Sentences with phrase «master of humanist»

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Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Cicero, Plutarch, Bacon, Hobbes, Hume, and Locke, all compiled into the master text of the humanist scripture and all boldly proclaiming Grayling's motto of enlightenment: «Dare to know.»

2 All these painters have been or can be classified as what Donald Kuspit calls the New Old Masters who, though working in Old Master techniques, are «neither traditional nor avant - garde, but a combination of the two,» carrying on the spirituality of the former and the critical consciousness of the latter.3 Both Cooper and Kuspit read in new wave history painting and New Old Master painting, respectively, a return to humanist and modern existentialist themes absent in most mainstream contemporary art.

Rather, it is revealed dialectically as the artists psychically work through the ugliness and insanity of contemporary life; their psychical mastery and emotional restoration of the self are evidenced in their mastery of technique and the aesthetic transcendence it elicits.8 At the same time, it is important to underscore just how alien both the figuration and content of this new wave of history painting would appear through the humanist gaze of traditional history painters and the Old Masters.