTML5 and modern browsers, and we'll forever have our heads under the bonnet trying to figure out how to make the damn thing work.

This linking of what is private and what is political dredges up thoughts about how modern political figures attempt, if at all, to separate the affairs of their personal and professional lives.

I can't imagine not figuring out how to evaluate modern art / entertainment to find all the treasures out there!

But right now they are just making it more complex for all the final customers to figure out how much they are paying, and Italy in particular they seem to just be trying to ruin the newly - renewed independent authors» market which has been, to me, a nice gift of modern ebook distribution.

Try to figure out how it was built so precisely without the help of modern machinery and technology!

I can't help but wonder if — with the failure of the Wii U — Nintendo were forced to look at themselves as a company and really figure out how they could fit into the modern lifestyle.

I remember spending hours kicking asses and taking names back upon the game's release and, even though the controls admittedly feel clunky when compared to modern titles, the core gameplay that made Devil May Cry such a standout hit is still very much an addictive romp through crowds of enemies... Even if it did take me a while to figure out how to shoot when on the ground, which necessitates holding a trigger button to aim unlike when you're airborne and unloading clips into the faces of possessed marionettes.

Now it could just be me getting older and suffering from wild memory lapses but how many of us have played modern games, learnt the enormous number of moves, figured out the eight0button combos, put the game down for a few days and then completely forgotten what each button does?

You'd control Sadao as he figured out how modern Japan works, and would use what little magic you had left to manage a few troublemaking characters along the way.

2007 Weather Report, Centro Atlantico de Arte Morderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Absent Without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester, UK Effigies, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK Fractured Figure, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Beyond the Zero, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece Destroy Athens, The First Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York, The New Museum, New York, NY How Much Longer, Belkin Staellite, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Out of Art, Centrepasquart, Kunsthaus Centre D'art, Biel Bienne, Switzerland Sweet Bird of Youth, Curated by Hedi Slimane, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Chi Peng's Journey to the West, White Space, in association with Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China New York — States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Terence Koh and AA Bronson, Galerie Fredric Giroux, Paris, France Between Two Deaths, Zentrum Für Kunst and Medietechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Time Difference, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Body Politix, Witte De with Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Continuing Tate Modern's acclaimed reassessments of key figures in modernism, Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture will reveal how motion, performance and theatricality underpinned his practice.

I've yet to figure out how I'm going to do it, but the plan is to visit the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's «Bridget Riley: Paintings, 1964 — 2015» (15 April 2016 — 16 April 2017) and then head straight to the Bosch fifth centenary show at the Museo Nacional del Prado (31 May — 11 September 2016) for the legal high to end all others.

Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in vibrant double - page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition.

How is the influence of modern masters, such as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, revealed when contemporary artists represent the human figure?

He explains how his paintings are aimed to cleverly test an individual's perceptions, saying: «To have a painting that can exist as an alluring object and shift into an eroticised figure disarms and naturalises the modern gaze; decriminalising sex in art.

The Figure, McCann comments, «responds to David Hockney's «Secret Knowledge» to some degree — several artists... openly describe how they use traditional as well as modern techniques like photography, Photoshop, or 3D computer programs... The New York Academy of Art asked me to project - manage a book Rizzoli was interested in doing about the school.

I was trying to figure out how to move into the modern world.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

It explores how modern and contemporary artists respond to the human figure with world - renowned works by one of the world's greatest realist painters Lucian Freud, leading sculpture Ron Mueck and American photographer Spencer Tunick.

• Typical Figure Drawing Course • History of Figure Drawing • Italian Renaissance: Golden Age of Drawing • Greatest Renaissance Exponents of Figure Drawing • Drawing Media Used by Renaissance Artists • Modern Drawings of the Human Figure • How Much is a Drawing Worth?

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Modern Primitivism, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL The Monty Hall Problem, curated by Slater Bradley, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Dark Matter, White Cube, London, UK The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Delete / How to Make a Perfect Ghost, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Mark Grotjahn, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Gone Formalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Painting in Tongues, curated by Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA [cat.]

Margaret McCann: The Figure responds to David Hockney's «Secret Knowledge» to some degree — several artists, among them Judy Fox, F. Scott Hess, Jerry Kerns, Edgar Jerins, Alex Kanevsky, Steve Mumford, Richard Phillips, Rona Pondick, Judith Schaecter and Nicola Verlato openly describe how they use traditional as well as modern techniques like photography, Photoshop, or 3D computer programs.

I particularly enjoyed the slides that, when combined (1) provided an overview of hotter and cooler CO2 molecules as it relates to how they are seen from outer space and from profile — because this will make it easier for me to explain this process to others; (2) walked through the volcanic and solar activity vs assigning importance to CO2 changes — because this another way to help make it clearer, too, but in another way; (3) discussed CO2 induced warming and ocean rise vs different choices we might make — because this helps point out why every day's delay matters; and (4) showed Figure 1 from William Nordhaus» «Strategies for Control of Carbon Dioxide» and then super-imposed upon that the global mean temperature in colors showing pre-paper and post-paper periods — because this helps to show just how far back it was possible to make reasoned projections without the aid of a more nuanced and modern understanding.

First was how quickly modern pollution deaths were rising, and secondly, «The current figure of nine million is almost certainly an underestimate, probably by several million.»

IPCC shows Policymakers how the process works in AR4, Figure SPM.1, p. 3, where modern instrument data for CO2, CH4, and N2O blend smoothly into ice core data (by a process called chartjunk and a corollary of Mann's calibration trick to «hide the decline»).