Sentences with phrase «ideas of landscape as»

Consistently in love with landscape — and the idea of landscape as an abstraction — Wolf Kahn has lovingly built a very vivid and beautiful oeuvre since first exhibiting his paintings at the Hansa Gallery, one of New York's first co-op galleries, nearly sixty years ago.

This 17th - century French artist who settled in Rome created, alongside his contemporary Nicolas Poussin, the idea of landscape as a lofty, serious artistic genre full of symbolism as well as natural beauty.

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Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Townsleygallery has a different perspective, «I absolutely love spending time creating a new painting as it represents my view of either a landscape or idea and the fact that this can then hang as an artwork feels as though I have created something tangible and truly unique.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

Another idea is that water ejected by the plume falls onto the surface as a fine mist, changing the structure of the surface grains and allowing them to retain heat longer than the surrounding landscape.

There is a sense of discovery in scene after scene of «The Phantom Menace,» as he tries out new effects and ideas, and seamlessly integrates real characters and digital ones, real landscapes and imaginary places.

I see podcasting, blogging, wikis, and Moodle becoming better established as parts of many school landscapes, but this list is a collection of edgy folks» hopes and dreams, the great ideas of creative thinkers who imagine that the tool they have designed just might change the way folks work, play, communicate, and so on.

A number of prominent Conservative MPs on Theresa May's Cabinet, including Liam Fox and David Davis, have been vocal proponents of grammar schools, and Education Secretary Justine Greening has said that the government should be «open minded» to the idea of new grammar schools as the education landscape has changed over the last few years.

So with that landscape and the bits of history we read as we traveled, ideas turned in my mind of a contemporary paranormal series set in Denver.

While many accept student debt as an inevitable part of a professional degree, it's a good idea to learn more about the student loan landscape so you don't owe more money than you have to.

[4] Gardens of the wealthy, however, often employed newer gardening ideas, such as the landscape garden or English garden.

The idea of traversing the 260 kilometre road between Banff and Jasper and experiencing both the amazing landscapes and awesome wildlife sits as a slow burning desire which we will eventually fulfill.

«The amount of time we spent brainstorming, iterating, researching, and challenging each others» ideas meant we had an increasingly varied landscape to pull from, and from there we chose which levels would go into the final game — to the tune of more than seven - hundred level designs, sampling as much of our dictionary as possible to give players a sense of its scope.»

Not only did Avalanche Studio's homage to the dystopian world of Mad Max acutely capture the tone and style of its source material; it also made good on reinterpreting the film series» barren desert landscape as arich playground of distractions, filled with good ideas and high drama.

It also gives readers an idea of what the gaming landscape looked like back then, as computer games developers were beginning to feel threatened by the rebirth of the console market.

It was there that Thomas Cole and William Stillman, founding members of the Hudson River School Painters (1825 - 1875), developed the idea of landscape painting as an exercise in seeking truth, a truth found through close contact with nature and a disciplined observation of it.»

A seasoned exhibitor and graduate of the Helsinki school, Kantanen describes her work as «a search for a landscape that doesn't really exist», disrupting the idea of capturing truth through a photograph — increasingly untenable in the digital age — by creating her own «idealised picture» — we see what she wants us to see.

Degas was fascinated by time - motion photographic studies and the idea of capturing the dancers» movement, or the look of the landscape as he sped through it on a train, tram or horse - drawn carriage.

Each painting stands as a portrait of its individual owner (depicting homes, work, families, and ideas), while the entire group aggregates to a community of individuals across the broad landscape of contemporary urban life.

The idea of environment is incredibly important to this show, perhaps more so than the singular landscape (the wholeness of environment) created in pieces such as Rosenkranz's Venice installation — but of course, the form of the pavilion / solo exhibition lends itself to that approach.

Centering on the idea that physical spaces can be designed to nurture intellectual enrichment, Azikiwe Mohammed aims to create an installation that acts as a continuation of the visual landscape created by the 1 - 54 New York participating galleries and exhibited artists.

He was reacting against their inward focus, their idea of painting as an expression of individualism or a personal emotional landscape.

For an artist whose output extends far beyond the fine paintings of World War One and exceeds the parameters of British landscape painting within which his work is usually understood, the recurrence of certain themes and preoccupations — a sense of significant place, and the idea of trees as sentient, mystical beings — creates a satisfying symmetry to his career.

The works build through a stream of images and ideas with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...» In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

As part of this year's Glasgow International festival programme, Jonny Lyons presents new work with Matt Barnes that directly challenges the idea that humans are disappearing from the landscapes in favour of cars, public transport and home entertainment.

But then the landscapes ask you to keep staring as well, because they harken back to the idea of American genre painting, without the clarity of American genre painting.

