Sentences with phrase «traces of what»

His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there before.

ARTFORUM Summer 2009 Leon Kossoff MITCHELL - INNES & NASH Leon Kossoff's painterliness invites us to scan the image of subconscious meaning — to play on Anton Ehrernzweig's idea of the way we approach what he calls «gestalt - free painting» — and the meaning we find involves what Freud called «primary process thinking,» and traces of what D.W. Winnicott, elaborating and deepening Freud's idea, called «primary creativity,» by which he meant the spontaneity innate to us all yet often stifled or channeled into trivial pursuits by society.

Leon Kossoff's painterliness invites us to scan the image for subconscious meaning — to play on Anton Ehrenzweig's idea of the way we approach what he calls «gestalt free painting» — and the meaning we find involves what Freud called «primary process thinking,» and traces of what D.W. Winnicott, elaborating and deepening Freud's idea, called «primary creativity,» by which he meant the spontaneity innate to us all yet often stifled or channeled into trivial pursuits by society.

Morgan writes: «Eager to dispel any and all traces of what he knew was «out there,» Scully assiduously began to paint in relation to layering.

In the artist's words, «It has to do with the primal sparks that floated free when the big bang happened and are still out there, traces of what I call the Eternal Becoming.»

When you remove the painting, there are restos — little traces of what was happening before.

How do artists use and combine different media to represent the traces of what is barely seen or remembered?

«When you remove the painting, there are restos — little traces of what was happening before... You go directly to the soul of the painting.»

Previously collaborating with anonymous makers of discarded art, Margot has recently begun to work alone with her gestures, allowing traces of what she learned while painting with others to continue to influence her own vocabulary.

In this book, American parents whose children's heritages include linguistic practices that have traces of what are considered Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Italian, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, understand these practices to be important.

So, what happens as people read these stories over and over, the conversation simply never comes up... and if someone challenges their faith... and they go to the Bible to look for answers, they are simply never going to find a trace of what I'm trying to say here in the sacred books.

The non-Buddhists are in nowhere that they could even see a trace of what Buddhism is all about.

Trump won praise from voters in large measure for «telling it like it is,» without a trace of what they viewed derisively as «political correctness.»

We want to be able to document and have a trace of what the student has accomplished and how the student got there.

The excuse used is that zombified people are no longer human and that any trace of what they used to be is gone, so it is okay to kill them.

Not exact matches

«I don't know what the hell that is,» Smith barked as he traced a stubby finger across a set of working drawings for the building, a development for WeWork, a U.S. firm that specializes in collaborative workspaces.

In this answer, you can see traces of Jobs» immortal declaration: «You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them.

As for what happens to the brands — which currently include the Gap and Walmart — that haven't signed up by the May 15th deadline, WRC's Nova says without a trace of humour, «They turn into pumpkins.»

Or, as the paper put it: «If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?»

«If people understand what trace levels of radiation mean, that understanding may help prevent panic.»

She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

These footprints trace out what big money managers might be doing with their buying and selling of stocks,» the «Mad Money» host said.

Here's what the start of Valley chip business looked like on a genealogy map, tracing most all of its DNA back to the first Silicon Valley chip company, Schockley Semiconductor.

This series by Monte Paulsen traces reasons for the rise of homelessness in the Vancouver area, scrutinizes the numbers and responses offered by officials, and lays out what experts believe is really necessary to seriously turn the tide before the world arrives for the Olympics in 2010.

Poor administration of the law can be traced in part to a basic disagreement within Justice about the purpose of the law and what constitutes a prosecutable FARA case.

Yet the combination of services that constitute what we know as a «virtual office» can be traced back many decades.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak denied a July 2 report by the Wall Street Journal which said state investigators scrutinizing government investment fund 1 Malaysia Development Bhd., or 1MDB, had traced nearly $ 700 million of deposits into what they believe to be Najib's personal bank accounts.

