The competition selection as always was difficult, but especially so for
the nature of art in our world today encompasses a wide variety of methods, materials and conceptualizations of what art is.
The competition selection was especially difficult for there were so many outstanding submissions and
the nature of art in our world today encompasses a wide variety of methods, materials and conceptualizations of what art is in today's world.
Two of the main aspects of art are invisible; the basic
nature of art in invisible» (D. Judd, «Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular,» in N. Serota (ed.)
Not exact matches
But every one
of us can try to find opportunities to wonder at the majesty
of nature or
art in our everyday lives, expanding our horizons and helping us see past our petty individual challenges and constraints.
Her rainbow paintings are a sort
of «
art therapy,» and the relaxed
nature of them has allowed her to be less
of a perfectionist
in her other work.
Jen serves on the digital advisory board for The
Nature Conservancy and for the Master
of Arts in Media Entrepreneurship at American University.
I guess that's one
of the things about the beauty and subjective
nature of any kind
of «
art» - It will speak to some and not to others, with varying responses and reactions
in between.
Yet he himself explicitly is committed to the concept
of a whole or unity as an assembly
of parts which, either
in fine
art or
in nature, may be disjoined and reunited by logic alone (MT 85).
For a long time he will look to the marvels
of art to provide him with that exaltation which will give him access to the sphere — his own sphere —
of the extra — personal and the suprasensible; and
in the unknown Word
of nature he will strive to hear the heartbeats
of that higher reality which calls him by name.
The definition
of art as the effort to exalt some beauty
in nature, but not to enslave man to mere imitation, is Camus» aesthetic equivalent to the notion
of a dynamic value
in nature.
In his notebook, toward the end
of 1946, Camus writes: «If everything can be reduced to man and to history, I wonder where is the place:
of nature —
of love —
of music —
of art» (N 148).
Hand
in hand with this Western victory over its Eastern Christian roots went a new discovery
of nature, not the
nature that has been present
in modern
art, but rather a
nature charged with Christ's presence.
(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us
in the revelation
of God
in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives
of the saints, sacred
art, miracles
of conversion and healing, and
in her own very
nature.
In both science and
art man seeks beauty and truth so that «the finite consciousness
of mankind is appropriating as its own the infinite fecundity
of nature.
The eros
of our human
nature can be expressed as equally
in kissing as it can
in great
art.
Any specification
of the responsibilities that accompany our basic rights, any articulation
of the content
of the «laws
of nature,» any acknowledgement that the Church might be necessary for the state to judge and fulfill its obligations to the «power
in heaven,» or any specification
of the meaning
of «
nature and
nature's God» — though article 1, sec. 8
of the Constitution may provide a clue when it empowers Congress «to promote the Progress
of Science and the useful
Arts.»
I believe that you can be «spiritual» when things move you emotionally, like music,
art and,
in Einstein's case, the majesty
of nature.
In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various field
In one sense the discovery
of human individuality was necessary for the development
of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation
of human being from
nature coupled with the autonomy
of the world
of science helped the development
of technology; and the autonomy
of different areas
of life like the
arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent
in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various field
in it, did make for unfettered creativity
in the various field
in the various fields.
Subject - object, or I - It, knowledge is ultimately nothing other than the socially objectivized and elaborated product
of the real meeting which takes place between man and his Thou
in the realms
of nature, social relations, and
art.
I would point out, however, that billions
of other human beings,
in every time and place, have had similar experiences â $ «but they had them while thinking about Krishna, or Allah, or the Buddha, while making
art or music, or while contemplating the sheer beauty
of nature.
In that great hymn, «Come, O thou Traveler unknown» [which Wystan Auden and T. S. Eliot both considered one of the finest religious lyrics in the English tongue), the basic gospel proclamation is given: «Pure universal Love thou art: to me, to all, thy mercies move: thy nature and thy Name is Love.&raqu
In that great hymn, «Come, O thou Traveler unknown» [which Wystan Auden and T. S. Eliot both considered one
of the finest religious lyrics
in the English tongue), the basic gospel proclamation is given: «Pure universal Love thou art: to me, to all, thy mercies move: thy nature and thy Name is Love.&raqu
in the English tongue), the basic gospel proclamation is given: «Pure universal Love thou
art: to me, to all, thy mercies move: thy
nature and thy Name is Love.»
I now propose to show more concretely just how liberal studies entail the practice
of freedom, by examining briefly the
nature of the knowing process
in some
of the main disciplines
in the liberal
arts and sciences.
The natural person can recognize the glory
of nature in spite
of natural disasters, pests and disease; the splendor
of the cultivated
arts, especially music,
in spite
of art's occasional pomp and pretense; and the radiance
of virtuous persons
in spite
of the flaws we can find
in the best
of them.
Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works
of civic
art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening
of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him
of something far more ominous, the abasement
of man and the crude negation
of his proper relationship to
nature as embodied
in the great tradition.
In an age of transforming power in nature and history, art is both transformative (like the mechanistic) and bonding (like the organicistic
In an age
of transforming power
in nature and history, art is both transformative (like the mechanistic) and bonding (like the organicistic
in nature and history,
art is both transformative (like the mechanistic) and bonding (like the organicistic).
