Sentences with phrase «of paintings studies»

Among the works presented here is the series of paintings Studies into the Past.

In 1999, Vancouver based artist Mina Totino completed a series of painting studies based on these final scenes of fire, smoke, floating appliances and up scale commodities bound for cathartic destruction.

Not exact matches

New studies are painting a far more complex picture of this favorite pastime of bored schoolchildren and office workers everywhere.

A report by Lloyd's and the University of Cambridge, which studied the insurance implications of a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid, paints a financial, economic and public health nightmare.

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

«I'd come home and find her painting our kitchen cabinets instead of studying.»

Mona Lisa is the result of the artist - scientist's studies of anatomy: da Vinci «peeled flesh off of the faces of cadavers, delineated the muscles that move the lips, and then painted the world's most memorable smile,» Isaacson writes in the opening of his new book.

According to a 2015 study that examined thousands of Facebook users, what you do on the social network — specifically what you choose to «like» — might paint a better picture of you than even your friends can.

A new study conducted for the Broadbent Institute by Richard Shillington and Robin Shaban entitled The Brass Tax: Busting Myths About Overtaxed Canadians, provides compelling evidence that the Fraser Institute's findings are problematic and paint a deceptive picture of typical Canadian tax rates.

However, when you take a closer look at the Legg - Mason 2017 Global Investment Survey, an in - depth annual study of investing styles, it paints quite a different picture.

Just as studying an artist's painting or an architect's building tells us much about the human author, so too does the study of the natural sciences lead us to understand the Author.

We also see the study being boarded up and painted over (the closing of the Garden of Eden).

This is how Matthias Grünewald presented John in his famous painting of the Isenheim Altarpiece (a copy of which hung above the desk of Karl Barth in his study in Basel).

Indian music reveals much about Hinduism that is not conveyed by the written word or by reproductions of painting and sculpture; for an introduction to the music of India, Swami Prajnanananda has written Historical Development of Indian Music which, although it bristles with untranslated Sanskrit words, can be read with profit by anyone who has made enough of a study of Hinduism to be able to recognize its central concepts.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

Painting it as a «phase» denies the seriousness of both their study and their decision.

In England, the leading center has been in Cambridge, where Jeremy Begbie's project on theology through the arts in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies has sponsored a range of publications, performances and educational initiatives, and is due to culminate in September 2000 with an arts festival embracing new film, drama, sculpture, music, painting and poetry.

I have an image of this painting, Michelangelo's «The Creation of Adam», hanging in my study.

Examples of North American breeding birds that winter in El Salvador, and which studies have determined return to the same places each winter, include Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris, photo right), Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla), Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina), and Ovenbird (Seirurus auracapillus).

They told me about their artistic backgrounds — Perez - Gallardo studied studio art at Bard, and Black studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

After a trip to the art store for a new pile of blank books (we like to make our own, but we're also big fans of Bare Books for this sort of project), the reading, the studying, the painting, the cutting and writing commenced.

Painting and modeling complement math study, develop dexterity and mastery of hand - tools, and engage the students in an experience of practical competency.

From studies on socio - economically disadvantaged children in large urban areas — kids who are so hungry that they eat paint and dirt, and whose homes are crumbling around them, exposing layers of lead paint.

Two of the students explained to the group that they were studying Michelangelo, and that he had to lay on his back on scaffolding, working alone by candlelight, when he spent four years painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

A study released today by researchers at the University of Vermont paints a picture of school meals that experts at Hunger Free Vermont say is misleading.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

A statement signed by the party's Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN) of the University of Professional Studies, said «it has observed with deep concern, the indiscriminate painting of national assets in the capital by the New Patriotic Party.

Available statistics from the National Health Insurance Authourity (NHIA) and the World Bank, paints a picture of a successful scheme, with many African countries, come here to study.

Mr. Cuomo also pressured the authority to spend tens of millions of dollars to study outfitting M.T.A. bridges with lights capable of choreographed display, install wireless internet and phone - charging ports on buses and paint the state logo on new subway cars.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tStudy «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tstudy the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

His sustained focus on the city's finances has cast the race as a battle of fiscal forecasts, with Sheehan pointing to the recent obtainment of $ 12.5 million in state aid as a sign her approach is working and Commisso wielding a state - backed consultant's study to paint a darker picture.

The findings, published in the June issue of Health Affairs, suggest that this routine linkage of mental illness with violence toward others paints an unfair portrait of those with mental illness, suggesting that most are prone to violence when numerous studies have concluded that only a small percentage actually commit violence.

The new study, published online in the journal Geology, paints a more nuanced picture of Central Asia's desertification.

A Cloudy Crystal Ball 2 September 2005 Studies paint divergent pictures of the future for America's scientific labor market.

In a subsequent study, Orians and Heerwagen applied their evolutionary perspective to 35 paintings of sunsets, by such artists as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade, on the theory that sunset would have been fraught with tension for our ancestors.

Researchers at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) studied the behaviour of three kinds of amphibians that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), the Mediterranean tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) and the Iberian painted frog (Discoglosus galganoi) to find out what effect heat waves can have on their diets.

A team of scientists with Spanish participants studied how heat waves affect the dietary choices of three species of amphibian found on the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog, the Mediterranean tree frog and the Iberian painted frog.

The study «paints a realistic picture of how complicated the management of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.

A new study bolsters the idea — and paints a new view of the process of inflation, the exponential expansion that occurred moments after the big bang.

It also presents the results of several years of collaborative scientific study of the paintings.

Studies that demonstrate embodied cognition seem to defy conventional wisdom, which paints thought as a set of computer - like algorithms that unfold entirely within the skull.

Cause and effect Molecular studies paint a potentially bleak picture, but researchers warn that the effects and causes of these differences are unknown.

Burnett and Feamster hope to provide a global database of information generated through this study that will be available to help paint a clearer picture related to the health of the Internet.

Anthropologist Paul Taçon — a Griffith University colleague of Aubert and Brumm who was not involved in their study — concurs, connecting the Sulawesi paintings to the Javanese shell engraving.

«But we assume that our study paints a more realistic picture of the actual situation of treatment than clinical trials.»

Wood scans can also be used to model sap - flow simulations, to study fungus development, and even to model the penetration of paint layers.

The study, involving researchers from UCL, Imperial College London and Dalian University of Technology (China) and published today in Science, shows how the new paint made from coated titanium dioxide nanoparticles can give a wide - range of materials self - cleaning properties, even during and after immersion in oil and following damage to the surface.

Adam Schlosser from MIT is part of a scientific team whose recent study paints an alarming picture.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

The biggest ever study of Arctic pollutants paints a picture of an ecosystem under siege — with potentially grave consequences for denizens of Earth's northernmost reaches.