Sentences with phrase «allegorical traditions»

These tents can be read as surrogates for the artist, and at the same time they are a critique of the symbolic and allegorical traditions of German art.

Through the allegorical traditions of werewolf mythology, the message of White's sacrifice is shown to fall on unlistening ears and unseeing eyes.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

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[22] The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a magisterial endorsement for this call: «According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses.

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

That's especially unfortunate considering the grand tradition of allegorical horror movies that have something real to say about the world.

Written much in the tradition of other metaphysical authors like Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) and James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), author Milan Ljubincic uses the powerful vehicle of fiction to weave a rich, allegorical story that illustrates how every one of us can find harmony and joy when we learn the language of our own hearts, and reawaken the wondrous spirit that already lies within us.

Influenced by classical tradition of still - life, allegorical narratives and portraits, especially by De Kooning's art, his expression is processed with simplified and rough brushstrokes, bold contours and semi-abstraction.

While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting.

She draws inspiration from Greek mythology and Pictorialist photographic tradition, creating work with a distinctively allegorical, surreal quality.