Sentences with phrase «into illusory»

In the 1960s, this developed into an illusory style which became known as Op Art.

We have no need to enter a movie theater to escape into an illusory world; life itself is just like a movie.»

It is, paradoxically perhaps, something that one can always trust or believe in, without the danger of forming an ideology or lapsing into an illusory and artificial belief.

This has a crucial effect on the overall pictorial appearance, in that it immediately transforms the planimetric structure of the painted motif into an illusory perception of three - dimensionality within the image.

The exhibition includes several of Andrade's major Op art paintings, which combine hard - edged geometric forms and lines into illusory, and sometimes hallucinatory, compositions.

In this they both anticipate and echo Feuerbach, who taught that we, by articulating our consciousness in religious language, are in fact emptying our human substance into an illusory absolute.

Not exact matches

A federal appeals court signed off on the U.S. Interior Department's decision to take land into trust for a proposed Native American casino, rejecting arguments that the tribe's promises to mitigate environmental effects are «illusory» because as a sovereign Native American nation, it can not be sued to enforce them.

Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.

This world of the moment, which is all we know, becomes the setting for an illusory extension into longer or shorter time scales which then seem to occupy a portion of an external time in a relation of the phenomenal to the absolute.

But in an intemperate and immoral woman, self - esteem can never be more than a posture or an illusory construction that eventually crumbles and collapses into self - contempt; self - contempt which, if it does not find redemption, can lead to despair.

Christians can not escape into a false mysticism or an illusory transcendentalism, where the affairs and needs of their brothers and sisters are left «here below».

The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can come through «release» of one's deep inward energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.

In order to answer such questions we must remember that the insight into the unreality of everything that exists — even the Buddhas, the beings who belong to them, and the Teaching are illusory — is not intended for everyone.

Why is it that your god's existence is so illusory that you find it necessary to get into stupid discussions that expose your ignorance of scientific fact?

In truth, it can be argued that even Parmenides treated change and motion at least as «appearances,» as belonging at least to the illusory realm of phenomena and not as mere non-entities; otherwise the division of his poem into two parts — «The Way of Truth» and «The Way of Opinion» — would lose its meaning.

Unable to fit these elusive expressions into an objectifying, scientific understanding of the world, we often dismiss them as illusory.

It would bring us into constant conflict, as it did Jesus, with those systems of heroics that enslave and intimidate people at the same time they bestow on them an illusory and fragmentary significance.

First, the PhD student does not only require the ability to turn «suspension of disbelief» into an art form beyond the illusory skills of our most eminent Shakespearean actors; he or she must also retain the ability to remain as cynical and as hard - bitten as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca.

And now we're leaving the late»60s again & heading into the early»70s — and just as people discovered then, an illusory world of fixed rates, price controls & apparent economic / market stability can't fend off an eventual & inevitable reckoning with the painful underlying reality....

Whatever the root cause, it kept alive the feeling that all this good fortune might just be illusory — maybe even somewhat undeserved... Today, that's been transformed into a slightly defiant resignation — «The party's over, we've been here before, we have to dig our way out of this hole, we'll make it out again in the end, all guns blazing!»

Set in 1960's Britain era, step into the role of a «Downer,» a nonconformist trying to break out of an illusory existence.

Ningde has described these works as deliberately generating «an illusory feeling,» an insight into the hallucinatory power of photography as a whole.

This exhibition features the work of artists who generate meaning via cracks in mimesis, delving into the intermediary spaces where the illusory meets the actual in order to examine the understood but oft - unacknowledged gulf between the real and the reproduced, as well as the knowable functional reality of the artifice's construction, the evidence of tremor in the Trompe - lœil painter's hand.

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

From his early works in the 1990s, such as the «illusory» optical machine Beauty (1993), to the architectural project developed together with Henning Larsen Architects (Reykjavik Concert Hall, 2005 - 2011), to his recent «total artworks» like Seu corpo da obra (2011) and installations like Big Bang Fountain (2015), Eliasson always expresses his fascination with the world of perceptions, sometimes physical, sometimes immaterial — but always transforming passive visitors into «inhabitants», as well as with the hybridization of different languages, means of expression and temporal planes.

However these «tags» are not given away, we have to guess them, while the sounds blend them into an — illusory — whole.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

Her attention to the illusory surface textures of protean forms is not solely attentive to liquid crystals but extends metaphorically to other social and scientific developments (a fictional Jack - and - the - Beanstalk becomes a modern genetic scientist, or crystals self - organise into a palace whose display function changes consumer society forever). . .

Rather than permitting the illusory ability of this genre to present a concrete reality, Embodied takes viewers beyond the here and now of the document and into an alternative temporality, one that is accessed via various performative devices which place the medium of the body at their core.

Through the use of elemental materials, including water and air, Kapoor continues his investigations into the material and immaterial, weight and weightlessness, surface and space, the ocular and the aural, as he subtly balances the literal and the illusory to animate the senses.

Created at the height of postmodern theory, Kasten's Architectural Sites submits iconic buildings to distorting angles and colored lights, thus transforming already vertiginous structures into truly illusory spaces.

His works thus propose an illusory gaze into the meditative sites of private art collections and the modern edifices in or around which they reside.

The chalk, molded into a model of a businessman holding a briefcase, acts as a «reminder that privilege is illusory and is available for those willing to accept it.»

As the press release states, the work seeks to «invite the beholder to enter into a corporeal relationship with [the paintings], to push off from them, to plunge into them, and so to explore the often enigmatic - seeming illusory space that painterly means have created.»

The original metal cladding has been kept, but the inside has been completely transformed into a minimalist space that emphasizes the «illusory abstraction of dimensional form [to] produce architecture that seems free from their function and materiality,» according to Verville.

First, as I mentioned briefly, while everyone at this workshop and many others were working on ways to reduce, manage and understand uncertainty, there is also a large and (at least until recently) very well - funded group working, to create and disseminate uncertainty, ignorance and confusion, with sufficient success that much of the political right in Australia and nearly all in the US have been (with their own complicity) deluded into thinking the problem is illusory.

All it does is give one manufacturur and edge (that might be illusory) over another when people are coerced into buying pigs in pokes.

[74] Deloitte's argument that the putative Class Members» rights to opt out or to not opt into a settlement are illusory, however, is mistaken.

But sometimes — oftentimes — it's an illusory purchase designed to make you sink more time into a game without actually helping your progress in it at all.