Penfield stimulated the brain with electricity in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery, and used the results to draw a â $ œmotor homunculusâ $: a distorted
representation of the human body within the brain.
Here's
our representation of the human body.
In violating
representations of the human body with this kind of vivid, kaleidoscopic variety, the filmmakers allude only vaguely to the vulnerability of real human bodies.
These crumbling
representations of the human body also attest to the limitations and uncertainties of the human experience — in our lives many things remain unknowable, inconceivable, and incomplete.
The artist has cut out found images of the human body (or
representations of the human body) and arranged them as a crazy theater - in - the - round tableau.
As many of the pieces that she donated depict figures in various forms and poses, her collection also displays a diversity of
representations of the human body.
While various commentaries can be drawn from these surprising visual analogies - for example on consumption, desire, and
representations of the human body - the real intrigue of the work lies in its exploration of the surreal and seductive nature of images.
His figurative works explore
the representation of the human body as a site where identity is transformed, theatrically expressed and concealed, in a fusion of organic and inorganic, skin and plastic, feminine and masculine, representation and nature.
Alternating between hyper - realistic
representations of the human body and decomposed images of body parts which remain barely decipherable in form, his works embrace a newly minimal approach highlighting empty canvas space and isolated symbols.
Using characteristics of human internal organs and artwork incorporating urban buildings and home appliances, the artist develops a unique
representation of human body structure in relation to rapid urbanization.
Light - boxes, collage assemblages, sculptures made from everyday objects and ambitious installations are among the diverse practices employed by each artist in their inventive art that explores
representations of the human body.
More specifically, she has focused on
the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender.
Early in her career, Lee departed from her academic training in sculpture to create works that were often performative, drawing on both personal and collective experience to explore questions regarding
the representation of the human body.
-- invites viewers to think about
representations of the human body on other billboards and in advertising generally.
The representation of the human body was the guide line of the photographic work of Ren Hang realized in completely unpretentious manner.
These experiments would result in a group of photographic prints as well as footage for a related film, both dealing with filmic / photographic
representation of the human body in relation to mortality.
Mounted on steel tables, these forms are
representations of the human body in changing physical and emotional states.
Though she was academically trained in sculpture, Lee's early works were often performative, exploring questions regarding
the representation of the human body.
Not exact matches
I've yet to meet anyone who is the perfect
human being, the perfect physical
representation of the idea
of the
human body.
The
human brain uses sensory signals to maintain and update internal
representation of the
body, to plan and generate movements and interact with the world.
An artist can assemble these blocks into an approximate
representation of any virtual character, be it a
human, a dog or an elephant or even just single
body parts like arms or a hand.
This is not to say that bodybuilders don't care about developing greater strength, but their top priority is muscle growth and becoming as lean as possible with the help
of high intensity cardio and by optimizing nutrition and supplementation, so it's safe to say that the typical bodybuilder is devoted to transforming his
body into the ideal, maximally developed
representation of human muscularity.
Here are some problems students confessed they will keep thinking about: the role
of the water in the act
of creation, the religious meanings
of the water, the water in the
human body, the subjective images
of the water in artistic
representation, the vital link between
human being and the water, the spiritual force
of the water, the significance
of the Flood, the water magic power, water gives life but also kills, why does water have so many powers?
This app is a detailed 3D model
of the
human body, which can take the full advantage
of the tablet's powerful Tegra 2 processor to provide you with an accurate 3D
representation of the entire
human body in more favourable position.
In Balinese cosmology, the
human body is a
representation of the universe, and built with same elements as universe, in ngaben ceremony all these elements is returned to their respective source.
Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised
of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower
of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs)
of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series
of large - scale X-Ray images
of the
human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border
of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous
representation of the
body; «Role Play Drawings» a series
of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House
of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.
The sculptures are abstracted depictions
of the
human body that vary in size and degrees
of representation.
Identity Shifts A companion exhibition to Posing Beauty, this collection - based display features works by African American artists who use
representations of the
human figure or some aspect
of the
body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.
This collection - based exhibition features works by African American artists who use
representations of the
human figure or some aspect
of the
body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.
The impact between a primordial language and forms
of representation of the unknown is well - stated in the exhibition I am the
body of a
human, a solo show by Andrew Birk currently at MCA — Malta Contemporary...
One Minute Sculptures reconsider this early interpretation
of sculpture as a stand - in for the
human form by using an actual
human body as a replacement for its
representation in durable form.
Taken primarily between 2014 and 2017, each portrait in Somnyama Ngonyama poses critical questions about social justice,
human rights and contested
representations of the black
body.
There are endless variations on the theme
of the
human face in contemporary art — prominent examples include Thomas Schütte's supra - personal sculpted figures, Cindy Sherman's role - playing photographic images, the portraits
of Marlene Dumas, Candice Breitz and Tony Oursler, Bruce Nauman's experiments with his own
body, Rosemarie Trockel's family portraits, Julian Opie's schematic facial
representations and Thomas Ruff's passport - style photographs.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the
human face, at once raw material and object
of symbolic
representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full
body as place and tool
of the trial and pleasure
of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry
of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history
of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being
of perception and thought.
Featuring work ranging from cut - photograph collage to an exploration
of life - extending artificial intelligence, the exhibition considers our enduring impulse to push against the limits
of the discrete
human body — from stretching the boundaries
of representation to anticipating a future in which our consciousness is not bound to a physical
body at all.
For this show, Rothenberg continues to use animals as surrogates for the
human body, transforming the
representation of the figure into a study
of space and form.
«Resistance - Subjecter», enclosed in glass windows, show under the neon light that stereotype
of femininity imposed by the Western consumerist world, a figure that is actually the most common
representation of the woman nowadays; Hirschhorn's women literally corrode this model presenting themselves as an army
of modified
human beings carrying the evidence
of an interior cancer crystallized on their frigid
bodies.
The collection meditates on time and
human ageing through
representations of the
body - Emin's own, naked
body.
While some
of the works might be considered straightforward
representations of individuals, others do not include images
of the
human body at all.
In her work, Fishman upends that tradition, appropriating medical
representations of the
human interior to suggest that there is no unmediated
representation of mental states as well as to make the connection between abstraction and the
body concrete.