Sentences with phrase «through illusory»

With hand - built cameras and vintage photographic paper, McCaw creates unique pieces documenting the sun's movement through illusory land and seascapes.

The Npp campaign machinery manipulated voters through the illusory truth effect, naturally human as we are, a thinking error in our minds that happens when false statements are repeated many tines and we accept them as truth.

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Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

Insofar as he is able to penetrate through the superficial and actually illusory levels of his existence, man finds himself to be in immediate touch with the holy.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can come through «release» of one's deep inward energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.

«Providence» suggests that our affairs are in reality guided by something above or greater than human reason, while «fortuity» implies that the controlling agent is something beneath or less than reason; but either view renders illusory the notion that we are controlling our own affairs through the exercise of our own reason.

The philosopher who claims to transcend personal concerns and so to live entirely beyond hope and fear and love is finally sustained through proud self - deception, by an illusory self - sufficiency that really depends on willful self - forgetfulness.

In the skillful sense of this illusory art, each word becomes true when embodied in him, true through him — and yet he is told what he shall say by the hidden one that sits and whispers.

Yet this is not always true, as you will see from d. Notice the vertical illusory strip running through the parallel horizontal lines.

When you view the images through a viewer — lo and behold — the illusory square floats out!

Morrissey's complaint cuts through to the truth about modern journalism — as Spielberg does not — by exposing how what we consider «the news» has become the illusory practice of a primarily Left - centered, conspiratorial institution that operates to manipulate a susceptible public.

Aside from the aforementioned instances of blatant depth manipulation, Walsh keenly seizes the more pragmatic uses of the illusory optics, in the form of interior staging, with tables and bottles and barrels serving as prominent parts of a scene's foreground design, and in a wonderfully mounted gunfight, shooting through doors, windows, and fences.

Several features of The Seasons seem to summarize themes and artistic concepts that were of central interest to Johns throughout his artistic practice up to this point, such as the implicit reference to Marcel Duchamp through the depiction of Mona Lisa, the appearance of the American flag, and various optical illusory figures.

With his new solo show, «Time Machine» at Jason Vass, Mark Dutcher seeks to convey through his paintings various subjective and illusory experiences, starting with...

The boldest stroke is a calligraphic S in black, but even its opacity is illusory — the whites and reds behind the black can be read right through it.

David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present Elusive Transparencies, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Julian Stanczak focused exclusively on his illusory «see - through» abstractions, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

Through an effort to be neutral, Le Parc became drawn to looking at the illusory capabilities intrinsic to non-representational forms (demonstrated first in his «Op» art) and at the role reversal of artist / spectator / art form.

Through the conjunction of and the cross between Willy Loman, the legendary anti-hero of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Dante's Inferno, the photographic recreation of Gustave Doré's etchings of Dante's work and references to the US multinationals Chrysler, General Motors and Ford, the British - Nigerian artist suggests, on one side, the illusory nature of the «American dream» and, on the other, the parallel between Miller's exploration of greed and the human condition in the 20th century and our present situation, projecting it as its perverse, ill - fated legacy.

The «gossamer thin difference between illusion and the real» (Cool Memories III: Fragments, 1997) articulates itself in these works through the diaphanous, illusory layers that stack upon each other.

The work of London - based Lucy Hardcastle (b. 1992) explores tactility, sensuousness and illusory aesthetics through sculpture and digital pieces.

I allow the paint to bleed, smudge, peel back at times, which disrupts the illusory or pictorial space, emphasizing the materials and surface instead... the way in which I construct illusions of depth and space, where certain patterns seem to float in front of others, screens of lines that you are looking through, into another internal space.

The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an illusory and refracted space that becomes solidified through the process of painting.

Through recent installations that include filmed performances, where projections of the «ghosted» human body wash over sculptural elements, the artist attempts to create an alienating / disorienting illusory effect that reflects an increasing loss of the corporeal gesture in the every day, the infinite attempt at calibrating the body to technology, as well as the entrapment of the human psyche within it; manipulating and playing with memory, space and time.

Take a good painting of a landscape for example and that painting does not rely on its physical size to deliver its content as much as its illusory relationship, through rendering, suggestion or even evocation, to a known — external — reality.

Through the use of elemental materials, including water and air, Kapoor continues his investigations into the material and immaterial, weight and weightlessness, surface and space, the ocular and the aural, as he subtly balances the literal and the illusory to animate the senses.

Illusory and intransigent, these pieces seemed to bend the possibilities of what could be achieved through Turrell's chosen medium, and were the beginning of his artistic explorations of our perceptions and overall reaction to light as an art form.

Julian Stanczak is best known for his illusory «see - through» abstractions and «grid» paintings, which have been at the core of his art - making practice for the past five decades.

After his segue through figurative abstraction in the 80s and 90s, Fleming made a return to geometric abstraction in the 2000's with an emphasis on illusory compositions and visual perception.