Sentences with phrase «lot of abstract»

This sounds a bit like the rehash of sixties modernist tropes that goes on in a lot of abstract painting at the moment, which is nowhere near as good as the original, which in itself was not up to all that much anyway...

My 1993 was looking at a lot of abstract painting from different generations, discovering amazing artists like Miguel Angel Rios and Charles Long, and reading two great books of the early 1990s, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces and John Ashbery's Flow Chart.

CJM: Yes, a lot of the abstract expressionists, and then, later, people who were just painting abstractly, felt closely aligned to jazz musicians.

You know, I was never cool enough for a lot of abstract painting exhibitions in the Eighties.

Those limits would seem to suit the sensibilities of a lot of abstract artists at the moment, who are happy to work to rules and regulations, and within the precincts of things we know about already; and this tendency chimes with a general heightened awareness of aesthetics and design - related issues.

It's an idea that a lot of abstract painters had and to me it's obsolete.

the main argument for me is that a lot of the abstract work currently being made is indefensible.

In those days a lot of abstract painters were making one image.

I tell them war stories of the museum, I worked at the Art Institute of Chicago in museum education for four years and I know why they don't have a lot of abstract art by African American artists.

Very light touch compared to a lot of abstract painting, with soft but vibrant colours and a more controlled energy.

I think that's probably the dilemma a lot of abstract painters face.

But we just went through this Zombie Formalism period, and a lot of those abstract painters who churned out tons of canvases to meet frenzied demand have now seen their markets disintegrate, and their reputations sink.

A lot of your abstract works are quite figurative in a way.

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

Anyone who has looked at a lot of abstract painting will suspect that, rather than transcending creative struggle, Lawlor has learned to camouflage it.

Even in grad school, there wasn't a lot of abstract painting.

«I'm not interested in illusionism, the way a lot of abstract artists are.

Parsing out crystallographic structures requires a lot of abstract computer calculations, «and these calculations can take years without you knowing... whether you're moving in the right direction or not,» Ban says.

The argument for dismantling the Reds didn't take a lot of abstract thought.

Yes, there is a lot of abstract, esoteric speculation going on there about the nature of God, but if we believe we are people made in the image of God, and especially if we also believe we are called to incarnate that image to the world, then that incarnated life will be, or at least should be, defined by the life of the God we claim to image.

I'm not religious, but I believe in a lot of abstract things like love and friendship and loyalty; so that's a bad thing because it doesn't put money in the collection plate?

There are lots of abstract painters around at the moment who love this stuff, and who are milking it, and bit by bit, unambitiously hollowing out abstract painting until it is borderline meaningless.

Not exact matches

A lot of people get bent out of shape about all the abstract concepts of theology, but at the end of the day it's just simply about learning what's true.

There are a lot of debates in the humanities about the relative influence of agency (the will and power of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more abstract concepts including things like social norms and expectations which are not formalized).

You have passage with a continual re-imprinting of pattern (space and time are abstracted a lot later).

The fabric is 100 percent cotton and it comes in... MORE lots of fun prints, from modern abstract to retro floral.

Here's an abstract for one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19076564 I only know this because I've done a lot of research on this because dealing with my first son scratching till he bled from eczema was kind of awful.

1) In the two for which there are only abstracts, I don't have a lot of info to go by.

You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, «We want to cut this,» is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than» [n - word], [n - word].»»

I want to give you a lot of personal details, with the hope that 1) you don't see me as just talking about this stuff as abstract political argumentation, and 2) maybe I get to contribute something new / different to a familiar debate.

For most physicists, space - time itself is a lot more abstract — a purely mathematical backdrop for the unfolding drama of the cosmos.

«There are a lot of overall shots where you see the whole pad or good portion of the structure, but I also wanted to photograph the nuances, the smaller details, the more abstract things, if you will — things you wouldn't necessarily notice.

Today, I translate a lot of medical materials — product information, user manuals, patient information, and clinical trial documentation — as well as more scientific items, such as research papers, abstracts, dissertations, and patents.

This is why the application of spatial and navigational memory to retain more abstract information works so well - and why there's potential for all of us to remember a whole lot more than we already do.

A lot of what we do on Hubble can feel abstract and intangible, since we can't actually go to the telescope or out in space to touch what we observe — so I like to do things that produce more tangible, immediate results.

A current PubMed abstract concluded that «fasting may be prescribed as a secure medical intervention in addition to a life - style routine which might enhance ladies's well being in lots of folds [18].

And there are lots of other posts complaining that Ornish's citations only go to abstracts, are too qualified with «may», and others charging that the tests were not done to differentiate people who exercised vs those who don't (meaning exercise trumps diet).

A lot of lipsticks promise that they're long - wearing, but in reality they smear or fade before you finish your first glass of wine or turn the lower half of your date's face into an abstract painting after one kiss.

Comprehension can be a more abstract activity, requiring lots of skill sets at once.

I love abstract nails, I don't like when they I see a lot of stencils where only pros can do it.

Speaking of graphics, then you can find lots of awesome designs completed with cool prints, caricature, abstract pictures, portrait pictures, catchy phrases and other artsy fronts.

However, a lot of prints can make you look like an abstract painting gone wrong.

Opening with a torrential rainstorm similar to the one that begins Suspiria, Toolbox Murders is, in fact, a fairly transparent Argento pastiche, though it plays a lot more like the English dub of one of the director's many late - career misfires than like classic Argento: the poor exposition is corny instead of poetically abstract (ditto the chasms in logic); the big bad's motive is maddeningly simple yet inscrutable; and the technique has minor virtues as opposed to being virtuoso.

In a movie about Lincoln, especially one as (blessedly) focused on this period of his life, lots of debate about slavery as an abstract political topic is unavoidable.

Both leadership and learning are relatively «soft» and abstract areas, which provide a lot of space for generalizations, such as being treated as global or universal, which needs to be debated.

«Getting better at maths» is a lot more abstract than «reaching level 10 and unlocking a new power», and so it can be difficult for younger children to get the same sense of achievement from their progress.

The main benefits of Talk a Lot are: • Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way • Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons • Students learn how to construct eight different common verb forms, using positive, negative and question forms, as well as embedded grammar appropriate to their level.

The main benefits of Talk a Lot are: • Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way • Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons

Hans Arp created mainly organic abstract sculptures, but also Dada poetry, paintings, graphic art, collages and a lot of art - statements in his many art - publications.

Both provide a progressive set of strategies based on a concrete, pictorial, abstract (CPA) approach and provides lots of images and examples to enable teachers to apply this in their classrooms.