Sentences with phrase «theories on abstraction»

His watercolor Caoutchouc (Rubber) was completed in 1909, which would predate even Kandinsky's theories on abstraction.

He began a course in the weaving workshop in 1927, where she was exposed to both his theories on abstraction and his paintings, which were rich in symbols and colors.

Dillenberger's theories on abstraction lack the critical scrutiny he shows elsewhere in his work.

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As Paul Pfeutze has pointed out, both the dialogical philosophy and pragmatism emphasize the concrete and the dynamic, both reject starting with metaphysical abstractions in favour of starting with human experience, both insist upon «the unity of theory and practice, inner idea and outer deed,» and both insist on the element of faith and venture.

Whitehead experiments for a while with deliberations about the various theories of the world with regard to the degree to which they abstract from the world, and about adjusting a sequence of more or less abstract perspectives on the world, oriented at the level of abstraction attainable in the mathematized natural sciences.

Though Bergson did not develop an elaborate theory of extensive abstraction, it is not surprising that he should have viewed Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, in which this theory is given its classic formulation, as «one of the most profound (works) ever «written on the philosophy of nature» (DS 62n).

Neither his relational conception of space, which is basic for understanding his concept of extensive abstraction and which gave his theory of relativity its unique character, nor the problem of the bifurcation of nature, with its differentiation between the materialistic and personalistic outlook on the world, seem to be clearly in Whitehead's mind at this time.

«There is nothing in economic theory that requires» such narrowness (EC 5 - 5), but having captured their imagination this abstraction now leads all economists to discount «the effect of one person's welfare on that of others through bonds of sympathy..., and the physical effects of one person's production and consumption activities on others through bonds of bio-physical community» (EC 5 - 3).

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

I enjoy music and music theory, high - level programming with abstractions (oh, man, things are so much better now that I don't have to mess with raw sockets and manual memory allocation) and helping newer developers get a better handle on the thought processes for development.

Calling up diverse references, from still life vanitas to hard - edge abstraction, color theory diagrams, and optical illusions, Eaton's work deeply engages with vision on physiological, technological, and philosophical terms.

By working in the galleries and the Access Gallery studio, we have been able to introduce not only concepts and theories about abstraction, which are often new concepts for our students, but also expand their confidence with new mediums and approaches on paper.

Panel II: Digital Abstraction This panel will hone in on abstract painting influenced by digital imaging techniques, digital technologies, and new / post media theory.

Durner has also curated exhibitions, published art theory, and lectured on a number of topics, including the American landscape, gestural abstraction and phenomenology, conceptualism and its sources, the work of artist Dan Graham, and the composers Maryanne Amacher and John Cage.

Historians posit that Abstract Expressionism comes from three major sources: Kandinsky's abstraction, the Dadaist's reliance on chance, and the Surrealist's endorsement of Freudian theory that embraces the relevance of dreams, sexual drives (libido) and the authenticity of ego (unfiltered self - centeredness, known as narcissism), which this art expresses through «action.»

Dashper's work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction (in particular abstract painting), conceptualism and minimalism as a working methodology.

Installation view September 16 — October 11, 2008 Dashper's work focuses on the histories, theories and more general or popular ideas of abstraction, conceptualism, and minimalism as a working methodology.

Pentagon By 1999, chaos theory became a profound influence on Kidner's work and geometric abstraction in the form of Penrose pentagons reprinted on paper became a critical tool as a metaphor for ordering the chaos in the world.

While Edwards was at USC, theories of art continued to hold on to an ideal of «pure» abstraction and the pursuit of form for its own sake in painting and sculpture.

The modernist abstract tradition where the words «big» and «abstract» belong together has clear resonance with Morris» work, yet in these little paintings she almost turns the theory of colour - field abstraction on its head.»

In his exhibition Total Reflective Abstraction, he uses a silvered glass technique to build on the theories of Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller proposing a completely reflective «utopia.»

CARRIE MAE WEEMS, «String Theory,» 2016 (archival pigment print on textured rag paper), is featured in the exhibition «Blackness in Abstraction,» curated by Adrienne Edwards.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

In her approach to abstraction, Strobert draws on the classic «push - pull» theory of Hans Hofmann (1880 — 1966), which rejects linear perspective in favor of illusion created through compositional shape and color.

The Texas - born visionary, who was championed by legendary NYC art dealer Betty Parsons, had some interesting theories on alchemy and hermaphroditic evolution — a worldview within which his crusty little abstractions only played a small part.

Through them he became versed in the work and theories of the constructivist tradition which, in St Ives, was becoming associated with a form of abstraction based on landscape sources.

Selected curatorial projects include Black Milk: Theories on Suicide, Marvelli (2004), Then & Now: Abstraction in Latin American Art, Deutsche Bank (2010), Memory Leaks, Creon (2010), Rituals of Chaos, Bronx Museum of the Arts (2012), The Skin I Live In, Curatorial Lab, SP - Arte (2013) and Hybrid Topographies - Encounters from Latin America, Deutsche Bank (2018).

The actual term «Abstraction Lyrique» was coined by the French painter and exhibition co-organizer Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012), while his fellow curator Jose - Jean - Marchand wrote that some of the works on show displayed «a lyricism disengaged from all servitude...» - meaning that the paintings were not derivative or weighed down by intellectual theory.