Sentences with phrase «pictorial language which»

Studded with Ofili's infamous balls of dung, The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars is illustrative of the artist's unique pictorial language which integrates the urban black experience with his own African heritage.

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.

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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.

But despite the assertions of certain biblical scholars, this does not mean that no metaphysic is implicit in Hebrew thinking; it means only that the language in which the implicit metaphysic was stated was for the Hebrew highly imaginistic, pictorial, symbolical.

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.

In 2007, painter Sanford Wurmfeld wrote that Jones «looks afresh for ideas - ideas that are pure color and form... For him it is a visual language from which arises pictorial events to be savored.»

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

The paintings can unfold in the way due to the suggestive nature of Rosa's pictorial language, which, though abstract, approaches meaning or even symbolism.

Geometry is used to represent and imagine a transhuman utopia, within which gender theories can be applied to pictorial language and nd new ways of experiencing the visual world.

In his exploration of the abstract image he focuses on images and forms found in daily life objects, in this case packaging materials or shopping bags, which can offer a universe of a pictorial language inherent to Modern Art.

A self - taught artist, Khakhar developed a sophisticated pictorial language and vibrant palette which «was infused with his deep knowledge of art from South Asian and European sources.»

The painting by David Schutter, fluid expression of a philology of pictorial language — perception, gesture, memory of the image and its translation through layering — converse with the sculptures by Nicola Martini, animated by a inner and perpetual tension between rigidly opposed elements (horizontal / vertical, centrifugal / centripetal, solid / liquid) and which draw, challenging the limits of their own materials, a distant, atemporal and almost metaphysical landscape.

By reducing the obligatory details, especially the background, in favor of speed of execution on a large - scale format (which he gleaned from Abstract Expressionist painting), and by maintaining simplicity of form (distilled by the artist for the sake of observational necessity long before the emergence of minimalism), Katz was able to bring abstraction and observation, simplicity and speed into his singular pictorial language.

They cut into the shape structure more to become shapes in their own right, For me they are an affirmation of non objective colour painting that looks toward a new pictorial language and one which connects abstract painting to it's history.

For the artist, geometry is the best tool to represent and imagine a trans - human utopia in which gender theories can be applied to the pictorial language, giving way to new possibilities in which we can experiment the visual world.

Some of them, such as the handling of paint - brusque, clotted, ejaculatory - come straight out of the language of abstract expressionism, and in particular of Willem de Kooning's pictorial lingo, which was the nursery talk of Rauschenberg's artistic childhood - the parental language he both loved and rebelled against.

Auerbach inherited a pictorial language from Bomberg, which focused on a concern for the tangible surface.

This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies.