Sentences with phrase «abstractions of particular places»

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Jesus» hearers would have understood «world» as meaning the world as a collection of particular places now made sacred, not as an abstraction.

Clement Greenberg, the most influential of apologists for modern painting of the period, placed particular stress on the formal elements of abstraction, while artists» more otherworldly ideals tended to be played down.

In it she argues: «the radicality of FGT's work lies in the insinuation of the particular in the place of abstraction, while simultaneously destabilizing the particular as a fixed positivity.

As for this particular solo show, NIL reflects the faith that Jago places in his viewer — «this tension is what is beautiful about abstraction; the image that one person interprets as a depiction of humankind's conquest of nature may appear to another as a depiction of nature's triumph.

Strong shadows and the representation of a particular time and place suggest the distinctly American scene so memorialized by Hopper, while attention to flattened surface planes and a rectilinear pictorial structure reveals Diebenkorn's underlying tendency toward abstraction.

Featuring significant paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Jean Dubuffet and Morris Louis, the collection places particular focus on the shifting relationships between abstraction and Pop Art on both sides of the Atlantic.