Sentences with phrase «ideas of abstraction»

Her work extends ideas of abstraction, the landscape, and scale.

Her work extends ideas of abstraction, the landscape, and scale.

These works show LeWitt's wide range of mediums, from an early pencil on paper schematic rendering of cubes, done only a year after his first gallery exhibition, to folded works from the early 1970s, to late gouaches that explore the artist's ideas of abstraction.

For the last five decades, Mary Corse has radically explored perception, properties of light, and ideas of abstraction in her work.

Her artwork mimics intricate patterns found in the inner workings of the human body while exploring ideas of abstraction, replication and separation.

Installation view September 16 — October 11, 2008 Dashper's work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction, conceptualism, and minimalism as a working methodology.

Dashper's work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology.

In two large wall drawings, the artist deals with ideas of abstraction and representation using natural and cultural patterns he appropriates.

With regard to the conflicting ideas of abstraction and figuration, Butler has always considered this conflict to be a natural and unavoidable effect of putting paint on canvas.

Her work extends ideas of abstraction, the landscape, and scale.

We will push you to think outside the box discussing ideas of abstraction, surrealism and juxtaposition.

Her work extends ideas of abstraction, the landscape, and scale.

Mike Childs» 100 Words is an exhibition of paintings tied to the idea of abstraction as a substitute for language.

They testify to this artist's disciplined commitment to the idea of abstraction and to its ongoing exploration.

Skip over the decades with Sean Scully, Nell Blaine, Milton Resnick, Anne Truitt, and Simon Lee, and see if the whole idea of abstraction is still standing.

Skip over the decades with Anne Truitt, Nell Blaine, Milton Resnick, Sean Scully, and Simon Lee, and see if the whole idea of abstraction is still standing.

Skip over the decades with Simon Lee, Nell Blaine, Milton Resnick, Anne Truitt, and Sean Scully, and see if the whole idea of abstraction is still standing.

Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt explains how the exhibition came about: «I had been thinking for a long time about an exhibition that began with the idea of abstraction and the postwar period.

David Cohen, gallery director at the Studio School, notes similar tensions in the idea of abstraction.

Skip over the decades with Milton Resnick, Nell Blaine, Anne Truitt, Sean Scully, and Simon Lee, and see if the whole idea of abstraction is still standing.

The latest, «Abstract Now and Then,» breaks open the idea of abstraction by bringing definitive 20th century examples alongside more controversial recent ones.

Key to her artistic practice is the assumption that abstraction is a forceful, potent artistic expression — this thought somewhat contradicts the traditional idea of abstraction as a strategy for withdrawal.

This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America.»

This simple gesture not only reintroduces «the hand» into the formula, but it as well, returns the idea of abstraction to the cultural sources that it was once taken from: Non-Western visual traditions of Native America, Africa, India, Mexico and South America,» explains MacConnel.

That's how I started; I can't really paint without hesitation, so I started out as a representational artist, making representational art, but at the same time I thought I'd be able to manipulate this idea of abstraction.

BROCK: Between 2005 and 2008 I started by exploring the loose, gestural, and expressive idea of abstraction that I saw in the work of German painters like Albert Oehlen and Gerhard Richter, and which I found really appealing.

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Thus, the idea of race as a basis for reliable and definite classification of individuals clearly has to be abandoned in favor of a problematic and inexact system of statistical abstraction.

Any idea of an enduring «subject» or «self» can only be an abstraction from the flow of experiences.

«11 A priori ideas are no abstractions of the human mind, but form an immaterial world of potentialities, that are not only preconditions of the sensible reality, but also of human thought itself.

The idea of metaphysics in general can not be grasped in abstraction by a purely formal definition unless we allow this abstract idea to sprout determinations of its own in the shape of particular metaphysical problems.

As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

In the language of physics, the simplest «physical feelings» are units of energy transference; or, rather, the physicist's idea that energy is transmitted according to quantum conditions is an abstraction from the concrete facts of the universe, which are individual occasions of experience connected by their «physical feelings.»

As Isaac Berkson wrote over 50 years ago, «The ethnic group is not a system of ideas but a nationality, a community of persons; it is a living reality related, indeed, to thought, but still flesh and blood and desire and no mere pale abstraction.

If we ask whether there could be a sort of intellect that abstracts without at least partially distorting, I think Bergson would reply that we have no experience of anything like that, and any such idea would be highly speculative and would risk missing the meaning of the terms «intellect,» and «abstraction,» since these terms are employed based on an experience we really have.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

«55 Lowe claims Bergson has nothing like the method of extensive abstraction, which I have suggested earlier is not only false, but chances are Whitehead even took the idea for extensive abstraction from Bergson, apparently both having been «influenced» (in my sense of the term) by one of William James» insights.

Thinkers who have been more faithful to Thomistic Realism, with its a posteriori abstraction of the universal form, have rejected the idea that formality is a priori to observation in general but kept it as a priori to modern experimental observation.

Thus while the idea of the predicate has mass is sensible preprojectively as an attribution to be made at the periphery of the Quinian web, it seems to have no deep meaning — this is to say, no embedding into a network of concepts and actions that allows us to describe and circumscribe the phenomenal world — without recourse to mathematical abstraction.

(III) We may acknowledge material entities as real but dismiss the idea of mental entities as an abstraction.

Through the many differences that distinguish conflicting views of the divine nature in the Bible, one common strand of idea runs — God is in earnest, he cares, he is no metaphysical abstraction but a living being with purposes, devotions, and affections.

I ask this question in the interest of science itself; for one main position in these lectures is a protest against the idea that the abstractions of science are irreformable and unalterable....

The way we get our ideas of space could be through Extensive Abstraction and so on — I don't actually think it is.

7 What I have just said is what I take to be the broad, intuitive idea behind Whitehead's highly technical effort to expose the observational import of «point» via the method of extensive abstraction.

Or, as Whitehead put the same point more simply in Adventures of Ideas, «I contend that the notion of mere knowledge is a high abstraction» (AI 225 - 226).

The abstraction from concrete social reality in each case tends to create the illusion that theological ideas or practices of worship or church legal systems have ghostly lives of their own that transcend the concrete particulars of the communities that more or less believe the dogmas, practice the liturgies, and follow the rules.

The classical Christian idea of an aloof, immutable, independent God, representing simplicity and rest, he argues, has much more in common with certain philosophical abstractions inherited from the Greeks.

It is to contend that deity is «in every respect absolute or infinite» and so on, and this is «either to empty the idea of any definite and consistent meaning or to make it a mere abstraction.

In particular, the notion of events extending over other events was an abstraction, especially when the properties of events were called «objects» thought of as quasi-Platonic ideas «ingressing» into events.

As mentioned above, abstraction is that direction which determines the nature of mathematics and insures the existence and independence of the mathematical ideas as against the things of nature.

Good intelligence»: Sound reasoning and judgment, along with the ability to manipulate with abstractions, concepts, and ideas, are hallmarks of an entrepreneur.