Sentences with phrase «several human figures»

While remaining fully in the realm of abstraction, each work points to one or several human figures, always in motion and never quite coherent.

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For several decades, Charlie was probably the most widely known and beloved figure in the world — not only because he was a master clown communicating through the universal language of pantomime, but because he grappled comically with universal human problems.

For example, several centuries ago, God may indeed have become a «lover of Shakespeare» insofar as Shakespeare's works were experienced by human beings; yet, it is also possible that God's appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry (though not of the feelings of Shakespeare or his audience) declined as new literary figures and forms appeared.

Daniel Sturridge seems to finally have found his niche, Suarez is soon to be back on the football field with his appetite for both goals and human flesh (sorry, couldn't resist), Coutinho is looking disturbingly talented and Brendan Rodgers has shored up his defence with several established figures, not least the mighty Kolo Toure.

In several of the latter, images of corpulent human figures played an important role.

Watch as Phil builds his human - sized tinfoil boat wrong several times before he figures it out.

They also researched cats (and several other human - related causes of bird mortality) and while it's challenging to arrive at accurate figures, they estimate cats, both pet and feral, cause somewhere between 100 and 350 million bird fatalities per year.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

Featuring detailed replicas of nearly 100 objects from The Met collection, The Theater of Disappearance encompasses thousands of years of artistic production over several continents and cultures, and fuses them with facsimiles of contemporary human figures as well as furniture, animals, cutlery, and food.

Both the sphere and the shelter were designed to precisely accommodate a human presence: several stunt riders can simultaneously circle each other within the tight inner orbit of the sphere, and the shelter, which fits into the bed of a pick - up truck, can house a sleeping figure.

Wurm once described his work as engaging with «the difficulty of mastering life,» and several of the characters who populated the show are defined by the form of physical restraint, or lack, under which they labor - from the armless would - be onanist in Telekinetischer Masturbator, 2009, to the related pair of vaguely human figures Jakob / Big Psycho VII and Big Gulp Lying, both 2010) whose incomplete «bodies» are bound in sweaterlike garments with disconcertingly vaginal openings - extending and elaborating the distortions of the artist's Pilobolus - like 1992 performance documentation 59 Positions.

Best known for his large - scale Hammering Men sculptures in collections around the world, American artist Jonathan Borofsky has worked with stark profiles of the human figure for several decades.

The human figure remained Bacon's principal subject, however in the 1950s he made several paintings of animals and a small series of African landscapes and animals.

Duality and duplication recur across several aspects of this work, and are especially prominent in the double movement: the sporadic movement of the jackal, and the repetitive movement of the human figures, which appear to be marking themselves, or signaling, or calling out for help.

Artworks will include two new sculptures made in cast iron that stand 21 feet tall, the monumental icon House of Knowledge, and several new works continuing Plensa's exploration of the human figure created through language and symbols.

Her works — which include several larger - than - life formats — show the human figure at a moment of physical calm and self - absorption, sometimes loneliness.

As is apparent from Figure 1, the climate system would cross several tipping points and trigger various feedback effects that would render the climate system beyond human control.

As is apparent from Figure 3, the climate system would cross several tipping points and trigger various feedback effects that would render the climate system largely beyond human control.