Not exact matches
A duration is neither an
abstract stretch
of time nor an instantaneous present (CN 72), but rather «retains itself within the passage
of nature... in other words... retains temporal thickness» (CN 56) and is «limited only by the property
of being a simultaneity» (CN 53).
Over
time religions have resorted to characterizing God is increasingly
abstract, incomprehensible, and not subject to the laws
of time and
nature.
If, with Hartshorne, we pare away at this excess by limiting ourselves to that which must be exemplified at all
times, the
abstract nature of God, we rob ourselves
of the means
of achieving divine persuasion by the provision
of initial aims.
It simply lies in the
nature of certain sorts
of things — information included — not to be located in space and
time — to be «
abstract.»
No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man
of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the
abstract manhood itself
of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first
time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer
of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture
of his
nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...
Impersonal domination: linked to the very
nature of work in nascent industrial capitalism, an unprecedented domination
of work over
time due to the fact that value, in the capitalist regime, is established on the basis
of abstract social labour.
Inspired by the origin
of the universe and The Big Bang, the artist presents his
abstract works analyzing the
nature of technology,
time and our limitations to completely understand the universe we live in.
Her «Tuning Fields» series, now numbering over 300, uses line - driven layers
of color to create loose yet formal fields
of motion that are
abstract and at the same
time evocative
of shapes and patterns found in
nature.
Spending a great deal
of time in New Mexico, where she purchased a ranch, her paintings were celebrated as one
of the first
abstract and stylized
nature images.
The fragmented, at
times abstract,
nature of the VR rendering is no accident: Rossin has purposefully taken the scans
of her studio and altered them, pulled them apart.
Abstract expressionism, by its
nature, is an individual response to something specific — an experience, a person, a memory, a literary work, the season, the
time of day: «You can paint a cubist painting by formula and it might not be a very good cubist painting, but you can not paint an
abstract expressionist by formula.»
The exhibition is comprised
of portraits and
abstract compositions that further Souders» interest in fragmented narratives, the inchoate versus the fully formed, and the uncontrollable
nature of time.
Since that
time, I have wanted to move beyond what I found to be the
abstract nature of black, and find a space that could be more real, and more specific in the many implications and directions created through this term.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware
of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community
of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain
abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's
time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings
of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with
nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals
of four colors determined by the passage
of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out
of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense
of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment
of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.
The installations, transitory by
nature, survive in Dudley's
abstract geometric drawings
of the
time, which are now on view for the first
time.
«I dislike the notion
of calling painting «figurative» or «
abstract,» as the
nature of painting is both at all
times.
In 1972 he turned to words and their immateriality to explore the relationship between
abstract categories
of thought, such as general and particular, finite and infinite, culture and
nature, the passing
of historical
time and the hypothesis
of the eternity
of universal physical laws, the routine
of experience and the abstraction
of philosophical principles.
In other words, my primary stride at that
time as a painter was to make my painting real even though it was
of, shall we say,
abstract or even nonobjective
nature, to make it terribly physical.