Sentences with phrase «human figure as»

Virtually any artist using the human figure as a vehicle for commentary and self - examination... Gillian Peterson - Krag, Michael Andrews, Robert Bauer, the Bay Area Figurative painters (especially Elmer Bischoff), Eric Fischl, Will Cotton, Cecily Brown — not as a colorist or even as a painter but as a bawdy narrator of sexual experience.

In the period around 1930, it was rivalled only by the human figure as a focus for his exploration of form, and may be contrasted with his often more naturalistic treatment of other animal subjects.

Western Project is proud to present Tales of the Flesh, a group exhibition examining the human figure as a narrative source.

This special pop up exhibition highlights a second look at work that addresses the human figure as a narrative source.

Apart from the similar frontality of the image, they can be seen also as the opposite representation of the human figure as those paintings at Gavin Brown.

The show focuses on works that employ the human figure as a model in advertising, exploring questions of iconography, idealized beauty and consumerism.

Pearlstein Today, the accompanying exhibition, surveys Pearlstein's work up to today - from his short foray with Abstract Expressionism to his unique apporach to realism and the study of the human figure as the subject and structure of his paintings.

These sculptures, tapestries and works on paper mine a space between figuration and abstraction, exploring the human figure as a metaphor for transformation.

He believes that the human figure as subject matter is here to stay.

Surveying the Body: Modern and Post-Modern Figurative Work from the Collection December 14,1997 - July 1998 Spanning a diverse range of work from the 1930s through the present, «Surveying the Body» explores shifting conceptions of the human figure as articulated through painting.

Former shows have presented studies of the natural world, land and seascapes, and the human figure as an integral part of nature.

She is drawn to a feeling for the human figure as it moves though space, site, and environment.

With the use of reference photographs accessible to everyone, you'll discover how to draw the human figure as a whole, as well as various body arts such as hands, legs, feet and the torso.

In a departure from previous works in this series featuring stuffed toys and anthropomorphic animals, Davis is also showing drawings with human figures as part of his pursuit to fully realize this...

Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food.

In the new body of work presented in this exhibition, landscape replaces abstracted human figures as the building blocks for the artist's work.

At about five - and - a-half feet tall, the sculptures depict headless human figures as a crowd — a subject the 85 - year - old Polish sculptor and fiber artist has been perfecting since the 1970s.

Not exact matches

Such high - profile figures as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox have put human faces on the struggles of transgender people.

We've figured out some drugs that usually work, but as we learn more about the human body and our genetic code — the things we have in common but also the things that make us unique — we may come up with a new sort of medicine, tailored for each person.

Cycorp charged itself with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to reason.

The agency (commonly abbreviated as «OPM»), which serves as a human resources department for the federal government, has upped its figure to 5.6 million stolen fingerprint records from its original estimate of 1.1 million.

Then they tested their «impulsive approach tendencies» toward men (that is, their latent attraction to them) in a task that involved tapping keyboard keys rapidly, to move an on - screen manikin - a basic drawing of a human figure - as quickly as possible in a specified direction.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

Nils Lonberg, a Harvard - trained molecular biologist who worked at Medarex, had figured out not only how to engineer a mouse with human immune genes but also how to make antibodies from these genes that were fully human as well.

Observers are hoping that Faraday Future will be able to hold that figure up in independent testing as well as fulfill its other cool ideas because they will unarguably contribute to the future not just of EVs but also of human transport in general.

I believe God Does Exist and we as humans are exploring this universe and trying to figure out how He Did It thus making sicence a full time commitment..

Separate from greedy self - serving religion, which is obfuscating any valid discussion on the scientifically high probability of an intelligence we humans could rightfully call «extra-terrestrial,» I would guess physicists would add God to your list of probability figures as follows:

«The hard work is to figure out how we live as a beloved community, as the human family of God.»

Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers as diverse as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the common sense of such figures as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.

But things will start to change when we insist upon seeing the human person as the focal point of historical inquiry, the cynosure of historical meaning, the fleetingly visible figure to be sought in history's lavish carpet.

Attention is a fluid experience, in which background and foreground can reverse suddenly, as in the case of ambiguous figures such as the twin human profiles which «turn into» the outline of a chalice.

This shift largely came as a result of increased access to information (printing press), a new, more scientific view of the world, and the rise of humanism (which is to basically say that human beings had been given the faculties to «figure it all out» for themselves).

Fidel Castro is a controversial and divisive world figure, lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but viewed as a dictator who has overseen multiple human rights abuses by his critics.

As for figuring out the human brain..

And your comparisons between the existence of God and any very human historical figure are dishonest as even without a belief in God... you can tell the difference in the mindset.

I don't consider myself «postmodern» or «emerging» but most of the postmodern / emerging philosophy and theology I have read is a reaction against a modern philosophy and theology which overemphasized «the many» (the human ability to figure things out on our own), and as a result, is not too humanistic, but is almost excessively spiritual.

While not yet recognizing Jesus as the Messiah, they do recognize him as the most pure Jewish figure in human history.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

However I hold, along wi th the church for most of its history, that his humanity is very important and that he lived on earth as a vulnerable human being and not as some all powerful and all knowing godlike figure.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

First, there is a procession of weird and ferocious beasts, and then «one like a son - of - man [a human form, as distinct from the bestial figures] came with the clouds of heaven,» to be invested with everlasting dominion.40 The prophet himself has supplied a key.

Nevertheless, there is a historical connection between Jesus and the metaphysical claims about him, and the fundamental grounds of this connection in the human figure are as clear now as ever.

The historical picture presents Jesus as an entirely human figure.

Not only in texts but also on buildings the elaboration of the visible word became a major art form, especially as representation of the human figure was not allowed lest it lead to idolatry.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

For the Christian heritage points to a human figure of history, Jesus of Nazareth, as the key to human destiny and the focal point of all to which history - centered Israel was leading.

It certainly casts him as a very human figure which is good to see as many Christians tend cast him as a hero of the bible without flaws and shortcomings.

Besides being explanatory models of the phenomena of life, they also provided personality figures with whom ancient man could identify in the variety of human experience, such as wonder, despair, joy, sorrow.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

Until we figure out that the only real truth out there is that we are all equally human and treat each other as we would want to be treated as a fellow human being, we will continue to stupidly hate and kill over myths and stories and eventually utterly destroy ourselves over who has the better imaginary friend.