Sentences with phrase «image of the body»

Some of her earliest print works were screen - printed dresses, scarves and shirts, often with images of body parts.

Her experimental approach to materials and mediums was prominent from the beginning of her career, with some of her earliest pieces including printing images of body parts on clothing.

When your pet has a medical problem, X-rays can provide a detailed image of the body to determine the most effective treatment.

We look at a screen image of my body on the bed, the red spots high - pressure areas.

These are just a few of the ways that many adolescents are developing negative images of their bodies.

Then there is medical physics where you could be working with radioactive medicines or taking images of the body with CT, MRI and PET scanners.

Beyond the physical image of the body, objects become metaphors for self - hood and resilience.

When the volunteer looked toward the ceiling he saw a computer generated, 3 - D image of a body floating.

Wangechi Mutu sees her art as her own translations of images of bodies of women in motion on which the world depends.

The late Colombian conceptual artist Miguel Ángel Cárdenas moved to Holland in 1962, became Michel Cardena, and immediately started to shed his deep - seated image of the body as shameful and indecent in favour of a sculptural practice that incorporated the use of genetilia, tubes, zippers, spongy materials and bold colours.

The increase in medical radiation exposure (from 0.53 mSv to 3.0 mSv) stemmed primarily from a rise in the use of computer tomography (CT) scans (which use x-rays to create cross sectional images of inside the body to spot tumors, clogged arteries, among other things), and nuclear imaging tests, which involve injecting radioactive chemicals into the bloodstream that can be picked up by special instruments and used to create images of the body's inner structures.

Organized by physicians at the University of Chicago, this exhibition gathers images of the body from a range of historical periods

Operated radiologic and magnetic imaging equipment to produce images of the body for diagnostic purposes.

Ultrasound is a valuable diagnostic tool that uses sound waves to produce images of the body's internal organs.

One works with performance, installation, photography, video and drawing, the other creates installations, one of them uses images of his body to create works and the last one mixes art and documentary.

People who are suffering from muscle dysmorphia — a behavioral syndrome that causes the sufferer to have a distorted image of their bodies.

A computer uses these scans to create cross-sectional images of the body part under investigation, and then display the images on a monitor (An x-ray dye may be injected intravenously to make it easier to see abnormalities)

Works in the Whitechapel Gallery display Terrains of the Body, drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., show that images of the body by contemporary artists are increasingly performative, filmic and incisive in their ability to tell compelling stories.

Sewing together canvases, which had previously been part of Pindell's artistic practice, took on new meaning for her after the accident; while still making use of paint, glitter, and chads in these pieces, she also includes images of body parts, houses, and diners, as if she is stitching herself back together through canvases.

Using a photocopier — typically used to replicate important documents for back - up and storage purposes — to create an unflattering image of a body part.

Fueling the fear, Google filed to patent a grim - looking «human fly paper» material for the outsides of its vehicles in case one of its cars hits a pedestrian, complete with images of bodies stuck to cars.

The body of Jesus Christ is the eternal image of all bodies, spiritual and physical alike.

On 2 September 2015, newspapers across Europe published images of the body of three - year old Aylan Kurdi, who drowned as his family tried to reach Europe.

Writing for The Telegraph Mr Page said: «The party created to fight centralised government, sleaze and corruption has become a parody of itself, a mirror image of the body it professes to loathe.»

Vogels explains: «We showed the monkeys images of bodies of both animals and human beings, while covering up specific body parts.

If cultural elements are addressed, it is through a limited focus on «body image» work, which often invokes the significance of the media in perpetuating unattainable images of the body.

Dawn visited the giant asteroid Vesta from 2011 to 2012, delivering more than 30,000 images of the body along with many other measurements, and providing insights about its composition and geological history.

Teran envisions a time within the next five years when medical professionals will be able to scan patients prior to procedures and create three - dimensional virtual images of their bodies, which they can store in computers and use for practice before performing the real surgeries.

Just as important, the mapped images of the body have a way of permanently influencing the very body they originate in.

Skirts for women of different lengths have different impacts on the overall image of your body.

Using a CT scanner, high resolution images of the body can be acquired in seconds, resulting in 3 - D images of complex anatomy such as the lungs, nasal cavities and joints.

It generates a series of thin cross-section images of the body part being scanned.

Oks recalls that, many decades ago at age 23, he painted an orchard scene and for the first time included in his work images of the bodies and faces of women.

Intertwining remoteness and immediacy in his self - contained, almost stark images of the body would remain a constant throughout his career, regardless of the identity of the sitter or model.

Alternating between hyper - realistic representations of the human body and decomposed images of body parts which remain barely decipherable in form, his works embrace a newly minimal approach highlighting empty canvas space and isolated symbols.

Figurative images of bodies and plants are absent, in contrast with her earlier works foregrounding naked bodies and sex, such as the playfully erotic Pickelporno (Pimple Porno)(1992).

Recognizable images of both body and landscape can be found within gestural abstractions which channels the primative.

These works are actual imprints of naked female bodies covered in IKB on stretched canvases or paper, or negative images of these bodies achieved through the use of a spray gun.

Tumi Magnússon's stretched and disfigured images of body parts and skulls are a direct reference to the visual language employed by mischievous 16th - century masters against the dearth of ideas that characterized their time.

«Stills,» from 1980, are big, grainy, gray images of bodies, real or not, hurtling through space — looking different to us post-9 / 11 than to contemporaneous viewers.

I'm interested in these being not just literal images of the body, which of course they are, but also objective correlatives for emotional states.

Cousins's photography explores the female gaze, addressing ideas of body image and sexuality in luscious, indulgent, celebratory images which fight against the destructive and oppressive images of the body, typically female, which dominate our culture.

In these new works on canvas, Rothenberg has created compositions with fragmented images of the body.

Shear has been developing her own vernacular of image making since 2004, furiously collecting images of bodies, landscapes, cult ephemera and earthworks from sources that seem to lose their rigid dependence on context the moment she puts them to paper.

Currin, known for injecting new ideas into age - old images of the body, was handsome, successful, and youthful.

The «image» portion of the felt is shredded and left hanging in strips, resulting in a powerfully disconcerting image of the body — for it is a body which exceeds the traditional limits and constraints of representation.

The exhibition juxtaposes works by famous contemporary artists and great masters to reveal both familiar and unfamiliar images of the body.