Sentences with phrase «object of contemplation»

His paintings are, at base, beautiful objects of contemplation, with their deliciously tactile, hard candy surfaces and muted harvest colors.
Shen's intriguing twisted and metamorphic sculpture made of paper, ink and wax referenced a long tradition of Chinese scholars» rocks, which are collected and treasured as objects of contemplation.
The artists are consciously reshaping dilemmas into objects of contemplation.
Even beauty must be stripped of its surface in order to become an intelligible object of contemplation.
«Though the works effectively resist the hype around 3 - D modeling, they also comment upon the objects they depict: By subjecting them to an algorithm's gaze, Valla's works transform the originals from the unitary, transcendent objects of our contemplation into provisional artifacts whose reception is necessarily conditioned by discourses and technologies alike.»
As evidence of this ambient trend's beginnings, Pollock famously painted the engulfing «Mural» (1943) for Peggy Guggenheim, where he transformed the canvas into a whole wall instead of the usual small object of contemplation visually and physically dominated by the viewer.
Rachael Champion's series of usable sculptures Municipal Sustainable, are at once objects of contemplation, agitation and functional outdoor furniture.
Mark Rothko saw these paintings as objects of contemplation, demanding the viewer's complete absorption.
Shot primarily in slow motion, the competitive nature of the Jiu - Jitsu fighters and racehorses is paralysed by an extreme aestheticisation, transforming scenes of action into objects of contemplation and visual pleasure.
This sentence saved my faith from suffocating certainty: «The mysteries of the faith are degraded when made into objects of affirmation or negation, when they ought to be the object of contemplation
«The mysteries of the faith are degraded when made into objects of affirmation or negation, when they ought to be the object of contemplation
The light beckoning at the end of the tunnel is often a mirage or a firefly briefly lighting the path of those relatively few souls who make legal matters the object of their contemplations and, especially, their outspoken criticism.
The collage and cut outs of John O'Reilly and Brainard bump up against each other in their juxtapositions of classic Greek sculpture and the eroticized male form, as ideal, object of contemplation and as pop advertisement.
Both the angel and the mandala are objects of contemplation and meditation.
While he initially scorned the tradition of easel painting, Hodgkin came round to the view that his own works were artefacts, objects of contemplation.
Each work becomes an object of contemplation, and every nuance of that image is yours to enjoy, to notice, to comment on with your head, your spirit and heart, your whole being.»
The perception of color has been an object of contemplation and artistic examination for many a decades... Chromatic aberration, refractions and colored shadows are some of the concepts which have intrigued philosophers, scientists and artists.
Roy McMakin reworks found furniture, making changes in scale and material to question at which point an object would no longer be considered «useful» and becomes, instead, an object of contemplation.
All of these works reflect aspects of how a painting can function — as an object of contemplation, for example, or an object of commerce.
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