Sentences with phrase «by classical themes»

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And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

Even those who have remained most faithful to the doctrine have modified some of the cruder forms of the «second blessing» theology by reaffirmation of the more subtle classical Wesleyanism, with its themes of growth and process in sanctification.

While there was an historical period in which Indian Christian theologians attempted to project a false Brahmanic identity by copiously drawing upon classical Hindu symbols, rites, and philosophical themes, in recent years they have begun to reclaim their Dalit and Adivasi non-Brahminical heritage.

It swings between the wildly absurd and creatively inspired, with doses of adult content, as a revered classical culture is offset by contemporary themes.

With no dialogue during the first half - hour, 2001 readies its audience with a few minutes of oddly structured sounds followed by its hallmark theme, «Thus Spake Zarathustra» by Strauss — a classical piece that will forever be related to 2001.

Written and directed by newcomer Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us is an unabashedly nostalgic Black Power Movement saga of Shakespearean proportions touching on a litany of classical themes ranging from love and betrayal to honor and loyalty to disgrace and redemption.

Film ist a Movie and a Gun (Unrated) Thought - provoking documentary explores a variety of themes such as sexuality and war via snippets of silent films and talkies made between the 1890's and the 1940's, now augmented by a soundtrack exploring the philosophies of Plato, Sappho and other classical thinkers.

Ash's plight is accented by the game's dramatic soundtrack, a collection of classical music themes arranged by the fan - favorite game music composition team known as Ridiculon.

«LittleBigPlanet 3 The Ziggurat Theme» features performances by Winifred Phillips and the Generations Productions Choir, executing a complex classical vocal fugue supported by an organic instrumental arrangement.

Truth in today's surreal landscape By Ashley Jonas Photo: «Silver Lake Operations # 1» by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-..By Ashley Jonas Photo: «Silver Lake Operations # 1» by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-..by Edward Burtynsky at DAI The third and final installment of the Dayton Art Institute's Year of the Classical Elements explores the theme of the sublime in contemporary landscape photography with Ravaged Sublime: Landscape Photography in the 21st Century, which opened -LSB-...]

The Southampton Cultural Center's Rising Stars Piano Series presents classical pianist Hunter Noack on Saturday at 7 p.m. Noack will perform the themed program on Boyhood featuring works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Janacek and John Cage.

The exhibition spans three galleries within the Zaha Hadid - designed museum, anchored by overarching themes within each: «Shifting Identities» explores how a changing China alters constructions of identity; «Body as Site» focuses on the physical body as a literal and figurative site of discussion and debate; and «Confronting Tradition» highlights the ways in which artists draw inspiration from classical texts, teachings, and artistic practices to reinterpret and question evolving power structures and social norms.

After his last truly Futurist works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance based on the Golden Section to figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.

West Gallery: Su Schnee An exhibition of recent large - scale, mixed - media works on paper by Montreal artist Su Schnee will open at Mercer Union on Tuesday, January 6 at 8:00 p.m. Su Schnee's striking and evocative imagery falls within the parameters of two classical themes: landscape and portrait.

The exhibition will feature contemporary works in which classical forms receive provocative new expression — such as the fragmentary bodies by contemporary artist Marc Quinn — alongside more oblique or suggestive uses of ancient themes, such as Bruce Nauman's landmark video performance, Walk with Contrapposto (1968).

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

In this exhibition, Marilyn Minter takes on the classical theme of the bather and the period of drastic art historical change characterized by the new role of the female nude and «the gaze» represented in works such as Édouard Manet's Olympia (1863) and Gustave Courbet» s L'Origine du Monde (1866).