Sentences with phrase «on classical mythology»

Spearheaded by Leon Golub and united by a shared interest in the figure during a period that is often seen as dominated by abstraction, the group created deeply psychological works that drew on classical mythology and ancient art.

He is researching a PhD on classical mythology in contemporary visual art.

These epic installations collapse historical and narrative time, placing equal emphasis on classical mythology, art history and the socio - political conditions of the present.

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The very naïveté of the classical mythology, on the other hand, which provided the environment for the New Testament, expresses that openness for the idea of transcendence.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

In true revisionist Western style, he wavers back and forth between amoral mercenary desires and noble actions — he's not classical Hollywood's Western hero, but he draws on that mythology, breathing new life into the genre.

Based on one of the company's hokier characters, who in turn is based on Norse mythology, Thor has largely been a second - tier champion whose blend of superheroics and classical melodrama has defeated many a writer since the thunder god debuted in 1962.

About Emily Windsor: I grew up in the north of England on a diet of historical romance and classical mythology.

He has also superimposed his trademark females on famous nudes from art history and classical mythology.

No longer setting a stage for a dystopian lifestyle borne by the delusions and failures of the Soviet system, the paintings on view are referencing Soviet visual representation and its history by juxtaposing, in fragments, hypothetical subjects from Soviet life and classical or baroque mythology.

He has recently embarked on a PhD focusing on the impact of classical mythology on contemporary art

De Nieves» work often develops its own intricate visual symbolism drawing on both classical Catholic and Mexican vernacular motifs to develop his own mythology.

The artist references classical mythology, Egyptology, graffiti, politics and poetry to present works that act as a meditation on the complexities of history across the worlds of politics and art.

In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer's poem — arguably the definitive work of classical mythology — and African - American culture by depicting Homeric characters as black players on the timeless stage of antiquity.

The emphasis this film places on the seemingly mundane ritual of cleaning shoes transforms the artist's own footwear into another contemporary object of worship deserving of meticulous attention and care, the modern equivalent to the traditional artistic «attribute» (an object conventionally associated with a particular figure from classical mythology or Christian hagiography): the social signifier.