Sentences with phrase «human figures from»

It passes waterfalls, a lava cave, and Nounou Mountain, nicknamed the Sleeping Giant, which looks like a reclining human figure from afar.

Mr. Faragasso is the author of the well - known and often referenced books, The Student's Guide To Painting and Mastering Drawing the Human Figure from Life, Memory, Imagination.

Drawing People rewards through its eclectic mix of artists using drawing as their base, and may inspire an expanding attitude towards the human figure from artistic readers.

His sculptural installations challenge perceptions of figurative art by removing the human figure from the viewer's day - to - day experience and re-positioning it within a controlled context.

Mr. Oliveira strayed from the human figure from time to time but always returned, with startling intensity in works like «Standing Figure» (1970), a pink female figure turned toward the viewer with a ghostly white death mask instead of a face.

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286

After a distinguished early career as an abstract painter, Richard Diebenkorn (1922 — 1993) focused almost exclusively on the human figure from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.

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With the fundamentals of drawing under your belt, you'll be better equipped to draw human figures and faces, realistic light and shadow, perspective drawings, and anything from your head.

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.

With the fundamentals of drawing under your belt, you'll be better equipped to draw human figures and faces, realistic light and shadow, perspective drawings, and anything from your head.Udemy

The challenge, says Cambridge Consultants» Nathan Wrench, is to overcome the uncertainty when handling something — which humans deal with unconsciously: figuring out its shape and location and how hard to grip it, and distinguishing one object from another.

AI seems to have figured out other, less difficult versions of poker — AI technology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, beat humans at Head's Up Limited Hold «Em, for example.

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.

We sourced the oilsands direct jobs figure from The Decade Ahead: Labour Market Outlook to 2022 for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry, a 2013 Petroleum Human Resources Council report that was funded in part by the Government of Canada and The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

He was challenged on his show in 2007 by Father Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International, who observed that such a position emanating from a public figure technically fulfilled the requirements for something called heresy.

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:

Christian humanistic charity work is greatly appreciated (not sure where your 95 percent figure comes from, though), but are they so shallow that they would not help their fellow humans if not for promises and / or threats from an imaginary being?

They estimated a «human freedom index» for each country based on 1985 figures for forty different indicators among them the right to travel, freedom of religion, freedom from unlawful detention, independent press, homosexual activities between consenting adults.

We are merely on the receiving end and since He transcends our world it is a total waste of time even trying to figure out what he may or may not do from a purely human perspective.

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.

It comes from Daniel 7:13, where the seer sees a human figure receiving power and glory at God's hands.

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.

The only thing Christians have figured out is how hopeless the «human condition» is apart from a one on one relationship with Jesus Christ.

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.

In prophecy the Messiah is ordinarily a human champion of the line of David; in apocalyptic the Messiah is a divine, supramundane, heavenly figure, who will break into the world from the outside.

Again, the figure of Jesus can not be understood simply from his context in human evolution or history.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

People, then as now, are relatively prepared to accept savior figures promising redemption from the ills of human existence.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

So, for example, the existentialist analysis of the nature of human existence, with its emphasis upon «self - understanding», or «understanding of existence», establishes a point of contact between the figure from the past and the man in the present.

We are far from figuring it out though but if we use a bit of common sense we can easily see humans were meant to eat more than plants.

figured he was alternating between field testing the behavior of human subjects under various conditions and hitting up the MO historical society archives to look for attested vomiting incidents from Olden Times

You are still recovering from major surgery and getting less sleep than usual all while figuring out and caring full - time for a new human.

I believe this is much different from popular press magazines advising us as what you're both doing is explaining human development and evolved caregiving practices (which in people who understand healthy relationship dynamics is intuitive and based on common sense, but is not the majority of our population) to people struggling to figure out how to make their primary love relationships work so they don't end in divorce, split families, or unattached / needy people.

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

Recognition by other human beings figures centrally among our dignity needs, and being either included or excluded from various forms of human relations has significant consequences for our wellbeing.

The fact that he is only partially successful should not detract from this skilfully narrated, compelling and authoritative account of a figure who, with his rejection of a divine, rational order to human affairs, is frequently labelled the father of modernity.

The first step in figuring out how the human mind arose is determining what distinguishes our mental processes from those of other creatures

«We've figured out for the first time how to produce these cells from human embryonic stem cells literally by the billions and billions,» Lanza says.

Yet a novel strain of the influenza A (H1N1) virus jumped species and burst into the human population in March and April, and by late May health and agriculture officials were still trying to figure out where it came from.

Skull relevations One of the biggest surprises in the attempt to figure out human evolution comes from a crushed skull dug up in the Sahara in 2001.

The proposed institute would engage a dozen or more research groups in the task of figuring out how human or animal behavior springs from information processing at the level of neural circuits.

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.

So, but it does project into the future, and it's funny that you bring it up, because one of the things that one of the scientists I talked to, a couple of the scientists that I talked to, mentioned was that people have this ability, modern humans have this ability to project themselves into the future and think about a future self so that the theory of mind that allows me to figure out where you are in your head now also enables me to think where I will be in my head tomorrow or ten years from now.

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

Gigantic human figures swooped on the walls overhead like genies escaping from magic lamps.

For Stephen to have accomplished what he has in the teeth of his dreadful affliction makes him, by my lights, a totem of the human spirit so towering that in its shadow the figure of Lance Armstrong can not immediately be distinguished from that of Tori Spelling.

Using a training set of images of people from the Web, the machine learning algorithms mastered identifying a human figure and nine anatomical sections, such as torso, upper left arm or lower right leg.

«The parts of the human genome linked to complex diseases such as heart disease, cancer and neurological disorders can often be far away from the genes they regulate, so it can be dificult to figure out which gene is being affected and ultimately causing the disease.»

The pilot programs floated by the Department of Transportation funding will be particularly important in figuring out how humans actually react to the technology, said Gonder, from the NREL.