Sentences with phrase «picture of the modern human»

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This idea of inevitability runs deep in our societal assumptions, probably because it's comforting — a picture of a single, forward trajectory, ending in modern humans as the crown of creation.

Museum human origins expert Prof Chris Stringer says the findings add further evidence to the complex picture of when modern humans dispersed across the globe.

Given either pictures or descriptions of skeletal features of hominids, including modern human, apes and australopithecines, students will assign them to their appropriate group.

His ideas remained timely for modern conceptual artists, among them Vito Acconci (American, 1940 - 2017) and Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), who began working with issues of time, sequence, and motion during the 1960s, sometimes making series of pictures of the human body, just as Muybridge had done.

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2002 Ultra Baroque: Aspects of the Post-Latin American Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Límites de la percepción, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain: A Spectrum of Contemporary Art at the MCA Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA time / frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Gene (sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of Art 1940 - 2001, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990 «s, Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego, La Jolla, USA Culture of Violence, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA A New World Trade Center, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA

These landscapes, whether cityscape or the newly industrialised agricultural landscape — as with Ralston Crawford's featureless work of modern purity «Buffalo Grain Elevators», 1937 — are for the most part completely devoid of any human narrative, only later do we end with Edward Hopper's isolated figure, in his 1928 picture «From Williamsburg Bridge»; sitting in the window of an otherwise empty cityscape, framed by an expansive absence of humanity.

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.