Sentences with phrase «quotidian as»

While Khedoori's emphasis the quotidian as subject matter serves as a sober update of Pop Art's embrace of common objects, her placement of these everyday objects within undefined and thus mysterious surroundings invites an almost surreal unease.

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As completely unprecedented and literally out of this world as the experience was, when the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they still had to handle some of the more quotidian aspects of business traveAs completely unprecedented and literally out of this world as the experience was, when the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they still had to handle some of the more quotidian aspects of business traveas the experience was, when the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they still had to handle some of the more quotidian aspects of business travel.

It was not banality as such but the quotidian nature of the Nazi dictatorship that made coming to terms with Nazism so difficult after as well as between 1933 and 1945.

It's not as important as seeking the Kingdom in the quotidian rhythms of the everyday.

Robert Bellah understands religion as an activity that takes us beyond the quotidian.

I studied The Quotidian Mysteries and prayed the prayers of Brother Lawrence, who famously declared that «the time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen... I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.»

For those who find a cosmic reference impossible, for those who can no longer look to the God of special revelation as the source and giver of personal meaning, then the quotidian becomes the most promising area to be plumbed for spiritual clues.

And as every mother knows, Mary also experienced the quotidian sorrows of motherhood: the first bruised knee, the unkind words of other children, the frightening illnesses, the surprised eyes of a little boy the first time he witnesses injustice, cruelty, or the suffering of another, the gifts she wished she could give him, the memories she wished she could preserve forever, the disappointments she wished with all her heart she could stop.

He was as energetic then as he is now, throwing himself into progressive, reformist measures, quotidian NIMBY issues, and the odd animal - rights controversy.

Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions.

Lemmon's turn as the put - upon quotidian schnook pervaded the rest of his career.

As Roy stands in a field, with the boy in his arms, peering with great anguish at the eastern horizon behind a line of trees, the suspense is no less unbearable for the fact that we know that what we're about to see is the most quotidian thing in the world: as The Beloved sang in 1990, it's just the sun risinAs Roy stands in a field, with the boy in his arms, peering with great anguish at the eastern horizon behind a line of trees, the suspense is no less unbearable for the fact that we know that what we're about to see is the most quotidian thing in the world: as The Beloved sang in 1990, it's just the sun risinas The Beloved sang in 1990, it's just the sun rising.

Shot in 16 mm, Gilles Deroo and Marianne Pistone's first feature studies the quotidian aspects of Mouton's life through his eyes as well as those of the town's residents.

The film depicts stories of quotidian life in Rio, such as the boys from the favela who sell peanuts at Copacabana beach.

Because the quotidian demands on K - 12 principals and their staffs severely limit the time they can devote both to training neophyte teachers and assessing the ongoing work of veteran instructors, video evaluations have been eagerly embraced as a time - saver.

Since then, after leaving the Black Country, he had learned to suck in and oxygenate himself on London's quotidian pathologies as naturally as breath.

Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is front and center, as concerned with past injustices as he is with current quotidian crimes.

She often utilizes everyday items such as bobby pins, «scrunchie» hair ties, X-ACTO blades, wine glasses, eye masks, and pants, but de-familiarizes their quotidian associations by enlarging them to a monumental scale.

Could it be that now the artist has fallen off the art world's fashion hitlist, Gormley's work can be seen as it is — quotidian and overrated

Often incorporating quotidian office supplies, her work evokes the banalities of the everyday that underpin creative work, from PowerPoint presentations narrating her typical studio routine to collaged works on paper that use materials such as carbon transfer paper, discarded printed matter, and tape.

Here's what did work: Glenn Kaino's glittering mass of arrows in flight at Honor Fraser's booth, a demure suite of gelatin silver prints showing Carrie Mae Weems dancing in a nearly transparent white nightgown, Galerie Brandstrup's laser - focus on young painters (including Michael Kvium and Christer Glein), and Chris Wiley's quirky photographs mimicking and framed with quotidian substances (never has Astro - Turf served a better purpose than a picture frame) as part of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery's entry into Armory Presents.

The works currently on display include traditional ephemera (Italian language guides, bakery business cards) as well as original works of art that mimic knickknacks, such as Sinead Cahill's hand - embroidered «girl scout» merit badges made from lithographed fabric, and many things that are not ephemeral at all, but step outside traditional fine art forms into the realm of the quotidian.

Any material remnant, quotidian experience, or quiet personal storm is deserving of a gesture that acts at once as a journalistic record and as a flight of imagination.»

Redolent of everyday devices in certain communities and populations such as a hut or a wheel, the artist focuses not just on ideas around personal or interpersonal identity, but he also emphasizes on how memory can be the vehicle for transmitting certain typologies of quotidian practices from generation to generation.

