Many had the desire to break down the distinction between painting and sculpture, to create paintings that were physical objects as
well as abstractions.
Moving beyond traditional ways of representing the world, artists in these exhibitions use novel approaches
such as abstraction, performance, and manipulation of the senses.
We have very little to say about it to begin with, but we should expect that it would explain the previous orders
as abstractions of various kinds, as suggested above.
Seen from a distance, the paintings appear
as abstractions in motion, and upon closer inspection recognizable objects begin to take shape.
What does it mean to explore these questions together —
not as abstractions but as harsh realities?
A dedicated figurative artist, he starts each
work as an abstraction, drawing the scene forward, introducing characters, setting, objects, action.
His paintings may be
viewed as abstractions and an effort on his part to focus on the interplay between light and its surrounding atmosphere.
Her invented constructions, at first glance, pass as organic natural forms, but further looking reveals these
forms as abstractions of those ideas.
Essential as abstractions are to the analysis of the congregation, however, a greater use of story is today required to round out an understanding of the local church.
As abstraction moves into its second century, one can begin to distinguish the vocabulary with which it speaks.
He explored not only color as object and
color as abstraction, along with his colleagues, but also a fascination with visual perception.
David Novros painted
just as abstraction and Minimalism were converging into color - field painting, and he pursued its rigor with a vengeance.
Introduced by a spoken credit sequence in honour of the anti-text conceit, the picture finds itself best
read as an abstraction understanding, ironically perhaps, that for as lovely as Bradbury is to read, he's nearly impossible to «say» — a conundrum that beautifully encapsulates not only Montag's awakening dilemma, but also key issues concerning the unreliability of communication both within, and without, the film.
Consequently,
as an abstraction rather than an actual entity, creativity must be quite other than any being or existent.
For the first time, artwork could
exist as an abstraction in its purest form, an idea without materiality that didn't even need to be realized in order to exist.
The result is a potent comment on the powerful tension between medium and image that has haunted painting for as
long as abstraction has existed, or perhaps since the first images were daubed on a cave wall millennia ago.
Ultimately
serving as abstraction in some of its purest forms, the works on display in Düsseldorf pull from all aspects of life, allowing its combinations to exist as images of their own.
Lew agrees: «We want to acknowledge artists as people, as humans — to not just treat an
artist as an abstraction, saying, «We want your work, but we're not going to deal with you as a person.
During this time, Boyd's compatriots were starting to move into conceptual
art as abstraction became further deconstructed.
To help the homeless, the blacks» that is,
minorities as abstractions» to defend free speech with Pavlovian tenderness, is far from Percy's own ground of defense.
First, there is space - time itself which is
denoted as an abstraction and is denied the status of a self - sufficient entity (SMW 96).
He kept the view that human nature is entirely sinful, but he regarded human nature in this
sense as an abstraction from real human beings.
As rational consciousness grew in strength, it provided for the possibility also of such
activities as abstraction, generalization, and inference.
The notion of physical energy, which is at the base of physics, must then be
conceived as an abstraction from the complex form of the final synthesis in which each occasion completes itself.
Theorist Edgar Schein defined
culture as an abstraction, yet noted that «the forces that are created in social and organizational situations that derive from culture are powerful.
She's the kind of actress that makes you lean in and pay attention, even if, in this case, the character she's playing registers
more as abstraction — an embodiment of internet - age dysfunction — than flesh - and - blood human.
Here, Godzilla's default disinterestedness and the film's elegiac depiction of a sudden urban warzone — one which mainly eschews the triumphalism of ascending missiles in favor of shattered glass and base - jumping soldiers both falling from the reddened sky like
teardrops as abstractions of Barber and Penderecki fill the soundtrack — add up to $ 160 million worth of roaring existentialism.
Acer's plan is that that, ultimately, all of its smartphones will also sport ClearFi, a new tiled UI that will work
as an abstraction layer across mobile gadgets running on multiple OS.
The breakdown of the story structure shares a lot in common with the Dragon Quest games — not coincidentally the best - selling franchise for ActRaiser publisher Enix — and all of these micro-tales go a long way toward humanizing a genre that normally treats
people as abstractions.
The overlaying figure, circles, lines, spots or blurs, certainly
qualify as abstraction, yet still within the logic of the composition, they teeter on the verge of figuration.
He also organized a number of reinstallations of MoMA's permanent collection, covering such
topics as abstraction and the modern grotesque.