Sentences with phrase «of shadows on the wall»

Isolated in a dark room, Rebecca Horn's mechanical installation Cinéma Vérité fuses its aqueous and light movements to draw a theater of shadows on the wall.

As one meditates upon the play of shadows on the wall behind, the works levitate between both their weightlessness and the density of highly worked areas of the mesh, at times pushing paint from the back, and at others painting on the front.

Inspired by an archival photograph of Matisse's studio in which plants cast an abstract pattern of shadows on a wall, Dadson has placed a series of filtered lights before a group of house plants; as the work's title suggests, these plants have been painted black with a non-toxic paint, bringing uncanny sharpness and contrast to their forms.

Not exact matches

Mourners will gather round a wall of hand - written tributes on Bramley Road - which sprung up shortly after the fire - in the shadow of the burnt - out building.

The narrator reminds the reader of this: «The rays of the moon fell through the prison bars, forming on the wall a shadow that reminded the priest of the man of Galilee.»

Visiting the remote gorge of Nasja Creek in Arizona one summer, Abbey walked along its amber stream in the deep shadows of canyon walls towering hundreds of feet above on either side.

Instead, I started to focus on the beautiful stillness of the night, the outline of my babies face in the glow of the nightlight, the inspiring shadows on the wall from the garden and even hearing the sweet sleep of my older boys.

Either way, there is here, once again, no such thing as objective truth — just the passing shades of our own subjective experiences, like shadows on a wall.

The end may already be nigh for the lander — after bouncing on the surface, the craft appears to have settled in the shadow of a wall of material, preventing it from receiving enough sunlight to its solar cells to function for more than a few days — but ESA counts the mission as a major success.

The only light comes from a fire burning behind them, and all they can see are shadows on the wall, thrown there by people and things passing in front of the fire.

During summer days on Ceres, sunlight hits the bottom of Juling crater, but the wall remains mostly shrouded in cold shadows.

I love these candles in part because of the places and stories they take as their inspiration: The minty Balmoral is inspired by damp and green Scottish meadows; the Carmelite by shadows on stone walls and church candles... a quiet cloister doesn't sound too bad about now.

A rabbit makes a shadow puppet of a predator on a large stone wall and cave people run in fear.

A group of men stand on a wall with their pants around their ankles and we see a brief glimpse of heavily shadowed areas at their crotches: we are told that ropes are tied around their genitals and the other end is tied to a cinder block that will be dropped over the side of the wall.

Especially electric is the push and pull between Kushner's talky, microscopic script — unafraid of politics, long scenes and four walls — and Spielberg's attraction, in cahoots with cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, to quietly iconic moments: Lincoln's famous beard silhouetted against the night or the faint shadow of soldiers riding past Ulysses S Grant (Jared Harris) and Lincoln as they chat on a porch.

The main menu animates shadows on the wall in a mildly retooled, screen - filling take on the poster / cover art, while two verses of end credits song «I'm in Minneapolis (You're in Hollywood)» play.

Among them, her sister stabs straight downward to hit Ruthie, who's standing 5 feet away; the shadow of the boom mike can frequently be seen; and the blood splattering on the wall doesn't synch up with the shadow movements of the attack.

Later, BFG brings pleasant dreams to a slumbering family, and the way Spielberg stages the scene — with BFG's narration, a shadow play on the wall in the background, and the smiling face of the dreamer in the foreground — is abundantly comforting.

The final palace swordfight is a cinematic feast of movement, accompanied by expressionistic shadow dances on the wall and a score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold that keeps the blood pumping.

What if all you knew was from the shadows on the wall of a cave?

Pacing can also be a sign of compulsion in dogs, similarly to spinning around, barking all day and going after shadows on the wall.

From kittenhood on, cats will play chase, capture, and kill games with bits of lint on the floor, other kittens, shadows on the wall, moths and other insects, toys (of course) and their humans hands (which is a no - no) Cat play is a fallback to cats in the wild, where they must stalk and kill their prey in order to eat and survive.

After your introduction to your camel, you will mount up and ride out through the native bushland, crossing spinifex plateaus with fantastic views over Spencer Gulf, the enormous saltpan of Lake Torrens and to the north the distant walls of Wilpena Pound, where you stop for a leisurely lunch on day one in the cool shadows of Mount Arden, remember to take the time to look for the endangered Yellow Footed rock wallabies that inhabit the gorges, before remounting your camel for a relaxing afternoon ramble to your campsite.

I think we can express some of the things we missed out - such as shadows of monsters appearing on the wall or, as we've just discussed, effects such as fog.

The game had an amazing sense of light and shadow, and I still remember seeing the shadow that moths cast on a wall and drapes billowing in a hallway.

In keeping with Tuttle's obsession with the interplay of light and shadow, these paper pieces seemed to disappear into the wall (depending on the light), and some seemed darker than others.

On the opposite wall, Ellen Phelan's Autumn Bay, 2003, investigates a similar duality, but her painting, shrouded in a nocturnal mist, seems more like a reminiscence whose shadows derive from the vagueness of memory.

The foliage sways in the breeze, casting glimmering shadows that dance on a nearby wall to the chorus of crickets chirping, leaves rustling and crows cawing.

But when Sterne walked out of that improvised photographic studio, the only thing she took with her was her shadow on the wall.

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall are the prisoners» reality.

As the artist explains,» The space will be filled with sinuous, large, sprawling structures on two opposing walls (units composed of weaving of metal grid and clear, iridescent,» edge glowing» Plexi glass), which transmit, reflect, and refract light while the painted dark walls of the gallery are enclosed with images that echo the shadows and reflections of the gleaming sculpture.

Often presenting the viewer with a shadow on the wall or the silhouette of a plant, Temple creates environments that straddle the line between documentation and fabrication.

Merely by adding shadow effects and by accentuating selected existing bricks on the wall in Brooklyn, he was able to construct the ghostly memory of a tree, referencing how parts of nature are gradually going extinct with -LSB-...]

A black triangle connects three small African gods on the floor to the black outlines of four men on the wall, like enormous cast shadows.

Drilled into each of the glass panels is a hole through which Rauschenberg has inserted elements that could have been used to agitate the water, if it were there, thus creating a rippling effect of shadows on the ceiling and nearby walls.

Since then, Tuttle has presented prominent and influential series in the history of contemporary art such as the cloth pieces, which he installed dyed and cut canvas on the wall, and were both pictorial and three - dimensional, and the wire pieces, which consisted of wire and its shadow and pencil lines, and small - scale collage pieces among others.

This interplay of history, narrative and perspective is further typified by «Overstood,» a towering sequin silhouette on the south wall of the gallery accompanied by a group of simulated African statues carved by the artist appearing to cast the tall shadows.

«Kelly's visual vocabulary is drawn from observation of the world around him — shapes and colors found in plants, architecture, shadows on a wall or a lake — and has been shaped by his interest in the spaces between places and objects and between his work and its viewers.

Entering the darkened recess of a separate chamber constructed on the gallery floor, the viewer finds a wall - sized shadow tableau of all the elements previously encountered, but here unified, like multiple different arts coming together to create an opera.

These works hover on the wall, producing real shadows as part of the composition.

, 1976 traces Acconci's early actions and performances, including FOLLOWING PIECE (1969), in which he followed passers - by on the street until they entered private spaces — SHADOW - PLAY (1970), in which he shadowboxed with a bright light shining behind him while moving in front of a wall — OPENINGS (1970), during which a camera focuses on Acconci's stomach as he pulls out his body hair, the film ends when Acconci is hairless — SEEDBED (1972), during which he audibly masturbated for eight hours a day under a temporary floor at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York while visitors walked overhead — THE RED TAPES (1976 - 77), a three - part epic that merges video space with filmic space, evolving into complex amalgam of narrative strategies, photographic images, music and spoken language.

The exhibition brings together two large works on leaded panels of glass — two naked female figures seated in profile, impassive, emitting shooting stars — a series of delicate aquatint etchings, large bronze wall reliefs and a suspended sculpture, the shadows of which transform the gallery into a barely perceptible dabbled glade, along with a stunning jacquard tapestry depicting two eagles in descent against a chalky sky.

Enjoyment certainly seemed key to the play of shadows and colored refractions on the white walls in this recent show, for which the ground - floor exhibition space at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery was entirely given over to Multiple shadow house, 2010.

Monika Grzymala speaks of her paper - clay skeleton high on the wall as a kind of dance to confront her fears, while Luis Camnitzer describes his Two Parallel Lines as «a shadow of the horizon» and a «fragment of the curvature of the Earth.»

His paintings are illusions, which raise the question of perception, like the shadows on the wall in the analogy of Plato's cave.

The fictional house Schubert creates with folded paper will be presented with accompanying illustrations showing various views of the house and focusing on how natural window light and shadows affect the interior space of paper floors and walls.

She's known for making wooden cubes with laser - cut mashrabiya - like patterns that cast lacy shadows on the wall — instantly transforming a white cube gallery into a dreamscape that wouldn't look out of place in the Alhambra.

Some of his photographs are near - monochromes, recalling thin shadows crossing the walls in a pale room, or the acid lighting on a highway at night.

In early sculptures such as Untitled (Latin Study), 1985, he used wooden armatures to create three - dimensional constructions that appear as constellations of floating painted brushstrokes rendered tangible, their shadows producing flat compositions on the walls behind them.

The body of the artist is often absorbed by the plaster on the walls or wallpaper, hiding behind furniture and stray objects, playing with its own shadow, hanging from doors and windows.