Sentences with phrase «means of abstraction»

Exploring concepts of space and various aspects of nature by means of abstraction, Lamia has long employed a language of opposites.

These elements are united by Wieser's engagement with geometric patterning as a means of abstraction and a manifestation of spirit, psychic space and the subconscious.

Anne Appleby, Little Sweet Pea, 2008 Oil and wax on wood, 36.6 36.6 inches Both followers of artist and colour theorist Josef Albers, the American painter Anne Appleby and German artist Kuno Gonschior have a common aspiration of capturing colours, by means of abstraction and through analytical observation of natural experiences.

BADR ALI's work explores atmospheres and environments by means of abstraction.

It is much easier to convey emotion by means of abstraction rather than with subject painting.

On this view, the universal principles, which are arrived at by means of abstraction from particulars, retain an intrinsic link with the particulars subsumed under it.

«Apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth,» they explain, the Church «really does not know» the meaning of abstractions like peace and justice.

With a holistic view, the Biennale will also seek in - depth engagement with individuals and communities while exploring a range of perspectives and meanings of abstractions.»

It considers the many meanings of abstraction, and, perhaps surprisingly, includes figurative art that could not have been made without abstract art.

Often working with oversized paper or canvas, Bradley's paintings and drawings commandeer their surrounding space, distorting and re-contextualizing the structure and meaning of abstraction.

But the meanings of abstraction evolved quickly through mimicry, pastiche and the burgeoning of art in reproduction.»

Not exact matches

Whitehead seems aware of this issue He tacitly acknowledges it in the statement, «an abstraction does not mean that an [abstracted] entity is nothing.

If by God is meant the Ground of Being, the Essence of Being, the Absolute, the Weltgeist, and all similar expressions, the reply is still No, for according to Schweitzer such terms «denote nothing actual, but something conceived in abstractions which for that reason is also absolutely meaningless» (The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949], p. 304).

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

We have here a reversal of Aristotelian abstraction not unlike that sought by Hegel, but one accomplished by means of a different, nondialectical reformulation of logic.

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

In short, Wieman was attuned to the very notions which had been shaping the imagery of Whitehead's thought, and thus words which appeared to be mere abstractions, or awkward combinations of otherwise familiar words to some readers, conveyed significant new depth of meaning which Whitehead was at pains to present to his readers.

Jesus» hearers would have understood «world» as meaning the world as a collection of particular places now made sacred, not as an abstraction.

To become aware of a thing or being means, in general, to experience it, in all concreteness, as a whole, yet without abridging abstractions.

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.

Lowe claims that «Whitehead, by means of the method of extensive abstraction which he had invented, constructed the scientific concepts of space and time.

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Thus while the idea of the predicate has mass is sensible preprojectively as an attribution to be made at the periphery of the Quinian web, it seems to have no deep meaning — this is to say, no embedding into a network of concepts and actions that allows us to describe and circumscribe the phenomenal world — without recourse to mathematical abstraction.

Yet Catholic theologians were reluctant to surrender the value of conceptual abstractions lest the meaning of dogmas be relativised and theological method undermined.

But the clear insight into its meaning which is given by modern scientific philosophy shows that by its inherent nature and definitions it is but an abstraction and that, with all its great and ever - growing power, it can never represent the whole of existence.9

The novel and novelty are therefore not here explicable by means of more universal abstractions.

It is on this longer path that this can be understood: that the ideality of the meaning of the text, in the spirit of Husserl, is still a «metaphysical» abstraction, a necessary abstraction, to be sure, when faced with the psychological and existential reductions of the meaning of the text, but an abstraction nonetheless in relation to being's primordial claim to say.

And this means that our universe is quite different from the congeries of mindless abstractions that inhabit the world of scientific materialism.

This makes sense of Hartshorne's contention in his chapter «Abstraction the Question of Nominalism,» that the novel forms emergent in a creative event are not determinate before the event but become determinate by decision in the event; to deny this is to deny any real meaning to creativity.

In the conception of the physical as «acting,» on the other hand, change of other kinds in addition to locomotive change are admitted, so that a mechanistic analysis must accordingly be only of an aspect of physical acting, which means that since it leaves out of account other aspects or features of change or motion, it is an abstraction.

Hence «knowledge» above all means «abstraction» of the forms of these things in the world from matter and from its individuating conditions, so as to possess them in their universality.

The abstraction of such categories is based on analogy, yet involves new meaning.

It is to contend that deity is «in every respect absolute or infinite» and so on, and this is «either to empty the idea of any definite and consistent meaning or to make it a mere abstraction.

But he still does not have command of any intellectual means of clearly defining processes of abstraction and concretion.

Upon this insight we must develop our epistemology away from the theory of abstraction, its quasi-idealist, correspondence theory of truth, and its separation of essential meaning and existential truth.

As property became first a thing of importance in itself, and then an abstraction of powers, privileges and immunities, so the likelihood of developing more equitable and sustainable means to harness nature diminished.

As Gilbert watches the kabuki, we can see the admiration and the acquisitiveness that he feels, how not understanding a word of the performance makes it resonate for him as an abstraction, just as his own nonsense rhymes take meaning from their rhythm.

To many, the purpose of life is a concept that cultivates the wildest theories and thoughts, generating abstraction after abstraction in an attempt to attribute some meaning to existence.

The wide range of subject matter explored the various meanings of narrative, identity, discovery and abstraction.

At last abstract artists admitted to mere meaning, but at the expense of no longer admitting to abstraction.

Williams» recent works continue to be inherently political but utilize the language of painted abstraction paired with explicit titles to convey meaning.

Notes in Preparation for an Exhibition and Lecture at St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1992, by Mac Wells What Abstraction Means to Me, by James Gross

Abstraction has a specificity of meaning in the hands of a single artist.

She began thinking of how abstraction could hold meanings and act metaphorically.

De Kooning never abandoned the human form, Pollock sought (and failed) to reappropriate it after his signature drip paintings, and Gorky's abstractions, those lyrical elisions of biomorphic shape and washy veils of pigment, are nothing if not figure painting by other means.

Some will say that «Inventing Abstraction» reflects an old orthodoxy at the Museum of Modern Art, where sometimes (although by no means always) abstraction has been regarded as a one - way street leading to ever increasAbstraction» reflects an old orthodoxy at the Museum of Modern Art, where sometimes (although by no means always) abstraction has been regarded as a one - way street leading to ever increasabstraction has been regarded as a one - way street leading to ever increasing purity.

The other was a college friend, back when painting meant geometric abstraction and the only Ashcan School was a mound of dirt on a gallery floor, maybe with some mirrors and torn rubber thrown in for good measure.

Two primary means to his work - fragmentation and abstraction - take us back in their directness to the experimental works of early modernism.

This catalog, another first, documents the Nasher show, a 10 - year survey exploring the arc of her practice which has evolved from a more painterly style to decidedly emphatic approach, mixing figuration and abstraction with a riot of bold color, symbols, and meaning.

My use of the term Lyrical Abstraction is not meant to refer to Larry Aldrich's maligned exhibition at the Whitney Museum, but to the new sensibility and phenomenon of what Aldrich actually observed in the artist studios that he visited in the late sixties.