By the nineteenth century, however, patronized religious painting had become essentially trivialized, as John W. Dixon, Jr., indicates
in his book,
Nature and Grace
in Art (University
of North Carolina Press, 1964).
Reflection upon the
nature of religious experience and the
art of music reveals the possibility that music is,
in fact, the complete mode
of bearing the structure
of worship.
Nature is a «work
of art»
in which «rightness» is defined by the comprehension
of particular details that constitute it as a work
of art.
His books include The Healer's
Art, The Place
of the Humanites
in Medicine, Changing Values
in Medicine, and, most recently, The
Nature of Suffering.
Or again, «Religion is the
art and theory
of the internal life
of man, so far as it depends on himself and on what is permanent
in the
nature of things.»
With Leibniz I suspect that the main advantages
of the doctrine are philosophical,
in enabling us to arrive at a view
of life and
nature in which the results
of science are given their significance along with the values with which
art, ethics, and religion are concerned.
While both
of these factors — an inherited distrust
of physical form, and a current focus on monetary economies — clearly shape our feelings and actions
in relation to
art, the equivocal
nature of the Protestant relationship to the
arts becomes ever clearer if we look at what lies behind the question
of iconoclasm.
Factual statements about
nature reduce
art to mere illustration and assimilate it to conceptual habits
of thinking — precisely what Dillenberger rightly criticizes
in American Protestantism.
Eminent artists, theologians, and philosophers will be exploring the
nature of art and its role
in society.
Growing up
in the Midwestern United States, I spent my childhood exploring creeks, plaines and fields, and have loved animals,
nature and
art all
of my life.
Of course, I might be holding back out of fear of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
Of course, I might be holding back out
of fear of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
of fear
of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking
of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic
in nature and proof
of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners
of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insuli
of such technological dark
arts die due to lack
of insuli
of insulin)
Human
art has to do with networks
of meaning which form themselves
in response to
nature and the problems
of human life.
13 For example, Whitehead says: «
Art has a curative function
in human experience when it reveals as
in a flash intimate, absolute Truth regarding the
Nature of Things.
The Yale philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff provides a critical history
of the
nature and purpose
of art in modernity and suggestions for a theory
of art today that could admit both its fallenness and its potency to engender some kind
of salvation, and a piece by Daniel Taylor describes the abandoned Irish monastery
of Skellig Michael that might make some readers want to plan a pilgrimage to this holy and - to?
Meaning
in the
arts — aesthetic awareness — is mediated through the
nature and elements
of the medium without ever being directly present itself.
On 13 June Luther unexpectedly and without informing any
of his friends
in advance... married Bora... You might be amazed that at this unfortunate time... he turns to self - indulgence and diminishes his reputation, just when Germany has special need
of his judgement and authority... The man is certainly pliable; and the nuns have used their
arts... society with the nuns has softened or even titillated this honourable, high - spirited man... the rumour that he had previously dishonoured her is clearly a lie... Now that the deed is done, we must not take it too hard, or reproach him; for I think, indeed, that he was compelled by
nature to marry.
An earlier version
of this paper was presented at the conference on
Nature, Human
Nature, and the
Arts, Vancouver, BC.,
in January, 1980.
But
in its living tradition that
art — moving for instance from Rembrandt through Daumier and Van Gogh to Rouault — brings unitive and fresh perception, contemporaneousness
of understanding and inventive technique to the ever - new discovery and revelation
of man's and
nature's faces and forms.
In reality the enlightened man stripped of his nature lives on in the atomised community that produces the anarchic teenagers taking over our town centres each Saturday night and the busy abortuaries of our state of the art hospital
In reality the enlightened man stripped
of his
nature lives on
in the atomised community that produces the anarchic teenagers taking over our town centres each Saturday night and the busy abortuaries of our state of the art hospital
in the atomised community that produces the anarchic teenagers taking over our town centres each Saturday night and the busy abortuaries
of our state
of the
art hospitals.
Both are men
of large vision - the Tatra Mountains and the Bavarian alps somehow lifting their eyes to the heights, and both lovers
of learning,
of language,
of God's glory
in nature and his gifts to men
in music and the
arts.
I believe a reading
of Adventures
of Ideas and the other works would justify saying there can be «no living [
art, morality, religion and science] unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction
in the existence
of an Order
of Things, and,
in particular,
of an Order
of Nature» (SMW 5).
In the opinion of the Times» photography editor, the curator of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the physical beauty of the photograph and the brutal nature of what's going on in it that gives it the particular quality that this work of art ha
In the opinion
of the Times» photography editor, the curator
of a university museum «came closest to the truth when she told the prosecutor..., «It's the tension between the physical beauty
of the photograph and the brutal
nature of what's going on
in it that gives it the particular quality that this work of art ha
in it that gives it the particular quality that this work
of art has.
It offers the opportunity to reflect on the
nature of fandom and who we are as people who watch and care about that ancient
art of putting spheres
in peach baskets.
Kath's love
of folk
art shines through
in her simple motifs that draw their inspiration from
nature, and she is a master
of scraffito — a decorative technique where patterns are scratched through the slip to reveal the clay underneath.
We talk to Justine Nettleton from
Art You Wear — a fine artist who creates jewellery inspired by the marks and colours
of her paintings and shapes
in nature.