Sentences with phrase «moral allegory»

Each of his assemblages, as they seemed to me at the time I first encountered them, was a moral allegory of his life as well as an expression of a personal existential surrealism, not to mention neo-narcissism (he often used casts of his own body in his art).

As Richard Dorment says in his review: «The phenomenon started in 1840 when John Ruskin, who was raised in the evangelical church, told readers of Modern Painters that Turner's pictures should be read as moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the critic «sees more in my pictures than I ever painted.»

Not exact matches

Milton exaggerates, but he's surely right that Spenser's fantastic allegories and terse dialogues have a great deal to teach us about the moral life, which is why The Faerie Queene outshines Paradise Lost.

As an allegory about humanity's moral freedom, the Tree of Life would represent the instinctual innocence of the animals and very young children.

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

In that sustained religious allegory of moral heroism and imagery both vivid and frightening, the reader lives through Christian's travails and all - too - human backsliding, until finally tasting his victory as one's own.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

This does not, of course, mean that we should try to make an allegory of the passage or drag out of it a moral that was never intended.

That is why the true role of moral meaning comes after allegory.

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

Unsurprisingly, allegory places significant constraints on the film actors, who are forced to put life into characters that are moral abstractions, not people, restricted in manner of behavior, expression and thought.

«Coco «is an allegory for the journey that we ourselves embrace and as we pass down the spirit of our own ancestors to our kids, through stories, morals and values passed down to us.

In less assured hands, a movie called «Prisoners» with a plot like this would be an invitation to disaster, heavy on self - conscious allegory, symbolism and moral debate.

Although didacticism was historically intentional in genres such as the spiritual allegory or moral treatise, the term is used today to describe writing that is «ostentatiously dull and erudite,» or in other words, overly preachy or pedantic.

Gustave Courbet, The Painter's Studio: A real allegory summing up seven years of my artistic and moral life, 1855.

These still - lives are an allegory that sheds light on the «practical» process of photography so that additional factors, such as moral, cultural, artistic, emotional, etc. are referred to in the image.

In Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some), NYC Version, inspired by Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio: A real allegory of a seven year phase in my artistic and moral life (1855), Oursler creates his own three - dimensional studio identical in scale to Courbet's painting.