Sentences with phrase «literal meaning of those paintings»

Not exact matches

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

This lateral movement across time and genre begins to account for how an installation and a painting may have come to mean the same thing; not in the sense of their most literal physicality, but in the demands they place on the viewer and the ways they interact with history and the physical world around them.

«If a painting has a physical presence, it has an ability to transcend its literal meaning,» Zucker says, recalling his early canvas - weave works of the 1960s.

The process allows Sikander to add layers of literal and conceptual meaning while deconstructing the idea of the individual, autonomous miniature painting.

He was the protagonist of both Jia Zhangke's Dong (2006)-- a reference to Liu's name and to its literal meaning, «East» — where he is shown painting a portrait of migrant demolition workers in the Three Gorges, and of Wang Xiaoshuai's film, The Days (1993).