Sentences with phrase «symbolic meaning used»

There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity.

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It should not be described as a «myth,» for despite a proper use of the word which might be permissible, there is a serious danger of a misunderstanding of it since generally its meaning is taken to be a «fairy - tale» — a symbolic account of what may be most dreadfully «un-fact.»
Like those religious fellowships of Liberia and Sierra Leone, the north Georgia congregations conveyed their culture (later he used the more precise term «subculture») by means of distinct idioms, symbolic dialects constructed both to express and to maintain group identity.
Berger uses the term «symbolic universe» to refer to symbols or symbol systems that are concerned with providing meaning to reality in the most encompassing sense.
It is characteristic of language that many different symbolic systems can be used to express roughly the same world of meanings.
This does not mean outright rejection; it has to do with the attempt to penetrate through the symbolic (and mythological) language which religion inevitably uses to the basic reality that is there being affirmed.
Here Luke sets aside any symbolic meaning, and uses the story as his version of the call of the disciples.
For in the sense in which he uses the term «literal» in the other passages in which he affirms the same categorial terms to have a literal rather than either a symbolic or an analogical meaning, it means nothing other than «univocal» (although, as we shall see presently, this is not the only sense in which he uses the term «literal»).
Rigorous use of biblical criticism prevents psychologizing and allegorizing, insofar as the attempt is made to recover what Jesus actually taught and how the church in fact interpreted his teaching, and only then to inquire into its psycho - social and symbolic meaning, both for Jesus and the church, and for us today.
So whether to give communion to non-Catholics or not dependson which symbolic meaning of the Mass you are using, and you get a different answer depending on the symbol you choose.
They often use, sometimes heatedly, phrases and symbols, words like «resurrection» and «life eternal,» but all too often they have changed the meaning so that these symbolic phrases do not stand for life after death.
Marsha Witten has written a very useful paper, entitled «The Structure of Symbolic Codes and the Restriction of Meaning: Devices of Disambiguation in a Fundamentalist Christian Sermon,» that examines the second of these two sermons in depth, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.
Red Beans 2Review In fact, the number of red beans has a specific symbolic meaning: one red bean symbolizes a wholehearted feeling; two red beans symbolizes kindness and devotion; three red beans are used to say I love you; ninety - nine red beans snifies love that will last forever.
Hayworth plays the prowling sex kitten, slinking around the dance floor, laughing with a new pretty boy on her arm, even performing a symbolic striptease on the nightclub floor while singing «Put the Blame on Mame,» and Ford is younger and leaner and meaner than we're used to, which makes him a little unpredictable.
However, since the Kuba people are never again mentioned in the textbook, students never learn why geometric styles were used or what their symbolic meaning to the Kuba might be.
Trish Wylie: It comes from the colour Rose Madder, which is a fugitive pigment meaning the colour is not fixed and changes over time, its the colour that I have used to paint myself and by adding I, changed the words from a noun to a sentence, so for me the colour has a symbolic value as well as a physical value.
Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline Students deconstruct how artists use color, line, and symbolic imagery to convey meaning and impact the viewer.
«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of nontraditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»
«We can trace this theme throughout the exhibition — a testimony to the power of the use of non-traditional symbolic and conceptual portraiture as a means to reclaim the representation of self and other from inherited formulas that may threaten to suppress rather than express what it means to a unique individual.»
Escobar's work, characterized by the use of materials charged with historical and symbolic meaning, is articulated in a minimalist language like in Yellow Composition, a linseed oil drawing, and the wall sculpture.
Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as his use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.
Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language, and pattern — into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning.
Hofmann's own writings bear witness to his sympathy with the Russian - born painter's ideas about using abstract means to make spiritual qualities visible, absent the specific symbolic values Kandinsky attached to colors, shapes, and the direction of lines.
Whereas the painters in Nature Studies I may have found creative impetus from photographically - reproduced work or used it as part of their method, these eight artists employ a host of respective photographic processes that, for the most part, draw our attention to the concerns, formats and styles typically seen in and expected of painting such as the artifice of arrangement, the manipulation of formal elements, and the projection of symbolic meaning or narrative content.
Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.
Not just a formal comparison of objects and ideas, this exhibition investigates the symbolic, metaphoric and practical use of color and dynamic composition to convey meaning.
Using fugitive and symbolic materials (blackberries, chalk, fire, ashes, moss, bone and saliva), Washington sources imagery from the Sciences, Mythology, and Art History that represent ruptures and failures in the search for meaning and truth.
His work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.
Dario Escobar's work is characterized by the use of materials charged with historic and symbolic meaning, articulated in a language that references minimalism as well as pop art.
During the early 1970s he studied with conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, whose interest in using an array of cultural myths, metaphors, and personal symbolic vocabulary as a means to engage and understand history inspired Kiefer.
My approach is to examine the symbolic, metaphorical meaning of the addictive substance and its use and to explore the inner meaning and motivation for such behavior.
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