Sentences with phrase «profane beauty»
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sonnets and Madrigals of Michelangelo Buonarroti; quoted in Van der Leeuw, Sacred and Profane Beauty, p. 265.
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Van der Leeuw, Sacred and Profane Beauty, pp. 104, 74, 259; cf. Joseph D. McLelland, The Clown and the Crocodile (Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1970), pp. 71 - 76.
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The ghost of Federico Fellini hovers wickedly over The Great Beauty, a fantastic journey around contemporary Rome and a riot of lush imagery juggling past and present, sacred and profane, gorgeous and grotesque.
Nowadays, a skepticism of formal beauty is received wisdom and the favored landscape to draw subject matter from for art includes both the sacred and profane.
Life and death, beauty and ugliness, the sacred and the profane; all the big Hirstian statements that have appalled some critics with their supposed obviousness, but have also dragged conceptualism from the margins of the art world into the mainstream.
In Chris Ofili's work painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.
The gallery says his work features «painterly and cultural elements — both sacred and profane, personal and political, from high art and popular culture — come together to play on ideas of beauty while carrying messages about black culture, history and exoticism.»
Through using juxtapositions of the profane and the momentous that are characteristic of advertising, Bishop subverts our conflated understanding of beauty and meaning.