Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic nature of»

They experimented with new ways of teaching and learning; they encouraged discussion and free inquiry; they felt that form in art had meaning; they were committed to the rigor of the studio and the laboratory; they practiced living and working together as a community; they shared the ideas and values of different cultures; they had faith in learning through experience and doing; they trusted in the new while remaining committed to ideas from the past; and they valued the idiosyncratic nature of the individual.

The selection of works on paper at the Quogue Gallery showcases the idiosyncratic nature of the works by Woelffer, who said, «I always work first and think later.»

Despite Pousette - Dart's considerable talent, the idiosyncratic nature of his paintings contributed to his marginalization.

Rather than a comprehensive history of art and culture in the New York area, 5 Year Review will instead reflect the idiosyncratic nature of individual taste and memory as recommended by an invited group of fellow curators and critics.

Because of the generally idiosyncratic nature of financial prices, we must have a way of understanding the implications for our portfolio of abnormal market conditions.

Because of the idiosyncratic nature of these investors, the fundamentals of their portfolios are not indicative of their investment styles.

That Gustave's portion of the film is framed in an aspect ratio of 1.37:1 (the standard of decades gone by) only heightens the idiosyncratic nature of the picture, a tactic sure to please fans and alienate most everyone else.

The idea of making Fargo into a TV show has been around almost since the movie itself hit theaters, and it's always seemed to me a terrible one given the idiosyncratic nature of the source material.

There is a lot of flair and bravado to the action sequences here, whether it be in - car chases, boat chases, Nazi torture doctors, and powerful slaps that can knock a man out while keeping him standing still upright, but your left solely appreciating the idiosyncratic nature of it all alongside some admittedly wonderful cinematography that captures these scenes with, again, style.

Rules designed for different times can't be trusted to fully capture the idiosyncratic nature of economies wrecked by the Great Recession.

Not exact matches

However, his ambiguous relationship to the art was not merely personal and idiosyncratic; it is endemic to the very nature of «Christian» art itself.

The discretionary nature of the best interests principle means that it is applied in an idiosyncratic way by judges... who are guided by their own biases about what is «best» for children.

As we approach the neurochemical and idiosyncratic aspects of human nature beyond simpler notions, this has implications for how we view and analyze states.

Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

While the satire is brilliant enough, the Coens make it even better with their signature style of idiosyncratic dialogue, and absurdist themes about the nature of life and crime.

Here, then, was the Walken paradox, able to swing wildly from a normal, albeit «odd» person to a kinetic, idiosyncratic «freak of nature.»

It's rather «an idiosyncratic proposal of completely reversing your relationship to nature — playing on this idea that nature is something that we control,» she says.

The Idiosyncratic Pencil is an experimental group exhibition inspired by both the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s and William Henry Fox Talbot's groundbreaking 1844 The Pencil of Nature, each a radical break from past methods of art production.

As today's instruments of meaningful articulation and expression are undergoing an equally dramatic reassessment, The Idiosyncratic Pencil will explore the early 21st Century artist's response to the rapidly evolving nature of image making in this breakneck, feverish, media - saturated, and over-stimulated epoch.

With an idiosyncratic attitude toward collaboration, the group synchronously cultivate a cooperative yet highly competitive spirit, where the very nature of their alliance revolves around celebrating, thwarting and subverting each other's contributions, creating seamless collaborations from the fraternal narrative that surrounds their studio practice.

I am often attracted to paintings of things the way they are found in nature, respecting its subtle tones and mysterious, idiosyncratic forms.

A remarkable series that brings the artist's idiosyncratic style to a musing on the nature of the deadly sins, the impetus behind Bernhard Martin's Im Immer originated in the controversy surrounding French writer Michel Houellebecq's novels.

Pop Abstraction revels in the inherently abstract nature of cartoons, comics, and advertising; however, its content remains personal and idiosyncratic.

Reflecting on her early optical abstract paintings, Howardena Pindell once remarked that she gave up the rectangle in favor of unstretched canvases with idiosyncratic, non-symmetrical shapes that conjured, as she once put it, «some internal intuition of nature.»

In what seems like a new era, when Latin American artists might finally be gaining some of the prominence that they deserve in the written, exhibition and institutional histories alongside their European, US and indeed global contemporaries, it is perhaps to be hoped that some of the idiosyncratic, inventive and extraordinary nature of precursor projects and initiatives, and the personal commitment that they all entailed, can continue, as any new achievements are undoubtedly founded on those that preceded them.

Drawing idiosyncratic connections to the work of botanist Anders Dahl (1751 - 1789) through the Dahlia flower, Hewitt uses repetition and subtle, almost indiscernible, shifts to play openly with the act of «searching» for a connection to the natural world or the conditions of nature through the monocular gaze of the camera.

This combination, along with the intentionally handmade quality of her sculptures, gives the work a classical presence despite its idiosyncratic nature.

The OMA partner's new book Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practice.

Diana Copperwhite's work stems from an idiosyncratic practice that embraces the temporal nature of painting practice.

Biggest joke of the decade on climate change was this idiosyncratic article making it onto the Nature website (Nature!!!??):

The free - thinker element has, historically, not been powerful because it is idiosyncratic and disunited by its nature of distrusting the opinions, supportive or not, of others.

As we discussed in our recent piece «Robot, Esq.: Four Reasons Lawyers Shouldn't Fear AI and Automation Legal Tech», there are critical limitations on the ability of existing, non-general AI to replace human beings in legal practice — including the truly bespoke nature of certain tasks, the lack of sufficiently relevant and tailored data sets to train algorithms to handle even semi-bespoke tasks (given the complex cocktail of idiosyncratic considerations that good legal counsel comprises), and the non-empirical or data - driven aspects of the practice of law — involving emotional intelligence, communication, and persuasion — which I believe are core to providing effective legal services.

The combination of Renaissance's consistently strong performances, its secretive nature and its leaders» idiosyncratic personalities have created an aura of mystique around the firm.

Some authors have argued that the nature of the child's disorder is not important in determining its psychological consequences, because children with chronic physical disorders face common life experiences and problems based on generic dimensions of their conditions, rather than on idiosyncratic characteristics of any specific disease entity (e.g., Stein & Jessop, 1982).