Sentences with phrase «from classical mythology»

The emphasis this film places on the seemingly mundane ritual of cleaning shoes transforms the artist's own footwear into another contemporary object of worship deserving of meticulous attention and care, the modern equivalent to the traditional artistic «attribute» (an object conventionally associated with a particular figure from classical mythology or Christian hagiography): the social signifier.

Her androgynous alter - ego occupies this territory looking like a refugee from classical mythology, often semi-naked, and wearing improvised tool belts or carrying baskets of dead animals.

His works» anthropomorphic references and undercurrents of doom, both in the imagery and in titles sourced from classical mythology, invoked enduring ideological quandaries.

In deceptively cheery colors, 91 - year - old artist Charles Garabedianreimagines famous tales of woe from classical mythology, where murder, torture, and madness abound.

Pluto's five moons, including recently discovered Kerberos and Styx, all have names relating to the underworld from classical mythology.

Not exact matches

I know that it's become trendy to just flat - out deny these, but most of this just comes from the internet and, to anyone who bothers to fact check these claims, they will find that these are just attempts to rewrite classical mythology.

The Biblical gospel has burst the bonds even of classical mythology, as may be seen from what happened to the idea of the Logos; but it has done so only by first taking that mythology up and using it.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

He has also superimposed his trademark females on famous nudes from art history and classical mythology.

No longer setting a stage for a dystopian lifestyle borne by the delusions and failures of the Soviet system, the paintings on view are referencing Soviet visual representation and its history by juxtaposing, in fragments, hypothetical subjects from Soviet life and classical or baroque mythology.

Tate's renowned collection of historic, modern, and contemporary art includes paintings ranging from late 19th century Victorian depictions of classical mythology and history, to present - day politicized representations of the artist's own body.

A dithyramb in classical mythology is a wild choral hymn dedicated to Dionysus, and Lüpertz borrows the term from Nietzsche.

Titles like Persephone and Lethe are derived from visual events taking place in the works themselves that imply rippling water and bright flame respectively, but also obviously reference classical mythology.

Indeed these artists quoted avidly not only from art history and classical mythology, but also popular culture and national symbolism.