Recently, I've seen
images of lions used as memes to suggest that somehow being in the wild and eating nothing but meat and not «caring about calories» or «worrying about eating windows» is the key to being ultra-lean and muscular.
As I share in my book, after a couple of minutes of praying
the image of the Lion on the Wizard of Oz suddenly popped into my mind and I saw him saying, «I do believe, I do believe, I do, I do, I DO believe!»
Burkert, for instance, has traced the transmission of oriental art and religion to Greece during the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. Archeologists have exhumed friezes decorated with near - eastern «Tree of Life» motifs at Greek shrines, and
images of lion - hunting have been discovered at other Greek sites.
Yet the citizens of Brak were already using imported materials to make fine goods in large workshops, including a marble - and - obsidian chalice and a stamp seal with
the image of a lion being caught in a net — a classic symbol of kingship in the ancient Near East.
The title of this exhibition comes from Thompson's painting Yesterday and Tomorrow; characteristic of Thompson's brightly coloured, fluidly painted works,
this image of a lion facing a row of statues encapsulates the joy and spirit of this exciting artist's practice.
The imagery in the new works is diverse, drawing on private and found visual sources, and sometimes repeating (as in
the image of the lion that appears on the book's jacket).
Not exact matches
He also believes Barça should own its
image rights and sell merchandise directly, rather than allowing Nike, Adidas, and others to claim the
lion's share
of the value.
And the
lion's share
of these
images never make it to print.
The 13th - century mystic Jalal ed - Din Rumi gives a vivid
image of Muhammad's role in transmitting the Qur «an: Muhammad is like a stone
lion in a garden.
Some
of the common
images used in psychosynthesis include seeing oneself walking along a stream, being in a meadow, visiting a house, becoming a
lion (to get in touch with one's strong, assertive side), and so on.
In his celebrated Christian allegory The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis represents evil's hold on the world with the
image of an enduring winter — Narnia under the power
of the White Witch, who makes it «always winter and never Christmas.»
People disliked being interrupted, were sometimes rude, and rarely took any interest in the copies
of the «Watchtower» with their
images of people in 1950s outfits cuddling
lions and eating berries as they live on earth with nothing to do for ever and ever.
This Devil gets less attention than he did in less sophisticated times when St. Peter's
image of the roaring
lion that «walketh about, seeking whom he may devour» still had canonical force.
Conservative Wall Streefers still boggle when they think
of how multimillionaire Jack Dreyfus enlivened investing's
image by using a
lion in his mutual fund ads.
We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals for the supply
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Images, Keith Williams, Tony Thomas, Swindon Town, Keith Slater and Gillingham Football Club, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Shirley Ireland - Jones, Mark Leesdad, Simon O'Connor and Leyton Orient, Phil McCheyne Photography in Nailsea, London Wolves, Hagiology Publishing in Southampton, Paul Walsh Photography (www.photography.paul-walsh.net), www.words-and-pix.com Guernsey Press and Star, Diane and Charlie Bamforth, Archant Suffolk, Aston Villa, Ken Simpson, Martin Plumb, Rob Clayton (www.robclayton.co.uk), Helen Randle Photography (www.helenrandlephotography.co.uk), Roger Parker and Fotosports International (www.fotosports.com), Fleetwood Town FC, mirrorpix, Tom Bunce at the Red
Lion in Bobbington, Jonathan Russell and www.sportsprints.co.uk
Abrams, 2009 Wildlife photographer Nick Brandt's stunning
images of African animals reveal such familiar creatures as
lions, zebras, giraffes and elephants in a remarkable new light.
He placed anaesthetised sea
lions in an MRI scanner to
image their brains, and found that the hippocampus
of sick animals was half the size
of that in healthy ones.
Photographer Michael Nichols set out to create an
image that conveyed the glory
of lions — long before they were a threatened species.
Using satellites and transmitters attached to the sea mammals, the scientists have been tracking Northern fur seals and endangered Steller sea
lions (see
image) in the Gulf
of Alaska and the Bering Sea for almost a decade.
He placed anaesthetised sea
lions in an MRI scanner to
image their brains, and found that the hippocampus
of sick animals was half the size...
For years, scientists have hotly debated the age
of some
of Europe's oldest cave art: Were the stunning
images of cave
lions, horses, and bulls (examples above) in the Chauvet - Pont d'Arc cave in southeastern France somewhere in the neighborhood
of 20,000 years old, as some researchers have suggested, or had they been painted millennia earlier?
A dome
of sterling silver floral and paisley motifs with a combination
of finishes surrounds the
image of a proud
lion within a rectangular frame.
Lion of Judah Monument in Addis Ababa
Image Rjruiziii.
