Sentences with phrase «landscapes of places like»

This development can be seen in the floor sculptures Figure with Nganga (1984) and Untitled (1983 - 84), which show an affinity to works she made in the landscapes of places like Cuba, Iowa, and Mexico.

While images of extraordinary natural landscapes of places like Yosemite and Yellowstone pop to mind when talking of the national parks, there are a great deal of wonderful sites located in busy populated urban areas.

Scorching temperatures above 110 °F are more often associated with the stark landscapes of places like Death Valley than the cooler reaches of the Pacific Northwest.

Not exact matches

Now that it has implemented this suite of tools, the big challenge will be convincing small businesses, like your local carpenter, roofer, or family landscaping outfit, that they need to pay for such a thing in the first place.

But then days like yesterday happen and my trust in humankind surges; I find hope and faith in our place here as part of the multicultural American landscape; and I find solace in this city's diversity, which I hold so dear.

Their latest effort is COCO, a sweeping epic that predominantly takes place in a landscape not quite like any other we've ever seen: the Land of the Dead.

We're not sure of time and place, and at first it almost looks like a hip version of our present, as main protagonist Silas (Nicholas Hoult, Mad Max: Fury Road) wakes up in what appears to be a sleek bachelor pad with sweeping views of an urban landscape.

Taking place almost entirely at a remote hotel in the Turkish hinterland, built, like the nearby village, out of the undulating cliffs and hills of the landscape, like something out of Tolkein.

In an entertainment landscape where small, writerly projects tend to start from the outside and gaze intensely inward on the lives of its characters, Gerwig's stories begin with a self - focused character and then gives you a front row seat to how they projects themselves outwards, onto the people in their lives and the places they'd like to go.

These moments coupled with characters like Anthony Hopkins — Methuselah (Noah's grandfather), whose magical witch doctor episodes feel just as out of place and confused in the overall landscape of the film.

At its best, online learning can catalyze new heights of flexibility — in path, pace, place, space, and teacher - student interactions — amidst an education landscape that has long looked more like an industrial production line.

This shift is changing the landscape of traditional public schools in places like Miami - Dade County.

When you do your errands on a Saturday to the grocery, the big - box store, the landscaping place, and maybe the dog park, the Trax will seem like a miracle of practicality.

You watched structures that had been in place before your birth collapse like pillars of salt across the vast visible landscape — the farms of the Carolina Piedmont, the factories of the Mahoning Valley, Florida subdivisions, California schools.

I don't do it justice here, but it is typical McCarthy and may leave you, like me, thrilled with the clean prose and authentic depiction of young men in a time and place, and scrupulous attention to the tools and techniques of cowboys, horses, old woman cooks, Mexicans of many stripes, and the landscape of 1950's Texas and Mexico.

Overall ergonomics isn't bad though I wish the volume buttons remained on the right side like on the Lenovo S820 as the typical landscape orientation rests on the left side of the phone where the volume buttons are placed.

Just like with my view of pantsing vs. plotting, that opinion about readers» place in the publishing landscape isn't sacrosanct.

Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings.

In The Search, this manifests as an increasing sense of unreality that builds as Walker «tracks» his charge around what seems to be a fictional America, a bizarre landscape of places with names like Despond, Friendship, and Nemesis.

The one booktrailer that I liked had written text and landscape photos of places where the book was set.

One of the things that has always appealed to me about Hawaii is that unlike many other beautiful beach locations in the world, the natural beauty, volcanic landscapes, places to hike etc mean that, like you say, there is something for everyone around there.

The trees in many towns and cities along the East Coast come alive with colour, virtually every landscape you pass looks at its most rich and beautiful, and you'll miss the bulk of the summer crowds crushing into places like Las Vegas.

My family explored some of the most incredible landscapes I've ever seen in places like Bryce Canyon, Zion, and the Grand Canyon.

Our resort boasts amazing places to chill and enjoy the beautiful tropical landscapes around you, and a wide range of amenities for a memorable vacation while our staff makes you feel like royalty.

You'll also find otherworldly landscapes in places like Cappadocia, and out - of - this - world cuisine in just about every city you visit.

It's in a category of places I am resigned to visit in a life in pursuit of rare scale: in terms of physical size (like Angel Falls, barren Arctic landscapes and the Burj Khalifa), physical beauty (like the Karakoram range, the British Lake District and most of Kyoto) and in terms of history / age (Joya de Cerén, the Great Pyramids and Valletta, Malta).

