Sentences with phrase «objects of contemplation»

Mark Rothko saw these paintings as objects of contemplation, demanding the viewer's complete absorption.

His paintings are, at base, beautiful objects of contemplation, with their deliciously tactile, hard candy surfaces and muted harvest colors.

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.

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.

«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.»

Such an awareness is impossible if and so long as the other is for me the detached object of my contemplation or observation, for he will not thus yield his wholeness and its centre.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an 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.»

Even beauty must be stripped of its surface in order to become an intelligible object of contemplation.

Brooks is asking for the strongest instances of structural complexity, which will clearly introduce it into the conscious mind; not, perhaps, as an object of contemplation, but as an effective agent within the experience, whose stresses are definitely felt.

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.

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.

All of these works reflect aspects of how a painting can function — as an object of contemplation, for example, or an object of commerce.

Not exact matches

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

Contemporary modernists like Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon and Gass offer works that are, in Dillard's estimate, nearly completely artifactual, objects of wonder, amusement or contemplation, but not to be taken in any sense as mirroring reality «out there.»

Catholic teaching distinguishes between dulia — paying honor, respect and veneration to saints and also indirectly to God through contemplation of objects such as paintings and statues — and latria — adoration directed to God alone.

He did not want Absolute pragmatism to lapse into the usual caricature of idealism, which made ideas into nothing more than objects of idle contemplation; ideas always contain, at their core, an intention to act.

Thus we are not concerned with requirements which have arisen only from contemplation; hence we are not concerned only with «structures of the world» which occur in the experiential contact between consciousness and object.

They are not just tools but objects worthy of contemplation in their own right.

Because of her, and with her, I am able — by moments — to move out of my own natural larval state and experience movies not just as deliverers of entertainment, conveyors of meaning, or objects of aesthetic contemplation, but as pure fields of emotional and sensory intensity, almost like rooms to which one can return.»

They're immersed in their experiences, and it's not until they're older that their «Understanding turns inwards upon itself, reflects on its own Operations, and makes them the Object of its own Contemplation.»

Incredibly, and without the overt drama of the narrative of Ugetsu, that is somewhat the sensation I had when I walked from Kiki Smith's exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea, through a narrow passage way into a new smaller wing that Pace has built under the High Line and found myself, without preparation or expectation, in an exquisite, thrilling, soul - soothing, museum quality exhibition of craft objects and artworks, arranged in an inventive, harmonious, and instructive manner for contemplation.

«There are no heroes; this is a hero-less time,» 3 claimed Merz in 2009, and this view is in keeping with the Serpentine show's atmosphere of contemplation, in which the emphasis lies on the objects themselves rather than outdated notions of artistic genius.

In this new body of work consisting of sculptures, works on paper, and video, Ward articulates a dialogue surrounding the idea of support — physical, spiritual, social, and judicial — while introducing contemplation of everyday objects.

From afar, art is art, an object of serious contemplation.

It took me those two shots at Japan in the 1960s to get over its strangeness, to see not just gimmicks but the meeting of objects, conceptual art, and contemplation.

I am honored that people would trust me, not only with their objects, but with the decades of gathering, deep contemplation, and time.

Nabuqi's contemplation on the ontology of objects is reflected in her sculptures: objects surrounding us also exist independent of human perception.

If, as Michael Fried complained long ago, Minimalism turns the gallery into a theater, these remain objects of art and of contemplation, only somewhere apart.

«This is about the object of male contemplation rejecting the gaze, the simple refusal of that access.»

As Zhang says, he is creating a «societal landscape,» one where, whether he is manipulating an image of a building in Chelsea or one half way around the world in China, his aim is not to efface but to meld disparate concepts and histories, disparate types of visual information, and make yet a third thing — a multifaceted, multi-media, object for contemplation.

Museum visitors are depicted in relation to museum objects, their bodies as much forms for contemplation as the artworks depicted, as in In Order of Appearance IX (2012).

While her earlier work looked at art museums as places for worship or contemplation — in the vein of cathedrals or pilgrimage sites — and artworks as objects of faith, her recent works, such as Deposit III (2015), give more importance to painting as an actual object in its own right: «It allowed me to leave bi-dimensionality, unhang [painting] from the wall and naturally add other supports of images (video, mirrors, printed matter, found paintings) and link them to a same genealogy.»

Organized by Evelyn Hankins, a curator at the Hirshhorn, this is also Mr. Irwin's first major American survey outside his native California in nearly 40 years and the first anywhere devoted entirely to his work from the 1960s, when, in full experimental mode, he was shifting the emphasis of his own art from psychic encounters to physical ones, from precious objects to environments, places of contemplation.

Chief amongst these is that it offers, as the object of study, the contemplation of an exhibition rather than individual artworks

These simple, silent constellations of colour and form serve as objects for contemplation rather than representations to be interpreted or decoded.

Because the moon remains purely an object for contemplation, not of the will.

The opening exhibition includes work by internationally renowned artists, including Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Damien Hirst, Sergej Jensen, Brice Marden, Gabriel Orozco, Sterling Ruby, Robert Ryman and Jeff Wall, amongst others, alongside Chinese scholar's rocks, which are revered in China as objects of both trade and contemplation.

But to place this car in the gallery seems to miss the point, offering it as an object of aesthetic contemplation and period design rather than the embodiment of a particular kind of fantasy that suffused»60s culture, that often found its expression in a burgeoning ethos of conspicuous consumption.

In this new body of work I am continuing my exploration of the art object as a catalyst for contemplation and meditation for the viewer as well as the artist.

The importance of viewing these works from a variety of angles is key, and with quiet contemplation, visitors can perceive the works as Judd had intended: without prior expectation (as he wrote in his canonical 1965 essay, Specific Objects).

With its humorous nods to constructive and conceptual art, Please Touch entails active contemplation from the spectator, in that it extends familiar objects into the arena of the nonsensical.

Her work explores and encourages collective human encounters, rather than individual contemplation of produced objects.

Had Mr. Robert Doty devoted a few moments of serious contemplation to these different approaches, the hideous embarrassment suffered by the Whitney Museum at the disastrous history of Light: Object and Image might have been avoided.

Through sculpture, performance and installation, my work utilizes a wide range of materials — from pigmented silicone rubbers to concrete — to recreate underutilized objects and situations into venues for participation and contemplation.

At a moment when looking at a static art object is often dismissed unnecessarily by advocates of performance, participatory or social - practice art for encouraging only «passive contemplation,» Mr. Whitney's paintings are opulently interactive and engaging.

Here, assemblages made of weeds, seed pods, grass stalks, burrs, horse or dog hair, transform into independent objects, which reflect a larger contemplation of space, structure and light.

I was completely disinterested in experiencing a visitor's engagement in a kind of disinterested contemplation of an art object.

Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even mourning as these silenced objects of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form of transcendent afterlife.