Sentences with phrase «small human figures»

Both artists depict small human figures against large, and largely empty, cityscapes.

Finally, by including relatively small human figures in their works or not including humans at all, they were demonstrating ideas about humanity's connection to the larger natural world and reminding us that the natural world exists outside of human endeavors.

Offered here is Peter Doig's characteristically brooding, dreamlike Camp Forestia of 1996, in which a Canadian log cabin gleams against a starry, inky sky and its uncannily perfect reflection in the still waters of the lake below is separated by a line of snow - covered, lime green grass and a small human figure (estimate: # 14m — # 18m).

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So we curled on the bed together and I told this small person trying to figure out how to be human about my love and about God's love, about how we live within this love in these moments of challenge.

Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

Ken had programmed these figures so that they captured a small truth about human relationships, in much the same way that someone else might express a fleeting insight in a poem or a short story.

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.

With ray tracing, the skeletal rig can be rendered as a simple small - polygon figure or in a more complex human form.

The only grave goods with these Tarxien people (which have been dated by the radiocarbon method to around 2800 B.C.E.) were small, carefully modeled ceramic statuettes of obese human figures.

A print of that first micrograph of a two - celled human embryo is now framed and hangs on the wall above the desk in David Albertini's small, crowded office at Tufts University where, 30 years after he cleaned the monkey cages in Southborough, he conducts research trying to figure out how the fate of those two cells is determined.

To figure out the forces behind this electrifying leap, Catania used a relatively small eel and a human subject — himself.

But the compounds normally show up in humans in amounts so small — parts per million, billion, even trillion — that scientists only recently developed the tools to detect them and are only now beginning to figure out how harmful they really are.

Moustapha Cissé, an AI researcher at Facebook, and his colleagues figured out that a similar technique — which they have called Houdini — can be used to fool both voice recognition and machine vision systems, by adding such small amounts of digital noise to images and sounds that humans would not notice.

S.J. Gould, in «The Mismeasure of Man», reviewed a 19th century study by Morton of 600 skulls which ranged from 950 to 1870 cc (and 25 % of this sample was of small - statured Peruvians, so the figure of 950 cc is, if anything, lower than it might be for 600 randomly selected humans).

A woman develops a tattoo - like mark on her arm, then begins to grow tiny twigs and buds along one arm and she walks away into a meadow, where we see she has become a woody human - shaped plant covered with small flowers and another person develops a figure - 8 mark on one forearm, but she changes no further.

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.

In addition, Ofqual research with 50 human resources professionals revealed that less than half of them understood the new system, while among small businesses, this figure dropped to about a fifth.

Filipe Rocha da Silva has long been fascinated with patterns, including imagery composed of small particles that when seen up close are comprised of human figures.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 3 - 6 pm Filipe Rocha da Silva has long been fascinated with patterns, including imagery composed of small particles that when seen up close are comprised of human figures.

Elizabeth Peyton works mostly with small - scale portraits, inspired by the traditional approach to depicting a human figure and personality pioneered by photographers like Felix Nadar and Alfred Stieglitz.

It is amazing what human presence adds to a painting regardless how small scale the figure is.

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.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

Based on a small sculpture of a local carnival character, this figure appears, in overlapping, cool veils of oil on the unprimed linens, to be metamorphosing from human to bat to butterfl y to ectoplasmic specter — a perfect allegory for Doig's art of transformation, in which beauty is always a possibility but never a sure thing.

Mueck's sculptures are all of the human figure, some smaller than life - size, some larger.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

The exhibition showcases eccentric, small - scale portraiture that distort classic presentations of the human face and / or figure.

Distinguished by their color and varying degrees of transparency and opacity, each sculpture consists of a figure with the head of a dog and body of a human who crouches down, holding a smaller dog protectively in its arms.

This first museum exhibition of Kate Eric will present a small survey of early work, where the human figure was somewhat present, too the latest, which is quite devoid of human life.

The smallest warming / sea level rise in TAR figure 5 will place a wide range of human and natural systems under very considerable pressure (and based on estimates of the melt - down point for greenland place us teetering on the edge of dangerous climate change).

That seems like a rather arbitrary figure - it's larger than 10, but smaller than the 17 year timeframe which Santer et al. concluded is necessary to evaluate the human influence on global temperatures.

Researchers have figured out how to use viruses to create electricity in a new piezoelectric technology that could power small electronics through human movement.

It's a whimsical design that tackles an important issue in its own small way: with various wildlife populations declining around the world, it will be essential for humans to figure out how to include concrete ways to boost local biodiversity in the design of sustainable buildings today, and for the future.