Not exact matches
Some call it ultra-violent garbage, while others point to it
as a growing
art form, like film.
And of course, the heart of the music that's recognized
as an
art form is all about improvisation, not playing the notes on the page.
Marc Ecko on Entrepreneurship
as an
Art Form Marc Ecko, founder of fashion lifestyle brand Eck?
We really believe in the power of words — language
as an
art form.
[Haute couture] clothes are generally not wearable, and because they are
art forms, it's a way for these labels and designers to get their name out there, and for people to regard them
as being very special designers, and therefore to look at their other, more wearable, clothes.
Jenn Lisak, Director of Content Strategies at DK New Media, says «Content marketing strategy is
as much an
art form as it is a process; when working with a client on an infographic or a whitepaper, I have to pay attention to target audience, aligning the messaging with the brand, appealing to different types of learners and personality types, and whether the curated content is going to resonate with our desired buyer persona.»
In his book, Bissell argues that it's finally time to take video games seriously
as an
art form, and give them the formal analysis they deserve.
They treat the bulk of their investing
as an
art form, and trade logic and formula for creative thinking.
Drew Dixon writes about how video games waste the power of violence and how it can be better used
as an
art form.
About the veil, specifically though, we must also see it
as potentially a
form of oppression for the individual,
as Ayaan Hirsi Ali has courageously and under threats pointed out poignantly through life and
art and biographical writings.
Place seems in its reality transformed, and by the mystery of the movie
as an
art form.
Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears,
as keen
as that given by any
form of literary
art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»
Although the arrival of Christianity systemised and propagated a written language, a literary tradition had existed before it,
as had various
forms of
art.
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily
form as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, «Thou
art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.»
Luke 3: 21 - 22 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily
form as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, «Thou
art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.»
Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards,
forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers,
forms of recreation, religion,
art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence
as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.
26 New laws and new activities result: «Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics,
art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love — all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly -
formed center
as it explodes onto itself.»
Abstract thought, logic, reasoned choice and invention, mathematics,
art, the exact computation of space and time, the dreams and anxieties of love: all these activities of the inner life are simply the bubbling up of the newly -
formed life - centre
as it explodes upon itself.
And lest one imagine a hypothetical hierarchy in play in which the
arts retain this ability to mediate the presence of the divine while such «lower»
forms of play
as athletics remain puerile, let me again quote Michael Novak:
I wouldn't be so bold
as to name the purpose of
art, but I think one thing that unifies its many
forms is the desire to distill the chaos of existence, in all its wonder and tragedy, into a single, unified image of beauty.
Formerly, when the liberal
arts college was the major
form of higher education, and when it understood its mission
as the prepartion of leaders for society, there was some chance of such health.
In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book
as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every
form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of
art.
As the Cold War was rooted in a conflict of ideologies and visions, so it was a drama unfolding in narrative form, and nobody could equal John Paul as a master of the dramatic art
As the Cold War was rooted in a conflict of ideologies and visions, so it was a drama unfolding in narrative
form, and nobody could equal John Paul
as a master of the dramatic art
as a master of the dramatic
arts.
As such, it does not have an immediate counter
art in all other
forms of process to be found in the world.
In medieval
art forms the Christ is portrayed
as rising from the earth and disappearing behind the clouds.
As Paul Tillich used to suggest, a work of
art may have religious content or subject matter and be quite irreligious in its
form.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all
forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance
as an
art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within
art and / or culture we would focus our attention on
as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
Ultimately, he thought of history
as an
art form capable of mediating between diverse parts of society, all of which participate in a
form of collective memory.
If the question were expanded to include novelists — the most sociological of major
art forms — a well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such
as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.
If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first
formed by the liberal
arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed
as day - to - day.
Susini was well aware of Greek sculptors» concern that their work not be read in merely pictorial terms from static viewpoints» that sculpture be experienced
as a spatially dynamic
art form.
«So too in
art;
form is disclosed to the artist
as he looks at what is over against him.
«There are some
forms of religion that are bad, just
as there's bad cooking or bad
art or bad s.ex, you have bad religion too.»
The meaning of the liberal
arts as educating the «free adult male» was transformed into a program of enhancing human freedom, but this was always perceived in terms of
forming and shaping a person.
The
arts merit a central role in liberal studies insofar
as they are conceived not
as occasions for self - exhibition, studied opacity, and calculated freakishness, but
as opportunities for the disciplined attainment of qualitative excellence in the
form of singular perceptual constructions.
Their presence among carvings of Buddha and Indian deities is meant to serve
as a reminder of Pakistan's oft - forgotten multicultural roots, which
form the basis of a new exhibit, «The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan:
Art of Gandhara.»
Although most of van Gogh's biographers view this transition
as a rejection of religion, in fact
art rather than preaching became van Gogh's chief
form of religious expression.
Not only in texts but also on buildings the elaboration of the visible word became a major
art form, especially
as representation of the human figure was not allowed lest it lead to idolatry.
Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until
as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human
form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou
art my god!»
I was bothered by theological critics of literature who, following Tillich's too - easy baptizing of the secular order (epitomized in his phrase «
as the substance of culture is religion, so the
form of religion is culture»), tended to overlook the differences between Christianity and the insights of
art.
The question puts us into the heart of the mystery of the Incarnation and into the question of the religion /
art event
as expressive
form.
I like this parable because it reminds me of the primacy of the story
as the basic
art form of the tradition.
Less obvious, but nevertheless crucial, are the paralysis of architecture, the sterility of visual
art, and the near absence of any
form of creative expression of newer concrete
forms, such
as motion picture.
Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and
art forms of the contemporary world,
as they are encountered in literature and the fine
arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.
Of course we know that music
as well
as other
art forms can equally be cathartic — alchemising pain into beauty.
The final day is constantly happening,
as great works of
art — such
as The Grand Canyon, the Aurora Borealis / Australus, incredible creatures, the constellation Orion, etc. — exist, change,
form, or are born.
The sacramental principle, in which created matter and
form can be apprehended in some authentic way
as images of God, and
as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to
art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image
as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and by means of which we apprehend Him.
They may reject the pleasures of sex and of wealth, renounce learning and the fine
arts, and refuse to participate in civil government or warfare, but they inevitably adopt some other cultural
forms, such
as language.
If indeed we are to judge all thought by the way it «promotes the
art of life,» then I think that we must recognize that there are many ways in which that «
art» can be promoted, just
as there are many different
forms and styles within the fine
arts, all of which can give rise to particular kinds of rich aesthetic experience.9
Understanding
form itself
as a means of grace challenges us to take another look at the sometimes forbidding wildness of the
arts, to open the doors of our churches not only to obviously useful and «religious»
art, but to unpredictable
forms,
forms that exist apart from any question of usefulness.