Hardly are those words out When a vast
image out
of Spiritus Technocracy Troubles my sight: a waste
of administrative bloat; A shape with
lion body and the head
of Bill Gates, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows
of the indignant teacher unions.
DBD is the home to several world class publishers, including
Image Comics, publisher
of The Walking Dead, Saga, Monstress, and Spawn; Dynamite Entertainment, publisher
of James Bond, Red Sonja, and Vampirella; Valiant Entertainment, publisher
of Bloodshot, Ninjak, and X-O Manowar; as well as publishers Gemstone Publishing,
Lion Forge Entertainment, Paizo Publishing, Udon Entertainment and others.
Hardly are those words out When a vast
image out
of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands
of the desert A shape with
lion body and the head
of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows
of the indignant desert birds.
The Labrador retriever originated in 19th century Newfoundland where he was used by fishermen to haul nets, ropes and pull in fish while
images of the Rhodesian Ridgeback date back to the 18th century when the dog was first developed in what is now Zimbabwe and known as the African
lion hound because
of his ability to keep a
lion at bay while awaiting his master's arrival.
It is not clear why people believed in the fantasy nature
of this dog, but since there were no
lions in Tibet, people didn't have an accurate
image of what the African
lion looked like.
We know from works
of art depicting
images of small dogs in a very distinctive
lion trim, that the breed dates to the 14th century.
Neuroanatomy and brain structure volumes
of a live California sea
lion (Zalophus californianus) from magnetic resonance
images: utility in determining effects
of domoic acid.
We see
images of men, women, birds, beasts and perhaps most surprising
of all, sea mammals such as a giant whale or sea
lion.
When I think
of my visit to San Francisco this past spring a surge
of memories and
images come to mind, from experiencing Muir Woods to watching sea
lions bask in the sun at Pier 39 and exploring Yosemite to wandering its hilly streets, and I thought what better way to show my love for the Bay city than a photo essay showcasing San Francisco's life in the details.
Pictures at an Exhibition presents
images of one notable show every weekday.Today's show: «Dandy
Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity,» is currently on view at Museum
of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago until Sunday, July 12.
Executed in 1997, the year before Neshat won the Golden
Lion at the Venice Biennial, Shameless forms part
of the artist's iconic
images of the place
of women in the Islamic world.
Set to a spoken - word narrative about the creation
of the universe, Grosse Fatigue, among the first time - based works one encounters in curator Massimiliano Gioni's Arsenale (and the winner
of the Fifty - Fifth Venice Biennale's Silver
Lion), tracks the range
of such research agendas with an expanding field
of images that pop up, roil, collide, and implode across a computer screen, a digital tabula rasa that itself perpetually reinvents the world.
The group includes the classic
image of the Eastern wall
of Pu tuo zong cheng miao and general view
of Lion Valley and Qingchui Peak, described by Sven Hedin (the noted explorer and photographer) in 1935 as «a masterpiece
of a photograph» (see Harvard - Yenching Library, note on album page by Hedin).
Unfortunately, geometric
images can't compare with the beauty
of figurative cave art, as exemplified by the powerful bulls in the Lascaux cave paintings or the watching
lions in the Chauvet cave paintings.
«Reading
Images: Crow's Eye View» is a reflection on a series of images from Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, an upcoming exhibition that reprises work from the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Particip
Images: Crow's Eye View» is a reflection on a series
of images from Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, an upcoming exhibition that reprises work from the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Particip
images from Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, an upcoming exhibition that reprises work from the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale
of Architecture, which was awarded the Golden
Lion for Best National Participation.
Dubbed an «art world it girl» last week by the Wall Street Journal and adopted as a style icon in Vogue, Elle, and Vanity Fair, Camille Henrot blazed into view at the 2013 Venice Biennale, when she won the Silver
Lion for a promising young artist for her video Grosse Fatigue, an utterly fresh tour de force that melded
images of tribal objects, incantatory voice - over retellings
of creation myths, and the cut - and - paste visuality
of the Internet era.
With lyrics such as «By Allah we owe our lives to your mustache...» «Oh father
of the two
lions, oh father
of virility...» the clash between the beguiling, soft
images and the aggrandizing, triumphalist words is powerful and unsettling.
Recent exhibitions include: Crossing Abstraction, Kunstlerhaus Bethianen, Berlin, 2009, and the Kunsthaus and Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, Germany, 2012; At the Point
of Gesture, 2013 at the
Lion and Lamb gallery; After
Image (Emerson Gallery, Berlin 2013), and Without Edges There Would be No Middle, Pluspace, Coventry, UK, 2013.
Image by courtesy
of Lion and Lamb Gallery
One example
of this would be on Freysville Road in Red
Lion, as seen in the
image — look to the right, you'll see the sprawl
of new development just a few hundred yards from this long - standing home that's been lived in by the same family for decades.