Sentences with phrase «metaphor for the human»

The act of swimming the length of a pool can be taken as a metaphor for human life.

But, below the surface, they are — like all great sci - fi — sharp social allegories and metaphors for human nature and real anxieties.

The only way it can even possibly hold up under its own weight is if you throw the concept of original sin out entirely, spin it as something like «this is a metaphor for humans achieving sentience,» and in the process lose the entire purpose and mission of Jesus.

It is a metaphor for human life.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

In a skilful reading of the way the dingo has entered Aboriginal stories and mythology, Meryll Parker, whose PhD thesis was on the animal, shows how it appears in myths as a fitting metaphor for humans, capable of love, affection, good parenting, loyalty and cooperation.

«That's a very powerful metaphor for human interaction.»

It's tempting to see these creatures as cartoon characters, caricatures of ourselves, done up as clowns or, more seriously, as metaphors for the human condition.

It's tennis - playing - style as (obvious) metaphor for human relationships.

The term «The Law of the Jungle» is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894)-- though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

Returning to the years immediately following his move to New York City in 1958, the exhibition illustrates the ways Dine incorporated household objects ---- often loaded with autobiographical import ---- into his paintings and sculptures as extensions of and metaphors for the human body.

I am thinking of objects in nature such as rocks, water, branches or a big fat sun / moon - as part of the narrative in these paintings and acting as metaphor for human interaction and strength of feeling.

Texas - based artist Melissa Miller is widely known for her expressionistic paintings that use animals as metaphors for human dramas and dilemmas.

Under Schendel's hand - one undoubtedly shaped by the persecution and political unrest so prevalent in the first half of the 20th Century - language is presented not just as a communicative device, but rather a wider visual metaphor for human existence.

Downey's works are meditations on the act of mirroring and on the fact that sign, symbols, and art itself are mirrors or metaphors for human consciousness.

As the territory of birth, love, illness, and death and as the most anthropomorphic shape in the history of all civilizations, the bed a much - reproduced object in art and a common metaphor for the human condition.

In a review of his work, artist Jane Denison wrote, «Using the physical elements as a metaphor for human emotion and experience, Rea portrays nature as pulsating energy that is both majestic and threatening.»

These powerful creatures in whimsical scenes are a metaphor for the human experience, demonstrating the balance between having fun and giving life purpose.

His Flying Garden works imagine parallel agricultural modules, at present housing species of Spanish moss that receive necessary nutrition from the atmosphere - they are «air - sufficient,» an apt metaphor for the human self - sufficiency that his project hopes to engender.

With a knowing nod to this fascination with animals as both forces of nature and metaphors for human behavior, Stingel replaces the sublime vistas of the alpine landscape with colossal vignettes of the species that inhabit it.

Resolving the multiple meanings of this sculptural piece, it could be a metaphor for the human tragedy and the cycle of rebirth, but also indicates the strength of the Jewish tradition that has been threatened throughout history.

She frequently uses archaeological objects as a metaphor for the human mind and there is a clear exploration of the human psyche and a search for material that is repressed.

The boundary between actor and viewer, reality and illusion becomes blured through aspects of stage and theatre which act as metaphors for human interaction.more

In Big Windows: Skin: Portals, Nicola López draws on her recent monumental installation In Gentle Defiance of Gravity and Form at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, to explore architecture as a metaphor for the human experience on both societal and individual levels.

He has a profound fascination with Gothic architecture, particularly cathedrals, which he sees as a metaphor for the human desire for spirituality.

In this exhibition the curator uses the mouth as a metaphor for the human body's capability of processing information.

He carved out sections of buildings with a power saw in order to reveal their hidden construction, to provide new ways of perceiving space, and to create metaphors for the human condition.

Instead, he began to believe in the autonomy of the art object, namely that the object's purpose was not to serve as a metaphor for human life, but to have a strong formal life of its own, something he frequently called specificity.

The exhibition which features of years of work which crystallizes themes Cavener has been exploring using her stoneware sculpture of ominous animals as metaphor for human behavior.

These constructions are based on the image of the house as a metaphor for the human body or human cosmology.

Korean artist Kimsooja has become an impressive international presence with work that uses fabric and sewing as metaphors for the human experience.

The fact that hermit crabs occupy shells discarded by other species is another source of interest to the artist, who sees in this special relationship a metaphor for our human condition.

In her works, buttons and pins become more than mundane, mass - produced items; they are transformed into metaphors for human freedom.

This exhibition is an examination of seeing, where optics — the study of sight and the behavior of light — is a metaphor for the human ability to derive insight from abstract concepts.

The result is a construction whose fragility becomes a poetic metaphor for the human condition.

Painting, especially abstract painting, is an inescapable metaphor for the human body.

At Gambler Hirst presented what some critics consider his best work, A Thousand Years, containing a life cycle of flies within two vitrines, which can be seen as a metaphor for human existence.

Using the head as a metaphor for human experience, Dunning's work reflects a romantic sensibility that recalls the gothic literature of Mary Shelley or the poetic drama of Greek mythology.

The thought - provoking sculptures and paintings seduce with their surfaces as a metaphor for human appearances, but challenge viewers to look closely at a person and go beyond skin deep.

Celestian views nature as a metaphor for human experiences and emotional states of being.

From Aesop's Fables and medieval bestiaries to Kafka's Metamorphosis and Joseph Beuys» dead hare, artists and writers have found powerful metaphors for the human experience in the animal kingdom, spelling out the ways of humankind in our most raw, instinctual and unselfconscious forms.

It's a sinister metaphor for the human condition, and one that brings us straight to the core of McCarthy's credo.

In so doing, she evokes stories of human hardship and redemption, as well as a larger metaphor for the human odyssey and our relationship with the environment.

Objects in nature - rocks, water, branches or an oversized sun / moon - stand in as figures and act as metaphor for human interaction and strength of feeling.

The paintings could be read as metaphors for human encounters and thought patterns, or opposing forces in life.

Pard Morrison, who says that the fusion of surface and medium in his paintings is a metaphor for the human condition, describes his work as a hypothetical conversation between Donald Judd and Agnes Martin.

And we are really using that boldness as a bigger message, as a metaphor for us humans: that if walruses and bears can figure out a way to adapt and survive and carry on in this warming world, then why can't we do the same in our lives?

Not exact matches

Fairy tales without consequence also lose the potential for metaphor — in interpretation, werewolves» involuntary transformations could symbolize countless human realities, from mental and physical illness to fear of our own sinful natures.

The metaphor of God's substitution is the only one of the familiar theories of atonement that provides for the full failed weight of human aspiration.

The dominant model has been monarchical; the classical picture employs royalist, triumphalist metaphors, depicting God as king, lord, and patriarch, who rules over and cares for the world and human beings.