Sentences with phrase «works by illusion»

Unfortunately, I believe the human mind works by illusion.

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But if you leave the faith, if you stop putting your hope in a future which is promised by God but which is a mere illusion, if you will make a pact with me and work for me — the prince of the world — then you will find happiness.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

The warning raised by Corinthian piety is that a person can have striking manifestations of the Spirit and still be so possessed by disciplelike illusions that these manifestations do not work toward maturing.

And be under no illusions: Labour will be putting everything into working for an upset by - election win.

«We asked them these questions because we think this is the way to catch the mind at work — by revealing this illusion,» he said.

Working in oils, Renaissance artists could create a vivid illusion of reality by making individual brush strokes disappear.

Some theories say that dark matter is only an illusion caused by a failure to understand the way gravity works on the grand scale of the universe.

What you need is to create an illusion of size by working on your V - taper.

Alcohol, marijuana, tobacco and eventually harder drugs such as amphetamine and cocaine all work by forcing the adrenals to work harder, giving the illusion of energy.

If you are going formal, then all you need to do is work the hair back and pin it inwards to create the illusion of an updo by setting it right.

If you have naturally thin hair, this style of braid will especially suit you and will work wonders by adding texture and the illusion of thickness.

Working with sterling silver, he creates the illusion of double links as he crafts the handsome men's bracelet by hand.

(His finest work, by far, is in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, which was nominated for Best Picture but received no other nods.)

While noteworthy for its astonishingly absurd plot, Angels & Demons manages to maintain the illusion by inserting enough official sounding mumbo jumbo that the audience might be left wondering if this is in fact how things work inside the church.

A fun and creative scheme of work looking lesson by lesson at diffierent optical illusions.

I can assure you that my generation has only recently woken up — probably rudely shaken to reality by the fact that our struggles to plan for a carefree «after work» life, has not and will not materialize, and most of us finding that the efforts to ensure a good pension plan, has largely been based on illusions, dished out by the insurance companies, which ultimately are not much better than the banks that have brought on the economic demise, but for their part will still continue their self - enriching bonus system.

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In a recent interview, thriller writer J.C. Hutchins talked about the times where as he reviews his work he finds dreary stagnant stretches of dialogue, this is poor form in his action / thriller genre so he then injects the illusion of action by including some physical activity for the characters to do.

It was Streitfeld, again, who wrote Saturday's Times piece, This Is War (for a Game Industry's Soul), featuring the work of Stockholm's Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment, or DICE, owned by Gibeau's EA.

Just as movies work by quickly flashing still images that blend together into a cohesive illusion of movement, the shades of red, black and cream on the snake seem to blend into a greenish hue, turning the warning nature of its basic coloring into traditional camouflage, as it disappears into the greenery.

Working with Illusions — which is considered the World's Leading Travel Technology Provider by the World Travel Awards - will enable them to become more competitive, efficient and effective.

«The key for us is to get good hotel rates to complement our ground product and if we can achieve this by working with other Illusions clients via the eXchange, it will benefit our business greatly.»

The current exhibition of work by the late Alan Uglow (1941 - 2011) at David Zwirner highlights the way Uglow's abstract paintings engage with each other and the viewer to create subtle, shifting apprehensions of flatness and illusion.

Robert Hobbs has written this essay to coincide with the «neither appearance nor illusion», A Selection of Early Works from the 1960's by Joseph Kosuth exhibition.

Informed by his studies in perceptual psychology and optical illusions, Turrell's work allows us to see ourselves

Lights and shadows extend these configurations by offering visual effects so that the highly fragile works resemble optical illusions of falling perspectives.

For the viewer, the details of my work coalesce into a clever illusion — recalling the Zen masters» lesson that life itself is an illusion, from which we can awake only by clearing our minds of daily distractions.»

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 for what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery c / o Red October, Moscow Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool, curated by Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Painting Now and Forever: Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York Not So Subtle Subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York That social space between speaking and meaning, by Fia Backstorm, White Columns, New York God is Design, curated by Neville Wakefiled, Galerie Fortes Vilaca, San Paulo A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York Nina In Position, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York Sculpture and Concepts of Spacial Illusion: 1967 - 2007, curated by Don Desmett, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Records Played Backwards, curated by Daniel Bimbaum, Modern Institute, Glasgow Blasted Allegories: Work from the Ringier Collection, Luzern Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann Konig, Berlin

Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.

