Sentences with phrase «urban realities»

The viewer encounters the unexpected through the artist's photographs which reveal a spontaneous and surprising urban reality and have to be understood as an independent and separate activity from the sculptures.

Heller uses the vocabulary of Expressionism, wielded with great skill, to create paintings that are rooted in nature and a gritty urban reality of lived experience.

«It's a really exciting time in America,» he said, explaining that he expected a «new urban reality,» thanks to the Obama administration.

Nestled in Upington, on the banks of the Orange River, Pecanwood Manor offers guests an escape from urban reality in favour of embracing the provincial motto.

Alain Bublex's explorations of contemporary urban reality are inspired by late 20th century visionary utopian architecture.

Yankus» fourth solo show at the gallery, the exhibition of more than 20 works explores the fine line between urban reality and architectural fiction though surreal portraits of buildings.

Twenty - first century Christianity is also a far more urban reality than a century ago.

This collection of tough, urban reality short stories, You Are Here, by Joe Boland, are set in Romville, a fictional town in Connecticut.

However, it speaks to urban realities closer to those of young black artists at the Studio Museum than to an opening at the Whitney.

Continuing his exploration of melding rigid patterns with abstract expressionist techniques, Monzon creates works that express the organized chaos of everyday urban reality.

The exhibition Urban Reality: Works from the Permanent Collection brings together images in the collection that explore the urban environment.

These abstractions indicate a deliberate and highly formalistic departure from the accurate depiction of urban realities towards a new nonconcrete representation of urban landscapes in the contemporary arts.

AF came to be suspended in his creative realm of captured urban reality.

Henry Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and executive chairman of CityView, a Los Angeles - based institutional investment firm focused on urban real estate, recently wrote in the Urban Land Magazine: «Massive societal and economic changes are converging to create a new urban reality, a transformation of importance to the millions of Americans in the nation's metropolitan areas.

As Mirko Zardini of the Canadian Centre for Architecture writes, «Forgetting the climate, ignoring it, or trying to eliminate it from urban reality and our imagination not only deprives us of the pleasure of different seasons, which foster agreeable as well as disagreeable situations and conditions, but inevitably leads to unexpected confrontations with the more dramatic consequences of weather.»

This aesthetic, along with the predominant absence of people, results in a melancholic atmosphere reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings and evocative of staged theatrical sets - a merging of a contemporary urban reality and a magical, sentimental artificiality.

The photographs create tension between urban reality and its potential chaos leaving the possibility to envision a strange and overthrown world.

In Vitturi's process, photography in conceived as a space of transformation, where different disciplines merge together to represent an increasingly complex urban reality.

Urban realities of race and gender also sneak in effectively, more often than not challenging me to know whether anyone truly intended them.

«And so what better way than to show the silent - movie period in black - and - white [35 mm] negative,» he said, «and for the»70s we looked to the urban reality grit of New York films like Mean Streets, The French Connection and Midnight Cowboy — a much rawer look.»

The heavy fog of despair never lifts: successes are ephemeral, well - intentioned efforts splinter on the rocks of urban reality, and failure is both personal (for the teacher) and systemic (for the students, their school, and their world).

This volume presents new essays and commissioned visual projects that elaborate on the crucial ideas raised in the forum — the new kinds of cultural identifications facilitated by the Internet; the relationship between art and activism; the poetics of online communication; the relevance of the museum in a digital world; and the complex relationships between bodies, information systems, and urban realities.

Similarly, Rackowe uses mass - produced industrial materials together with the element of light to create contemporary monuments that enliven our urban reality.

The so - called Ashcan School consisted of a progressive group of early twentieth - century American painters and illustrators (sometimes called the New York Realists) who portrayed the urban reality of New York City life, in a gritty spontaneous unpolished style.

Urban Reality: work by William Conger, Nicolas DeJesus, Robert Donley, Tony Fitzpatrick, Algimantas Kezys, Albert H. Krehbiel, Barbara Morgan, John Wilson, Garry Winogrand

He and the other members of The Eight were eventually absorbed into a larger group of artists known as the Ashcan school, which continued the exploration of modern, urban realities.

Specific participatory methods are discussed for urban horticulture and livestock research and extension to help urban producers adapt agriculture to urban realities.