Sentences with phrase «own pictorial language»

The story of creation and the story of the fall, for example, like the account of the last things in the Book of Revelation, may properly be called myths, since they are concerned with absolute beginnings and endings or with universally predicable truths, about which no precise conceptual statements can be made and which are best expressed in pictorial language.

As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.

One has only to read the sermons of the early New England divines to remark how often and how eloquently this huge land, unknown in detail but known to be there, supplied illustrations for those passages in the sermon which required pictorial language to nail down a sermonic point.

Bultmann regards the pictorial language which the New Testament uses about the cross as a mythological expression of the truth that the believer has been delivered from sin.

In other words, it is to say that we believe that implicit in the pictorial language of the Scriptures and the historical events to which the Bible points and with which its language is concerned, there is a basic view of the world which is grounded in reality itself.

Pictorial language?

Showing work made over this expansive time period will offer an insight into Hodgkin's relationship to India while also revealing the evolution of his pictorial language — from the figurative work of the 1960s through to the dynamic, gestural style of recent years.

A master of postwar abstraction, Zao Wou - Ki (1920 — 2013) created a unique pictorial language shaped by diverse influences.

Sarah was entrenched in this pictorial language long before it washed over the art world.

The idea, again, is that the pictorial language is one that is invented rather than completely inherited.

Monet created a new pictorial language that enabled his art to breathe and endlessly expand.

Humphrey: I was trying to use pictorial language as content.

There are endless ways of appreciating John Newman's incomparable singularity -LSB-...] By revealing a willfulness to persist in pursuit of a vision that emphatically demands a precise pictorial language — one that correlates with its differences, materially and formally — Newman has created another kind of sculpture in which different forms sing independent melodies that harmonize with the orchestration of his unending interest in all things.

He aims to bring painting into conflict on several fronts at the same time — with its own history, with its clichés, and with the ubiquitous power of the pictorial languages of advertising and pop.

Published in cooperation with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and featuring critical essays by a diverse array of writers and art theorists — including feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous — ALLY shows how these artists have worked together to create a new pictorial language.

In her deeply distinctive pictorial language, and sometimes very large - scale formats, the rational and emotional enter into a dialogue, both sensually seducing and intellectually stimulating viewers.

Over the course of her decades - long career, Marilyn Minter has developed a singular and provocative pictorial language imbued with themes of desire, power, glamour, and beauty.

These artists describe their fears, but in a pictorial language of comfort and caring.

Humphrey: It began when I was a young painter in the late»70s, when post modernism was emerging, when the impulse to break conventional pictorial language apart or mix it up was very pervasive.

In the early 20th century, when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso pioneered the new pictorial language of cubism, they profoundly affected the course of modern art.

My work relates to Cubists and Futurists paintings — in which the natural world is translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines and angles.

Aquavella's knock - out exhibition of judiciously selected works from the 1940s through the early 1960s illuminates the philosophical roots of his pictorial language.

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

These distinctive narratives reflect the artist's perception of the real world; her subjective philosophies are expressed via a unique and joyful pictorial language.

Herrera has continued to develop her pictorial language for more than forty years.

This watershed period witnessed a flourishing of breakthrough works — such as the present example — in which the artist unfurled a new pictorial language inspired by the natural world and infused with childhood memories of his Armenian birthplace.

Following the developments of Cubist and Futurist painting — in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines, and angles — Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric art before gravitating to the gestural camp in later years.

The work, it turned out was in direct reference to a 1650 Diego Velasquez painting of «Pope Innocent, X.» A virtual thread now connected two works of art some 350 + years apart, each created using the pictorial language and techniques prevalent and relevant to their times.

In paintings like Girl with a White Dog (1951 - 52), [119] Freud put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter's social facade.

«Childhood, sexuality, memory, loss, religion and discrimination are themes that have always preoccupied Gober and for which he has developed his own unique pictorial language, influenced by Surrealism and by Minimal and Conceptual Art, though all read very much against the grain.»

What the titles mean is anybody's guess, but Rolph continues to get ample mileage out of a pictorial language that evokes both personal memories and the rush of images in an amped - up culture.

His lyrical and ebullient pictorial language drew from archaic sources, as well as the drawings of children and contemporary art movements such as Cubism and Tachisme.

Later described by art historian Herbert Read as «the most revolutionary event in post-war British art», this experimental period saw Pasmore's work progress towards a new pictorial language and representation of reality.

David Salle helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language.

Ostensibly, Rauschenberg (who once famously erased a drawing de Kooning had given him and presented the result as art) riffs on de Kooning's brushy, splatter - laced pictorial language.

Blurring the line between comedy and tragedy, the grotesque and the beautiful, the critical and the empathetic, Condo has developed a provocative and adventurously imaginative pictorial language, which has helped make him one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation.

Join 2018 PMA Biennial artist Elise Ansel to examine how she develops Old Master imagery and Renaissance painting techniques into a contemporary pictorial language.

With the Exotic Birds, in the words of William Rubin, «we enter fully into Stella's «second career,»» a transition that was «radical on the levels both of method and of pictorial language.»

These large sections of asymmetrical photo paper evolve into a pictorial language of impressions of bodies, and objects through color, light and shadows.

New pictorial languages are created with existing materials, such as reproductions of the early 19th century wallpaper by the French manufacturer Joseph Dufour.

In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.

Beatriz Milhazes's works are layered with elements of both local Brazilian popular culture and modernist pictorial language.

According to the gallery - «For this curated exhibition, the artists navigate the possibilities of mining the pictorial language of 1960s Modernism, through personal and contemporary lenses.

The hyperrealistic pictorial language intricately combines reality with fantasy, and religious metaphysics with Walt Disney and graffiti.

Impressed by the «stain» paintings of Morris Louis, Noland developed a pictorial language of spare, often bright abstraction centered on concentric circles and repeated chevrons, motifs that he would utilize throughout his career.

His works are recognised for their enigmatic pictorial language, organic palette and materials, and idiosyncratic and expressive style.

The 80s would see the Bacon simplifying his pictorial language; his figurative work would often allude to human form rather than always depicting it.

Working in mediums and formats that range from watercolor to oil to books to murals, Clemente's pictorial language draws upon William Blake and Allen Ginsberg in addition to his nomadic travels throughout India, New Mexico, and Jamaica.

Bernard Cohen's paintings are recognised for their complex pictorial language, in which densely woven lattices of line, shape, pattern and colour are explored as a way of processing and recording lived experience.

You will certainly see many influences and similarities between this work and Wassily Kandinsky «s pictorial language.