Sentences with phrase «many modern artists»

Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode of existence banished even from the memory of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision of a new and total nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

For many modern artists, the making of art objects indeed involves a search for self - transcendence.

I have been so busy with the employment of this or that modern artist as a route to a new form of theology, that I just haven't had time to make any contacts like yours.

Because of the inability of Christian theology to provide consolation in a believable and convincing way, the work of the modern artist has become both more difficult and more important.

Any one of Picasso's many periods would have provided a stylistic frame of reference on which to build a reputation as a major modern artist.

The modern artist finds himself «possessed by a horrible freedom... undermined by any higher purpose than choice itself.»

Modern artists, Hitler argued.

The works of 112 modern artists.

Nor can we pretend that it is no longer possible to envision damnation; the modern artist has surpassed even Dante in envisioning the tortures of the damned.

8 This is only relatively true, since some modern artists have insisted on exhibiting their working process to us in the finished work.

For example, modern artists have found themselves challenged by primitive man at the common level of the use of symbols; a modern humanist could be influenced by, say, the historical Socrates, because of a common devotion to a certain understanding of the meaning and significance of truth; and so on.

Modern artist Damien Hirst, open - mouthed in a blurred Edvard Munch - style scream; pop artist Andy Warhol, mouth languidly open, dark eyes right up near the lens; Meryl Streep mussing her hair; David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve angelic and near - identical; a pensive Bob Dylan; Ralph Fiennes with a skull, both looking sleepy; Jack Nicholson looking aggressively cheeky; a young Mick Jagger with his pillowy lips slightly parted... It's a bacchanalia in black and white.

Through trial and error and ingenuity, modern artists have discovered ways of tapping into idiosyncratic aspects of the brain's primitive perceptual grammar, producing the equivalent for the human brain of what the striped stick is for the chick's brain.

And I am talking about beautiful masterpieces that are decorating most of Louis Vuitton's windows after a huge success of their collaboration with the most popular modern artist Jeff Koons.

We went to a bespoke shirtmaker to perfect the details of our modern artist's tunic.

Talking about artists, I came into synthwave thanks to modern artists like Kavinsky, Lazerhawk, Carpenter Brut, and the classic 80's movies» and TV series» soundtracks, and composers like John Carpenter, Vangelis, and the big master Sylvester Levay.

And of course, I'm listening a lot to some other modern artists.

A fascinating examination of the mind, motivations and legacy of one of the 20th Century's most important, modern artists.

The film for which the late director, perhaps the greatest of all modern artists, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, it attracted strongly divided critical responses and has emerged as one of his most definitive works, an immensely contemplative work on suicide and the human condition that takes place, as with many of Kiarostami's works, mostly over a series of car rides.

A fun activity for the junior French class which requires students to 1) research the basics about current and modern artists from the French popular music scene, and 2) present that information orally in simple French.

Because chronologically the images become real visual quotes, explaining a lot; they illustrate very clearly the start, developments and ending - including all moves and changes of this American modern artist.

Recommended Pre-Read and Video link: bit.ly / AShergil Amrita Shergil was India's first modern artist and is often known as India's Frida Kahlo.

The lessons focus on Christian marks, Ancient marks and some created by modern artists.

Do you have a favorite modern artist?

Whether you prefer classic design, historic photography, performance art or up - and - coming modern artists, you'll find something in these five books to whet your appetite.

Bringing into focus the flesh - and - blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.

This week I stumbled across a special gem, our 1998 Meet the Author interview with modern artist, New Yorker cartoonist and Hunter S. Thompson collaborator, Ralph Steadman.

I have written a suite of articles on self - publishing for manybooks.net, as well as publishing more general articles on the highs and lows of a modern artist's life on Thought Catalog.

There's songs by Bing Crosby, Mannheim Steamroller, the Irish Tenors, and Celtic Woman — plus songs by more modern artists like Brian Wilson, and Macy Gray.

Damian Hirst being one of my favorite living modern artists.

While the Musée des Beaux Arts hosts an impressive collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and European paintings and sculpture dating from the 14th Century, many of the galleries on Rue Burdeau showcase modern artists.

Fairmont Pittsburgh also has a sophisticated bar, Andys, named after the city's most beloved modern artist.

Wander along the museum's vast themed rooms and see works by by renowned modern artists such as Monet, Renoir, Arp, Ernst, Klee, Magritte, and Klimt.

Els Quatre Gats is the centre for modern artists in the Gothic Quarter.

That was the first thing that jumped out at me, that you had this modern artist doing graphics for a video game.

Robert Motherwell recounts that in 1951, Edna Wells Luetz, the newly appointed Chair of Hunter's Department of Art, reached out to the Museum of Modern Art's founding curator, Alfred Barr, in search of «a modern artist, and one who is articulate.»

The gallery represents two of Korea's most celebrated modern artists, Chung Sang - Hwa and Seung - taek Lee, and is committed to expanding its program in Asia.

His syllabi and lecture notes and those of others, particularly Baziotes, whom Luetz hired on Motherwell's recommendation in 1952, document a new thrust in teaching, one that situated the problems of the modern artist at the center of a young artist's education.

The organizers, Arthur B. Carles and Carroll Tyson, secured a catalog introduction by conductor Leopold Stokowski, who encouraged acceptance of these modern artists by comparing them to Debussy and Stravinsky.

More than a dozen works by the modern artist Richard Artschwager are being installed on the High Line, Standard Hotel and the Whitney Museum of American Art's future location in the Meatpacking District.

He combined the talent and skill of the masters with the bold, innovative brushwork of a modern artist.

An added bonus was the final section of the exhibition including contemporary and modern artists who had been influenced by them: Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Martin Kippenberger, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, On Kawara, Robert Gober, Vija Celmins, Leo Copers and Arman.

It is this that makes St Paul's visual arts programme seem pretty bold in its choice of artist; and it is part of its long tradition of engaging other modern artists — such as Henry Moore, Yoko Ono and Antony Gormley.

She enrolled at the Art Students League, studied like Jane Freilicher with Hans Hoffman, divorced, and made herself a modern artist.

Fez is a 1964 painting by the modern artist Frank Stella.

New Mexico in particular served as a spiritual and creative oasis for modern artists.

The Cavendish art collection spans 4000 years, from ancient Egyptian sculpture and masterpieces by Rembrandt to works by modern artists including Lucian Freud and Edmund de Waal.

Introducing a new video series: Robert Storr discusses some of the significant, New York - based modern artists with a presence at Frieze New York 201