Cubist paintings such as Pablo Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 3 (1912) use geometric shapes as playful and haunting references to the organic
shapes of the human body.
«Many people know mid-and-late-period Henry Moore so well - the romantic, curving
shapes of the human form, the associations with nature and landscape,» says Michael Parke - Taylor, AGO curator of modern art.
It hopes that the displays will be used to conform to the curved and irregular
shapes of the human body, like screens that wrap around your entire wrist.
Talking about types of hallways is like talking about different
shapes of the human body — wildly variable.
The most common is round; others might be
shapes of human beings, animals, especially rabbits in profile.
As shown above, the compact sensor was able to detect
the shape of a human hand, a promising first result.
We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence
the shaping of human history.
But to try to develop some general theory of the narrative
shape of human experience as a foundation for Christian theology seemed to him «first to put the cart before the horse and then cut the lines and pretend the vehicle is self - propelled.»
That the Christian idea of God (reputedly drawn after the pattern of the man who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried) has all too often been recast in
the shape of human dreams of power and glory is a fact of ecclesiastical history which it would be hypocritical to pretend were otherwise.
Muhsin Khan And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble
shape of a human being), then We told the angels, «Prostrate to Adam», and they prostrated, except Iblis (Satan), he refused to be of those who prostrate.
The essential point is that any theological perspective must take account of the role of freedom in
the shaping of human destiny.
1 There is the New England short story («The Great Stone Face») about the influence of a mountain in
the shaping of a human face.
In the opinion of some observers a third reason for the current word - sickness lies in the changed
shape of the human sensorium as a result of television.
This is still the case whether
the shaping of human desire involves programs like the Affordable Care Act that seeks to orient humans toward care for the other or advocacy of programs that support a pro-life agenda.
What is important here for my purposes is the great agreement between the two that Christian tradition has something to say about
the shaping of human desire and thus about public life.
The social aim of education is
the shaping of the human person and this occurs not simply in freeing human consciousness from «tradition,» but in shaping and orienting it toward societal goods.
It is important to keep in mind that these findings likely represent only a small fraction of the genes influencing the size and
shape of the human face.
These were seeded into a tissue scaffold, formed into the precise
shape of the human jaw bone by using digital images from a patient.
May I suggest earrings that come in
the shape of human hands?
Here, the very structure of DNA is being altered, causing a single plant to grow with a variety of flowers, deer to have antlers that are decorated with blossoms, and other plants to grow in
the shape of human beings (a sight that is both beautiful and inherently unsettling).
Sticks and stones... This simple activity has been making the rounds of mailing lists recently: Provide each student with a small paper cutout in
the shape of a human, or have students cut out their own paper figures.
Headlights LED headlights, employing Light Guide Technology to spread light evenly on the road ahead, are designed to emulate
the shape of the human eyelid, providing an alluring «face» to the car.
But we felt in this case that sticking to the original
shape of a human body, an actual human body, we would reach a level of believability that we would otherwise not attain,» Antoniades said.
For soul, Rondinone offers untreated, rough stone blocks stacked into
the shapes of humans.
If spikes aren't your style (or you're afraid of the ramifications of accidentally gouging an eye out on the L train), Baldessari has also created a gold earring in
the shape of a human nose, which hearkens back to wearable art's roots with the Surrealists.
The shape of a human body reappears again in David Kennedy - Cutler's large sculptures made of transparent plexiglass, which subtly alter the space and create a ripple effect that momentarily distorts the surrounding artworks.
The artist Antony Gormley combined
the shape of the human body with different geometric shapes.
Each of the wall - mounted pieces began as an aluminum sheet, which Oursler cut into
the shape of a human head.
Yellow — Torpedoboy — approximates
the shape of human hands as he attempts to reconstruct the dismembered Mound, whose pink, black and white fragments are scattered across the surface.
Fones» Anthropomorphs are based on a collection of found company trademarks such as the famous «Michelin Man» which mimic
the shape of the human body.
In Britain, the style is exemplified by the Rubenesque nudes of Jenny Saville, that challenge notions of conventionality in the size and
shape of the human body.
Smil helps readers understand the relationships among the energy density of fuels,
the shape of human civilization, and humanity's environmental impact.
The soft ear cups are angled backwards to properly fit
the shape of the human ear, and the build of the headset is light enough that it doesn't need to press down on my head or squeeze onto my ears to stay in place.
Beautifully sculpted into
the shape of a human hand, this seating piece is a perfect accent for a quirky organic modern style home.
His experience using compound curves of wood to mimic
the shape of the human leg proved invaluable when Eames returned to design with his wife Ray, in 1945.
Not exact matches
Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have
shaped the course
of history and had a profound influence on the trajectory
of the
human race.
Invented by the Wright brothers as a psychological experiment to test the boundaries
of human patience and basic comfort, airplanes are the in - demand, out -
of -
shape transportation
of the future.
One
of the best ways to prevent artificial intelligence from harming
humans might be to
shape the concept
of AI in such a way that harm seems antithetical to the definition
of the technology, University
of California - Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell suggested.
All
of these changes, which
human resource managers are heavily involved in, are important factors in
shaping business performance.
«Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive
human behavior, the biases that
shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course
of our relationships,» writes researcher Etip Sinid.
While the company has gained attention as an early adopter
of implanted microchips in
humans, it will be interesting to watch how it plays out and helps
shape the practice for other companies going forward.
This is not only normal, it's
human, with studies indicating that all people have implicit biases that
shape their opinions
of people immediately upon meeting them.
'» rather than «You need to
shape up,»» says Paul Hebert,
human resources expert and vice president
of solutions design at Symbolist.
To find out what was going on in the microbiomes
of four sets
of differently
shaped identical twins, researchers transferred some gut bacteria from a lean (
human) twin to a sterile mouse: one with no foreign bacteria at all.
Conducted by The RBL Group and the University
of Michigan, the
Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) is the most comprehensive review
of the HR profession around the globe, helping to define and
shape the role
of HR as a strategic contributor to the business.
Second, concerns about China's political culture / values (especially
human rights) and security issues seem to be less
of a factor in
shaping public hesitancy around a free trade agreement when compared to certain economic considerations.
Visualized, these stock markets may take the
shape of a turbulent ocean with waves made
of human hopes, dreams, greed and fear.
While Guided Investing is a robo - advisor, meaning client portfolios are
shaped by market theory computer algorithms instead
of actual
humans, the knowledge behind the recommendations comes from Merrill Lynch.
With a rapidly improving ability to manipulate objects
of all
shapes and sizes, they have the potential to replace
human operators with better accuracy, better precision, and better efficiency.
The discussion about the meaning
of human dignity is really a conversation about the meaning
of being a
human being and about the best way to
shape a society.