Sentences with phrase «based on abstractions»

There are complexities that make a court trying to render a decision based on abstractions or black - and - white law look silly.

Meanwhile, for those who tend to agree with Immanuel Kant that social and emotional learning are best when based on abstractions and not bound up with the vagaries of faith, there are public district and charter schools.

If economists are to blame, it is because they do not remind policy makers that their recommendations are based on abstractions rather than on the real world.

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The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

Well, we say he's Socrates, but the Socrates Strauss presents us — one faithfully based on the character in Plato's dialogues — is someone somewhat unreal, a sort of an abstraction.

If we ask whether there could be a sort of intellect that abstracts without at least partially distorting, I think Bergson would reply that we have no experience of anything like that, and any such idea would be highly speculative and would risk missing the meaning of the terms «intellect,» and «abstraction,» since these terms are employed based on an experience we really have.

But if Royce was incapable of rebuilding community on the basis of an abstraction as vague as loyalty, certainly Peirce was even less likely to have been able to construct a viable notion of community.

The abstraction of such categories is based on analogy, yet involves new meaning.

The historical timing of this mistaken notion that the selected data («abstractions») of physical science exhausted the concrete could hardly have been worse, coming as it did just when the industrial revolution and new political revolutions should have been based on the most precise attention to relevant value.

This suggests that adults mediate some decisions based on «gut» responses while teenagers mediate some decisions based on cognitive deliberation and mental abstraction.

Still, here in a self - portrait from 1940, is credited with being among the first artists to develop expressionist abstraction not based on geometry.

«Clyfford Still is among the first to develop an expressionist abstraction and not one that's geometric or hard - edged based on cubes or rectangles,» Sobel said.

Despite the strong presence of artists like Franz Kline in her abstractions of the early - to - mid-1950s, Betty Parsons, the legendary Manhattan - based art dealer, saw enough in Martin's canvases to take her on in 1957; she also encouraged the artist to move to New York.

During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger artists by virtue of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.

I did landscapes, but stuff from actual observation on the various bases, and then my indoor painting was abstraction, putting together all this, all this stuff, that I'd been exposed to.

It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.

Spare and geometric, his work evokes the history of modern abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach based on the repetition of -LSB-...]

His time - based compositions are enigmatic, drawing on the tension between naturalism and abstraction, realism and theatricality.

Beyond the pioneering Hard - Edge painters, other California - based artists, including Charles Arnoldi, Sam Francis, and Ed Ruscha, continued to experiment and transform abstraction on the West Coast.

Geometric abstraction is based on systematic expressions of organization and structure that many artists» lives and environments may have lacked.

Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color - based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s that included illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two - dimensional and three - dimensional worlds.

Within this cluttered context of temporality, community, spatial dynamics and market pressures, the artists in «Wall Works» press on, synthesizing the legacy of wall - based painting and the much younger tradition of abstraction.

Orphism was similar to cubism in its abstraction but was based on the real world and used bright colours and repeating patterns similar in some aspects to Russian folk art.

Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil - on - canvas to mixed - media and installation based painting.

Held's Alphabet paintings from the early 1960s — large, flatly painted hard - edge abstractions based on letter forms — preceded Schapiro's Ox series by a few years, and his black - and - white series are from 1967 — 69.

Abstraction is uniquely autobiographical for Channing Hansen, who composes vibrant knitted paintings determined entirely by an algorithm built from his DNA sequencing, and Zachary Armstrong, who will create a site - specific installation for Inherent Structure by covering the lower lobby wall in an allover print based on his brother's childhood drawing.

# 156: Sherman Sam, London - based Singaporean, abstract painter and art critic, on Artforum, abstraction and why he doesn't trust biennial curators

Yet I've read it, and did want to say something based on that reading, relating it to the problems of criticism in the area of abstraction that this site supports.

Montoya's first major sequence of works was the Target series (2003), a set of paintings of circles based on geometric abstraction — for him, «Colour and form achieving a perfect communion... like a mathematical progression».

Insights from Los Angeles - based artists on abstraction and related ideas that guide them in their own art making practice.

For his highly anticipated second show at Corbett vs Dempsey, Hanson presents a new series of explosively colorful abstractions, investigating the vibrational energies of hue and intensity, as well as a new batch of text - based works based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams and others.

Beginning in the early 70s, Rohrer's work shifted from landscape and still - lifes to abstractions based on a square format.

When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature - based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked their greatest subjects — the skyscraper and the machine.

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

Two new exhibitions focus on the work of Atlanta - based artists: a retrospective show of Alfred Conteh's body of work encompassing realistic portraiture and symbolic abstraction and Dylan Pierce's work inspired by his travels to Swaziland, Botswana and South Africa.

One of the reasons we are featuring this painting before focusing on his better known abstractions is that understanding the basis for any transition in an artist's style is important in understanding his future works.

He developed works from Germany on geometric abstraction, and has done several more works based on his ideas and proposals from that time.

The exhibition's concept is based on the examination of the relationship between abstraction and atonality, whose principles are related.

The works can be seen as a form of science — fiction; partly based on facts and research but often brought into the realm of fiction, abstraction and speculation.

Inspired by the current artworld appetite for process - based abstraction and the related trend of collectors buying such works to flip them quickly for a profit, Lund appropriated imagery from paintings by other emerging artists and installed a GPS tracking device on the stretcher bar of each painting so that he could track the whereabouts of each painting on his website (flip-city.net).

On view will be major examples of abstraction from the New York based American Abstract Artists Group and the Transcendental Painting Group, centered in the South West, social realism, Surrealism, and various expressions of modernism.

Kamrooz Aram «Focus Series» The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth March 31 — June 17 The work of the Iranian - born, Brooklyn - based artist Kamrooz Aram challenges the narrative of art history, making the case for non-Western influences on modernism and abstraction.

During that timeframe, both men were working in the realm of pure abstraction; McChesney, who was based in Northern California, was creating the works in his Arena series, which came to be his best - known and most celebrated paintings — a series of works that incorporated sand on wet enamel.

His text-less abstractions based on book jackets of classic modernist novels have given way to an investigation of the graphical qualities of the language itself.

They were mostly sold on opening night, gallery manager Rina Kim told A.i.A. New York's Blackston gallery showed large acrylic abstractions by New York - based Amy Feldman, who won the fair's Andree Stone prize for emerging artists.

Beginning in Paris, and continuing in New York, Kelly developed a unique vocabulary of abstraction based on the observation of nature and the world around him.

Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).

De Kooning never believed that there was any such thing as «pure» or non-objective abstraction, an art based simply on form and colour.

Can Pekdemir is an Istanbul - based conceptual artist working on deformation and abstraction of body forms using various methodologies and focused on isolated urban spaces, city and nature relationship using photography as a tool of documentation.

Composed from the hoods and bumpers, fenders and fins, of junked car bodies, Chamberlain's vividly hued abstractions are also based on a late - Cubist infrastructure and are similarly replete with a dynamic, gritty, urban ethos.