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On the other side of the wall lies another wall, definitely worth exploring if the current allows it: Covered in soft coral, sponges, green tree coral and fans, it is the hiding place for many morays and puffers and it drops off into a flat lunar like landscape with whole gardens of whip corals, vibrating in the current.

She has been to places which have featured in paintings like Canaletto's «A view of Greenwich from River Thames» near London or Constable Country in Suffolk, United Kingdom, where John Constable painted his most famous landscapes.

For lovers of dramatic landscapes, places like Blyde River Canyon and the famous Garden Route are photographic gold.

Having said that the Connection decks do feel a little out place, like they were added as an afterthought to help make razing and deals more important in the landscape of the game.

After delving into the grittier parts of my soul (a place I do not like to frequent), I discovered why these ground breaking games are important to the gaming landscape.

At long last, players of ECO will no longer be stuck having to walk from place to place like an animal, but will be free to tear across the landscape of this ecologically focused game in a smoke - belching SUV.

You can give a sense of place, like a particular landscape, whether it's an American landscape or a British seascape, you can give that kind of suggestion and introduce the natural world as a context.

Approaching the grand scale historically reserved for landscape paintings, photographs like Andreas Gurksy's F1 Pit Stop III, Thomas Demand's Grotto, and Jeff Wall's In Front of a Nightclub, immerse the viewer in an expansive environment - physically placing the viewer within the space of the photograph.

Matt is a painter of interiors and plein - air landscapes in Baltimore, MD and further afield in places like Stonington, ME, New Brunswick, Canada, the Brittany region of France, and Umbria, Italy.

Given the mythic qualities of Switzerland's topography, it is surprising that the works included — videos by both young, lesser - known artists like Judith Albert, Nicolás Fernández, and Laurence Huber, and firmly established ones like Sylvie Fleury, Roman Signer, and Beat Streuli — do not necessarily reflect on a sense of place or on the history of landscape as an artistic genre but rather

Visits to the Virginia landscape would be the catalyst for his transformation of childhood memories into a metaphorical language of symbols and forms that constitute his inner vision, portrayed in lush, jewel - like tones that bring a new sense of sunlight to the artits's work.The chromatic brilliance of From a High Place, and the manner in which the linear shapes have dissolved into the atmosphere of the canvas is reminiscent of Kandinsky.»

These sculptural, stitched together surfaces, with their layers of painting and drawing, are like the palimpsests I seek in the landscape: strata of meaning and experience in a specific place.

The figures in Hummingbird exist in a mysterious landscape like actors on a stage; only the bare essentials of place are suggested.

The people are lovely with a dry and dark sense of humor and a deep belief in spirits, which is fitting for a place where the landscape feels like a presence.

Although she had been interested in modern and tribal art, by the time I started going to school in the mid-1940's she had fallen in love with the Hudson River School of landscape painters of the 19th Century whose paintings were auctioned off for a few dollars, literally, then at the various auction houses where we spent most Saturdays on University Place like Kalisky and Gabay and Lawners, and the nearby Astor over on Broadway.

Then after that, I'd like to take Michael Walton's advice and do a tour of the UK and turn my hand to some architecture and landscapes outside of the places I know.

This line of thought might be stimulated through «wisps» of memory, poetry and visual stimuli like a line of landscape, hints of rooftops, partly opened doors etc; possibly reawakening or holding a moment, a place, an event, a period, the vague recollection of something that is not quite tangible.

But in the case of a work like «Landscaping (Canyons),» 2010, an installation which was placed in the center of the gallery, it did.

Since the end of the 1940s, Peter Lanyon had adopted the dark structuring of flowing impressions that could be seen in the abstract landscapes of de Staël or Jean Bazaine, whose liking for those places where the sea mixes with the earth he shared, replacing the inspiration of Normandy or the Côte d'Azur with that of Cornwall.

«I saw the crosses so often — and often in unexpected places — like a thin dark veil of the Catholic church spread over the New Mexico landscape,» said Georgia O'Keeffe of the Southwestern territory near Taos, where she would eventually settle.

The background itself takes part in this duality, and despite its barren and neutral character, it succeeds nevertheless in becoming a place, surrounding the bodies, like a new type of natural landscape.

Tongue - in - cheek investigations of Herstory and Judy Chicago's «central core» imagery are playfully tweaked in large paintings that place abstracted fertility symbols within flat, poster - like landscapes worthy of a 1960s Supergraphic.

Young takes the ellipse shape as a starting place and uses it engagingly, whether as a cool gray screen through which we view a field of pinks and greens or as elements of sunny, landscape - like compositions.