Human figures appear often in Petersen's early work, but nearly always as ciphers.
In the weightless choreography of CLUSTER
human figures appear mostly as anonymous particles, as a pulsing, amorphous mass, a cloud of blurry matter from body parts and light.
From softly defined pictures in which
human figures appeared, he moved to what many people still regard as his signature manner: crisply stylized still lifes full of bright, flat light, in which uncanny distances seem to separate even objects in close proximity.
Not exact matches
3 - The fetus stage: The face, hands and feet
appear and the
human figure is formed.
Over the years the
human figures in his prints have filled more and more of the space, leaving less and less for the plant forms, abstract patterns and calligraphy that
appeared in early works.
For example, several centuries ago, God may indeed have become a «lover of Shakespeare» insofar as Shakespeare's works were experienced by
human beings; yet, it is also possible that God's appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry (though not of the feelings of Shakespeare or his audience) declined as new literary
figures and forms
appeared.
For instance, they had learned that Jesus Christ is the answer to
human problems but the Christ to whom they had been introduced was a
figure unrelated to the great context in which he
appeared and one who left them without answers to many of their personal questions as existing and historical men.
It will probably
appear instantaneous, and it will be very hard work to
figure out the path of this hyperevolution of the technofossils within the
human stratum.
It would
appear this class of androids designed to protect
humans has
figured out how to override key protocols limiting its advancement.
A dark, indiscernible
figure appears behind the screen, and instead of the relief of the presence of another
human being, here, it seems, is another threat.
As he looked down the beach he noticed a
human figure in the distance that
appeared to be moving like a dancer.
Without applying the actual body, or making intentional markings with the ink, her large scale monoprints on paper
appear to carry traces of
human figures and faces — the weight of bodily flesh and quality of a spirit - like presence.
The burlap - and - iron
figures,
appearing to be reconstructed from shed
human skin, are halting yet enticing, solid yet empty, animated yet frozen, delicate yet heavy, and somber yet hopeful still.
Balkenhol's carved wood
figures appeared first in 1983 in reaction to abstract formalism and conceptual art, and with the intention of reintroducing the
human body in contemporary art imagery.
; a
human figure torn amongst swirling circles, lines and color, colliding with frantic intensity, with both
figure and faces
appearing very sad and lonely.
Occasionally
figures appear in the work, but in Mr. Estes» vision, the
human drama of city life is subtly implied.
The
human figures have lost basic contours, to the point that their humanity is sometimes hard to identify; gone are the landscapes in which the
figures move; the movement itself, which apparently repeats itself, has become more wild; the lines, structures and patterns change more rapidly; florescent - like red flashes
appear, that call to mind the emergency, danger and alarm lights that permeate our world.
Duality and duplication recur across several aspects of this work, and are especially prominent in the double movement: the sporadic movement of the jackal, and the repetitive movement of the
human figures, which
appear to be marking themselves, or signaling, or calling out for help.
No matter how luminous, even weightless, the
human figures in Avery's paintings
appear to be, his hues fill them with an inward vitality we perceive as physical.
Based on a small sculpture of a local carnival character, this
figure appears, in overlapping, cool veils of oil on the unprimed linens, to be metamorphosing from
human to bat to butterfl y to ectoplasmic specter — a perfect allegory for Doig's art of transformation, in which beauty is always a possibility but never a sure thing.
Bacon, Bourgeois, Jean - Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol used the shade to draw
human figures or faces that
appear against intensely red backdrops.
The
human figures that
appear in Petros's works are often engaged in acts of active observation, having their faces disguised or turned away from the potentially objectifying gaze of the viewer.
Thus the work
appears to suggest the qualities not only of a standing
human figure, but also the contours of the cliffs and beach at Nanjizal.
In his painting practice, Hubbard portrays
human figures not as still bodies but as shapes in constant movement described formally with shadows, blurring, or overlapped images, and, as such, bodies
appear ungraspable and unstable.
Sculpture
appears in a multitude of prints, which blur the boundaries between the real and the imaginary and show
human beings interacting with sculpted
figures in varied and surprising ways.
At times these carvings are clearly recognizable as
human figures, in others the form is cut into with holes, and parts of the
figure are even removed completely, others again
appear as groups of natural - looking stones or boulders which hardly seem touched by the sculptor's chisel.
Though the works
appear abstract at first glance, upon closer inspection they reveal an interest in representational imagery, with geometric forms giving way to
human - like
figures.
The numerous works on display in Sonnet to the Nile centre around mysterious
human and animal
figures that
appear on blank paper, bereft of context or connection to a specific time or place.
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.
Exaggerated contortions of the
human body are prolific and various
figures appear to groan in the corners of the gallery, most notably in Berlinde de Bruyckere's haunting Marthe.
The head and stalk of the sunflower, lone and lugubrious,
appears like a bowed
human figure, conflating the vital nature of plants and man in an animist image.
The booth of New York dealer Rachel Uffner had a new series of work by New York - based Sara Greenberger Rafferty: photographic inkjet prints of
human figures and objects that
appear to have melted under sheets of plastic.
Both growth and decay
appear in equal measure: a flower climbs through dense rock, if only to blossom and droop into the appreciative embrace of an exhausted and bonelike
human figure.
Wayne's black - and - white textile La Journée des Lemmings
appears, at first glance, wholly abstract, but a grouping of
human figures (apparently the lemmings) lends it another interpretation, and it resolves itself into a landscape.
The
human figure is also central to the exhibition, often
appearing in distorted, grotesque, anthropomorphic, or hybridized forms.
But the well blowout
appears to be a prime illustration of the uncomfortable reality that we have yet to
figure out effective ways to overcome a persistent
human failure to appreciate, and act on, certain kinds of risks.
The graph (
Figure 1)
appeared in the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report and became the poster child for the proof of
human - caused global warming.
How much attention is a «driver» supposed to give to what the vehicle is doing, and what responsibility does the «driver» have to take over if the car
appears to be doing something wrong, especially when the reaction time of the car is much better than a
human's, and it may be too late by the time the
human figures out something is amiss?