Sentences with phrase «whose symbolic meaning»

Wonder at the cave paintings whose symbolic meaning we can only guess at, but which clearly relay a resonant connection.

The reason why symbolic modes of discourse are important is because creation is a divine language whose symbolic meaning must be unlocked.

Not exact matches

While these imaginative works do adhere to certain basic principles, each artist incorporates culturally specific symbolic forms which depict concepts that the community wishes to convey to the spirits and whose meaning is known only within that culture.

As a result of the paradoxical nature of the creature itself, and also reflecting Bourgeois» own turbulent relationships with those close to her, the spider's rich symbolic associations along with its deeply personal meaning for the artist have resulted in a powerful body of work whose legacy continues today.

«Rather than reading Cremaster, we are encouraged to consume it as high - end eye candy, whose symbolic system is available to us but hardly necessary to our pleasure: meaning, that is, is no longer a necessary component to art production or reception.

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.