Sentences with phrase «formal meaning of a work»

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.

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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.
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