Sentences with phrase «symbolic language»

Every discipline develops its own symbolic language in terms of which it replaces the total complex situation by a model that represents those variables in which it is interested.

Here certainly, as in the case of the other four «last things,» we are talking in highly symbolic language.

Each of the great religions has also developed its own symbolic language as its interpretation of human existence within the world.

They transform it into imaginative, surreal stories where the visitor is invited to read multiple symbolic languages.

DeDeaux pairs Toole's famous imagery with a rich symbolic language of her own: white death masks and red pantaloons figure prominently.

Did Jesus use symbolic language, places that existed on earth to describe Hell, yes, he most certainly did.

Yet there is no trace of communication by learned symbolic languages among reptiles, of hair or feathers among amphibians, of the auditory apparatus of land vertebrates, or of legs or wings, among the fish.

To see the universe as a whole in this way with the same God working in the universe at large, in the life of Jesus and in our lives was put in highly symbolic language by Paul in his letter to the Colossians about the Cosmic Christ.

Karl Haendel appropriates and recontextualizes images and texts, transforming them into his own symbolic language through drawing.

Throughout his career, he created a unique and symbolic language aimed at eliciting a subjective, emotional experience within the viewer, as well as a transcendent escape from political and societal realities.

Scharf combines virtuoso paint handling, vibrant color, and rich symbolic language in canvases that engage the viewer in a transcendent and emotional dialogue.

Ai and other artists have developed personal symbolic languages that repeat throughout their work.

Coming of age in the heyday of New York's Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist movements, Scharf developed interests in the careful paint handling, rich color, and heady symbolic language that characterized much of the art of his time.

It obviously is not symbolic language — it is an exacting portrait of the creature's appearance.

He believed that art could convey profound messages without using the complicated visual games of Cubism or the dense symbolic language of Freudian psychoanalysis.»

As a philosopher Ricoeur attempts to develop a hermeneutical phenomenology of biblical interpretation that takes seriously the metaphorically symbolic language of the Bible while asking if it is true, how we can tell, and how we can receive it.

This identification occurred not only on the intellectual theological level, but on all levels of the liturgy, the cult, the religious symbolic language, and the mythology.

The researchers conclude that humans inherited a language of gestures and a latent capacity for learning symbolic language from the last ancestor we share with our chimpanzee and bonobo relatives — an ancestor that lived approximately 6 million years ago.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

Ironically, the First Amendment protects symbolic language, even rude gestures such as «the finger.»

The pre-Tibetan culture, the Mayan, the pre-Incan, the Sumerian, and so many others, all express the same story in diverse symbolic languages — their «gods» came from the stars, bringing advanced knowledge and the gift of civilization.

Painters needed a new symbolic language to express both sides of the present, as with Gottlieb's pictographs and crosses.

These artists use acid wit, conjuring, and potent symbolic language to render complicated images of female expereince.

Picasso had pulled back from abstraction after Synthetic Cubism, Mondrian had left us in a cold white light; Miró was still painting in his own wonderful private symbolic language and Matisse had died leaving the doors open to abstraction with his paper cut - outs.

... And Then It All Came Back To Me expands on metaphysical interpretations of the artist's dreams, the invented symbolic language that has long been a hallmark of the work, and most notably on the idea of self - portraiture as exploration of the artist - as - archetype.

However, the sculptures and installations do not mark momentous occasions; on the contrary, they show introspective, unspectacular moments, by way of a figurative representation, by the use of a minimalist symbolic language, or by employing the actual materials to which they refer.

In order to explore the unique symbolic language of dreams, artists, shamans and scientists often refer to the various layers of dream interpretation by differentiating between manifest and latent content.

Featuring around 100 works from public and private collections, as well as international museums, the exhibition titled The Alphabet will celebrate the artist's systematic symbolic language we came to love oh so much.

Pittman's singular aesthetic merges symbolic language, decorative motifs, and abstract, geometric forms with animal surrogates and fantastical architecture.

The iconic paintings Twombly made after returning to Rome in the early 1960s, such as Empire of Flora and School of Athens, introduce a rich, complicated, colorful, symbolic language of forms.

Through footage from interviews, portraits, discussions, parties, meetings, work sites, markets, schools, and landscapes, the film develops a visual and symbolic language through which to approach the relationship between the Americas.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

Abstract Systems presents the work of a group of artists who approach abstract painting utilizing their own personal symbolic language.

Featuring potent symbols like the egg, the eve and the cross throughout his work, Scharf's work combines visual transcendence and beauty through careful paint handling, rich color and heady symbolic language.

Each community has its own symbolic language in terms of which it interprets experience, and these symbols have little meaning for the outsider in either case.

It has certain characteristics that must be mastered to make any sense to us including: heavy themes of judgment and salvation; visions and dreams; cryptic and symbolic language; images presented in the forms of fantasy rather than reality; and time and events neatly divided and carefully ordered with a great fondness for the symbolic use of numbers.

Religion, employing a mythic - symbolic language that is always culturally conditioned and historically contingent refers to the data of primary perception, while science seeks to express correlations among the objects sensed, abstracted or imagined at the pole of secondary perception.

The icon expresses not only the visible but also the invisible in a symbolic language that belongs to a dynamic tradition.

David Tracy in The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism (Crossroad, 1981) underscores the notion of doctrine as only one genre of faith expression: «At the same time, doctrines as abstract, are relatively less adequate as expression than the originating metaphorical or symbolic language.»