Sentences with phrase «place of nothingness»

It is the thoughts derived from viewing the work which Ufan plans to emphasize, as the artist noted, «the ideal for a work of art is to be a «place of nothingness»» (L. Ufan, The Art of Encounter, exh.

The name Namibia comes from the Nama word meaning «vast place of nothingness».

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It alone places a man before him without whom man would only be horribly conscious of a radical void and nothingness; it alone is capable of uniting all the manifold contradictory powers of man, because it directs them all to God.

Can you Redhead fathom the moorings (I am not securing any vessels at the time, although I am sure my uncles fishing boat is pulled up on the beach) of absolute nothingness (yes, I am currently studying dark matter but that is not nothingness) where from all material meanderings (to meander is to be in a constant change of path (like religions) currently are, I am not religious and I do not meander as I see it as a waste of time when traveling from one place to the next.)

In his famous short story, «A Clean, Well - Lighted Place,» Ernest Hemingway made a parody of the Lord's Prayer, built on the Spanish word nada, meaning nothingness: «Our nada who are in nada, nada be thy name...»

Arsenal SHOULD ensure that any notions of Gerrard lifting a trophy are squashed into nothingness between rock hard concrete of Giroud's abs and the hard place that is Coquelin's nasal passage.

12 Medieval art was mostly flat and two - dimensional until the 15th century, when the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi conceived of the vanishing point, the place where parallel lines converge into nothingness.

A couple nights ago, Jessie and I were talking about our place in the universe, and the idea of «nothingness.»

The particular accomplishment of Inherent Vice is to restore the freaky - gnomic gum - shoe to his rightful misfit place in the great L.A. chain of being and nothingness stretching from Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye to Robert Benton's The Late Show and on to Jack Nicholson's too un-fairly maligned Two Jakes.

Taking Highway 270 down the coast gives you an unparalleled view of the blue Pacific, suddenly taking your breath away as the entire Waimea Valley comes into sight below, from dormant Mauna Kea to the vast black nothingness of lava rolling for miles right into the sea, frozen in place from Hualalai's last big blow in 1801.

If you're curious about some of the ideas filtering through contemporary artistic thought — about «contradictory layers of synthetic nothingness,» «widespread opposition to top down systems of rigid authority», and, er, «looping ropes and threads of rancid oily cum» — the Biennial is the place to go.

at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), a commissioned solo exhibition of video artist Alex Bag (2009) at the Whitney, a group exhibition entitled Nothingness and Being (2009) at Colección Jumex near Mexico City, and The Station, an independent group exhibition which took place in approximately 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2) of unoccupied raw space in a mid-town Miami development during Art Basel 2008.

The artist himself, like his subjects, offers us a glimpse of time and place before retreating into the nothingness.

It brings the notion of Fragile State onto the viewer's body and mind, placing them in a position of vulnerability while concentrating on a central notion in Abramovic's work: «nothingness».