Sentences with phrase «as objects of contemplation»

Mark Rothko saw these paintings as objects of contemplation, demanding the viewer's complete absorption.

Shen's intriguing twisted and metamorphic sculpture made of paper, ink and wax referenced a long tradition of Chinese scholars» rocks, which are collected and treasured as objects of contemplation.

Brooks is asking for the strongest instances of structural complexity, which will clearly introduce it into the conscious mind; not, perhaps, as an object of contemplation, but as an effective agent within the experience, whose stresses are definitely felt.

All of these works reflect aspects of how a painting can function — as an object of contemplation, for example, or an object of commerce.

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Such an awareness is impossible if and so long as the other is for me the detached object of my contemplation or observation, for he will not thus yield his wholeness and its centre.

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

Contemporary modernists like Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon and Gass offer works that are, in Dillard's estimate, nearly completely artifactual, objects of wonder, amusement or contemplation, but not to be taken in any sense as mirroring reality «out there.»

Catholic teaching distinguishes between dulia — paying honor, respect and veneration to saints and also indirectly to God through contemplation of objects such as paintings and statues — and latria — adoration directed to God alone.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

The collage and cut outs of John O'Reilly and Brainard bump up against each other in their juxtapositions of classic Greek sculpture and the eroticized male form, as ideal, object of contemplation and as pop advertisement.

If, as Michael Fried complained long ago, Minimalism turns the gallery into a theater, these remain objects of art and of contemplation, only somewhere apart.

As Zhang says, he is creating a «societal landscape,» one where, whether he is manipulating an image of a building in Chelsea or one half way around the world in China, his aim is not to efface but to meld disparate concepts and histories, disparate types of visual information, and make yet a third thing — a multifaceted, multi-media, object for contemplation.

Museum visitors are depicted in relation to museum objects, their bodies as much forms for contemplation as the artworks depicted, as in In Order of Appearance IX (2012).

While her earlier work looked at art museums as places for worship or contemplation — in the vein of cathedrals or pilgrimage sites — and artworks as objects of faith, her recent works, such as Deposit III (2015), give more importance to painting as an actual object in its own right: «It allowed me to leave bi-dimensionality, unhang [painting] from the wall and naturally add other supports of images (video, mirrors, printed matter, found paintings) and link them to a same genealogy.»

Chief amongst these is that it offers, as the object of study, the contemplation of an exhibition rather than individual artworks

These simple, silent constellations of colour and form serve as objects for contemplation rather than representations to be interpreted or decoded.

The opening exhibition includes work by internationally renowned artists, including Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Damien Hirst, Sergej Jensen, Brice Marden, Gabriel Orozco, Sterling Ruby, Robert Ryman and Jeff Wall, amongst others, alongside Chinese scholar's rocks, which are revered in China as objects of both trade and contemplation.

But to place this car in the gallery seems to miss the point, offering it as an object of aesthetic contemplation and period design rather than the embodiment of a particular kind of fantasy that suffused»60s culture, that often found its expression in a burgeoning ethos of conspicuous consumption.

In this new body of work I am continuing my exploration of the art object as a catalyst for contemplation and meditation for the viewer as well as the artist.

As evidence of this ambient trend's beginnings, Pollock famously painted the engulfing «Mural» (1943) for Peggy Guggenheim, where he transformed the canvas into a whole wall instead of the usual small object of contemplation visually and physically dominated by the viewer.

The importance of viewing these works from a variety of angles is key, and with quiet contemplation, visitors can perceive the works as Judd had intended: without prior expectation (as he wrote in his canonical 1965 essay, Specific Objects).

Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even mourning as these silenced objects of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form of transcendent afterlife.

Through film, photographs, sculpture, tropical plants, ambient sound, and hexagonal ceramic objects that serve as both planters and seats, Hartt crafts an environment for contemplation of the Habitat project.

Using the world around her and the antics of her friends and family as her primary influences Tinari gives the viewer a glimpse of a life that is full of action and adventure along with moments of contemplation; reflected in her recent work featured in her 2013 show at Mixed Greens that focuses on objects related to her son, Mars.

Chung's methodical and introspective approach to painting aligns his work with Tansaekhwa values, as he explores the power of his medium to invoke contemplation while probing the identity of an art object defined by a disciplined devotion to craft.

Though they can serve specific functions, they often serve as a sort of picture frame, a space to host a rotation of objects of beauty for contemplation.