Sentences with phrase «human figure takes»

Alex Katz «Cut Outs» Paul Kasmin 515 West 27th Street CLOSES: April 12 The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set of his nine - piece «Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain enamel coated steel.

The artist best known for his flattened approach to the human figure takes his signature aesthetic into sculpture with «Cut Outs,» a solo exhibition of four works depicting Katz's wife Ada, the full set of his nine - piece «Black Dress» series, and one larger, multifigure work, all rendered in stainless and porcelain enamel coated steel.

Drawing inspiration from films, popular culture and everyday imagery, Estelle Cherel's exquisite drawings, collages and watercolours present intriguing scenes where animals and the human figure take centre stage.

Not exact matches

The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them online.

It just takes the honest admission that «There are thing the human race doesn't know and can't explain yet,» and rather responding with «But we're working hard to figure out the things we don't know,» comes up with a lot of baseless, convoluted, assertions of knowledge.

Versus humans killing humans who can't even figure our own lives out, yet we think we have what it takes to judge others.

I can't take care of every single human being on this planet... I could never figure out why people think I'm responsible for them.

Though that doesn't mean he's not feeling the weight of taking on the role, «He's probably the most well - regarded and well - known figure in human history,» Legend says.

The electronic age with its offering of a wide variety of ways to present the human voice has commanded new attention to oral language.1 Perhaps the ascendancy of science and the domination of the scientific method has created such a restricted view of language that a reaction in favor of more dimensions to language is to be taken simply as clear testimony to a general degeneration of meaningful discourse, a degeneration in which the church figures prominently.

In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

It confronts men with an «It,» an impersonal power which they must try to figure out for themselves, rather than a «Thou,» the living God who cared enough for His human creatures to take the initiative in revealing Himself to them in His Son, Jesus Christ.

But the rapid advances, he said, are raising the question «of whether you are creating something human - ish that you have to take seriously in terms of according it dignity and respect — and figuring out what that even means.»

To understand whether their career goals require taking a couple of courses or spending a few years getting more training, scientists should first figure out what aspect of cybersecurity they're interested in, says Diana Burley, a professor of human and organizational learning who teaches in GW's PISCES program.

A human operator needs time to assess the situation and figure out the appropriate response, then take action.

Humans have faced off with grids, dice and pieces for millennia — figuring out the rules of long - lost board games can take us inside ancient minds

Lanza's team figured out how to coax stem cells taken from human embryos into becoming the RPE cells that die off along with photoreceptors in macular degeneration, and in 2011 the team began injecting these manufactured cells into patients» eyes.

He took the strident figure in Chris Kyle's own memoir and made him more fully human, reconciling the steely, lethal sniper with the haunted man who couldn't reconnect with his family.

Unlike No Country, with its isolated figures, Burn After Reading takes full stock of the chaos wrought by human misdeeds, a fact underscored visually by the film's opening and closing shots of satellite images of the earth.

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Once Level 5 cars become a reality, it will take human drivers all of five minutes to figure out how they work.

Cognitive processing naturally slows down somewhat in aging, your older dog may take a few more repetitions before getting a new trick, or spend a little longer figuring out a new puzzle toy, but more serious confusion and disorientation may be related to a disorder known as Canine Cognitive Dysfunction or CCD, a canine disorder similar to Alzheimer's disease in human beings.

In just a few short years, however, manufacturers have figured out how to design eco-friendly collars and leads that are both functional and fashionable, taking cues from the what's trending in the overall collars and leads market, as well as what's hot in human fashion.

«Bauhaus, Dessau,» taken from a photograph taken by the artist of a stairway in the Weimar - era school with the human figures entirely removed, serves as a chilling reminder of the effects of authoritarianism, globalism, right - wing populism and what the gallery calls «the locusts of power.»

Other tactics include the use of casts taken from real bodies, dressing sculpted figures in clothing, constructing moveable limbs and automated bodies, even incorporating human blood, hair, teeth, and bones.

It takes the shape of what I would like to call a «body - ography,» or the individual and collective stories conveyed by images of the human figure.

These figures take on animal, and human characteristics, which is evident i...

