Sentences with phrase «of imagistic»

Painted when the artist was just 22 years old, Untitled (Pecho / Oreja) exhibits a sublime combination of imagistic cacophony and compositional economy.

Still, it is not simply Simmons's understanding of the imagistic theater of photography that is useful, but her way of using form to acknowledge that image is at the center of the creative construction of collective and personal histories.

These subjects require a much greater variety of paint - handling than the figure paintings, resulting in loose, open surfaces that are a kind of imagistic action painting.

Space is fractured there is a sequence of imagistic non-sequiturs, «fragments of the world disappearing» that coalesce into paintings conveyed in bold painterly compositions.

Mass communication on the internet has always incorporated some sort of imagistic component; before emojis, we let colons, parentheses, and other combinations of punctuation marks speak for us.

Its imagistic character means it stands as a corrective to the bias of much constructive theology toward conceptual clarity, often at the price of imagistic richness.11 Although it would be insufficient to rest in new images and to refuse to spell out conceptually their implications in as comprehensive a way as possible, the more critical task is to propose what Dennis Nineham calls a «lively imaginative picture» of the way God and the world as we know it are related (Nineham, 201 - 2).

We must be careful, very careful, of the imagistic glasses through which we interpret God and the world.

Not exact matches

Human behavior appears to be profoundly influenced by the imagistic, symbolical, narrative powers of human reflection.

Thus if, in keeping with a process analysis of language - function, both the confession and the metaphysical assumption are to be taken with full seriousness, the meaning or point of the confessional element must be sought on the imagistic, rather than the univocal, level.

So the exclusivist aspects of the christological formulation give way, functionally, to the imagistic.

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

Is it possible that the imagistic revolution of the information age is also a sacramental revolution in which the visual forms we identify as «secular» are themselves embodiments of faiths and values that compel our deepest loyalties?

That is, instead of seeking to reproduce in English the formal structures — syntactic, imagistic, idiomatic — of the original texts, the translation strives for analogous «structural, semantic, and idiomatic units that are native to the receptor language.»

More theologians, concerned with excellence of an imaginative cast of mind, need to struggle in the «circuitous and tortuous» no - man's land of a style of theological reflection which is highly imagistic, experiential and confessional on the one hand and coherent and consistent on the other hand.

This is so because «it is in the nature of TV's imagistic, present - oriented, time - compressed curriculum to be nonsequential; that is, discontinuous.

Christian poets throughout the ages have helped people to participate imaginatively in Christian language — in other words, have helped them to hear the word of God — by placing the imagistic language of the tradition in fresh contexts so that the dead metaphors may become alive once more.

At the same time, what is there to appeal to our expectations of character and comedy detracts from the film's lyrical ambition to compel our attention on a purely impressionistic or imagistic level.

Signs owes its imagistic sources to more than The Birds: It cribs liberally from Drums Along the Mohawk (more precisely, John Sayles précis for an early unmade Spielberg project called «Night Skies» that reimagined Ford's film with aliens), Night of the Living Dead, Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and, crushingly, John Irving's pulp - Christian novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany.

You Were Never Really Here is adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella by the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, and like her other work it is powerfully imagistic and nearly bereft of dialogue or a conventional plot.

It's not even in the ridiculously out - of - place imagistic Xerox of Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders's melancholy ode to love and Berlin.

That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.

His writing is imagistic: «Pale mist, stained the color of blood, drifted through the silent streets of Okalin like a floating vapor of dragon's breath (p. 292).»

Alternatingly playful and elegiac, musical and imagistic, this long - awaited second full - length collection by Katz addresses the limits of human understanding by examining the aftereffects of history and the complexities of parenthood.

That we have fallen into the imagistic approach to exhibitions (easily framed, photographed, and shared) makes an environment out of contemporary art that is perhaps even more hostile to ideas expressed through differences in aesthetics.

But subject matter came back in a really strong way with the Pop thing, and when subject matter came back, it seemed opposed to the idea of a more abstract or, say, mystical painting, and against the idea that other things were coming out of a painting rather than real imagistic pieces of information.

In the last years of his life, Resnick turned to figurative and imagistic paintings, alternating darkness and mystery with humor.

Part II, which will be on view from mid-April to August 2007, will present works in a range of media, focusing on the figurative and the imagistic.

The second installment of the two - part exhibition, Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II focuses on figurative and imagistic works.

In the studio, the fields of transparent purplish wash or pattern become imagistic paintings.

They have the virtuosic bravura of Abstract Expressionism but also suggest the things of this world; trees, furniture, buildings and perspective grids, elements that create an architectonic imagistic structure.

Jennifer West, known for her sensual, partly imagistic, partly abstract works exploring the materiality of film celluloid, debuts the Pacific Northwest section of Film Memory — a project five years in the making.

All of these examples border on installations with sculptural components rather than «sculpture» and they all certainly rely heavily on their imagistic elements.

In it, Bakowski's imagistic poetry describes the arcane mechanisms of the mind through pulsating drawings and haunting sound.