Sentences with phrase «abstract traditions of»

The earliest works in the exhibition, a series of works on paper in the Concretist tradition, illustrate the indebtedness of Clark's early practice to the abstract traditions of Modernism that had come to be assimilated into Brazilian culture in the 1940s.

While some emphasize the power and spiritual intensity felt when viewing Sime's works, others note the figurative and abstract traditions of Ethiopia's modern history, evident in the objects Sime creates.

In fact, Jinchi's mystical aesthetic is traceable to the abstract tradition of qit «a, an Islamic pictorial genre based in the word or verse fragment, and originating in the late 15th century.

Behnke quotes Floyd Herman who wrote of Hine's work: «His abstractions synthesized a keen sensibility of an accomplished draughtsman with the poetry and inventive structure that linked his work to the American abstract tradition of Stuart Davis, Al Held, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

Untitled (P 492), from 2005, is a beautiful example from the oeuvre of Christopher Wool, the seminal figure at the forefront of the new generation of the abstract tradition of the New York School.

Consistently inventive, Stella, now 74, is one of the most significant artists to work in the abstract tradition of painting, sculpture and print making over the past 50 years.

Not exact matches

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

In defending the specialness of the American regime, Bercier also defends the particularity of any people or tradition that gets obfuscated by excessively abstract or universal categories of description; while he concedes that «the Logos is universal» he denies that this is a «universality that legitimizes any human claim to universal rule».

On the positive side, I am sure you are right that Catholicism goes beyond all other religious traditions, Christian and non-Christian, in the dignity it confers on matter and the human body; on the negative, we must indeed get rid of «infinitely contrary poles of existence» and the successive swapping of abstract forms by parcels of intrinsically featureless matter.

Unlike systematics, it abstracts itself from faith commitment, and is «principally concerned to show the adequacy or inadequacy of the truth - claims, usually the cognitive claims, of a particular religious tradition» (AnIm 57 - 58).

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

While these notions seem terribly abstract, nevertheless, in the case of Christianity, we see them operating as we acknowledge the disharmony as well as deprivation of greater richness in the sexism, racism and anti-Judaism of its inherited tradition.

It's my experience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

These are not merely abstract commands, they are made in the name of God, not of any particular national tradition.

Although drawing on this Tradition, as well as on the Hindu advaita - vedanta and the Buddhist pratityasamutpada (the interrelatedness of all beings), he eventually comes up with an abstract form of «Trinity» as a figure — a unity in triple diversity, but detached from the economic manifestation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Kaplan can help us to learn what that means; he can help us to understand that the catholicity of the biblical tradition is not an abstract Greek universal, but a concrete Hebraic wholeness that is universal in its implications.

When moral rules and selves are abstracted from the normative traditions that give them substance and the social contexts that makes them concrete, «values» become little more than sentiments, moral judgments, expressions of individual preference.

To abstract from the prehension or feeling of the past only its intellectual component is to strip the tradition of its very reality.

Nor will I demonstrate here the ease with which one can map the details of his analysis of rites of passage onto the stories about the founders of the major religious traditions, finding in the myths and legends of Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus a common abstract structure, following a familiar tripartite pattern.

Mental images are more important than abstract concepts as vehicles for the transmission of a religious tradition.

By clicking on the link below, you will be leaving the Tropical Traditions website, and visiting a website that is a library of research articles and abstracts on coconut oil, saturated fats, palm oil, and polyunsaturated fats.

Exquisitely crafted in the tradition of Thailand's hill tribe artisans, these silver dangle earrings feature three abstract lotuses in varying sizes.

Corwin writes: «In the tradition of Klein and Dubuffet, Strobert chooses to site her artistic practice within the confines of painting, while literally doing everything she can to reconfigure that discipline through a re-orientation of mediums and with an expressionistic yet pragmatic eye... Strobert's painting isn't abstract painting but the abstraction of painting.

I also believe that the traditions of abstract painting (such as those developed by the three artists I mention above) are particularly suited to the task.

Carlos Salas is one of Colombia's best - known contemporary painters, and some of his monumental abstract paintings will be included in this semi-survey, Carlos Salas: Latin America and the Global Imagination, which also addresses questions of cross-cultural traditions in today's art.

The real problem he faced in seeking to be an abstract artist is that a synthesis of Chinese and Western traditions is extremely difficult.

She reinvigorated the tradition of portraiture at a time when abstract art and the male white painter dominated the art scene.

At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, it draws on the subtle, unassuming beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art.

The bindi becomes a language or code we begin to read through works that elicit formal connections with abstract expressionism, op art, and geometric abstraction from Western painting and the tantric and neo-tantric traditions of India.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work

STILLPASS: It's interesting that you rejected formal training because certain art critics at the time argued that abstract expressionism came out of America, where artists could fully escape the preconceived notions of the European tradition.

These «lyrical abstractionists» sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting, and to revive and reinvigorate a painterly «tradition» in American art.

The Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Mami Kataoka has written, «With watercolor on paper, she creates abstract landscapes that reference mythological narrative alongside traditions of pattern and decoration.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled

Caivano's works incorporate an uncompromising yet individual approach to the tradition of abstract painting, drawing as much on unique perceptions of colour, space, texture, volume and light as on art history.

His work has played a major role in advancing the tradition of modern abstract sculpture in the aftermath of Minimalism.

These abstract qualities generate a form of psychological impressionism, reanimating a more than century - old tradition of landscape painting that insists on temporal and subjective experiences above representational content.

Each artist works in the abstract formalist tradition, but, through the development of new painterly vocabularies and use of unusual materials, attempts to redefine the boundaries of painting.

Like other encounters with «masterpieces» at the Guggenheim, a 1996 survey of abstract painting and «The Tradition of the New» from 1994, this exhibition pretty much ends twenty years ago, with Art Povera.

Jazz, too, became an important site of convergence where memory, history, and a black American abstract tradition met.

Many now see Wool as the heir to Andy Warhol, the next great link in an American tradition of painting that began in the postwar years of abstract expressionism and pop art.

Through the incorporation of materials culled from the everyday, she is able to address numerous artistic traditions including abstract expressionism, minimalism, and color field painting.

Barbara Schwartz was one of several artists who sought to vitalize abstract painting by making it more dimensional and like Marilyn Lerner, tried to link it to non-Western traditions.

The retrospective at Allan Stone shows a painter taking up an intimate and lyrical tradition of abstract expressionist painting and making it his own.

Dan Coombs has suggested that the abstract paintings of Tomma Abts are better understood «not so much as material objects in the abstract painting tradition but as surrogate people with their own personalities.

Installation view February 26 — May 15, 2011 Marius Lut, Jan van der Ploeg, Esther Tielemans and Evi Vingerling How does the most recent generation of Dutch painters relate to the tradition — now stretching back a hundred years — of abstract painting?

The U.S. Pavilion exhibition Tomorrow Is Another Day reflects Bradford's interest in renewing traditions of abstract and materialist painting, as well as his longtime social and intellectual interests, most notably in marginalized populations.

With a background in graphic design, his work seems part of a Western abstract tradition but also freighted with symbolism: the use of denim, a material idealised for proletariat durability in the West, is a reminder of 1980's Chinese fashion; seemingly enigmatic geometric patterns are derived from brain — teaser puzzles.

The painting is made with bleached paper that is scored and molded by hand to produce a sculptural surface, renewing the traditions of abstract and materialist painting for the 21st century.

Fusing the traditions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction, Scully's great achievement is the reinvigoration of abstract painting with the metaphorical, the philosophical, and the sublime combined with the earthy tangibility of paint.