Sentences with phrase «religious icons»

Consequently, nearly the entire space was filled with shattered stone statues of religious icons.

If you are going to put up religious icons at a public site, you'd better put up more than just one symbol.

It is not right to have a singular religious icon associated with it.

He was telling me that his parents would always have a few religious icons hanging on the wall somewhere.

Flavin was very aware of the traditional placement of religious icons in corners, like the Russian Constructivist Kasmir Malevich much admired for his black squares, but instead he made icons of light, with what he referred to as «blank magic».

For centuries, these items have been used in places as religious icons, for medicines and to express creativity through intricate carvings.

There's an important development in the global ivory wars, stemming directly from the great National Geographic article (explored on Dot Earth recently) that focused on the demand created by the market for religious icons carved from elephant tusks.

The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

The figures that comprise Hulačová's cast of otherworldly sculptures are inspired by religious icons, mythological gods, and folkloric beasts.

Mom (Katey Sagal) prays by candles and religious icons while her son fights, never watching.

They hate muslims, Buddhists, and other religious icons.

Unlike traditional religious icons, Flavin created entirely nonrepresentational artworks and dedicated them to the memory of friends, family, and cultural figures that he admired.

Speaking directly to the endangerment of professional craft practices, Newcomer honors the field through his life - sized re-creations of workspaces and his construction of gilded niches, displaying tools like religious icons.»

If Italy had to rid itself of ALL public religious icons, it would literally destroy the ancient architecture of the country, as well as it's culture.

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious icon used in the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Southeast Asia, where it has been and Slavs are an Indo - European ethno - linguistic group, who speak various Slavic languages of the Balto - Slavic language group.

At St. Catherine's the walls were covered with recently completed student work that was connected to a state standard, photos were up of students holding awards, and many religious icons reflected the demographic of the school community being served.

Equating big paintings with religious icons is certainly nothing new.

The church interior is decorated extensively with ornately painted religious icons.

There, calmly staring out at the players, is a replica of the Virgin of Montserrat, Catalonia's most famous religious icon and its patron saint, with Baby Jesus on her lap.

We at the National Atheist Party believe that religious icons presented at such a memorial should represent the faiths of all of the victims of this heinous tragedy.

Erasing a megachurch's hideous depiction of a beloved religious icon from the landscape?

My HP doesn't have to be god, JC or any other identifyable religious icon, or meet with the approval of AA or its members.

Look at the altar in there; it's a morph of about half - a-dozen religious icons smushed together in one (in my opinion, ugly) image.

In their mutual pursuit of black liberation, the black church and black theology need to expose and replace the myriad religious icons that contradict black Christian experience and consciousness.

No crosses (religious icon really from Egpyt); not Buddahs, etc., statue of Mary, anything like that, picture of Jesus.

Usually memorials for large numbers of people avoid overt displays of religious icons if the people were of different beliefs.

I began to wander without ambition, finding myself first in medieval paintings and tapestries, walking through galleries of dark religious icons.

Or any shape other than a distinctively religious icon.

Makes absolutely no sense to me at all, but hey, worship as you like, just don't expect me to bow my head when you pray, or accept religious icons in public places.

Iconography: Commission great religious icons for the Orthodox Church, boosting your empire's power depending on the saint you choose to revere

From the transformation of popular religious icons to his recent work, which uses more banal and hidden fragments of our contemporary landscape, Hernandez - Diez transforms the natural debris of our technology into shamanistic objects that disturb our aesthetic habits.

The box and wall - hung constructions resemble religious icons in their intimate allure and attention to detail, and the images commemorate such animals as horseshoe crabs, turtles, birds, zebras, and bison.

By referencing Gothic, Baroque, and Rococo artistic conventions, and reconfiguring religious icons, Delvoye upends the creative process.

Color combinations vibrate in these large - scale figurative works that reference Matisse, Blaxploitation, religious icons such as the Madonna and psychedelia.

The works that most powerfully and literally present celebrities as the modern religious icons are found in the vaulted main gallery.

The UFO also operates as the über - other, a kind of secular religious icon.

(Kassay's paintings, for example, are ostensibly made with silver, a valuable metal that invokes a separate, non-artistic system of value, not unlike medieval religious icons, which were priced by both their devotional subjects and by the amount of gold they contained.)

You'll be hearing from me often because I just love all your French religious icons and statuary and your style.

As for religious icons being hung in classrooms, for those folks who believe everyone should have their emblems hung, I truly do not believe there is enough room.

Technically executed in the traditions of old master painters and inspired by religious icons, pop icons, cinema and global politics, there is a timeless relevance to his work that seems to be at once full of lessons from bygone generations and pre-cautious predictions of possible future worlds.

Flavin was very aware of the traditional placement of religious icons in corners, like the Russian Constructivist Kazimir Malevich, known for his black squares, but instead he made icons of light, with what he referred to as «blank magic».

Her paintings are immediately recognisable by their absurdly proportioned naked and semi-clad women, acid - bright landscapes, uncanny interiors and hippie figures that seem to have been cross-pollinated with religious icons.

I gravitated to the «spiritual» part of AA — not Jesus or any other religious icon.

However to privelege one belief system above another is not; this would include the display of religious icons / symbols on public property maintained with taxpayer dollars.

The exhibition will bring together more than twelve of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.