Sentences with phrase «means of abstract thinking»

Drawing has long been at the root of her artistic practice, serving as a means of abstract thinking.

Not exact matches

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 process - thinking, certainly, the same is true — the meaning of the concept of God is not derived from abstract theory but from observation of the world and its concrete actuality.

One should not in this connection let himself be deceived by the observation that the abstract thinking of the Greeks made it possible for them to understand in its purity the essence of the spiritual, and that therefore mythological, anthropomorphic ideas of God were abandoned by the Greeks, while in Judaism naïve mythological and anthropomorphic expressions about God, although they decrease, do not by any means disappear.

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

The abstract noun «conception» means the act of conceiving and / or the fact of conceiving, i.e., of taking hold of and holding something in the mind, and thus frequently also connotes «what» is so held — in this being synonymous with «concept,» or «thought,» or «idea» in its modern usage.

They still speak of light, meaning an abstract thought.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

And perhaps most impressive of all, before the telegraph could even be considered a means of interpersonal communication, somebody — Samuel Morse — needed to think up a system by which the infinite variety of concrete, abstract, and usually self - serving statements that a human being might wish to share with a species - mate could be reduced to pulses of electricity.

- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

WW: I saw a talk with you and Thelma Golden, and something I thought was interesting was you said, «I don't believe the rhetoric around abstract painting,» which I took to mean as you simplify interpretation of your work as a way of approaching it.

I find that abstract works present an opportunity to encounter the beauty of mystery in a search for meaning beyond the limits of thinking and language.

Where as a figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage with it on the same level by referencing some aspect of history or life with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.

What this has meant for Stella is that not only has he expanded upon his own historicized work of the late»50s through the»70s — work that turned abstract painting into «a thing in the world» rather than pictures or signs of thoughts or emotions — but that he also opened for himself a new conceptual and visual space.

John, I don't think the problems with painting are to do with greater competition — in fact I'm not sure there are that many good abstract painters around anyway — but to a lack of clarity about what making a properly abstract painting really means; whereas that seems to me to have not only clarified somewhat in abstract sculpture, but also, paradoxically, broadened out.

Andrew has got at quite a lot of my meaning in his latest comment — I don't think it is possible technically to seriously match the spaces Robin is raising as a comparison — and beating down other abstract artists with — with the means with which he limits abstract painting, the means by which abstract painting, or at least a substantial tranche of it has traditionally been limited.

He has made over the past couple of years some of the best abstract art around, but I don't think it would be quite right to call it «beautiful» — not in the aesthetic sense you mean.

On the eve of his survey at the Whitney, the eminent abstract artist shares a few thoughts on this moment in his career and what it means (or doesn't) for a new generation of abstract artists.

I think the specificity that you seek (or lack of it that you are critical of) will only be revealed in work that responds to the challenges of producing ambitious work that is confident in its purpose (the abstract) but perhaps unsure as yet of its route, (the means) learning on the job I guess.