The term «teaching»
holds cultural images and schema that many us quickly tap into.
Not exact matches
At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false
image, but far from the Church being suspicious of
cultural and political globalisation, she actually
holds the key to the future of humanity.
«I discerned this care not because I was caving to
cultural norms, but because I was seeking to follow the Jesus I know, who healed on the Sabbath, thus breaking a long
held religious rule, one in fact written in stone, in order to heal a man's
image of himself and his
image of God.»
The online gallery of 15,000
images is a mix of seemingly random
cultural shots (like a barefoot, hitchhiking man wearing flower - print patched jeans and
holding a puppy) and photos that clearly show the health and environmental issues — such as unchecked fumes and trash piles — EPA sought to clean up.
It's an entire
cultural epoch ahead of its time — the cynicism of Hud's «rightness»
held in the trembling hands of creepy Cal, who, though he elicits the audience's sympathy, is as destructive a figure to our romantic
image of the hero as Paul Newman's solipsistic cowboy.
These are often mixed together in what I want to be a spontaneous blend of
images rich in
cultural references, I hope
held together by passages of pure painting and lyrical colour in a «new representationalism»
Dine's emotional, gestured style and recurrent subjects - his hearts, robes, Venuses, flowers, birds, and portraits - have yielded
images that not only
hold very personal significance for the artist, they have become
cultural icons.
With formal principles inspired by Manet, Monet, and many of the old masters and modernists who made paintings which were both political and personal as well as painterly, warm and transcendent, the artist paints from his heart romantic
images that
hold deep significance not only to him, but extend to pertinent issues that are shaping our world right now and
cultural history.
The
images will be displayed in a free exhibition at Tate Britain next year,
held as part of the London 2012
cultural festival.