Just like Pop - Art icon Andy Warhol's final cycle of art works, which was also titled «Last Supper», this show — curated by Reyle and Uutinen themselves — is not only dedicated to superficiality, illusion and temptation; attracting and repelling the viewer in equal measure.

In his ongoing play between reality and illusion, Johns uses rectangular «insets» in numerous works that suggest the cinematic view into another scene used by Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window (1954).

By using various art techniques, the art works presented in this project immerse the viewer in a surreal space of fantasy illusions, wonderful or terrible dreams, imaginary worlds and other - worldly «civilizations»...

Although this particular painting is named after a girl that Stella knew, its composition demonstrates his desire to move away from any representational illusion as well as the emotional content found in works by the preceding generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Illusions Lounge with works by Jose Alvarez, Fernando + Humberto Campana, Nicole Cherubini, Andy Coolquitt, and Keltie Ferris.

Trippy optical illusions created by Richard Anuskiewicz («Summer Sunset Reds,» 1982) and British artist Bridget Riley («Shuttle II,» 1964) and an earlier op - art piece by Victor Vasarely («Ixion,» 1956) share the space with color works by Ellsworth Kelly — beloved by the Atheneum as the first artist in its long - running MATRIX contemporary - art series — Barnett Newman, Paul Feeley and two of Josef Albers» «Homage to the Square» paintings, which complement two works by John McLaughlin.

At Parallel Art Space, I stopped by the jammed opening for Doppler, a handsome and eye - popping show organized by artist Mel Prest featuring Minimalist work by 22 artists who play with optical illusion.

By exploring the camera's ability to create and unmask illusions (sometimes simultaneously), Face Off proposed that the viewer's role in discovering such obfuscation is an integral part of the work of art.

«The Illusion of Light» brings together works by contemporary artists who, from the 1960s to today, have explored the physical and aesthetic, symbolic and philosophical stakes of an essential dimension of human experience: light.

The Crumple Paintings require the viewer to stand far away from the work to perceive the illusion of crumples, created by large Ben Day dots.

Shelley was fascinated by the compelling visual illusions generated by this remarkable material and started to work with scientists to understand and explore these phenomena.

His work eschews representation, narrative, illusion, and conventional understandings of realism, instead exploring the material and compositional qualities offered by his media.

All the works are optically dynamic and by their play between reality of paint, illusion in the eye and reality of idea in the mind, force attention both to the surface and to the idea.

A quiet strangeness pervades these works, a sort of understated but powerful aesthetic connected by illusion, by the strangeness of perception and the transformative power of interpreting the world in paint.

In her new, yet to be titled work she recreates a performance by opera legend Maria Callas, singing the tragic song Suicidio taken from Ponchielli's 1876 opera La Gioconda, using a theatrical illusion that creates a hologram - like image floating in space.

CWYes, for sure, and exactly what David did so successfully in these works: he reduced color to monochrome, reduced illusion and pentimenti, and made composition nonpictorial by literally covering the canvas.

Entitled Blocked Content, the work is composed of sharp - cornered volumes from which faces, hands, and body parts dramatically emerge (or are imprisoned into) and by a virtual reality mobile app Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, the installation questions the concept of web ethic, the morality of artificial intelligence, and the illusion of a digital immortality.

More importantly, these works demonstrate how these visionary artists maintained the rigor and discipline they brought to understanding visual perception by creating the illusion of three - dimensional space and motion using mostly line and color.

Pace Prints is pleased to present Land of Illusion, an exhibition of work by Nicola López, including a series of new unique collages and editioned works.

Cracco invites viewers into the intimacy and the danger of light, whether it is the low light of a candle, the flash of colliding atoms, or the blinding light of the sun, Blinded highlights the importance of the surface, the value of improvisation and the simple fact that just as light can not turn a corner, when you get to the edges of these new works the illusion breaks down, leaving viewers with the memory of being blinded by the intimacy and the intricacy of color and paint.