Sentences with phrase «metaphor for human life»

Instead, he began to believe in the autonomy of the art object, namely that the object's purpose was not to serve as a metaphor for human life, but to have a strong formal life of its own, something he frequently called specificity.

It is a metaphor for human life.

The act of swimming the length of a pool can be taken as a metaphor for human life.

Not exact matches

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

I know he admired Spinoza and brandied the word «god» around as a metaphor for the numinous, but he certainly did not believe in the notions of life after death or a god that in any way worried itself with human beings.

Anton Boisen's powerful metaphor for the existential subject of pastoral theology was the «living human document.»

We may prefer to view images of life after death as metaphors for the transcendent dimension of human existence.

In the parent - child vs God - human metaphor, I think we are comparatiely in the position of children for the duration of our lives, until finally we see face to face, and know as we are known.

In this film, the animal - human relationship becomes a metaphor for facing the daily challenges of life.

Confusing body count with intensity, the new Dawn Of The Dead could be a metaphor for how little Hollywood values human life, if only it had a brain ripe enough to feast on.

Every bit of dialogue demonstrates the missed human connections of her troubled characters, and the kitchen works as a perfect metaphor for the simmering tensions of life in twenty - first century London.

These powerful creatures in whimsical scenes are a metaphor for the human experience, demonstrating the balance between having fun and giving life purpose.

In each of these works, the human body struggling to find a mode of expression becomes a metaphor for living under censorship and political repression.

In his first New York City exhibition in 2009, titled The TV Show, PEET organized the concept around characters he coined «The Luxury Leaders» and «The Resistants» — symbolic metaphors for white - collar corporate America versus the anti-materialist, subcultural underbelly.3 Considering these fragmented story lines of rebellion and subversion, alongside the fact that the artist is sometimes positioned somewhere nearby covertly broadcasting an element of live feed into the gallery space, somehow it doesn't seem a stretch to imagine a grinning PEET tucked away in a dingy basement making human lard soap, à la Brad Pitt's nihilistic Tyler Durden from the 1999 film Fight Club.

ACCA presents the group exhibition Crescendo, featuring seven projects where artists have used film and music to create enclosed worlds, each exploring myth, history and human pageantry as metaphors for life.

At Gambler Hirst presented what some critics consider his best work, A Thousand Years, containing a life cycle of flies within two vitrines, which can be seen as a metaphor for human existence.

The paintings could be read as metaphors for human encounters and thought patterns, or opposing forces in life.

And we are really using that boldness as a bigger message, as a metaphor for us humans: that if walruses and bears can figure out a way to adapt and survive and carry on in this warming world, then why can't we do the same in our lives?