Sentences with phrase «figurative meaning by»

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

Not exact matches

But, starting from the symbol, by means of contemplation and true imagination with its evocative power, such knowledge grasps the figurative presence as an epiphany of the transcendent.

Figurative language works by implication and often by indirection, which may account, in part, for the impression that poetry is hard to understand and needs to be interpreted, unlike a news article, where the language is literal and straightforward, the meaning self - evident.

Participants first understand and then (in Figurative Finds) apply the concepts in a passage / poem / story by reading the metaphor and finding its meaning.

By sixth grade, the standards become more detailed and specific, including understanding figurative and connotative meanings of words; analyzing the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone; considering how a particular stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme; and contrasting the reading and multimedia experience of a text and various forms or types of poetry in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

For the artist, these figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day China.

What's really of the moment about the work isn't its content as such, but its meta - abstraction — the treatment of figurative imagery and nonfigurative gestures as equal actors in an overall visual project defined by its mood rather than its meaning.

The figurative installations devised by de Jong, which are anchored in the (often mysterious) history or meaning of a location, combine an ironic reference to the Old Masters with a large dose of the present.

Depicting a variety of subjects, his art is infused with meaning, mood and atmosphere whether the subject is figurative, landscape, architectural or inspired by nature.

Sperling writes: «Not many figurative painters are as often described as «lyrical» as the Englishman Christopher Wood (1901 — 30)... It is obvious what is roughly meant by the description «lyrical» or «poetic»: it speaks of the freshness and spontaneity in Wood's vision, the joyful openness to sea air, first in Cornwall, then Brittany, and the enraptured, almost childish intensity of emotion and perception that comes from his best paintings.»

Partly responding to an upward - spiraling art market, partly from a lack of means to evoke a stressed - out world made porous by virtual reality, sculptors from Paul McCarthy and Urs Fischer to David Altmejd and Thomas Houseago have powered a new monstrosity in figurative sculpture.

Coined by Adolf Hitler, the term «Entartete Kunst» meaning degenerate art, expresses the Nazi idea that any art which did not conform to the ideal of well - crafted figurative images depicting heroic acts or comfortable day - to - day living, was the product of degenerate people.

Just as we search for meaning in the continuous haze of this scene, so we seek some figurative allegory in the multitude of visual effects conjured up by Struktur (2).

Figurative works by Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, which explore the human body and add a psychological dimension by means of painting, are followed by works of Josef Albers, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana that emphasize the support as such in its three - dimensional character and material quality.

[citation needed] By thus manipulating the conventions and structures of figurative painting, he creates corollaries for literary, philosophical, and historical concepts in visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception, meaning, and interpretation in art.

The Ohio Craft Museum's exhibition of figurative ceramics by 13 women artists is a «visual response to what equality means.»

Where as a figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage with it on the same level by referencing some aspect of history or life with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.

By the 1980s, Graeber was making large scale paintings that combine figurative and abstract elements to create potential meanings through the juxtaposition and layering of disparate images.

But instead of offering the expansive alternative history so many of us hoped for, the National Academy has showcased the collection of an organization called the Center for Figurative Painting, the brainchild of a man of means by the name of Henry Justin, whose taste is a Rocky Balboa blitz of swagger, flash, and bravado.

If you like, a visual journey as exciting and imaginative as the figurative but by different (non-depictive) vehicular means and with a different destination.

Not sure what you mean by «I would not choose to look to figurative painting for any content and meaning».

This season, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will test demand for Richter's figurative work by asking $ 25 million for the artist's 1963 «Düsenjäger» (which means jetfighter) at Phillips on Wednesday.

When an entire issue has every appearance of looking like it's steered by emotionally - driven figurative lynch mobs whose goal is to achieve «climate justice» by any means possible, including negating facts from critics through character assassination, you have one very serious problem on your hands.