Sentences with phrase «archetypal forms»

The Buddhist mandala and Hindu yantra have been recurring motifs in his paintings, less for their symbolism than for their simple renewal of archetypal forms, «which I thought had a bearing on contemporary discourse.»

This profligate mixing of past styles and genres is a hallmark for our moment in painting, which artists achieve by reanimating historical styles or creating a contemporary version of them, incorporating motifs from throughout twentieth - century art into a single painting or a body of work, or radically paring their language down to the most archetypal forms.

While therefore the forms of love are in one sense innumerable there are certain archetypal forms which love takes in history which can be distinguished and analysed.

These will include water, fire, hair and animals, expanding on his interests in the philosophy and symbolism of the spiral as archetypal form.

Here too, sculptures are created with archetypal forms of wood or stone: ovals, lines or circles.

Leading students in creating stories based on archetypal forms, such as Trickster Tales, the Hero's Journey, or Pourquoi (why) Stories.

Believer (1977 — 1982), Brunhilde (1998 — 2000) and Le Prix (2005)-- also exhibited at his 30 - year survey organized by MoMA and which travelled to the Washington National Gallery of Art (2008), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Texas (2008) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008 — 9)-- as well as Happy Jack (1993 — 2011), Night Watch (2011) and The Load (2012) reflect archetypal forms and notions of cultural history.

Deep time, in the interpretation of Zucco, is an ancestral and enigmatic space in an unfathomable past in which forces capable of generating transitional and archetypal forms perpetually act, creating the symbols of an age that anticipates human presence.

With a keen awareness of how representation fundamentally alters the subject observed, this exhibition proposes a loose correspondence among historical materials, obliquely assembling a class of «more archetypal forms».

Her images are both self - revelatory and speak to the collective unconscious in their evocation of archetypal forms.

Critically examining the Western canon through its most archetypal forms, he reworks the historic tableau, landscape, genre painting and portraiture, but also the muralist tradition and the comic book.

When we turn to Daniel Day Williams» analysis of those «archetypal forms which love takes in history [and] which can be distinguished and analysed» (SFL 4), we find a thinker who is sensitive to the questions raised by Christian claims of superiority to Judaism.

Marrying special glazes with archetypal forms, Haggerty is one of the up and coming stars in contemporary ceramics.

Evil is part of the archetypal forms present to the individual and collective self.

According to his writings, specific people and movements guided Sottsass's thinking, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Donald Judd, Bauhaus and Pop art.In his extensive travels, he encountered mandalas and yantras, stupas and linga, ritual implements and ethnographic artifacts; he identified in them symbolic and archetypal forms, materials, colors, and patterns that serve social, spiritual, and sensual needs.

This mixing of past styles and genres is a hallmark of our «moment in time» in painting with artists reanimating historical styles or creating contemporary versions, sampling motifs from across 20th - century art and comingling in a single painting or an oeuvre, or paring their visual language to archetypal forms, explained MoMA.

Sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Laurie Simmons's Walking House are part of Femmes - Maisons, a section which conceptualizes the female body as the archetypal form of home, since it is humankind's first dwelling place.

His recent series of paintings and drawings explore how personal and collective forms of ambivalence are found in attitudes towards aesthetics, archetypal forms and male identity.

Irrational and imperfect, their human scale and materials reference historical and archetypal forms.

The contrast between the two environments drives at a notion of the universality of the archetypal form incorporated, as well as being a display of beauty.

These archetypal forms are set in greatly contrasting terrains.

As is the case with nearly all of his paintings, each iconic artwork (as well as its frame, and oftentimes wall label) is meticulously rendered as a representation of a representation, moving further and further from its archetypal form — pointing to a distortion of reality already present in the original image.

Graham also encouraged interest in so - called «primitive» archetypal forms, and Pousette - Dart produced canvases with complex, interlocking biomorphic and geometric imagery, as well as hundreds of stylized, abstracted drawings of figures, heads, and animals.

With wheels, traditional proportioning and archetypal form, these revolutionary RVs are designed to be portable while providing maximum comfort.