Sentences with phrase «become abstract forms»

In doing so, these images become abstract forms floating in space, forcing viewers to reorient their preconceived notions of symbols and their meanings.

From some vantage points, they spell out new words; from other vantage points, they become abstract forms.»

Not exact matches

Once God has died in Christ to his transcendent epiphany, that epiphany must inevitably recede into an abstract and alien form, eventually becoming the full embodiment of every alien other, and thence appearing to consciousness as the ultimate source of all repression.

It hence determines the form of the novel event, since With the creative advance of nature the abstract region becomes a definite event.

His solution was the disengaged form, but with that the form of the object becomes abstract — not in the sense that it is grasped as an abstract essence but insofar as it no longer remains the form of that individual — and this is the problem that Whitehead saw and tried to solve.

The subjective form in a particular actual entity, he tells us, unlike the abstract eternal object, is an «element in the private definiteness of that actuality» (PR 444), and the subjective form can not be torn apart from its particular subject without becoming a mere universal (PR 354, 356).

Only in the later stages of the cognitive process does a form become disengaged from association with the individual and thus reach the level of an abstract universal.

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

That the concept of the concrete calls for that of the abstract becomes clear in the concept of the subjective form of an occasion as the concrete, unique, and unrepeatable relation to what was already given.

These forms or constructs may appear as sense or sensation such as «green» abstracted from our experience of «becoming greened.

He gives the impression that society has become so abstract that even events and activities that we take as quite «normal» are simply another form of the illusory nature of our culture.

Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

[8] «The abstract category «labour,» «labour as such,» labour sans phrase, the point of departure of modern economics, thus becomes a practical fact only there [in the USA as the most modern form of bourgeois society].»

They start as abstract forms and it becomes this intuitive, primitive, dance — a dance in the dark,» Jules De Balincourt tells me in a warm office at the back of Victoria Miro Gallery in Mayfair.

And another thing is, the abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form.

Nonetheless, De Keyser is fast becoming recognised as one of the 20th century's foremost proponents of a complex, unique form of abstract figuration inspired as much by everyday reality as by serious aesthetic concerns.

Although a critical force within the group, the artist's contributions to Memphis — in the form of graphic patterns — were only a small segment of her career; as the ICA show makes clear, Du Pasquier is a multifaceted artist, and she became particularly interested in abstract and figurative painting.

Playing with context and form, everyday mattresses become abstract and weighty sculptures.

There, the family learned to adapt a form of sacral painting that they once did on sand, rocks, and their bodies to canvas, and Tjapaltjarri became a star when his sensational canvases — abstract to Western eyes, but actually relating ancestral myths — made their way into dOCUMENTA in 2012.

The simple joy and unselfconscious vitality conveyed by the mesh of writhing, abstract form was a style that compelled and satisfied the French artist for many further years, and Impair et Amble became one of the very first paintings in Dubuffet's definitive painting cycle — L'Hourloupe — that was to occupy him for a full decade.

She filters the heroic style of Michelangelo through her feminist and lesbian subject matter, yet in recent years her work has become more abstract and less overtly narrative, encompassing psychological ambiguity and looser painterly forms.

His later paintings became stylized seascapes and, by the 1960s, purely abstract forms seeking to express what he called «the great quiet spatial ideas.»

They elude straightforward classification, deftly using the representational as a point of departure into the abstract, allowing the subject to become incidental to the compositional form created.

She began using coffee residue as a personal material in her art making exploring feelings consciously and subconciously as a method of self discovery Her works become a visual reflection of her mind, the process of her art - making describes how she sees the world, reconstructed on paper in minimal abstract form.

In Calkins», «Arizona» the rock formation is approached head - on and becomes a beautiful abstract arrangement of lines, striations, forms and repetition.

When I ask about Steciw's inspiration, Blomfield points me in the direction of The Overloaded Man, a short story J.G. Ballard in which the protagonist, suitably named Faulkner, narrows his perception of the world which in turn becomes nothing more than an array of abstract forms and colours.

Named after a gallery that was to become the very first gallery in Soho, and which included like - minded artists Ed Ruda, Mark di Suvero, Peter Forakis, Robert Grosvenor Anthony Magar, Forrest Myers, Tamara Melcher, and Dean Fleming, The Park Place Group was an idiosyncratic bunch whose work, though abstract and geometric, didn't accord with the prevailing Minimalist ethos of pure form.

In recent years, however, abstract form and process have become vehicles for more personal, less strident explorations of the provisional, the contingent and the casual.

The title of the exhibition expresses the essence of Korean abstract art: â $ ˜forming nature.â $ ™ To this group of painters, creating art is to form and conceive nature in their own minds, aiming to return to nature and ultimately become one with it.

Though he never signed or dated any of his works, the exceptionally bright and contrasting colours and the vibrancy of his forms — vaguely evoking flowers, birds, objects and human beings, but more often dissolving into abstract shapes — unquestionably became a signature of sorts.

Run by Hans Hofmann, whose reputation as an excellent teacher was well - established, the Hofmann School had become a vital space for nurturing and developing the talent and ideas that formed the foundation of abstract expressionism and the New York school of painting.

At Wharf Road, Hernández is showing abstract paintings that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative techniques of accumulation and removal for which he has become widely known.

At Wharf Road, Hernández will show abstract paintings that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative techniques of accumulation and removal for which he has become widely known.

It became a serial motif for her and linked her practice in New Mexico with that that of younger New York abstract painters, such as Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, who created multiple works around a repeated form.

The mountains became forms, the sky shapes became abstract images.

Conversely, Steven Frost's assortment of embellished sex toys — protests against traditional notions of good taste — become investigations of abstracted color and form in their ornate departure from the norm.

At Victoria Miro, Wharf Road, where Something Curated met with the artist, Hernández is showing abstract works that continue his investigation into gesture and form while extending the innovative techniques of accumulation and removal for which he has become widely known.

The city became fodder for his grand compositions as his commitment to abstract form encompassed his deep sympathies for the found abstractions of urban life.

This view shaped what would become Kelly's overarching artistic perspective throughout his career, and his way of transforming what he saw in reality into the abstracted content, form, and colors of his art.

The works are composed of layers of sterile and simplified abstract forms, removed from any natural or organic references, they become reliant on the chain relationship between one basic modular unit linked to another, questioning notions of singularity.

From there the surface becomes a malleable space as the objects dissolve into pure form...» [3] Similar to Vance, the source material in Cecily Brown's work becomes obscured and abstracted in the process of painting.

It is the substance of his forms... By turning color into forms — or making forms of sheer color — Nahas has narrowed dramatically the gap between what an abstract image is, in physical fact, and what it becomes as we follow its allusions into the realm of the imaginary.»

The resulting assemblage becomes a source for Morley's abstract compositions, manifested in three different forms — in collage, watercolor, and in paint.

McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.

This is a form of abstract expressionism, where the process of making the painting becomes more important than usual.

Thereafter, abstract symbols became the predominant form of Paleolithic cave art, outnumbering figurative images by 2:1.

In some examples, surface marking takes the form of all - over abstract patterns; in others, the marks become actual letters in indecipherable combinations.

The original source materials becomes obscured, abstracted and finally replaced by Mullen's own unique language of interlocking colors and forms.

With its roots in early human history, abstract art has become one of today's dominant forms of artistic expression.

The impressions formed in these molded masses are created by recognizable objects which become obscured in the process of making, they become abstracted even as they remain whole, and what is hidden remains seen.