Sentences with phrase «like urban landscapes»

Although Freud has occasionally shifted his attention to other subjects like urban landscapes, it is the fleshy body of nudes that continue to occupy his attention.

«Ultimately it is my hope,» Berding says, «that the paintings, like urban landscapes, teem with a sort of double consciousness, a prevailing sense of both, the future - present and the ever - present past.»

Like any urban landscape, artists stayed so intimate and yet so contentious, so allied in their sense of purpose and so chaotic in how they assembled.

Not exact matches

The interface takes on the three - dimensional form of whatever you are looking at, be it a pie chart or an urban landscape — like a high - tech raised - relief map.

Urban heat islands are the result of replacing the natural landscape, such as vegetation and waterways, with heat - absorbing materials like concrete or asphalt.

And since millennials tend to favor fresh, organic ingredients and transparent practices, «fast casual» restaurants like Chipotle and Shake Shack have taken over the urban restaurant landscape.

Not knowing enough about art to be able to describe it, I guess I'd have to say in terms of paintings or photography I like geometric designs, urban landscapes, and colors.

When you lose track of just what everyone's fighting for, what rooting interest do we have, as we sit silently and stare like mindless, drooling idiots as urban landscapes get torn up by robots that are nearly indecipherable from one another?

I like these kinds of stories, where shades of grey predominate the (here, urban) landscape.

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.

In the time it takes the Corvette to hit second gear, broad mansions are replaced by the urban - porn blight and return - to - prairie landscape that have become Detroit's signature curse — so surreal that it's like being wrenched into a new dream in Inception.

And it was the success of the Qashqai that inspired Nissan to follow up with a little brother in the shape of the «I'm ugly but I'm funky» Nissan Juke, which looks a bit like a four - wheeled bug prowling the urban landscape, but which is actually a good little car.

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.

This lively island is both urban and untamed, flaunts rain forest - like landscapes, white beaches, amazing caves and wildlife: a perfect place to get some rest and enjoy.

At the core of his work is an exploration of modernist design and the public realm - his installations recall archetypal 20th century landscapes, such as playgrounds, urban parks, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby as well as modernist interior motifs and familiar objects like fireplaces and lamps presented in entirely new forms.

«Like the natural environment I once captured on film, I began to understand that the urban landscape was continually evolving but at a pace of life that was fleeting and temporary.»

One would miss the inspiration he, like the New York School, drew from the new urban landscape.

We drove on, Marshall taking us through the intersection of Pershing and Indiana a few blocks north, and I recognized it as the vista that appears in his 2003 painting «7 am Sunday Morning,» an urban landscape painting with, in its blurred passing car, a nod to one of Marshall's favorite painters, Gerhard Richter, but which moreover showcases the real storefronts of Rothschild Liquors and, adjoining it, Your School of Beauty Culture, the latter of which I stared at in something like wonder.

His first collaged paintings grew out of this process; these abstract grid - like images recall a night sky or aerial view of an urban landscape.

The narrative that they came up with — semi-crazed breakdancers with LED lights threaded through their clothing make their way through urban desolation after electricity has disappeared — combines aspects of movies like «28 Days Later» with first - rate documentary reportage of the havoc the storm rent on the urban landscape.

Like much of Gaillard's work, the film is a meditation on the ways in which traumatic events of recent history can be read in — or have been memorialised by — urban or «natural» landscapes, architecture and public space.

In the US, particularly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, photographers like Aaron Siskind, who documented graffiti, or Harry Callahan, who creatively used double exposure, moved from documentary to intrinsic qualities of photography, exploring urban landscape.

Playing with both color and shape, Ms. Jiménez's works are like abstract maps of a futuristic urban landscape.

Since then he has focused on projects like dancing, facial expressions of emotions and urban landscapes.

... As he translates the rhythms of the urban landscape into increasingly abstract terms, without ever fully abandoning a figurative impulse, Bradford deftly operates at the intersection of abstraction and representation like few before him.

Creating stunning oil paintings of the urban landscape from a pedestrian's perspective, he likes to choose different times of the day — particularly dusk and dawn — to play with the light, and show different sides to the city that never sleeps.