This can be seen in the sinister skeletons of Jackson Pollock's series Untitled Panels A — D (1934 — 38), the architecture depicted by Mark Rothko in Interior (1936), and the Philip Guston work The Porch (1946 — 47), where the human figure seems to be threatened and takes on a macabre tone clearly influenced by the Holocaust.

Alongside the dinosaurs, creatures whose extinction is their most notorious characteristic, figures like Step Off — whose seemingly decorative bands at the neck, knee, and ankle take on the suggestion of shackles — can be understood both as contemporary and as incarnations of centuries of human rights abuses.

The current show at Main Street Arts, «The Human Figure,» takes all of this into consideration while acknowledging the ages - old tradition of artwork devoted to the human Human Figure,» takes all of this into consideration while acknowledging the ages - old tradition of artwork devoted to the human human form.

Tate Britain, London The contrasting visions of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud take centre stage in this thrilling survey spanning 100 years of the human figure in British art

GO FIGURE takes on the human form in ways both inquisitively tender and provocatively direct.

For example, in the book that accompanied her painting Aqueous Flesh (2009), Pundyk reveals that her reference for the human figure was clipped from a newspaper, tree branches from a photo taken out of her family - in - law's New York apartment, facial features from a candid photo of a friend on vacation in Paris, and an abstracted version of two women sourced from an image in a waiting room magazine.

Other tactics include the use of casts taken from real bodies, dressing sculpted figures in clothing, constructing movable limbs and automated bodies, even incorporating human blood, hair, teeth, and bones.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Oedipus takes on a human form when confronting the emblematic Sphynx; a monstrous figure when he meets Iocasta; a giant, raging baby when he murders Laius; and lastly a helpless, blind chimpanzee being led by the hand of Antigone.

From Clare Rojas's folk - inspired narrative paintings to Tim Hawkinson's cardboard and urethane foam sculpture Scout (2006 - 2007)-- the artist's absurdly humorist take on the human figure — the works in this exhibition signal a bold, new direction for SJMA's permanent collection.

Since the 1960s he has been an international figure in the world of art, an inventive and uncompromising abstract painter who has continued to take the most extreme risks in his work, and to develop new ways of expressing his sense of wonder and delight in the world around us, and in the further reaches of the human imagination.

Often this will take the form of life - sized depictions of multicolored human figures, each rendered in rich pastels and charcoal.

Often taking cues from the people he sees on his many travels, his almost voyeuristic artworks explore the human figure in its many forms.

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.

Most notable are his sculptures Figure IV, the masks series, and his painting Cobalt Racer, which all take the human form as their subject matter and showcase Oliveira's celebrated predilection for depicting bodies in various states of movement.

Others, such as Sheeler, took the stark, yet impressive geometry of the new industrial landscape as a point of departureThe exhibition also examines another familiar subject, the human figure, which proved to be of abiding interest to the artists of this generation.

Stepping back from this work to take in its general, flesh - toned forms, the viewer may discern a human foot and bent leg, perhaps belonging to a Christ - like figure stumbling under the weight of a cross, which appears to be represented by a thick band of pink.

Unlike the landscapes of East Yorkshire that pervaded his expression during the English decade, the painter returned to the study of human figure, which has taken over the dominant spot in the exhibition.

He is also a curator, and currently has the group exhibition «I, Cyborg» on display at Gazelli Art House in London, a survey of the state of the human figure, and the idea of humanity in contemporary artist's practices, it is an iteration of an exhibition «Cyborg» that took place at the Zurcher Gallery in New York in 2015.

Now Hans Ulrich Obrist, not so much a curator as a human whirlwind, has been anointed as the most powerful figure in the international artworld, taking the top spot in ArtReview magazine's annual «power 100» list.

The figures in his paintings are both humorous and unnerving; take «Acid Man's Funeral» for example, a black rabbit with male sex organs, standing upright, human - like, in Nike trainers.

In the 1960's, Chadwick became interested in both the abstract form (back to basic principles) and looking at the human form — and later looking in detail at how a figure moves and the stances they might take.

So unless the figure for the emissions takes that into account, and I don't think it does, although I may and I hope I am wrong, we can't really count those as human - induced emission, we can only count the difference between those and what large herbivores in a world without humans would emit.

If you take a couple of decimals off the energy hitting the earth you will have a figure for the theoretical maximum sustainable human population that may shock you.