Sentences with phrase «abstracted images of the world»

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Yes, there is a lot of abstract, esoteric speculation going on there about the nature of God, but if we believe we are people made in the image of God, and especially if we also believe we are called to incarnate that image to the world, then that incarnated life will be, or at least should be, defined by the life of the God we claim to image.

In a series of experiments that withstand rigorous and even hostile scrutiny, Alex and Griffin have shown themselves intelligent enough to comprehend and juggle abstract images of the objects that make up their world — skills once thought to be the exclusive property of humans.

Alongside letter - based graffiti, Myne paints abstract images that fuse elements of the organic, natural world and the rigidity of man - made structures and architecture.

At a time when we have become desensitised to an image - saturated world, Tony Swain (born Northern Ireland, 1967) uses familiar sections of newspaper that are pieced together as a support for paintings of fragmented landscapes and abstract patterns.

At times images of the earthly world are added; sometimes the paintings become abstract.

In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Commito will show paintings that, while abstract, also look beyond their own geometric formal language to the world outside them — conveying the artist's interest in architectural space, the materiality of our everyday surroundings, and the productive process by which impressions and recollections are converted into images.

In an essay on Heinecken written in 1976, abstract photographer and colleague Carl Chiarenza wrote: «He uses existing photographs... and their reproductions because they have littered the world and our minds with unlimited examples of every conceivable image of truth, beauty, banality, eroticism, brutality, pornography, consumerism, political idea, personality, idol, and ideal.

While the Royal Academy's current abstract expressionism show reiterates that North American painting took the world by storm in an «age of anxiety», at the other end of the Strand, in a gutted carapace of a brutalist building, this blockbuster exhibits the creative versatility of moving image and sound in our post-Y2K age — a period not without anxieties of its own.

The hardcover book, which features over 200 lavish color images documenting Texas» unique role (past and present) in the world of abstract art, will be available at Galveston Arts Center during the exhibit.

Though many consider their Cubist collages to be abstract, they maintain that they were actually attempting to more accurately depict reality, as the mind perceives it, by adding elements of the objective world to their images.

I've long been familiar with the work of photographer Andreas Gursky, and especially how his images capture a world that we recognise, on such a grand scale, frequently dystopian, unsettling, abstract and utterly unforgettable.

It's an unusual outing, to say the least, for the world's most celebrated living painter, because the works aren't paintings per se but rather painting-esque things: what he did was take a digital image of a single one of his 1990 abstract canvases and then run it through a mathematical process to isolate its chromatic DNA as a series of eye - boggling, colored «STRIPS.»

Declaring Space includes works by four artists whose images had a dramatic effect on the complex development of space and color in abstract painting as it evolved in the years following World War II.

He portrayed the microcosm as an abstract world similar to the images of Cubism and Constructivism.

His images, some of which are illustrative while others entirely abstract, often reference the natural world; bees, trees, and picturesque landscapes permeate his work, though their representation is often more vivid and colorful than their real - world manifestations.

The paintings combine imagery sourced from the internet with archival material from old books and magazines in order to visualise a world in which nothing is stable or certain, echoing the tectonic cracks appearing in the old world order.A number of new works contain abstract elements, richly coloured striations, which are derived from found images of cracked plasma screens.

His photographs range from portraits, still - lifes, landscapes and sky photographs to scenes involving subcultures and the circulation of goods, spaces of living and transit, abstract and medium - reflexive images; they initiate a polyphonic visual discourse on issues that affect the contemporary world as a whole.

At L.A. Louver, a sharply focused show zeros in on LeWitt's capacity to transform abstract ideas into concrete objects that viewers experience as slippery interminglings of drawing, painting and sculpture — while comparing and contrasting such physical entities with idealized images of geometric perfection, which inhabit the mind's eye but never appear in the real world.

His technique, while extremely ordered and focused on the particular, yields surprisingly rich painterly passages — surprising in the sense that these dynamic images of contact and speed from the worlds of sport and chaos break down into mosaics of small, beautifully incandescent abstract paintings, where foreground and background co-exist on the same plane.

In the years before the First World War Roberts was a pioneer, among English artists, in his use of abstract images.

According to Alicia Longwell, Ph.D., The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish Art Museum, who organized the exhibition, «At a time when abstract painting was thought to be the only valid, and valued, way to make art, these two artists began to look at the world around them in terms of how a painting could present a heightened reality and still deal in representational images — each conveying her own authentic response to the natural world.»

As Cornelia Butler, the curator of Dumas's retrospective exhibition «Measuring Your Own Grave» in Tate Modern asserts, «Dumas's paintings are products of the contemporary image world - that is, they are drawn from directly from the events of our time, abstracted to resonate in content and form.»

On the Art of Building in Ten Books, inspired by classical texts and initiated during Wexler's 2005 fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, uses images to reduce the complexity of the built world into essential elements that are abstract and iconic.

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About the Work In «Asylum», Gibson takes a leaf from each of his two most recent artist's books: «Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions» (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art - world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and «Sarsaparilla to Sorcery» (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from an old Encyclopedia Britannica).

This dedication to mark making for its own sake and his ability to play with large monochrome colour fields atop denser and more intricate bold hues give birth to a mysterious image that creates space for us to wallow in, reminds us that there is more to the world than rational materialism, that there is room for the unknown, the inexplicable, the abstract and dynamic glory of colour and form.

The artists employ story - based and poetic narratives, engage with popular culture, juxtapose text and image, distill and abstract various forms, and pay homage to God or denizens of the spirit world.

The celebrated Combines, begun in the mid-1950s, brought real - world images and objects into the realm of abstract painting and countered sanctioned divisions between painting and sculpture.