As in much of her recent work, Tomaszewski begins with video of mundane behavior and shifts the context to infuse the quotidian with both longing and anxiety.

Often categorized as a New York Pop artist, Thiebaud does not identify himself as such, having begun his paintings of quotidian American scenes in the mid 1950's well before the explosion of Pop art.

In an interview with Black Art In America, Shrobe discusses the rich history of materials, and poetically defines abstraction as a process wherein the artist invites materials to tell their own story.3 In so doing, Shrobe frees our collective imagination from the trappings of social object memory, uplifting the quotidian and inviting viewers with differing levels of art literacy to see themselves and their neighborhood reflected in his works.

The resulting motif, both cosmic and quotidian, forms the basis of a new collection of garments, which will be on display in the Galleries as well as presented in a fashion show.

The gallery installation consists of three sculptures and several paintings on Tyvek, a quotidian durable industrial fabric used for such things as protective covers for packaging, reusable garbage bags, and banners.

It was a refuge from the pressures and quotidian nature of the city, and as such, a fragmenting of dense urban culture.

In Madison Square Trapezoids, acclaimed American performance and video artist Bill Beirne, in his role as The Vigilant Groundsman, turns the quotidian acts of horticultural maintenance and wildlife documentation into aesthetic actions by performing absurdist variations of these routines centered around specially - designated zones of artistic inquiry: the Madison Square Trapezoids.

As though he were referencing French Existentialism, the lack of human presence is palpable and becomes a quality within the painting that, in turn, heightens the importance of the quotidian objects represented (i.e. the still life and the interior).

But as with the images in Heterotopia, the quotidian reality is discernible, leaving viewers with the uneasy yet uplifting suggestion that the world is what we think it is only because of long - held and often unconscious patterns of association.

Yet this particular wash, as indicated by the show's title, Jane the Baptist, is suggestive of a spiritual cleanse and rebirth, rather than the quotidian vanity of a squeaky - clean car.

The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.

A succinct fusion of the rarefied and the quotidian, it mutely avers that value lies in the doing as much as in what gets done.

Robin Rhode, the South African - born, Berlin - based multidisciplinary artist, engages a variety of visual languages such as photography, performance, drawing and sculpture to create arrestingly beautiful narratives that are brought to life using quotidian materials such as soap, charcoal, chalk and paint.

As diverse as his subject matter, Pettibon's images have included quotations from quotidian and literary works by authors including Marcel Proust, Henry James, William Blake, John Ruskin, and Art Clokey, as well as texts written by the artist himselAs diverse as his subject matter, Pettibon's images have included quotations from quotidian and literary works by authors including Marcel Proust, Henry James, William Blake, John Ruskin, and Art Clokey, as well as texts written by the artist himselas his subject matter, Pettibon's images have included quotations from quotidian and literary works by authors including Marcel Proust, Henry James, William Blake, John Ruskin, and Art Clokey, as well as texts written by the artist himselas well as texts written by the artist himselas texts written by the artist himself.

Murray's work builds on the legacy of early twentieth - century Modernist movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, funneling them into her own language that is equally concerned with psychology and the quotidian.

The project manifests as an evolving inventory that records quotidian aspects of life in Beirut, some transitory or joyful, others illustrative of how the city's history is sublimated into daily customs.

Chamberlain's idiosyncratic approach to titling is indebted to the often quite abstract ways in which these writers interacted with language and, more specifically, with quotidian words, not only as referent but also as sound and mood.

The simple abstraction has a remarkable effect: the quotidian video is reactivated and re-presented as an energetic, lyrical still.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

The obsession of his art with the quotidian recalled the use of banal objects, such as tram tickets, in the work of Cubist painters, while his later pieces made explicit confession of his debt to Leger, Matisse and Seurat.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

Though they depict perfectly quotidian things — a bathroom door, a woman's suited - up silhouette, a group of flies — the works» faded, bruised quality and their severely cropped and ever - shifting layers call their coherence and authority into question, positioning the images as an event though one no longer taking place.

The spirit of Yu Hong's creation most often arises from her personal life and the surroundings of quotidian existence, constructing a world which ingeniously fuses together perceptions of time and memories, as well as adeptly seizing the sporadic emotional evolution of human experience.

In the late 1970s, the artist took photographs of many of these performances, in addition to others in which she used similarly quotidian materials such as rubber tubing, ropes, and crumpled papers.

For the Hepworth Wakefield, now in its fifth year, and described by its director Simon Wallis as but a «toddler» of the museum world, this gift is a major boon — one they hope will be emulated by more quotidian collectors.

Using quotidian objects as the foundation for their work, Lyon and Bustin's practices similarly evoke the mixed sentiments found in domiciliary settings: equally comforting and melancholic, durable and decayed.