Sentences with phrase «idealized views»

An urban ranger who gives tours of the river and wrote «Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA» in The Believer, her book, Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, poses different ideas about nature, looks in the «wrong places» for it, and exposes idealized views.

From large - scale portraits of wooly buffalos to scenes of travelers traversing distant lands to images of Midwestern choir singers, Furnas's new paintings exude a sense of nostalgia that simultaneously feels at the brink of rupture — at any moment those idealized views will crack from the energy and emotion underneath.

His is the zero sum total of the tradition begun by Albert Bierstaedt and Thomas Moran, who invented «the West» through paintings that incorporated idealized views realized in the studio.

That may be true but many young adults still «hold unrealistic, idealized views about marital relationships,» according to a 2007 study of southeastern college students.

Unlike someone younger, who may hold an idealized view of the kind of work it takes to help love thrive, your typical single, 40 + woman holds no such illusions.

They formed an idealized view of life in Hawaii, encouraged by the marriage brokers.

You seem to have a very idealized view of this world and how to succeed in it.

AROUND 1720, the French artist Jean - Antoine Watteau painted a signboard for his dealer's shop that depicted an idealized view of the gallery on Paris's Pont Notre - Dame.

«The art of verdancy, or greenery, presents an idealized view of nature in perfect harmony, a metaphor that premodern Christians equated with paradise in heaven but which also aligned with renewed interests in classical philosophy and developments in science at the time,» explains Bryan C. Keene, assistant curator of manuscripts and co-curator of the exhibition.

One could take the view that he manipulates us with a rose - tinted, idealized view of a childhood gone by, with a «Famous Five» sense of freedom and adventure, provoking thoughts on how precious childhood is.

Inspired by such European masters as Claude Lorrain, John Constable and Turner, Hudson River School paintings are characterized by a realistic, but idealized view of nature and reflect the idea that the beauty of the American landscape was a manifestation of the divine.

Especially with clients who come in with serious anxiety and depression problems, I've begun to put aside my idealized view that unless people overcome their difficulties once and for all, therapy is somehow a failure.

Rather, that my words are idyllic, flowery, sentimental or suggesting an idealized view of reality.

The second reason is that holidays always bring stress as well as disappointment when the idealized view of the perfect holiday does not materialize.

Not exact matches

Foundation: Weighing up these factors, the foundation upon which infatuation is built is the ideal, for this blissful moment in time, the way you view your object of affection is idealized perfection.

Wakanda is a place, but in Coogler's view it's also a state of mind, an idealized transnational black consciousness where competing ideas of justice, solidarity, and militancy play out.

Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography.

«This image comments upon notions of idealized beach scenes with a dead - pan and subtle, but sweetly satirical play on the notion of a «view,»» said Dianne Vanderlip, esteemed curator of the ART hotel, who previously served as the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.

This shift from one kind of space to another, from an exposed, God's eye view to the unyielding flatness of gridded limitations harkens to the decorative framing devices common to the tradition of idealized maps.

Works on view, drawn from the Morgan's collections, survey illustrated publications from 1890 to 1935, contextualizing them within their idealized past — in touchstones of medieval and Renaissance book design — and mapping potential trajectories in experimental animation, the fine press, and works by graphic artists today.

Subverting traditional landscape painting, my recent work presents cropped views of conservatory biomes, where «nature» is an idealized version of the real thing.

Gregory Euclide's intricately crafted sculptural works explore the tension between idealized, picturesque views of landscapes and actual experiences of being in nature.

It offers a provocative alternative to an idealized and romantic view of nature.

Maybe gallery openings in Brooklyn are a little bit more intimate than the ones in Manhattan, but it is fairly obvious that many artists still long for an idealized atmosphere, where they can feel comfortable enough to express their views and opinions of art.

A bay of windows provides a fictional bird's eye - view of an idealized, although improbably foreshortened and attenuated, Gowanus Heights.

I see these elliptical forms as drawings — plan views for idealized structures.

During these early years (1820s), landscape painting was divided into two schools or styles: the Italianate Neoclassical school of Southern Europe which promoted idealized imaginary views often populated with mythological, or biblical figures; and a more realistic school derived from the Dutch Realist tradition - more popular in England and Northern Europe - which remained faithful to the real nature rather than the idyllic version.

I like the emphasis on meeting the purposes of the readers of the document, because, though it may be a somewhat narrow, even idealized, view of the purposes of legal writing, it is at least a starting place that recognizes the connection between legal writing and legal reading.

They viewed uh and um as «errors» that fell outside the proper study of language.57 Accordingly, linguistic study was focused exclusively on the «fluent, idealized utterances» that form «an uninterrupted sequence of words that follows the rules of English syntax.»