Sentences with phrase «lack of human presence»

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.

Despite the dull colours and lack of human presence, even nearly a century later, Koester's pictures project something of the aura of the figure newspapers of the 1920s dubbed The Wickedest Man in the World.

And then one notices the emptiness - the lack of human presence in this familiar scene.

The artist has long exhibited a skill for realizing the beauty of a lack of human presence; as he puts in a release of the book, he is constantly «at war with the obvious.»

As though he were referencing French Existentialism, the lack of human presence is palpable and becomes a quality within the painting that, in turn, heightens the importance of the quotidian objects represented (i.e. the still life and the interior).

The ambiguous nature of time and lack of human presence suggest unresolved narratives.

Not exact matches

This lack of consistency in the treatment of humans points to the presence of divine caprice.

I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note of fear was «to emphasize human inadequacy, lack of understanding, and weakness in the presence of supreme divine action and its meaning.»

It is postulated that the discomfort arises due to the presence of alcohol molecules that can not be digested in the human body; primarily because the human body lacks the enzyme that breaks alcohol down.

The circular causality specific to the animal level, when applied, triggers and projects within the human level a correspondent circularity between the emotional violence and physical violence, grounded on the contradiction, lacking the presence of the included middle of the mind, between masculine, physical power and feminine, emotional power (Petrariu, 201

The circular causality specific to the animal level, when applied, triggers and projects within the human level a correspondent circularity between the emotional violence and physical violence, grounded on the contradiction, lacking the presence of the included middle of the mind, between masculine, physical power and feminine, emotional power (Petrariu, 2013).

The lack of fear of the human presence that most of the Galapagos animals display is one of the main attractions that pleasantly surprise visitors.