Sentences with phrase «tradition of western»

DR: Colors all have very difference resonances in different cultures, but I'm working within the tradition of Western painting.

Wall participates in the tradition of Western painting while being fully conscious of the issues in the contemporary practices.

While influenced by the philosophy of Buddhism and the practice of psychotherapy, her paintings emerge from a foundation in the great tradition of Western modernism and post-modernism and from her decades long study of classical South Asian and Tibetan art.

Her continued observation of the tradition of western painting has accumulated in a body of knowledge that has found its way to her artistic practice.

Boldly re-invigorating the grand tradition of Western painting in the service of those made invisible within the same tradition, Marshall's virtuosic mastery of the grand style demands that the absence of the black artist and subject be not only recognized, but immediately and irrevocably rectified.

Her photographs follow in the tradition of Western artistic production, but also question and critically reveal our perception and reception of this visual culture.

Among the artists who paved the way of the democratization, Kerry James Marshall more than anyone else felt compelled to redress the total absence of black subjects from the tradition of Western Art.

These works aspired to «decolonize space in order to construct new commentaries around the narratives in the tradition of Western painting.»

Her pictures are deeply embedded in the tradition of Western portraiture, and her biggest influence is apparent throughout the show: the Nabis.

S.D. Everybody, I think I'm very much aware of the tradition of western painting and my place in it.

His gargantuan semi-abstract paintings of fruit and flowers are credited with merging process art with the still life tradition of Western painting.

Mugar writes: «There is an analogy here to Stella and his relationship to the long optical tradition of western painting.

Our schools believe in each student's innate potential to comprehend the rich tradition of Western Civilization to which he / she is heir and to grow in the virtues that mark a profound, philosophical life summarized by the triad of our Latin motto: verum, pulchrum, bonum — truth, beauty and goodness.

He is a thirteenth - century pilgrim in a novel using the «oldest tradition of Western letters: the pilgrim's search outside himself rather than the guru's search within.»

Such a concept is characteristic of the academic tradition of Western Europe; one might be bold enough to add, characteristic particularly of nineteenth - century Western Europe.

The protests led the editors to recognize self - consciously for the first time that the encyclopedia was in fact produced not for men in general but specifically for (as well as by) the scholarly tradition of Western Europe.

In a remarkable article in 1953 Schweitzer restated his reflections on the ethical tradition of Western man, and it is necessary to hear his argument.

And this shift, though «a deep and radical revolt against the central tradition of western thought which affirmed the existence of eternal values,» is, in Berlin's eyes, a very good thing.

However, the tradition of Western classical theism does not fare quite so well under his critical scrutiny.

This is in perfect harmony with The Second Vatican Council and the tradition of the Western Church.»

This idea runs counter to the regnant tradition of Western theology Philosophers of the medieval period, taking their hint from Plato (Republic, Bk 2), Aristotle (Physics, Bk 8 and Metaphysics, Bk 12), and a few passages of Scripture (Num.

The study of NT, however, still remains as a branch within the intellectual tradition of the Western Enlightenment era.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

and he wrought out an estimate of personality's worth and destiny which, passing by way of Christianity into confluence with Greek thought, is still part of the great tradition of the Western world.

These personal experiences gave him unique eyes to see where Christianity in the West was beholden more to a tradition of Western thought than to the Scripture or to the Christian tradition.

It was founded in response to a call from St John Paul II to tackle two specific issues: the crisis in marriage and the family, and the need to bring the traditions of Western and Eastern Christianity in Europe together following the collapse of Communism.

No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the Church's liturgical year than was John Henry Newman.

Black theology has its deepest rootage in the experience of enslaved and oppressed Africans, and in their appropriation of the witness of scripture; but not in the philosophical and theological traditions of the Western academy and in its medieval and Greek forebears.

The New Delhi WCC Assembly (1961) rightly observed about culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other traditions.

Their works embody the teachings and traditions of the western church.

Since all people of the world, including the most Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

While I have come to recognize the value of such schools for some students, parents, and teachers, I continue to subscribe to the ideal of a humanistic liberal arts education that is highly prescriptive and, while global in scope, grounded in the intellectual, aesthetic, and moral traditions of western civilization.

Author Jordan Amirkhani notes: «If the studio has traditionally been a place of solace from reality's complications, this exhibition seems to respond with urgent ambiguity by asking important and unresolved questions about the place of artistic practice within today's society, and the traditions of Western art making that have not (and will not) go away.»

If the studio has traditionally been a place of solace from reality's complications, this exhibition seems to respond with urgent ambiguity by asking important and unresolved questions about the place of artistic practice within today's society, and the traditions of Western art making that have not (and will not) go away.

For his second solo show COME OUT 2 SHOW THEM at Lichtundfire in the Lower East Side, New York - based artist Christopher Stout created a series of abstract minimalist paintings informed by the traditions of Western Reductivistism and the Japanese philosophy of wabi - sabi.

Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.

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Price's work has an interesting and ambiguous relationship with the traditions of western sculpture, which he engages with and manipulates in order to perform a volte - face from the position taken by many white modernists pursuing the lure of tribal sculpture.

Drawing on traditions of Western art history and popular culture, he transforms the processes of creating and consuming artworks.

Gina Han: New Work Han employs traditions of Western art in her abstract paintings and infuses them with an Asian pop sensibility.

In his mature works he included references to the grand sculptural traditions of Western art, from Classicism to the Baroque.

South Dakota has a lot of geographical space from which its 824,000 residents can share its colorful stories and traditions of Western culture and lore.

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Here Shakespeare's a faithful example of our western tradition, which does not honor what is merely inherited.

Increasingly applied in western psychology, the practice of mindfulness comes out of the Buddhist tradition of meditation, and is championed by a growing number of celebrities, athletes and executives.

The quality which makes them the scapegoats of Western history is the quality which makes them strangers in Western history — their devotion to their own cultural tradition under conditions of almost impossible hardship and the psychological traits which that devotion has established.

Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

At a time when many Ukrainians are trapped between the failed promises of Marxist utopianism and the often harsh realities of Western materialism, the Orthodox Church is in a position to offer the best aspects of tradition.

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.