Sentences with phrase «objects move toward»

The first can be measured by studying changes in the wavelength of light, called Doppler shifts, as objects move toward or away from Earth.

Not exact matches

This idea governs Kandinsky's call for painting to move away from the representation of objects toward works that arise from the artist's «inner need» (CSA 29ff.).

The theological school is the center where both types of intellectual activity are carried on: the kind that, supported by other actions, moves directly toward the objects of the Church's love and the kind that supports the other movements toward those objects.

Help your baby get onto his or her hands and knees, put a favorite toy out of reach, and encourage your baby to move toward the desired object.

You can help your child by providing a safe place to practice moving and lots of interesting objects to reach for or move toward.

When you push these objects away from you, they instead move toward you.

Since the 1950s astronomers have solved this problem using «kinematic distances,» calculations that treat objects in the Milky Way a bit like pieces of flotsam spiraling into a whirlpool; because things tend to move faster as they approach the center, measuring how fast an object is moving toward or away from us yields an estimate of its distance from the galactic center — and thus from our solar system.

But the technique breaks down for peering directly across the galaxy, where objects do not move toward or away from us at all but rather purely perpendicularly to our line of sight.

Light rays emanating from a distant object behind a cluster pass through the distorted space - time, which causes the rays to bend and converge as they move toward an observer.

In the film criticism that I have come to practice over some twenty years, correct description is as necessary as hitting all the right notes... One is to ride an impulsive move toward whatever draws one to something in the object — a colour, a gesture, a phrase, an edit point, a glance, a rhythm, a whatever.

Then she brought in objects to match with pictures, moving toward more abstraction slowly.

Listen to 7th graders define perimeter as «adding up all the numbers,» and watch as their teacher struggles, often unsuccessfully, to move these students toward more appropriate understandings: that perimeter is actually the distance around an object, relates to the words border and surrounding, and is a special case of measuring length.

Since they are sight hounds and are oblivious to verbal commands, they will move toward an object on the horizon.

Ask the dog to «watch» you and slowly move toward the object.

The idea of having these huge mysterious objects, which in reality contained large dungeons, moving about and drawing players toward them seemed interesting.»

It took me many years to get from this artist's form to his content, but now I see that move as a necessary step toward understanding the exceptional lives his familiar objects live.

Thinking through reading and walking, pages and spaces, words and objects, this panel looks toward the moment in which writing — as inscription, mark making, framing — moves from privately written word to publicly constructed experience.

He discusses Pop Art's place in art history; his initial feelings about being considered a Pop artist; the influence of Los Angeles and its environment on his work; his feelings about English awareness of America; a discussion of his use of words as images; a discussion of the Standard Station as an American icon; a discussion of the notion of freedom as it is perceived as a Southern California phenomenon; how he sees himself in relation to the Los Angeles mural movement (L.A. Fine Arts Squad); the importance of communication to him; his relationship with the entertainment world in Los Angeles and its misinterpretation of him; his books; collaboration with Mason Williams on «Crackers;» his approach toward conceiving an idea for paintings; personal feelings about the books that he has done; the importance of motion in his work; a discussion of the movies «Miracle» and «Premium;» his friendship with Joe Goode; his return from Europe and his studio in Glassell Park; his move to Hollywood in 1965; the problems of balancing the domestic life and the artistic life; his stain paintings and what he hopes to learn from using stains; a disscussion of bicentemial exhibition at the L.A. County Museum: «Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties,» 1981; a discussion of the origin of L.A. Pop as an off shoot from the American realist tradition; his feelings about being considered a realist; the importance for him of elevating humble objects onto the canvas; a discussion on how he chooses the words he uses in his paintings; and his feelings about the future direction of his work.

His voluptuous silk screens and thornily congested combines, bristling with found images and objects of all sorts, helped loosen the stranglehold of Abstract Expressionism and moved American art toward the lively new frontiers of pop art, conceptualism, even an environmental consciousness (his paintings made with live grass, an installation of bubbling mud).

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Fine and decorative arts objects have been high on the Cleveland Museum of Art's wish list, and through purchases from endowment funds the institution has acquired the 15th - century Byzantine icon The Mother of God and Infant Christ, which has been attributed to icon painter Angelos Akotantos; a 1977 abstract painting, Rho I, by Jack Whitten; contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing's 1985 woodcut Five Series of Repetition: Moving Cloud (Yi - yun); and William Turner's ca. 1850 watercolor A View from Moel Cynwch: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris.