Sentences with phrase «on preciousness»

How can people have lost their perspective on the preciousness of human life?

At the EMST, the Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila presents a luxurious - looking freezer filled with jars of snow collected at the Sochi Olympics, a witless commentary on the preciousness and decadence of the tourist - drawing, nationalism - fueling events of which Documenta is but one example.

Though a few pieces verge on preciousness, the best demonstrate how immediate sculpture can be when unburdened by excessive theoretical context.

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The problem is when people start taking things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these things don't matter,» and then go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).

My kids are now 3 and 5, which are amazing ages, and I want to hold on to their preciousness with all my might, even though I know it's futile.

The metaphysical aspects here are used in the service of the characters, not the other way around — this is, first and foremost, a human study, a love story, an existential treatise on the inevitability of death and the preciousness of life.

The resulting meditation on father - son relationships, letting go and the preciousness of time is - helped along by one of the finest performances of Nighy's career - touching without being mawkish, and gives the film a contemplative weight that balances well with the carefree joy of the first half.

Still, just when one might be ready to punch themselves in the head over the preciousness of said logline and description, it's a pleasure to report that «Language of a Broken Heart» wins out — at least on the margins, for those predisposed to have an interest in laid - track rom - coms — by way of its way of its performances and interplay.

The general preciousness of The Florida Project serves to mask, or at least distract from, the emotional toll living in such dire straits has on the people in the motel.

Certain preoccupations with artworks are established early on in cinematic history: the preciousness of art objects anchors their roles as plot drivers, and anxieties intensify regarding the vitality of artworks and their perceived abilities to wield power over viewers or to capture spirits.

Having recently turned thirty and become increasingly conscious of mortality and the preciousness of life, Kay's latest body of work, entitled Memento Mori, comprises ten hand - printed digital images based on the face, and inspired by Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We do witness such preciousness today, when the entire lifecycle of the painting itself - from conception, to execution, to sale, to postgallery life - becomes something on which artists must actively dwell.

The rapid spin and black background also recalls the aesthetic of stone and minerals videos found on Youtube, suggesting a preciousness of our electromagnetic data.

Simek writes: «Bess's work is powerful in its preciousness - aching with an intensity and fervor of ideas that, even for its size, challenges the monolithic works by his AB EX contemporaries at the mid-century, when most of his works on view here were made.

Matthew Angelo Harrison's casts of animal skulls and Maya Stovall's ensemble of vessels made from broken glass found on the streets of Detroit suggest that preciousness and damage are inevitably intertwined.

Its goals were laid out in the 1963 offset lithograph Fluxus Manifesto (on view at The Museum of Modern Art), which denounces the «bourgeois» preciousness and exclusivity that surrounds art, promotes art «for all peoples,» and calls «cultural, social, and political revolutionaries to united front and action.»

In addition to Smithson's use of silt, crystal, and rock, the piece's fixed location outside and the its dependence on the lake's water levels in order to be viewed — it was visible for two years after its creation until it became submerged, resurfacing only occasionally — countered the characteristic preciousness placed on the art object - as - artifact.

With little preciousness, Ryan champions these sloppy green ceramic objects, pocked with her fingerprints, making them animate on their lofty perch.