Sentences with phrase «of human forms»

The abstract works began to reveal the presence of human forms within them, and his two artistic approaches merged in 1945's Pink Angels, one of his first significant contributions to abstract expressionism.

Shantamani Muddaiah's outdoor charcoal sculpture Backbone, 2014, shaped to resemble spinal vertebrae recalled the very origins of human forms, while Aji VN's textured charcoal and water color drawings Untitled II, 2014, showcased the horizon meeting the ocean in a gesture of celestial confederation.

The solo exhibition features Ben Schonzeit's collage and sculptural work, including abstract figurations of human forms.

These abstract pieces continued to reveal the presence of human forms within them for the entirety of the painter's career.

Soon, A.R. Penck was enjoying a worldwide attention for his paintings with pictographic, primitivist imagery of human forms and other totemic designs.

This eight - foot sculpture depicts a series of human forms, with different animal heads, clinging to the branches of a giant bonsai and looking at the moon.

Accurate depictions of people do not seem to have played a part in the local rituals: the closest representations of human forms in the tombs are the very crude faces on the menhirs and the curious bone pendants with budlike arms and heads.

God is with us, not in awe and majesty, but in that most accessible of human forms, the baby who reaches out for our embrace.

Aphro - dite by Praxiteles and David by Michelangelo, some may see the beauty of the human form, some the genius of the scu - lptor and some, like you, would only see the nu - dity as por - no - graphy.

Such the design of a human form / that via meditation one can then attain spiritual enlightenment.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

With enormous economy of line and with great care for the power of the human form, Rembrandt tells the story of the Prodigal in ways that we have never heard it or seen it before.

As with cannibalism we are confronted with the most direct challenge to basic notions about the dignity of the human form.

They took pleasure in nature and in the beauty of the human form.

It is made of ThermoMold Suspension which utilizes molded foam so ergonomically advanced that it virtually matches every contour of the human form.

Many more people may be at risk of this human form of BSE, experts warn.

To corroborate the findings, the researchers also developed a novel mouse model that was deficient for autophagy specifically in beta cells with expression of the human form of islet amyloid polypeptide.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

What's missing, of course, is the great Buddha of Bamiyan: It, and a slightly smaller neighboring Buddha, were dynamited by the Taliban, who considered representations of the human form idolatrous and offensive.

These images from the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine collection show barbers moonlighting as surgeons and elegant — if anatomically incorrect — artistic renditions of the human form.

To excel as a yoga teacher and practitioner, it is imperative to study the internal, as well as the external layers of a human form in detail with reference to yoga.

With gusto, she shares her passion and curiosity for the nuts and bolts of human movement and the complexity and mystery of the human form.

Set in the last years of the 21st century, the discovery of ancient cave drawings across the planet cries out for, what else, an intergalactic expedition across the universe to discover the origins of human form.

After its disarmingly affecting, cold and downbeat opening, it erupts into a ripping, tearing, twisting, snapping tribute to the forcible malleability of the human form.

The handling of the BDSM sex play is dreadfully cliched in terms of structure (3 heated romps and a final dramatic one); however, the actual presentation of the «love scenes» recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Nine 1/2 Weeks), favoring artsy close - ups of human form, curve and the intimate sensations of touch, feel and response, rather than the raw carnality seen in something like Basic Instinct (my generation's landmark erotic thriller movie).

• To investigate and interpret a variety of selected artists and discuss their sense of place of human form • To study drawings with reference to their visual literacy and the formal elements (tone, texture, colour, line, form).

Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation in and out of human form, as an outcast girl becomes a hunted woman whose ultimate survival depends on the most startling transfiguration of them all.

Michael has displayed his quirky, multidisciplinary approach to science in books such as 2003's Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Viking) and Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, which was selected as one of NPR's Best Science Books of 2007.

A shadow of a human form, which possesses more corporeality than I do.

With their strange shapes, soulless eyes, and exaggerated smiles, these re-imaginings of the human form make a mockery of all that is good and holy in humanity.

His paintings started featuring anatomical drawings at various depths of the human form: outer skin and hair in one rendering, subcutaneous musculature in the next, skeleton in another.

Kreiger writes: «While at first glance this show seems to be a simple set of paintings exploring different approaches to the expression of the human form from the 1960s to the present, the way this exhibit has been curated creates endless curiosities and surprises.

His installations also include birds and examinations of the human form.

George Segal was an American painter and sculptor known for sculptural explorations of the human form interacting with surrounding environments.

Whether capturing a detail of a budding orchid or the movement of human form, Cleary has the ability to render every strand of hair, emotional feeling, and flicker of light.

When viewed within the context of the larger studies to which they belong, the photographs demonstrate the artist's career - long fascination with the monumental and performative potential of the human form.

The Bachelor's Astray (1972), which catches cigarette ends in the bottom half of a female bust, presents an uncomfortable combination of human form and commodity object.

This powerful contemplation of the human form is evident in previously unseen paintings by Yoshitomo Nara, Kehinde Wiley and Jiro Takamatsu.

This melding of the contemporary and classical dance repertoire gave her the tools to study and be inspired by the perfection of the human form telling a story.

Through her portrayals of human form, north poses a question about the visibility of the queer body, and whether who we are determines the paths we embark upon.

Untitled is a bold example of the artist's depiction of the human form that progresses seamlessly from his earlier forays into landscape and abstraction.

Rather than perfect renderings of a human form, Demetz's sculptures trace imperfections of wood carving while suggesting various versions of endurance.

By the 1950s he was recognized as one of the leaders of Abstract Expressionism, though some purists of the style thought his paintings (such as his Woman series) included include too much of the human form.

Her paintings and drawings, often devoted to depictions of the human form, are typically culled from a vast archive of images collected by the artist, including art historical materials, mass media sources, and personal snapshots of friends and family.

Both Schiele and Saville are best known for their expressive, personal, and often extreme depictions of the human form, and especially for their self - portraits.

In her drawings and sculptures, Langdon Graves depicts disembodied parts of the human form, homing in on eyes, ears, and teeth, and manipulating them with meticulous technical skill.

I hope that viewers are able to see something of themselves and those they love in each painting, be it in the glance of an eye, the bend of a knee and an elbow, the smile on a face elated or the absence of human form where animals convey similar glances.

Works were selected for their disquieting representation of the human form in totality or in parts.

London's Graham Hunter Gallery is currently exhibiting and selling lithographs by Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso, in the exhibition; Abstactors of the Human Form, on until 28 February.

The title series of the exhibition, Synthesa, continues Wurm's investigations of volume and abstraction of the human form.