Not exact matches
Concerning God, Clement pursued two fundamental principles: that God is beyond the reach even of
abstract human
language and therefore must be identified by what God is not, but that, at the
same time, God must be understood as «the omnipotent God» (Stromata, 1.24): «Nothing withstands God, nothing opposes Him: seeing He is [42] Lord and omnipotent» (1:17).
While emojis are a fun and creative method of casual digital communication, they're definitely not yet on the
same level as ancient Egyptian, which was actually a structured, grammatical
language capable of communicating complex,
abstract ideas.
In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an
abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the
same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.
These
abstracted forms utilize the
same language of the artist's recent monumental installation for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Willing To Be Vulnerable (2015 - 16).
Ding's crosses, then, may have become simply the
language he uses, but their accumulated units prove ambiguous enough to allow both microscopic and macroscopic projections from the world, and at the
same time to trigger multiple echoes of other
abstract painters.