Sentences with phrase «mythological figures in»

Aurally enlivened by Florian Hecker's electro - acoustic video piece Chimerization (2012), this room also includes four larger - than - life size phosphorescent drawings of mythological figures in various stages of historical evolution: a cave man with club in hand, drawn in 2012 by French illustrator Thibaud Herem, is juxtaposed with Francois Dallegret's 1968 schematic design for a cosmonaut suit for a Vitruvian man of sorts.

For many centuries religious / mythological figures in particular — for instance, Adam and Eve — were used in painting as a way to represent the naked body, usually a controversial, prohibited subject.

This waistcoat is made from pure Hermès scarf silk and features the «Torana» design with peacocks, elephants and mythological figures in russet, dove blue and shades of beige on a midni...

Chiron says there is a statue of what Greek mythological figure in Rockefeller Center?Prometheus

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But especially because you obviously have no concept of what «blasphemy» is... The fellow you judged didn't take your Jesus» name in vain, he just used the name as part of his conversation while talking about the mythological figure himself...

The setting of the myth reflects a conventional Hindu plot: the divine power emerges through a process of transposition of heads.27 Furthermore, the mythological characters contained in this song present easily identifiable figures from common Hindu stories that are fairly well - known in South India.

Reading all the comments, frankly why people should take some mythological figures and ancient history made out in mordern times to hate a section of people, frankly who knows how Jesus was and what exactly the «Jews» did to him 2000 years back, these are just stories made up in the minds of people.

Thus the peculiarity of the New Testament is that it speaks in mythological language of an historical figure and of the history of that figure.

This is a lengthy video but debunks comparison of Jesus to other mythological figures very well in great detail.

Usually the one who dies and rises is a mythological figure, such as Osiris in the Isis cult.

The sooner humans cast off this remant and actually see the amazing beauty and power in the universe as naturally occuring and not the work of some mythological figure (s), the better off we'll all be.

Further, faith is faith in the eschatological act of God in Jesus Christ, but that God has acted in Jesus Christ is not a fact of past history open to historical verification, and this is shown by the way in which the New Testament describes the figure and work of Christ in mythological — not historical — terms.

«14 Miller's polytheism springs from a psychology in which a number of mythological figures populate a collective unconscious that patterns the behavior of both individuals and their societies.

In Fred Saberhagen's Swords series, Ardneh is a mythological figure who fought the great demon Orcus to protect humanity from his ravages.

From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery graves, to Biblical figures like Delilah, whose betrayal led to Samson's enucleation and ultimate death, the femme fatale has taken on many forms in literature, art and other mediums.

An excellent all star cast lend their voices to figures from mythological childhood figures such as Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Jack Frost (Chris Pine) and the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), each with extraordinary abilities, that are sent by the Man in the Moon to protect the children of the earth from the evil Pitch (aka The Boogyman - voiced by Jude Law).

Even down to Eric Roberts, in a fascinating five - minute turn as the doomed Wolfmann: part Germanic bogeyman, part pathetic victim of a deep betrayal, part mythological figure.

In March 2017, Aston Martin revealed that the car would be named Valkyrie, after the Norse mythological figure.

Warner cunningly parses the undercurrents of hate and fear in today's multicultural metropolises by interleaving the spellbinding, time - warping tale of a seemingly mythological figure, Leto, a self - sacrificing mother and unwanted refugee, into a wickedly incisive contemporary plot involving a young man who claims to be in contact with the goddess of the displaced and disenfranchised whose name is, of course, Leto.

Now on Earth, Atlas is walking through notable periods of time, meeting various historical and mythological figures, all of whom have been depicted (in real life) in paintings and other works of art, such as statues or books — from the likes of Henry VIII, to Medusa, to William Wallace and a demon that blew up Mount Vesuvius.

The real colour, however, comes from the deities and mythological figures who hijack these conversations, akin to your mother picking up the phone in the other room while you're on the line with your flame.

Join thousands of players in this RPG Multiplayer Battle Card Game that will transport you into a world dominated by Dragons and Medieval mythological figures!

In this mythological subject, he based the exuberantly contoured figures and complex, dance - like composition on the style of sixteenth - century Italian Mannerism and its nineteenth - century French heir, Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres.

Based on the theme of John Milton's Paradise Lost, they are a fusion of Indian mythological figures, hybrids of man and beast, warring in landscapes inspired by quattrocento and Renaissance painting.

Shōhaku transformed more conventional representations of the dragon found in the traditional Japanese mythological figures of the Cloud and Dragon paintings into fantastical images where the mythological being verged between hideous monster and an abstract anamorphic form.

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate traditional brocade fabrics into their surfaces, often becoming the skins of beasts, the bark of trees, or the garments of mythological figures.

He soon developed a series of full - length mythological figures culminating in 2010 in an 18 - metre - high figure of Hercules, cast in aluminium, mounted on top of an office high - rise in the former mining town of Gelsen - kirchen in the Ruhr region.

Together with a number of life - size figures, the found materials make up the decor for a mythological journey of self - destruction to rebirth in an apocalyptic tableau.

From portraits, figure studies, and landscapes to mythological and biblical narratives, the drawings represent a dynamic array of sacred and secular subjects in media ranging from metalpoint, pen and ink, and chalk to graphite, pastel, and charcoal.

What / Why: «This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.

Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...

On display will be Will Delvoye's famous Twisted Dump Truck in laser - cut laced stainless steel, a never before shown series of bas - reliefs, alongside new bronze sculptures, mirroring themselves, reiterating the principle of Rorschach plates, that reactivate the mythological figures of, for instance, the XIXè s. French artists Antonin Mercié («Gloria Victis Rorschach») and Emile André Boisseau («La Jeunesse Rorschach»).

The rare Satyr line of tables was inspired by images of the Greco - Roman mythological figure: part - man, part - horse, with a notably long tail, and in many renderings, equine legs and hooves.

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate into their surfaces traditional brocade fabrics, which often become the skins of beasts, the bark of trees or the garments of mythological figures.

Paradoxically, the surface created with thousands of bullets on each figure cloaks the animal in a golden glowing skin that brings to mind mythological beings or armored warriors.

He proved that he could paint any subject he chose, and his oeuvre was marked by consummate treatments of the human figure, both nude and clothed, still lifes, portraits, interiors, religious and mythological subjects, drapery and colored papers as subjects in themselves, and to a lesser extent landscapes and cityscapes.

Named after constellations that were in turn named after mythological figures, each painting is filled with movement, longing, seduction and elusiveness, evoking messy human encounters as well as the mysteries of stargazing.

However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting — for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

An early exponent of Symbolism, and an influential figure in French painting of the 19th century, the artist Gustave Moreau was known for his visionary style of mythological painting and imaginative history painting.

It was after 1900 that his most characteristic works were created — idyllic scenes of elegant nude figures and mythological creatures gracefully grouped in frieze compositions before stark Romantic landscapes — e.g., «Crescendo» (1910; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City).

During these early years (1820s), landscape painting was divided into two schools or styles: the Italianate Neoclassical school of Southern Europe which promoted idealized imaginary views often populated with mythological, or biblical figures; and a more realistic school derived from the Dutch Realist tradition - more popular in England and Northern Europe - which remained faithful to the real nature rather than the idyllic version.