Sentences with phrase «representing human figures»

My attention was drawn to the spiral staircase, above which dangled a number of blue glass ornaments (handblown by MIT graduate David Smith) representing human figures in assorted forms and positions.

Six of the objects represent human figures: flat, triangular shapes attached to carvings of human heads.

Learn how artists represent the human figure in unexpected ways.

Talking Continents demonstrates Plensa's ability to create thought - provoking work that reimagines and represents the human figure with an original and innovative language.

Despite differences in approach and style, all these artists strove to represent human figures and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways.

The conversation rounded out the symposium's focus on portraiture and the histories and processes of representing the human figure in the nation's collection.

How is the influence of modern masters, such as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, revealed when contemporary artists represent the human figure?

ALL TOO HUMAN Feb 28 - Aug 27, 2018 All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways.

All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships, and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways — and features breathtaking works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen pieces by contemporaries such as Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego.

It has always been — either as a struggle to expand the ways and the forms of representing the human figure or as the starting point to which many artists opposed in an attempt to create more experimental or abstract art.

Tate Brtiain's All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures in the most intimate of ways.

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Cycorp charged itself with figuring out the tens of millions of pieces of data we rely on as humans — the knowledge that helps us understand the world — and to represent them in a formal way that machines can use to reason.

The picture is obviously a reflection of Daniel 7, where, after four beasts representing successive world empires have come out of the sea (vv 3 - 8, 17), a human figure («one like a son of man»), representing «the saints of the Most High,» comes «with the clouds of heaven» and receives universal, everlasting dominion (vv 13 - 14, 18, 27).

He shows that «For each age, the life and teachings of Jesus represented an answer (or, more often the answer) to the most fundamental questions of human existence and of human destiny, and it was to the figure of Jesus as set forth in the gospels that those questions were addressed.»

So figuring what the value of these environmental services are is really important to make sure the human side of the human environment system is really represented.

The brown figure striding through Google's logo today represents Lucy, a fossil whose discovery marked a turning point in the study of human evolution.

Spinal cord injuries place a huge burden on the health system — about A$ 150 million a year in Australia, according to figures from the Department of Human Services and Health — so even a small cut in the frequency of such injuries would represent a huge saving to public hospitals, as well as benefiting people in general.

btw thank you for your comment on my painting... It representing a mythological figure (a water fairy) I was trying to make it a part of surroundings... and make the colours more watery and less warm and human like, I don't know how to explain it ha ha...

The total combined figure of 1.1 million at - risk workers actually represents an untapped resource in a state economy that is experiencing significant shortfalls in human capital, the report argues.

True, Lewis does populate Narnia with semiallegorical figures who represent eternal aspects of human nature in addition to more realistic characters like the Pevensies.

Rarely daring to include the human figure, Fish's genre scenes represent the true delight for the viewer's eyes with its playful and active subjects, masterly incorporated into the festive surroundings.

Representing plants or human figures in organic forms, his sculptures were firmly rooted in nature.

Sculptural figures and the human shape feature, but rather than representing the body, they create an implicit order from mass and space that becomes an instrument for projection, empathy and mindfulness.

It is these imaginary chambers that emphasise the isolation of the represented figures and bring attention to their psychological condition; the act of placing the sitters in «invisible rooms» guides the focus of attention towards the complex human emotions that are felt but can't be seen.

16 Nov 2009 Exhibition from Irish Museum of Modern Art at Tallaght Community Arts An exhibition featuring artworks focusing on the human figure by Irish and international artists represented in the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Collection opens to the public at Tallaght Community Arts on Tuesday 17 November.

Styled by the artist somewhere between high - fashion models and post-apocalyptic survivors, these figures represent Genzken's most explicit engagement with the human form, confronting viewers with a distorted reflection of the world around them.

Hinkle's abstract «un-portraits» of elusive figures — the artist draws them with handmade brushes while improvising dances to blues, hip - hop, and Baltimore Club music — pivot between real and imagined narratives representing thousands of black women who have disappeared due to colonialism, human trafficking, homicides, and other forms of erasure.

Park's spirit — and exploration of the figure — carries into the present in the other exhibition, «The Human Spirit,» which represents some of the many artists touched by the center.

Flowing over and out of their gilded frames» physical limits, these three - dimensional paintings capture grotesque scenes with animals, half - human figures and invented beasts that represent Gutheil's continued exploration of excess, exaggeration, chaos, and figurative painting.

As put by the artist himself: «I do believe, in at least a metaphoric level, that the union of human and machine, represented best by smart phone addiction, embodies the «Anti- Christ» as believed in by esoteric societies as a figure that is as crucial to the present epoch, the Aquarian age, as Christ was to the past era, the age of Pisces.»

Sculptures with human figures are strongly represented in the exhibition, with both single and grouped figures.

Acknowledging the grand history of painting and the importance it still plays to this day in the ways we see ourselves, Williams has long considered the human figure to be the obvious vehicle to represent the human condition.

The sculpture represents the bottom half of a giant figure, one of whose feet rests on an eight - foot - high human head that seems to be sinking into the earth or emerging from it — a symbol of the body's vulnerability in adverse conditions.

Stepping back from this work to take in its general, flesh - toned forms, the viewer may discern a human foot and bent leg, perhaps belonging to a Christ - like figure stumbling under the weight of a cross, which appears to be represented by a thick band of pink.

It can be argued that environmental art has its roots in the Paleolithic cave paintings of our ancestors that represented animals and human figures and other aspects of nature important for them.

In breadth and scope the exhibition represents the current stage of Martin's artistic practice — an exploration of structure, form and medium with a focus on the human figure.

Representing plants or human figures, his most abstract compositions suggest organic elements.

This is the artist's debut at the gallery and demonstrates his ongoing investigation into the properties of visual perception and the brilliance of surface as represented and rendered in the human figure.

There is the grotesque in artworks such as Intestine, a long segment that obviously represents excrements, made by Kiki Smith, who also shows two wax figures depicted in self - satisfactory, masturbatory practices (Mother / Child), or in Paul McCarthy's sculpture of pigs with human faces, copulating in an orgy.

Acknowledging painting's grand history and the importance it plays to this day in how we see ourselves, Williams has long considered the human figure to be the vehicle to represent the human condition.

Drawings, paintings and sculptures representing contemporary views on the human figure, landscape and still lifes, this exhibition is full of imaginative and masterful works by contemporary artists who are actively contributing to our artistic discourse with future generations.

Painters eventually stopped trying to represent objects in three - dimensional space not because photographs could do it better (photographs don't represent anything as a matter of fact) but because the painterly conventions involved in representing objects (and landscapes and the human figure, etc.) could no longer do what they were supposed to do, namely, form or discover a connection between the painter (and viewer) and the world.

His early practice of making bronze sculptures representing anguished figures eventually evolved into a process of making geometric human forms by piecing together aluminum and brass casting molds.

The key pieces of empirical data are that average global temperature has now failed to increase for 17 years despite an accompanying increase of about 8 % in carbon dioxide which represents 34 % of all the human emissions since the start of the industrial revolution (NIPCC SPM, Figure 6).

(Really what that figure probably represents isn't so much a difference in organic versus non-organic farming, but in the level of human labor substituted with mechanical labor on the non-organic farms.)

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These figures represent human tragedy on a massive scale for both disenfranchised fathers and their children.