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.
Not exact matches
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.