Sentences with phrase «figurative expression of»

Not exact matches

The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

There are statements of fact which reflect the transcendent purposes of God, but these are often given figurative, poetic, or ironical expression.

Nor are the figurative modes of expression simply to be explained as didactic devices designed to assist a primitive hearer's comprehension, for even to him much could have been differently said without prejudice to his understanding.

If that were the case, then the figurative trappings and modes of expression which are certainly present would be meaningless there.

The prodigal son, the friend at midnight, and the unmerciful servant are allegories, she believes, but they are no less authentic bearers of the mystery of the Kingdom than other figurative modes of expression.

The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

Some artists searched in a figurative direction (Die Brücke / The Bridge), others in a more abstract way of expression (Der Blaue Reiter / Blue Rider).

Students also learn the meaning of idiomatic expressions or figurative language such as «like a sheet of gray fog.»

Many of her motifs are human figures and birds so figurative, yet their gender - neutral, profound expressions remind us religious sculptures with abstract and enigmatic quality.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

Finding himself drawn to figurative images displaying a complexity of expression, Lawson's resulting paintings each focus on a single figure from torso up, all including faces and hands.

Curated by Susan Davidson, this long - awaited exhibition to be held at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Guggenheim Bilbao and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice considers the artist's works on paper as an essential component in his signature transformation of the traditional figurative line into a non-figurative graphic expression.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

The exhibition highlights the interblending of traditional and figurative abstraction as the foundation for more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity, engendering a new visual pronoun.

In Germany, the Műlheimer Freiheit group, which Dokoupil briefly was part of, explored the contemporary expression of traditional figurative styles in intensely colourful paintings, whose roots could be found in Dada and Surrealism.

In 1945 he moved to Rome: following his figurative beginnings and first experimentations he elaborated a manner of pictorial expression of neo-geometrical matrix.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

Picasso's juxtaposition of figurative and cubist techniques can be seen as an expression of artistic freedom during a time of great conflict, and his shifts in style became a means of not repeating, in his words, «the same vision, the same technique, the same formula.»

The Chicago Imagists, the loose group of figurative artists that included Nilsson and Nutt, «admired these «undiscovered» artists for the aesthetic qualities of their work and, above all, as role models for their independent pursuit of an inwardly - driven creative expression», Cooke says.

In the series of sculptures (Catachresis) speech is made visual, underlining the figurative aspect of these expressions.

Cezanne communicates his struggle as an artist, that we all go through, with such candour, I felt extremely moved by the paintings, all portraits, altho I am not a figurative artist.I must say I got off on the furniture, draperies and organisation of the whole, as much as the expression in the faces.An exception is the Courtauld picture with the white clay pipe, a masterpiece if there ever was one.I breathed in the Cezannes and haven't digested them yet, except to say since the Matisse at the RA, I think this show is second to none.The Cohens were very good also, working across a large room.

Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other forms of figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

His artwork centers on figurative explorations of life's survivors, the marginalized, referencing history and circumstance in the rites, rituals and expressions of our human condition.

Inspired by a blend of social documentary, figurative portraiture, and family album - style snapshots, her images explore visual expression and identity in black culture.

While some paintings in the show are interspersed with figurative elements, Chris Martin is fully committed to an abstract style of painting that enables him to access different levels of language and image in limitless expression.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

It is a stab at presenting a variety of contemporary figurative styles, which are independent and interlinked at the same time, including the disappearance of the body into figurative expressions and gestures — a beautiful broken language.

He's now telling me why he no longer cares about painters like Max Beckmann, and why he thinks figurative painting is fundamentally incapable of expression.

Beginning in 1921, a series of creative breakthroughs led Davis away from figurative painting and toward a more abstract expression of the world he inhabited.

It showcases exciting, original, and new artists who use figurative sculpture as their primary medium of expression.