One of the greatest photographers of the postmodern age, the German camera artist Andreas Gursky specializes in large - format panoramic urban landscape and architectural compositions, often digitally manipulated, featuring apartment blocks, skyscrapers, sports grounds, streets, squares, and the like.

[5] Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present.

His hard edge compositions feel at once dominant and subdued, like the built environment of an urban landscape devoid of organic activity.

Even so, his central interests will make themselves clear; expect intricate urban landscapes, a close attention to repetition and patterning, subtle references to consumer culture, and an abiding interest in controversial figures like the infamous 1970s terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

Dunkerley, whose most recent solo show, Where Things Go at Joe Bar last year, was moored in obsessive compulsive wordplay, has illustrated a series of detailed gouache landscapes depicting dystopic urban design and architecture, like a valley uniformly planted with vertiginously vertical high - rise apartment buildings (LeCorbusier Kundig).

In line with the ups and downs of Irish prosperity, at least in places like Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Belfast, landscape artists were employed to record views of the urban landscape by which to appreciate the growth and architectural detail of the city.

In this transformation of the «intimate proportions» of the woman's body into landscape - like abstract composition, de Kooning pursued a strategy similar to that of his friend Franz Kline, who used an opaque projector to enlarge details of his own urban genre paintings into the mural - scale, black - and - white abstractions that became his signature achievement» (J. Zilczer, A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning, New York, 2014, p. 132).

Inspired by the ever changing urban landscape, demographics of a megapolis like «New Moskva» where lots of different kinds of people come through with lots of communications, information and energy.

In the Whitney project for example — in which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking district.

Born 1972, Baltimore, Maryland / Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Drawing from cast - off materials that litter the urban landscape, Shinique Smith's sculptures compress the lives of the objects she ties together»» clothing, textiles, shoes and stuffed toys; with twine, ribbon and the like.

He uses found materials like flyers from a lamppost, but deploys them in deconstructed bits for use in his layered, textured multimedia works, creating what L.A. Times critic Carolina Miranda has called «works that channel urban landscapes that have been constructed and obliterated, only to be constructed and obliterated again.»

Highlights this week included Pinaree Sanpitak's Mats and Pillows and Vessels, a relaxing escape from the urban landscape with a sitting area installation that invites visitors to take a moment to sit and enjoy their surroundings in a zen - like matter, amongst a series of the artist's ever - varying geometric vessel drawings.

Works like For Sale and Dead End 2014 also take their inspiration from the city, in this case the ubiquitous advertising signs and warning notices that populate the urban landscape.

Learn about wide - ranging topics, including architecture, urban planning, landscape, graphic, multi-media, product, furniture design, fashion, and the like.

Rediscover this important and overlooked master, praised for his artistic skill in both oil and pastel, as well as for the variety of his subjects: sympathetic images of women, jewel - like landscapes, views of urban parks, and scenes of children at play.

Martin Boyce is best known for his atmospheric installations recalling archetypal 20th - century landscapes, such as the urban park, the abandoned garden and the corporate lobby, as well as modernist interior motifs and objects like fireplaces and lamps.

Municipal authorities increasingly understand the role (intra - and peri --RRB- urban farmers can play in environmental management (like the recycling of urban wastes, urban stormwater management, lowering urban temperatures and dust, maintaining urban biodiversity) while innovative farmers in and around cities are offering nowadays a variety of recreational services (staying on farm, horse riding, etcetera), playing a role in maintaining the cultural landscape and other services (e.g., on farm care for elderly people or with people with a psychological, eco-education,...) in response to the demands of citizens and city region managers.

Similarly, the State Water Resource Control Board's Storm Water Program wants us to approach urban landscapes like natural watersheds that slow the flow of water and allow it to be absorbed into the ground.

It is a public space made from the remnants of a privately owned blighted property, like those that still litter the landscape across rural Alabama and so many other parts of America, urban and rural alike.

With rich colors, life - like white balance, and excellent rendering of both highlights and shadow details, images of landscapes and urban scenes alike are pleasing to the eye.

Meanwhile, residents who live in both rural and urban areas are being urged to cut back their water use, stop washing their vehicles as often, replace lawns with desert - like landscaping and replace washing machines and dishwashers with more efficient appliances.