As a practicing artist and landscape architect, pursuing the relationship between ideas and the physical configuration of materials, within a discrete space, is a fundamental thread throughout Amy's work.

For years, Barba has experimented with the language of cinema and sculpture, reflecting on the poetic qualities of the natural and human landscape, exploring the idea of place as a vessel of memory, and dismantling the notion of linear time.

Informed by landscape and the visible reality of the physical world, these works move away swiftly from that mode of representation, positioning themselves as transient moments (in the artist's visual present or in his memories of such moments) and simultaneously as objective ideas about color, forms, and composition - that is, about painting itself.

Bore Song was selected by Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum for its connection to the idea of landscape, as both an internal and external territory, as well as to the specific topography of Gloucestershire.

Later, with her images of crowds and her Surfers (2003) and Icehouses (2001) series, she explored ideas about the natural landscape as social space, with people connected by a common interest.

The included works range from painting and sculpture to VR technology and 3D animation, shedding light on the idea of «the virtual» not solely as a computer - generated technology, but as a concept linked to the potential to remap social and political landscapes through a reorientation of the physical and sensorial.

Running through her work is a concern with the idea of landscape; specifically how landscape exists, by definition, as a view or representation — a space or scene that can never be reached physically.

Using photography, drawing, and digital technology, these artists touch on a range of ideas, including: the representation of scientific data, science fiction as backdrop in popular culture, creative interpretations of the fantastical, and fictional landscapes.

Having just returned from abroad and immersed himself in the New York art scene, he found himself in a cauldron of ideas about action, process, concept, and nothingness, navigating an artistic landscape that was being redefined through influences such as Cage's intellectual Zen advances, Rosenberg's painting as an action, the Janis Gallery Dada show, and the Stable Gallery exhibition of his very own White Paintings.

While other art fairs look abroad, promoting it's - a-small-world ideas of global art, NADA feels focused on the current American political landscape (as much as an art fair can be, perhaps).

And it is also through knowledge of the past and of art history that these conceptually parallel projects of Irene Grau's gin significance and move forward in the contemporary redefinition of the landscape genre, as well as the idea of displacement, a core concept in her art practice.

As Erica Burton, curator at Modern Art Oxford, wrote at the time of a solo exhibition in 2008, «Katie Paterson's work engages with the landscape, as a physical entity and as an ideAs Erica Burton, curator at Modern Art Oxford, wrote at the time of a solo exhibition in 2008, «Katie Paterson's work engages with the landscape, as a physical entity and as an ideas a physical entity and as an ideas an idea.

At the same time, the American scene was equally hostile to us because if, as we thought, to make an authentic gesture without any a priori idea of how it would turn out, was the real gambit, then everything — «hard - edge» abstraction with its ideology, Social Realism with its ideology, regionalism with its ideology, landscape painting with its sentimentality, portrait painting with its class background, anything you could imagine — was equally threatened by our premise.

In the lecture staged by Andy Holden together with curator Tyler Woolcott, the pair put forward an idea that we can use the laws of physics as they appear in cartoons to help us devise a possible way of understanding the landscape «after the end of art history... a landscape where it seems like anything might be possible, but not everything is, there are rules that begin to emerge as we make observations».

Other works capture the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the annual convening of the Boy Scouts of America, which further Opie's interest in the specific use made of the landscape, as well as her ideas about the variety of ideals and beliefs held by Americans in their pursuit of a meaningful life.

One of the ideas at the centre of Turner and the Elements, which has been curated by Ines Richter - Musso and Ortrud Westheider, is that of Turner as an artist who was acutely aware of the traditions of landscape painting, but who renewed and reinvigorated this tradition, in part through the way he absorbed new discoveries in the natural sciences into his art.

In exploring the larger idea of a catchall term as Americana, one must analyze what comprises our American social landscape.

Evolution, though, may be more accurate, as Steinkamp noted that she's flirted with the idea of working with animations of animals of the future, perhaps completing some kind of otherworldly life - cycle from pure abstraction to landscape, from flora to viscera.

«They paved paradise and put up a parking lot» — Joni Mitchell The idea of paradise is about as slippery as the idea of landscape: no two are exactly alike.

Incorporating in - depth research and astute readings of cultural situations, his incisive works have addressed ideas such as the relationship between public and private, the flows of information along the media landscape, and the inherent power of architecture and other social frameworks.

Cole's significance as an artist lay in his exploration of the Sublime element (an aesthetic idea associated with notions of awe and vastness) in the American landscape, something no other American painter had so far attempted.

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.

The third show in a series on Hudson River School paintings from the collection argues that the idea of an American landscape filled with «sacred» sites is as much a cultural invention as it is an accident of nature.