Sentences with phrase «knowledge by abstraction»

[1] Not only do God, angels and men think analogously but also men, sentient beings bound to knowledge by abstraction, approach various sciences in ways that are complementary rather than opposed.

Not exact matches

This natural «almost instinctive» immediacy of the interrelated truths, or «counterparts», concerning God, our own minds and our own physical environment is we think, as did Newman, in tension with theories of that knowledge is mediated by the process of abstraction.

In the theory we are offering, since knowledge is by intuition and perception, not by abstraction of only part of the singular real, this ultimate universalism of the nature as sort or species, is said to be a singular real and also a concept defined within a distinct limit of formal variability, both as real, and also as concept.

Knowledge of the real is not by abstraction of the form from the material substrate, but by the recognition of the true - and also the good, the meaningful and the joyful - embedded and embodied in the material existence.

Critical and historical context is provided in the form of five thoughtful, themed essays, interspersed throughout the book, by Whitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blazwick on the subjects of «The Found Object», «Performance», «Abstraction», «Knowledge» and «Power Structures», which, alongside an introduction by curator Bruce Ferguson and an endorsement by Yoko Ono, add up to an artist's monograph that's as intimate as it is expansive.

One senses the artist testing those «tight» still lives assigned by her teacher against her growing knowledge of gestural abstraction.

By painting between figuration and abstraction, I'm embracing ambiguity and the knowledge that sex is complex: calm, violent, pleasurable, sad, joyful... I think the unpredictable nature of oil paint can get closer to what real sexuality is like.»

Drawing on his deep knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, he unexpectedly broke conventions by merging representational elements with painterly abstractions.

Rebecca Salter's delicate, spectral abstractions connect with two rich traditions: the history of Japanese art and craft, of which she has in - depth knowledge, and post-war minimalist painting, exemplified best perhaps by Agnes Martin, the American artist to which she is sometimes compared.

With his expansive knowledge of art history, he sought to maintain the tradition of representational painting, eschewing the tide of abstraction that was championed by many of his contemporaries.