The Department of Homeland Security, ever the least controversial branch of the US Government, is developing a new laser - based scanner that can scan targets at a molecular level to read what they had for breakfast, how much adrenaline is pumping through their body and whether you they have any trace amounts of drugs or gunpowder on them.

But if in key respects his philosophy is conservative, his views still bear unmistakable traces of his earlier Marxism — which is perhaps why he has provoked critical comment from neoconservatives (who tend to be more open than paleoconservatives to what MacIntyre calls the «central features of the modern economic order»).

There follows from this concern the chief literary and scholarly characteristic of Pannenberg's writings - what makes them sometimes so complexly rewarding, and sometimes so utterly exasperating: his unwillingness to leave anything out, to make any point without seeking every possible source of its illumination, whether by exegeting great chunks of Scripture or by tracing a question through the whole history of philosophy or by suddenly sketching the present state of cosmological physics or by....

He traces our unease to the father of liberal democracy, John Locke, and to his claim that what nature provides for us is «virtually worthless,» becoming valuable only when mixed with our labor.

I'm not a physicist, but to my knowledge, what we know is that the accelerating expansion of the universe can be reasonably traced back to a singularity.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.

In chapter 2 we traced four different Christian traditions regarding what it is to understand God: understanding God by, respectively, the way of contemplation, the way of discursive reasoning, the way of the affections, and the way of action.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

I traced in my panel with Tom Regan what might be called the «greening of the WCC.»

Just what those concerns are can be traced from an analysis of Allen's humor.

I mean critics who, like Rainey, love to begin sentences with formulations like the following: «If it is true, as the logic of poststructuralism asserts, that every erasure will leave its trace in such a way that the very thing one is trying to exclude is disclosed as the hidden center of a contaminated order, then...» Then what?

The Old Testament traces what happens as a result of humans abandoning God's purposes.

On the other hand, if they are to treat it with full seriousness they must also trace home its metaphysical leadings and ask what final sense can be made of the witness.

And so that man may know who he really is and what constitutes the basis of his own human existence, this human existence is traced back to its own beginning.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

What our authors are saying through all this structure of imagery is that the obscure birth of a child to a carpenter's wife was, in view of all that came out of it, a decisive moment in history, when something genuinely new began, and the traffic of two worlds was initiated, to be traced by the discerning eye all through the story that was to follow.

Or to put it in another way, the creation bears upon it what the ancient Fathers of the Church called vestigia dei — «traces or intimations of deity.»

But he who knows what the dreadful is, must for this very reason be most fearful of every fault, of every sin, which takes an inward direction and leaves no outward trace.

We must so clarify our interpretation of what is presented to us in experience that we can begin to trace, however inadequately, the outlines of that which stands «beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things.

Others still, forced to acknowledge what is undoubtedly the fact, that the Gospels, every one of them and in every part of each, bear some trace of the community's response to and understanding of Jesus, seek rather feverishly to recover an irreducible minimum of objective historical fact by methods of literary and historical criticism applied with varying degrees of expertness.

tried to show that we can trace in the Gospel according to Mark a connecting thread running through much of the narrative, which has some similarity to the brief summary of the story of Jesus in Acts x and xiii, and may be regarded as an expanded form of what we may call the historical section of the kerygma.

Hence, even more important than summarizing accurately what they propose will be the effort to trace the movement of their thought as they seek to persuade us of the wisdom of their proposals; so too, more important even than identifying where their proposals explicitly or implicitly exclude one another will be the effort to see how tensions among their contrasting but equally valid insights actually bind them together and force us to find new conceptualities, new frames - of - reference for our analyses of what is theological about theological education.

I did not mean to imply that pacifists of the messianic community have consciously built upon liberal — humanistic pacifism (though my sentence can be so read — mea culpa), but only to point out what should be obvious to all: that the inroads pacifists of the messianic community have made in Roman Catholic and Protestant mainline circles can be traced to a prior acceptance of liberal — humanistic pacifism by many in those circles.