Sentences with phrase «as pictorial»

If Stella's call for a new sense of space tends too quickly towards a literal - minded interpretation, the problem with Peter Halley's Neo-Geo abstraction was that it moved painting into a philosophical, theoretical, and technological / conceptual space which was literal or literalizing in its very own way (e.g., as geometric abstractions came to serve as the pictorial ««models» of intellectual concepts»).

As far removed as the pictorial aesthetics and political transformations of mid-twentieth century may seem, their bright essence and dark shadows still cast vivid desires to press the challenges of convention and experimentation further.

As much as her pictorial repertoire is still in the lineage of the masters she was close to at the time — Kline, De Kooning, Pollock — Gedney generates a language and palette of her own.

As a pictorial strategy, Hayes deliberately sets up situations to disrupt and complicate the painting in order to avoid a predetermined and predictable image.

Inspired by the contour of a favorite chair from her childhood, in combination with a sand painting she recently found in a garage sale, the sculptures explore positioning in space, and real vs. illusory depth, as well as pictorial language in general.

«He often treated sky phenomena, bodies of water and buildings as pictorial elements that would enhance the relevance of his art to the viewers of his own time.

In other works, Calzolari consistently refers to the paradigms of still life and to the inevitability of disintegration and mortality, using organic and inorganic materials combined in an approach that could be read as pictorial.

Acting as a pictorial element across the series, the mountain is also a potent symbol of challenge, risk and refuge.

Her newest works emphasize the ceiling as pictorial space, drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque murals that made ceilings into illusionistic, mythological zones.

These paintings also served as pictorial representations of the owner of the estate, and the highest form of art became a way of showing the artist's heart and mind to others.

His work researches the screen as a pictorial space, reverse engineering reality into condensed bits, in a space somewhere between animated cartoons and paintings.

But Prince has been plugging along on a new suite of subtle paintings that use arbitrary configurations of rubber bands as a pictorial strategy.

As a pictorial object, the candle has deep cultural and art historical roots.

His illustrations reflect aspects of naïve art, as well as pictorial techniques from naturalism, Cubism and Dadaism.

These observations became translated through the construction of three - dimensional spatial paintings as pictorial compositions that reconfigure the space and its architecture, using specific physical things.

Centered on the notion of image - making as pictorial writing, or what Aupetitallot calls a «visualized narration,» the focus in «Tell Me a Story» is on a generation of artists whose work has a novelistic or story - like quality, from Karen Kilimnik and Raymond Pettibon to Xavier Veilhan and Jeff Wall.

These artists, as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.

As he has later said, «The subject is radical - the idea of taking «jokes» as a pictorial theme was really new, a virgin territory, untested waters.

Series of paintings emerged between 1980 and 1983 represented stone constructions as a pictorial support to famous examples of National Socialist architecture designed by Albert Speer and Wilhelm Kreis.

Until the mid-1950s, Moore made numerous preparatory drawings for his sculptures as well as pictorial studies of interiors and sculptures in landscape settings.

Sculptural as well as pictorial, each diptych is mounted to a support that projects the picture plane forward off the wall towards the viewer, hovering in space.

Using materials with communal value for the base of the artist's collages, bedsheets and table cloths are transformed from crisp white to a peachy pink as pictorial cuttings as embossed and layers with lipstick, iodine, Pepto Bismol and hair dye.

You even forgive him the use of his signature, childlike and teetering to the right, as a pictorial element — it gives the eye something to hang on to.

Though he is especially known for his seminal books on Marcel Duchamp such as Pictorial Nominalism and Kant after Duchamp, this time around he set out to revisit the history of Modernist painting which Hilma af Klint is belatedly entering.

Lisa Sigal brings architecture and painting into dialogue by creating a series of physically inaccessible rooms that can only be viewed as pictorial spaces.

It is filled with beautiful images of 214 species of fish as well as a pictorial index to identify families of fish.

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He can never regard them as pictorial symbols of general truths, existential experiences or emotions.

Statements affirming particular facts may be found to have value as pictorial expressions of spiritual truths, even though the supposed facts themselves did not actually happen.

For example, software may be registered as a literary work; maps as pictorial, graphic and sculptural works; and a children's slide as an architectural work.

Not exact matches

It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self - sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a more potent influence than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

Art historians have long been intrigued by Rembrandt's appropriation of certain Rubensian themes and pictorial types, but Schama makes this the centerpiece of his argument, as if the primary motivating force of Rembrandt's career was to imitate, emulate and eventually get the better of Rubens.

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.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

A simile is like a pictorial model, as when we say that a seasick person is «as green as a leaf.»

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.

By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces of nature in search of a subject's «essence» or deeper truth.

Bultmann regards the pictorial language which the New Testament uses about the cross as a mythological expression of the truth that the believer has been delivered from sin.

Inadequate as they are, subject to modification from time to time, needing correction and supplementation, our various human languages (verbal and pictorial, aural or graphic) are both necessary for us and useful to us; they help to make sense of, and they help to give sense to, the richness of experience and the given - ness of the world as we observe and grasp it.

So even if they believed in Jesus as the Messiah, they wouldn't represent that belief in a pictorial way recognizable to us.

At the Whitaker - Jaynes House, visitors can tour an extensive museum displays including items from the Lynx Women's Softball Team from the 1940's, a wedding dress display, a pictorial history of Buena Park's entertainment venues as well at the Dreger Clock and various photos of the famous clock throughout history.

She also wants to be a star, as was clear from her Playboy pictorial, which caught her parents and teammates by surprise.

• Pictorial Exchange Communications System (PECS) resources, typically used as an aid in communication for children with autism and other special needs

As they gain aptitude for sequential and logical thought, their most vital asset remains the ability to be fully at home in the pictorial world of imagination.

The Greater Accra Regional and constituencies executives of the women wing of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken the government, «Accounting to the People,» pictorial booklet known as the green book to the coastal towns of the region to canvass for votes.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

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