Sentences with phrase «physical act of»

The big resolution is to do some mental and emotional housecleaning as well as the actual physical act of cleaning my house from top to bottom.

It's easy to think of all the things you'll say, but practicing the physical act of speaking them can make all the difference — and it's amazing how often this step is skipped.

This includes not only the physical act of sex, but also more casual touching and cuddling.

Intimate partner violence comes in many more forms other than the physical act of hitting, punching or shoving a partner.

For children who are heavily inclined towards this love language, any physical act of affection means more to them than «I love yous» or receiving presents.

The physical act of turning towards one another can greatly reduce the amount of fear and aggression between both of you.

Hearing is the physical act of being able to hear, and listening is the part where you... Read more

Hearing is the physical act of being able to hear, and listening is the part where you pay attention to what is being said.

The reason it's called mining isn't that it involves a physical act of digging.

Another part of the idea of a manual signature is that the physical act of putting a pen in your hand and putting it on a physical piece of paper is a time honored and traditional way of symbolically giving assent to what it on the paper.

The New York Times reported in April about several studies linking the physical act of sitting itself to a number of very bad health effects.

Battery is the actual physical act of harming them.

Reading the constitutional text in light of this established legal understanding, we conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7.

«With concept often trumping craft and the entire medium regularly receiving death notices, revelry in the physical act of painting has hardly been a prized commodity... read more... «Julia Fernandez - Pol in Denver»

What is still not sufficiently appreciated is that the twist Frankenthaler gave to Pollock's drip method removed the heavy breathing from abstract expressionism while retaining the closeness to the physical act of painting.

Within a few years, he moved his canvas off the easel to attack the surface from all sides, dripping paint from a stiff brush with such gestural fluidity that the physical act of his painting became integral to the painting itself.

The physical act of painting was of paramount importance and must be apparent in the finished product.

Highlighting the gallery space through a transformation of architecture and light, Everett's installation emphasizes the physical act of supporting a painting, the routine practice an artist undertakes daily, as well as pedagogical rituals shaped through rehearsal.

In a series of wall - mounted assemblages presented here, Suga employs natural and industrial materials to create intimate pieces sparked with improvisational energy, reflecting the physical act of their construction.

The physical act of painting itself appears as a center from which meanings are scaled, codifed and represented.

Notable examples include «H.M. 2009,» Kerry Tribe «s double film projection about an epilepsy patient who lost his short - term memory in experimental brain surgery and Nina Berman's arresting images of former Marine sergeant Ty Ziegel, who was severely disfigured in a suicide bombing in Iraq; R.H. Quaytman's series «Distracting Distance,» which riffs on the physical act of perception; and Suzan Frecon's huge minimalist paintings, which embrace the labor intensity of making an art object that is intended to last.

The labour involved in the physical act of making the work is made visible, with the movement of technological process.

Artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline were associated with this term due to their more spontaneous and / or physical act of painting.

Not necessarily something that I draw and then erase, like going through the act of drawing; I wanted it to be a more physical act of locating things but still have all the properties I consider a drawing to have.»

Gesturalism also emphasizes the physical act of painting itself, drawing attention to the «process of creating».

The work is an index of the intensely physical act of its making.

It considers the physical act of looking, the tools we use to perceive the world around us and how these relate to our identities.

Some, stymied by the language barrier, tend to think about the physical act of the brushwork in the more familiar terms of dance or choreography, or to see the characters as abstract shapes.

In Mr. Motherwell's work, the physical act of painting can always be read.

Working with acrylics on un-stretched canvas, and limiting himself to the temporal constraints of quick - to - dry paint, the works function as archives of the physical act of painting, and as tools to record the passing of time.

During the selection process, the artist remarked that «the paintings are now awake from having been asleep» — a metaphor for the artist's physical and conceptual process whereby paintings do not start or end, and are never «finished» due to the physical act of folding and unfolding.

The press release states «The title refers to both the physical act of paint application, therapy in the creation of work, and psychologically, making sense of the world from the maker's point of view.»

Curated by Interim Exhibitions Manager, Francesca Wilmott, the exhibition underscores the correspondence between the physical act of gathering artistic source material and the conceptual act of recollecting the past.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

In effect, these paintings highlight the physical act of perception and challenge one's ability to read the picture plane in relation to its surrounding context.

Recalling the gestural brushstrokes of the Abstract Expressionists, Lee's energetic application of ballpoint ink captures the absorbing, physical act of the artist.

While Helen Frankenthaler and Jackson Pollack took the physical act of painting to the floor, Benglis saw that the post-minimalist art object would remain «fallen» with her iconic latex and foam floor works of the late 1960s.

They display daring investigations into the physical act of making: although abstract, the works are refreshingly visceral by virtue of their concrete materiality.

The works also reference the artist's process and the physical act of drawing, as Myers makes sweeping gestures with her arms to create arcs of pathways that extend across the picture plane.

«Matino... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization.»

There's evidence of the physical act of making art,» King explains.

Deeply invested in the technical and physical act of painting, Wool says that he ``... often [wants] a painting to feel like it is the result of a certain process, a process that was not simply the painting / picturing process of putting together a formally successful painting» (C. Wool, quoted by A. Goldstein, «How to Paint,» ibid, p. 171).

For Wieske Wester, the physical act of painting and drawing is the most direct way to capture the fluidity and forcefulness of the human spirit.

Like Oehlen, the physical act of painting is the dominant subject matter in Christopher Wool's Untitled (2004).

The term action painting was coined by critic Harold Rosenberg in a groundbreaking 1952 article entitled «The American Action Painters «[2] that described a style of painting in which the physical act of painting was central to the work and the painting was not preplanned.

Her gestural approach produces an impasto surface that records her physical act of art - making.

At 70 years of age, Long still produces all his work himself, without assistance, and the physical act of making a piece or completing a walk is very much a part of the work itself — some of which, ephemeral in nature, go on to exist solely through photography and text records.

For example, the sheer physical act of smiling releases chemicals called endorphins that act as natural antidepressants... even if you're purposely faking it.

The 2014 hacker vigilante adventure Watch Dogs conveys the physical act of drinking as a series of minigames spread across Chicago.

Just the act of thinking is a physical act of the brain.