Sentences with phrase «classical tradition»

The phrase "classical tradition" refers to the ideas, values, and artistic styles that originated in ancient Greece and Rome. It describes a traditional way of thinking, creating, and appreciating art and literature that has been passed down through generations. Full definition
Influenced by classical tradition of still - life, allegorical narratives and portraits, especially by De Kooning's art, his expression is processed with simplified and rough brushstrokes, bold contours and semi-abstraction.
Iranian - born artist Shiva Jlayer will display charcoal and ink portraits are steeped in classical tradition.
Colonized by Portugal (and other empires including France and the Netherlands) during 1500 to 1822, the production of art (in the Western perspective) in Brazil was always in dialogue with European classical traditions.
It's a giant hand, carved in Roman Classical tradition, out of white carrara marble and sitting on a high pedestal.
As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most other classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more liberal wings of interpretation.
Third, Swain acknowledges that Christ should be at the center of evangelical preaching, as Barth and Jenson affirm, but argues that for this we need classical traditions of premodern thought that they reject.
Sometimes deprovincialization takes the form of inventive explorations of polytheism, with minimal wrestling with pertinent classical traditions.
If the traits he picks out from American evangelicalism make it a manifestation of fascism, then the entire classical tradition of Christianity is fascist, too.
I interpret the Enlightenment as arising from the Biblical and classical traditions under the impact of the great success of the natural sciences, especially physics.
However, to be able to examine the challenge of building team through the lens of classical traditions firstly it is important to understand the function and make up of PLCs.
The quality of the material, as in the processing of the fibers within the paper pulp, carries a certain hierarchical significance accompanied by traditional methods of working, which are commonly understood by artists trained in one or more of the great classical traditions in Asia.
Modeled in clay from the artist's own face, the masks echo classical tradition and reveal the artist's contemporary process and contributions to the artistic evolution of performativity.
«From the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, artists working in the Western classical tradition favored idealized statuary.
More than 30 years pass over the course of the show, beginning with such influential elder statesmen as Barkley Hendricks — whose striking late 1970s portraits blend classical tradition and Pop Art with seldom - seen African - American subjects — and Robert Colescott — whose wildly satirical takes on racial stereotypes in the 1980s get still more edge from his vibrantly expressionist brush.
In this way it unites both the artist's own ingenuity and vision with the historic and classical tradition of painting that comes before it.
Jean further roots her strategies in the Western classical tradition's mainstream teachings on the nature of the human person, happiness as human fulfillment, and the activities that secure it.
Neoclassical artists, in homage to the Greek and Roman Classical tradition, crystallized their subject matter to a pure, harmonious form with a sober clarity and a subdued sense of color.
In contrast to Frank Gehry, whose style of architecture can mostly be characterized as dissonant blobism, the designs highlighted by the NCAS are grounded in the classical tradition and feature familiar tropes like pedestals, arches, and vases.
He showed us the development over time of Rubens's style, the debt he owed to the classical tradition, and the ways in which other painters subsequently built on his contribution.
The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.
Desmond's goal is to read the Cynic emphasis on poverty as part of the classical tradition, precisely as part of the cultural thinking of the late fifth and early fourth centuries that praises poverty.
Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.
Newman's claim is firmly rooted in the classical tradition of Plato and Aristotle; it is also given us through the life of the Church.
But the classical tradition held that the State should not exercise this right when the evil effects outweigh the good effects.
In contrast to the classical tradition, he declares that truth is not found in the unchanging essences lying behind the flow of time, but is essentially historical and ultimately eschatological.
In Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation they recommend that the definition of rhetoric be broadened to its fullest range in the classical tradition, namely as «the means by which a text establishes and manages it relationship to its audience in order to achieve a particular effect.»
It is a resoundingly successful exercise in a highly refined architectural idiom that draws on different strands within the classical tradition, from Florentine Renaissance to Spanish Mission.
But they need to be understood if the recovery of the classical tradition now underway in sacred and secular art alike is to be fully realized.
During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church served as the most important institutional incubator of the classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts.
The very breadth of the classical tradition allows for such diversity of inspiration and interpretation.
On this point there is a clear and sharp issue between Hartshorne and the classical tradition.
This development is reflected in the popular reverence for the inner - directedness described by David Riesman in The Lonely Crowd; such inner - directedness, in which self - understanding is what matters most, is shaped without benefit of the knowledge of classical traditions.
On the one hand, there are those who emphasize the importance of «objective» education to be obtained through the teaching of Great Books, classical tradition, or technical knowledge.
The irony is that, while open theists are constantly accused of limiting God's knowledge, if my analysis is correct, it was the classical tradition that limited God's knowledge!
More than any cultural figure of his generation, Reed perpetuated an awareness of the classical tradition's enduring role as the indispensable means for improving the human habitat — starting with the city, man's greatest creation.
General MacArthur attributed to his three watchwords personal qualities that the disciplined study and determined advocacy of the classical tradition in art and architecture instilled in Henry, qualities that remained with him to the very end.
His spiritual qualities as well as his profound connoisseurship endowed his advocacy of the classical tradition with its irrepressible vitality, and its lofty aim.
Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.
More than any cultural figure of his generation, Reed perpetuated an awareness of the classical tradition's enduring role as the indispensable means for improving the human habitat... Continue Reading»
By this I mean that we already have before us a way of conceiving the reality of God, in comparison with which the theism of the classical tradition can be seen to be but a first and rather rough approximation.
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