The initial sin of Adam and Eve was to attempt to become like God instead of accepting their inherent limitedness as humans. (firstthings.com)
Concreteness refers to the definiteness, the actuality of an event (like the grandmother's death); limitedness refers to everything that this concrete event can mean — which is not absolutely everything, but everything this event means. (religion-online.org)
One of the things that the new figurative art does is show the dubiousness — not to say severe limitedness — of what Baudelaire called the «cult of the emotions» that began with romanticism (non-objective art is a sort of rarefied romanticism) and dead - ended in Abstract Expressionism, said to have begun with Kandinsky's delusion of spiritual grandeur, not to say grandiose gesturalism. (brooklynrail.org)