The notion of
the formal meaning of a work, seen and understood in the light of other works of the recent past, is fundamental to understanding much of this century's finest painting.
Not exact matches
While families valued the educational and social benefits offered by
formal childcare, the inflexibility and high cost
of formal childcare
meant, for many, it was incompatible with
working life.
A few years back the holiday parties at
work were extravagant with ball gowns and fancy dinners, and then I switched careers and at my new job the parties are semi
formal, which
means I had to go from shopping for gowns to shopping for a more cocktail dress kind
of look.
In essence, it's about being professional and taking care, which
means don't: agree to meet alone; allow over-familiarity; give out your personal mobile number; meet informally outside
working hours and away from your organisation's premises (and certainly don't do so without getting
formal approval); allow too frequent contact or over familiarity that may be acceptable with friends, colleagues and family but not from people with whom you only have a commercial relationship; discuss your private life, or social or recreational interests
of you or your partner; accept offers, discounts or other services or products by the client, customer or contractor; accept hospitality or gifts that you yourself wouldn't pay for from your own pocket; and don't do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, obligated or might be open to misinterpretation or might be difficult to explain to your manager, a journalist or an investigator.
«Well -
meaning but ill - informed expressions
of policy, especially without the benefit
of formal public comment from affected stakeholders, confuse rather than aid the legal landscape and make the
work of schools and parents in ensuring students receive appropriate education needlessly difficult,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., Associate Executive Director and General Counsel, National School Boards Association.
Intentional reflection may
mean using the Cognitive Coaching Reflection Map as a more
formal way to engage a colleague in deep, focused reflection
of a lesson or a portion
of their
work.
This more established charter organization was also a strong proponent
of merit - pay and changed its compensation to include
formal evaluations and student surveys, as a
means of retaining the most effective teachers and compensating them for their
work.
By curriculum I
mean the content and sequence
of the experiences that are intended to be delivered to students in
formal course
work.
By being less bound to the task
of creating the likeness
of a subject, I am able to play with the scale and other
formal elements more, which in turn loosens up the reading
of the
work and the viewer's ability to create new
meaning from the source material.
Throughout Resonating, viewers will note Green's various uses
of a fan shape: in early
works such as For All & None (1978), the fan acts as an essential symbol, suggestive
of deeper spiritual
meaning; in Taxes (1993), one
of her later black and white paintings, the fan shape becomes a central
formal element that unifies the composition; in She Dreams (1996), the fan shapes create a complex
formal variation which co-exists with other images.
His multi-media
work engages with language on both a literal and
formal level and through the use
of [often incomplete] texts, as well as images and considered juxtapositions, eliciting new and sometimes radical
meanings from historical interpretation and narrative.
Subjectivity exists in the new
work of the eighties, but feeling is produced by more
formal means.
Her
works continue to inform his artistic
formal language as well as his radical use
of material objects and inquiries into the
meaning of art.
Rothschild's
work — which is made out
of materials such as jesmonite, Perspex, steel, leather, incense and beads — is concerned with how certain qualities
of corporeality might be invested with spiritual
meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out
of formal arrangements.
These paintings and sculptures form a body
of work that is, first and foremost, a body, one that refuses fixed
meaning or
formal closure, preferring to stay wildly — even abjectly — alive.
As pertaining to the
meaning of the word «formalism», the
formal analysis
of the
work of art refers to description
of purely visual elements.
Whereas the painters in Nature Studies I may have found creative impetus from photographically - reproduced
work or used it as part
of their method, these eight artists employ a host
of respective photographic processes that, for the most part, draw our attention to the concerns, formats and styles typically seen in and expected
of painting such as the artifice
of arrangement, the manipulation
of formal elements, and the projection
of symbolic
meaning or narrative content.
In addition to a more relaxed aura — contiguous to the
work in the current collaborative exhibition with the Loretta Howard Gallery — one may further detect a heightened chromatic and tonal awareness accompanied by a fortuity
of formal means.
One way a
work of art takes on
meaning is when its
formal, pictorial patterns resonate with systems
of attention in the larger world.
Liebman remarks: «Every decision I make I want there to be a
formal reason and another level
of meaning, so it
works on multiple layers... When I see the paintings, I can't help but see them in reference to the original image, but the viewer doesn't necessarily have that.
Her
work is concerned with the social and spatial qualities
of sculpture; how certain qualities
of corporeality might be invested with spiritual
meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out
of formal arrangements.
This
work is from a series where I scan and and re-print images
of high end advertising to paint on them, using the composition, color and other
formal elements already present in the image as a
means to arrive at abstraction.
The minimalist,
formal beauty
of Shirreff's
works belies deeper questions about the often paradoxical relationship between time and space and the image, and the impact
of perception on the location
of meaning.
«The judges were impressed by the complexity
of the
work, its amazing
formal qualities, its disparate materials and techniques and also how it relates to the world... how it often suggests
meaning, but those
meanings are all in flux somehow,» Farquharson said.
Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art - World Mainstream Lilly Wei writes... From the first generation
of modernists who
worked in clay to contemporary practitioners, all have made breakthroughs: in scale, in single objects as well as expansive installations; in technical experimentation; in increasingly original
formal resolutions from the abstract to the realistic; and in content, exploring issues about the body, identity, politics, history, feminism, domesticity,
means of production, and beauty... more
Concerned with
formal and material invention and in happenings outside the sphere
of marketable art, his
work explores complex questions
of creativity, the role
of the artist, and the
meaning of art.
This does not
mean,
of course, that their
work looks like John's, but they certainly share an interest in using found materials that may have a particular
formal quality, in addition to more pronounced social, personal, or political resonances.»
«The judges were impressed by the complexity
of the
work, its amazing
formal qualities, its disparate materials and techniques and also how it relates to the world... how it often suggests
meaning, but those
meanings are all in flux somehow.
From applied arts to paintings, aspects
of graphic / industrial design and functionalism, the erratic nature
of his
work embodies the sense
of impermanence, doubt, and transformation that he considers implicit to the act
of creating, both in its
formal content and its potential for generating
meaning.
Formal works employ color as an essential compositional device, political artwork uses color to address social issues, and emotive color is exploited as a
means of eliciting poignant responses in viewers.
While the other Abstract Expressionists were mining their own feelings, intuitions and subconscious emotions and using them to create
works that were deeply personal and rife with hidden
meaning, Kline made
work that was about the
formal qualities
of painting, such as paint, brush stroke, composition and color.
To present, today, an exhibition from 1969 just as it was, maintaining its original visual and
formal relations and links between the
works, has posed a series
of questions on the complexity and very
meaning of the project, which has developed through a profound debate from various perspectives: the artistic, the architectural and the curatorial.This was the challenge: how could we find and communicate a limit to a non-limit, creating a place that would reflect exactly the architectural structures
of the Kunsthalle, but also an asymmetrical space with respect to our time and imbued with an energy and tension equivalent to that felt at Bern?
Writing in The New York Times, Roberta Smith notes that something besides imitation prevails in his
work: «
formal rigor, the personalizing effects
of scale and touch, faith in materials as carriers
of artistic
meaning and, above all, hard - nosed, even hypercritical reverence.»
Rothschild's
work - which is made out
of materials such as jesmonite, Perspex, steel, leather and beads - is concerned with how certain qualities
of corporeality might be invested with spiritual
meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out
of formal arrangements.
All the
meaning of that
work was
formal.
«What is most compelling about this
work, beyond infusing a Dumpster aesthetic with iridescent, baroque beauty, is the way its
formal intuition guides each convulsion: the architecture hidden beneath the whirlpool, magnifying the scope
of meaning.
The artist's use
of these materials in his two - dimensional
work stems primarily from
formal concerns, as he explores the aesthetic qualities and complex historical
meaning behind this medium.
There has been much healthy art production in many different parts
of the country that have been ignored or back - seated by New York — honored in their own communities but inevitably corralled under the term «regional» (which usually
means work which doesn't follow the
formal Modernist line traced from Paris to New York).
and a perfect, surprisingly successful venue for discussion
of a
work that by its placement alone is
meant to engage and implicate the public, but also because it threw into sharp focus some
of the stronger
formal and conceptual aspects
of the
work on view.
Conroy's stated concern about the natural environment is underscored by the seriousness
of his commitment to the layered cut - paper forms — allowing, like abstract expressionism, the viewer to extract as much
meaning as they wish from the inherent
formal impact
of the
works.
The in - depth analysis
of the chosen fifteen artists — Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, and Charles M. Schulz at the Hammer Museum, and Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware at MOCA — is
meant to inspire the kind
of concentrated viewing that will bring out the central contributions
of each, as well as the
formal innovations that make their
work unique.
In its reduced
formal vocabulary, conceptual rigor, and evocative use
of everyday materials, the artist's
work resonates with
meaning that is at once specific and mutable; rigorous and generous; poetic and political.
As in the
works of many artists today, there is a longing to engender a greater social relevancy (and therefore a pointedly deeper emotional
meaning) to so - called
formal abstraction.
Intended as a major genealogy
of the rise
of a still - powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array
of works examining a range
of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the
formal and social architectonics
of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation
of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation
of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities.
So, his very «incompetance» and lack
of the relevant,
formal, qualifications,
means that one can't really expect him to produce proper «scientific»
work, and this kind
of absolves him from the charge
of malign and blatent dishonesty, because his understanding
of the area
of study, climate change and global warming, is just so lacking.
That would
mean that the person can't just re-sell copies
of the original image file, but that can package it with other
works and sell a derivative
work, or change the
formal from GIF to JPG, or add a border around the file, and sell the derivative
work.
This page features select resources and highlights newly released resources for individuals interested in developing and engaging in leadership opportunities at the local, state, and national levels; and it is
meant to assist the
work of individuals engaged in
formal leadership positions at the state association level.