Appealing to
our essential duality as human beings, she works with materials capable of embodying a dichotomous way of seeing, feeling and thinking.
Not exact matches
The
essential problematic of the sphere of the between, writes Buber, is the
duality of being and seeming.
There is no actual
duality of God and the phenomenal world, but there is an apparent
duality asserted by the unaided intellect, which is incapable of comprehending the
essential unity of the whole.
of our most fundamental concepts (such as object and subject, matter and spirit, and so on) come as indissociable polarities, a philosophical imagination would seem to be indispensable for retaining the
essential unities of merely apparent
dualities.
Imagery of the sun and the moon anchor this positive - negative
duality, and her overall compositions reflect the traditional Korean philosophy of five natural elements and five
essential colors.
Barbara Rose states: «The
essential act for Tàpies is not depiction or representation but the transformation of matter into spirit... This metaphysical transformation characterizes the
duality and tension in Tàpies» art... The purpose of art, then, is to alter and heighten consciousness, bringing us into contact in the most powerful way with reality, not as it is pictured but as it literally exists in time and space... In this series of recent paintings, one sees Tàpies in full possession of his powers.»